Mini-takes on films seen at the Berlinale, from almost every section, letting you know what to keep an eye on — and what to avoid!
Journey Into Berlinale 2026
Panorama
A Few Small Beers
Hong Sangsoo’s latest film, The Day She Returns, is even more minimalist than usual, using just a handful of scenes to create a spare poem of differences.
A Russian Winter’s Lost Generation
Patric Chiha’s A Russian Winter is a minor work, but a nonetheless rewarding one: capturing exiled Russian youth in a tragic holding pattern.
Don’t Send In The Clowns. They’re Already Here.
A clown’s life is turned upside down when her husband and two kids die in the emotionally resonant Four Minus Three, playing in Panorama.
Prosecution Handsomely Builds Its Case
Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution carefully examines justice both within and without the complex, biased machinery of the German state.
Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest. Unmoored Between Tradition and Liberation.
Naval-gazing documentary Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest is a funny, lacerating look at being caught between two very different cultures.
Iván & Hadoum. Love on The Periphery.
Set in Almería, Panorama entry Iván & Hadoum shows the difficulties of love blooming in the hard ground of labour exploitation.
“The whole film had to be a meeting place for deaf and hearing audiences” — Eva Libertad on her debut feature Deaf
Eva Libertad explains being inspired by her deaf sister and bridging hearing and non-hearing worlds for her powerful Panorama breakout Deaf.
All The Panorama Drama
The queer and political Panorama section of the Berlinale is the true meat and bones of the festival — we go deep into its extensive line-up!
Deaf Goes Deep on the Isolation of Hearing Loss
The travails of being deaf in a hearing world are viscerally explored in Eva Libertad’s powerful new work — live from Panorama!