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Berlin • 6 film events in OV/OmU/OmeU

Classic iconFrom film festivals celebrating international cinema to themed retrospectives exploring beloved directors, from special screenings with filmmaker Q&As to curated series highlighting cinematic movements, film events offer unique opportunities to experience movies as cultural happenings.

Portuguese Cinema Days (2026)

26 Oct - 03 Dec 2026 Film Festival9 films

Poster for Portuguese Cinema Days (2026)

Portuguese Cinema Days 2026 brings twelve recent Portuguese films to Berlin, screening at Moviemento Kino from 26 October to 3 December, with several Q&A sessions with the directors.

Litauisches Kino Goes Berlin (2026)

05 Nov - 08 Nov 2026 Film Festival8 films

Poster for Litauisches Kino Goes Berlin (2026)

The 2026 edition of the Lithuanian film festival Litauisches Kino Goes Berlin invites audiences to come closer: to the stories on screen, to personal archives, to the film material itself and to one another.

Afrikamera 2026: Reflect

09 Nov - 15 Nov 2026 (in 5 days)Film Festival15 films

Poster for Afrikamera 2026: Reflect

Afrikamera – Current Cinema from Africa is Berlin's festival for contemporary African film. The 2026 edition runs under the focus REFLECT and presents feature, documentary, and short films that examine the effects of colonialism on ecological balance, climate change, and the struggle over resources, the exploitation of nature by unscrupulous mining companies, and the white saviorism of NGOs.

Interfilm 42 (2026)

10 Nov - 15 Nov 2026 (in 6 days)Film Festival18 films

Poster for Interfilm 42 (2026)

The 42nd INTERFILM International Short Film Festival Berlin runs 10-15 November 2026 under the motto "Shared Shores", inviting audiences to read borders as shared coastlines rather than divisions.

IFFB: Italian Film Festival Berlin (2026)

10 Nov - 14 Nov 2026 (in 6 days)Film Festival8 films

Poster for IFFB: Italian Film Festival Berlin (2026)

The 13th Italian Film Festival Berlin presents a selection of Italian films from the 2025/26 season at Kino in der KulturBrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg, most of them introduced by their directors, actors, or other contributors.

La Sur Real Colombia (2026)

11 Nov - 15 Nov 2026 (in 7 days)Film Festival13 films

Poster for La Sur Real Colombia (2026)

Second edition of La Sur Real, an independent festival dedicated to the cinemas of the Global South, devoted entirely to contemporary Colombian cinema. Over five days it invites audiences on a journey through landscapes shaped by memory, spectral presences and dreamlike atmospheres, where forests, archives, bodies and sounds bring different ways of sensing the real, the ancestral and the imagined into resonance.