Included in the March event is the traditional film festival slate, which includes the main Berlinale Competition lineup as well as sidebar sections such as Berlinale Special & Berlinale Series, Encounters, Berlinale Shorts, Panorama, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, and Retrospective. With the exception of the Retrospective, the films will be shown at the March event.
Check out the full lineup for the 2021 Berlin Film Festival below. Competition Titles “Albatros” (Drift Away) France by Xavier Beauvois “Babardeală cu buclucsau porno balamuc” (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn) Romania/Luxemburg/Croatia/Czech Republic by Radu Jude “Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde” (Fabian – Going to the Dogs) Germany by Dominik Graf “Ghasideyeh gave sefid” (Ballad of a White Cow) Iran/France by Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghaddam “Guzen to sozo” (Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy) Japan by Ryusuke Hamaguchi “Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse” (Mr Bachmann and His Class) Germany by Maria Speth “Ich bin dein Mensch” (I’m Your Man) Germany by Maria Schrader “Inteurodeoksyeon” (Introduction) Republic of Korea by Hong Sangsoo “Memory Box” France/Lebanon/Canada/Qatar by Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige “Nebenan” (Next Door) Germany by Daniel Brühl “Petite Maman” France by Céline Sciamma Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt? (What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?) Germany/Georgia by Alexandre Koberidze “Rengeteg – mindenhol látlak” (Forest – I See You Everywhere) Hungary by Bence Fliegauf “Természetes fény” (Natural Light) Hungary/Latvia/France/Germany by Dénes Nagy “Una Película de Policías” (A Cop Movie) Mexico by Alonso Ruizpalacios Adam Kersh Berlinale Special Titles “Best Sellers” Canada/U.K. by Lina Roessler “Courage” Germany by Aliaksei Paluyan “French Exit” Canada/Ireland by Azazel Jacobs “Je suis Karl” Germany/Czech Republic by Christian Schwochow “Language Lessons” U.S. by Natalie Morales
“Limbo” Hong Kong/People’s Republic of China by Cheang Soi “The Mauritanian” U.K. by Kevin Macdonald “Per Lucio” (For Lucio) Italy by Pietro Marcello “Tides” Germany/Switzerland by Tim Fehlbaum “Tina” U.S. by Dan Lindsay, T. J. Martin “Wer wir waren” (Who We Were) Germany by Marc Bauder Generation “Beans” Canada by Tracey Deer with Kiawentiio Tarbell, Rainbow Dickerson, Violah Beauvais, Paulina Alexis “Ensilumi (Any Day Now)” Finland by Hamy Ramezan with Aran–Sina Keshvari, Shahab Hosseini, Shabnam Ghorbani, Kimiya Eskandari “Han Nan Xia Ri (Summer Blur)” People’s Republic of China by Han Shuai with Gong Beibi, Huang Tian, Zhang Xinyuan, Yan Xingyue “Jong chak yeok (Short Vacation)” Republic of Korea by Kwon Min-pyo, Seo Hansol with Seol Si-yeon, Bae Yeon-woo, Park So-jung, Han Song-hee “Last Days at Sea” Philippines / Taiwan by Venice Atienza “Mission Ulja Funk” Germany / Luxemburg / Poland by Barbara Kronenberg with Romy Lou Janinhoff, Jonas Oeßel, Hildegard Schroedter, Luc Feit “Nelly Rapp – Monster Agent” Sweden by Amanda Adolfsson with Matilda Gross, Lily Wahlsteen, Marianne Mörck, Johan Rheborg “Una escuela en Cerro Hueso (A School in Cerro Hueso)” Argentina by Betania Cappato with Mara Bestelli, Pablo Seijo, Clementina Folmer, Irene Zequin “Cryptozoo” USA by Dash Shaw with Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Zoe Kazan, Louisa Krause, Angeliki Papoulia “Fighter” Republic of Korea by Jéro Yun with Lim Seong-mi, Baek Seo-bin, Oh Kwang-rok, Lee Seung-yeon “From the Wild Sea” Denmark by Robin Petré “La Mif (The Fam)” Switzerland by Fred Baillif “Ninjababy” Norway by Yngvild Sve Flikke with Kristine Kujath Thorp, Arthur Berning, Nader Khademi, Tora Dietrichson “Stop-Zemlia” Ukraine by Kateryna Gornostai with Maria Fedorchenko, Arsenii Markov, Yana Isaienko, Oleksandr Ivanov “Tabija (The White Fortress)” Canada / Bosnia and Herzegovina by Igor Drljača with Pavle Čemerikić, Sumeja Dardagan, Jasmin Geljo, Kerim Čutuna Retrospective “Night After Night,” USA 1932, by Archie Mayo with George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Mae West “No Man of Her Own,” USA 1932, by Wesley Ruggles with Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell “I’m No Angel,” USA 1933, by Wesley Ruggles with Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold “She Done Him Wrong,” USA 1933, by Lowell Sherman with Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland “Belle of the Nineties,” USA 1934, by Leo McCarey with Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan “Lady by Choice,” USA 1934, by David Burton with Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly “Twentieth Century,” USA 1934, by Howard Hawks with John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
“Goin’ to Town,” USA 1935, by Alexander Hall with Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson “Hands Across the Table,” USA 1935, by Mitchell Leisen with Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn “Go West Young Man,” USA 1936, by Henry Hathaway with Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Alice Brady “Klondike Annie,” USA 1936, by Raoul Walsh with Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Philip Reed, Helen Jerome Eddy “My Man Godfrey,” USA 1936, by Gregory La Cava with William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick “Nothing Sacred, USA 1937, by William A. Wellmann with Carole Lombard, Frederic March, Charles Winniger, Walter Connolly “True Confession, USA 1937, by Wesley Ruggles with Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel “Every Day’s a Holiday, USA 1938, by A. Edward Sutherland with Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger “Four’s a Crowd,” USA 1938, by Michael Curtiz with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles “The Women,v USA 1939, by George Cukor with Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland “Hired Wife,” USA 1940, by William A. Seiter with Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Virginia Bruce, Robert Benchley “His Girl Friday,” USA 1940, by Howard Hawks with Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart “My Little Chickadee,” USA 1940, by Edward F. Cline with Mae West, W. C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran “Design for Scandal,” USA 1941, by Norman Taurog with Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Lee Bowman “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” USA 1941, by Alfred Hitchcock with Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson “This Thing Called Love,” USA 1941, by Alexander Hall with Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Binnie Barnes, Allyn Joslyn “My Sister Eileen,” USA 1942, by Alexander Hall with Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias “Take a Letter, Darling,” USA 1942, by Mitchell Leisen with Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Constance Moore “To Be or Not to Be,” USA 1942, by Ernst Lubitsch with Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart “What a Woman!,” USA 1943, by Irving Cummings with Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Willard Parker, Alan Dinehart
Forum “From Where They Stood” (France/Germany), dir. Christophe Cognet “Anamnesis” (Germany), dir. Chris Wright, Stefan Kolbe “Tzarevna Scaling” (Russia), dir. Uldus Bakhtiozina “Ski” (Argentina / Brazil), dir. Manque La Banca “The First 54 Years” (France / Finland / Israel / Germany), dir. Avi Mograbi “Night Nursery” (Burkina Faso / France / Germany), dir. Moumouni Sanou “The Inheritance” (USA), dir. Ephraim Asili “Come Here” (Thailand), dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong “Just A Movement” (Belgium / France), dir. Vincent Meessen “Mbah Jhiwo / Ancient Soul” (Spain), dir.Alvaro Gurrea “Jack’s Ride” (Portugal), dir. Susana Nobre “What Will Summer Bring” (Argentina), dir. Ignacio Ceroi “A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces” (USA), dir. Shengze Zhu “The Good Woman of Sichuan” (Canada), dir. Sabrina Zhao “Ste. Anne” (Canada), dir. Rhayne Vermette “Taming the Garden” (Switzerland / Germany / Georgia), dir. Salomé Jashi “The Luminous View” (Italy / Spain), dir. Fabrizio Ferraro Encounters “As I Want” Egypt / France / Norway / Palestine by Samaher Alqadi “Azor” Switzerland / France / Argentina by Andreas Fontana with Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau “The Beta Test” USA / United Kingdom by Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe with Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe “Blutsauger (Bloodsuckers)” Germany by Julian Radlmaier with Alexandre Koberidze, Lilith Stangenberg, Alexander Herbst, Corinna Harfouch “Hygiène sociale (Social Hygiene)” Canada by Denis Côté with Maxim Gaudette, Larissa Corriveau, Eleonore Loiselle “Das Mädchen und die Spinne (The Girl and the Spider)” Switzerland by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher with Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi “Mantagheye payani (District Terminal)” Iran / Germany by Bardia Yadegari, Ehsan Mirhosseini with Bardia Yadegari, Farideh Azadi, Ali Hemmati “Moon, 66 Questions” Greece / France by Jacqueline Lentzou with Sofia Kokkali, Lazaros Georgakopoulos “Nous (We)” France by Alice Diop with Ismael Soumaïla Sissoko, N’deye Sighane Diop, Pierre Bergounioux “Rock Bottom Riser” USA by Fern Silva “The Scary of Sixty-First” USA by Dasha Nekrasova with Betsey Brown, Madeline Quinn, Dasha Nekrasova “Vị (Taste)” Vietnam / Singapore / France / Thailand / Germany /Taiwan by Lê Bảo with Olegunleko Ezekiel Gbenga, Thi Minh Nga Khuong, Thi Dung Le Panaroma “Censor” United Kingdom by Prano Bailey-Bond “Death of a Virgin, and the Sin of Not Living” Lebanon by George Peter Barbari “Dirty Feathers” USA / Mexico by Carlos Alfonso Corral “Genderation” Germany by Monika Treut “Glück (Bliss)” Germany by Henrika Kull “Kelti (Celts)” Serbia by Milica Tomović “Der menschliche Faktor (Human Factors)” Germany / Italy / Denmark by Ronny Trocker “Miguel’s War” Lebanon / Germany / Spain by Eliane Raheb “Mishehu Yohav Mishehu (All Eyes Off Me)” Israel by Hadas Ben Aroya “Le monde après nous (The World After Us)” France by Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas “Night Raiders” Canada / New Zealand by Danis Goulet “North By Current” USA by Angelo Madsen Minax “Okul Tıraşı (Brother’s Keeper)” Turkey / Romania by Ferit Karahan “Souad” Egypt / Tunisia / Germany by Ayten Amin “Ted K” USA by Tony Stone “Théo et les métamorphoses (Theo and the Metamorphosis)” France by Damien Odoul “A Última Floresta (The Last Forest)” Brazil by Luiz Bolognesi “Die Welt wird eine andere sein (Copilot)” Germany / France by Anne Zohra Berrached “Yuko No Tenbin (A Balance)” Japan by Yujiro Harumoto Perspektive Deutsches Kino “Instructions for Survival” Germany by Yana Ugrekhelidze “Jesus Egon Christus (Jesus Egon Christ)” Germany by David Vajda, Saša Vajda “In Bewegung bleiben (Keep Moving)” Germany by Salar Ghazi
“Die Saat (The Seed)” Germany by Mia Maariel Meyer “When a farm goes aflame” Germany by Jide Tom Akinleminu “Wood and Water” Germany / France by Jonas Bak Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
