IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature film reviews from our site of the films featured at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival.
Main Competition
At the Sea / Kornél Mundruczó [Review]
Dao / Alain Gomis [Review]
Dust / Anke Blondé [Review]
Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Grant Gee [Review]
Home Stories / Eva Trobisch [Review]
In a Whisper / Leyla Bouzid [Review]
Josephine / Beth de Araújo [Review]
The Loneliest Man in Town / Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel [Review]
Flies / Fernando Eimbcke [Review]
My Wife Cries / Angela Schanelec [Review]
A New Dawn / Yoshitoshi Shinomiya [Review]
Nightborn / Hanna Bergholm [Review]
Nina Roza / Geneviève Dulude-De Celles [Review]
Queen at Sea / Lance Hammer [Review]
Rose / Markus Schleinzer [Review]
Rosebush Pruning / Karim Aïnouz [Review]
Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars / Mahamat-Saleh Haroun [Review]
Salvation / Emin Alper [Review]
Yellow Letters / İlker Çatak [Review]
We Are All Strangers / Anthony Chen [Review]
Wolfram / Warwick Thornton [Review]
Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird) / Anna Fitch and Banker White [Review]
Opening Film
No Good Men / Shahrbanoo Sadat [Review]
Berlinale Special — Out of Competition
The Blood Countess / Ulrike Ottinger [Review]
Perspectives
17 / Kosara Mitić [Review]
Light Pillar / Zao Xu [Review]
Trial of Hein / Kai Stänicke [Review]
Truly Naked / Muriel d’Ansembourg [Review]
Panorama
I Understand Your Displeasure / Kilian Armando Friedrich [Review]
Iván & Hadoum / Ian de la Rosa [Review]
Lali / Sarmad Khoosat [Review]
Roya / Mahnaz Mohammadi [Review]
Generation 14plus
Don’t Come Out / Victoria Linares Villegas [Review]