The 74th annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, took place between 15 and 25 February 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o was named the Jury President for the main competition. This year's Berlinale was Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek's final edition in charge, following their dismissal in 2023. The festival opened with Tim Mielants' Small Things Like These.
Dahomey, directed by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, won the Golden Bear, making it the second year in a row that a documentary won the festival's top prize, following On the Adamants win in 2023. The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was awarded to A Traveler's Needs by Hong Sang-soo, and the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance was awarded to Sebastian Stan for A Different Man. American filmmaker Martin Scorsese was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear.
Juries
International Jury – Main Competition Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress – Jury President Brady Corbet, American filmmaker and actor Ann Hui, Hong Kong-Chinese filmmaker and actress Christian Petzold, German filmmaker Jasmine Trinca, Italian actress and filmmaker Albert Serra, Spanish filmmaker Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukrainian novelist and poet
Encounters Jury
Lisandro Alonso, Argentine filmmaker Denis Côté, Canadian filmmaker Tizza Covi, Italian filmmaker
International Jury – Short Film Competition
İlker Çatak, German filmmaker Xabier Erkizia, Spanish sound artist and researcher Jennifer Reeder, American filmmaker, video artist and lecturer
Generation Jury
Amjad Abu Alala, Sudanese filmmaker Banafshe Hourmazdi, Iranian-German actress Ira Sachs, American filmmaker
GWFF Best First Feature Award Jury
Eliza Hittman, American filmmaker Andréa Picard, Canadian Senior Film curator at the Toronto International Film Festival and advisor to the Marrakech International Film Festival Katrin Pors, Danish producer
Berlinale Documentary Award and Jury
Abbas Fahdel, Iraqi filmmaker Thomas Heise, German filmmaker Véréna Paravel, French artist, and anthropologist
Official Sections
Main Competition The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear: English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country Another End Piero Messina Italy, France, United Kingdom Architecton Victor Kossakovsky Germany, France, United States Black Tea Abderrahmane Sissako France, Mauritania, Taiwan, Luxembourg, Ivory Coast La cocina Alonso Ruizpalacios Mexico, United States Dahomey Mati Diop Benin, France, Senegal The Devil's Bath Des Teufels Bad Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala Austria, Germany A Different Man Aaron Schimberg United States Dying Sterben Matthias Glasner Germany The Empire L'Empire Bruno Dumont France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal From Hilde, with Love In Liebe, Eure Hilde Andreas Dresen Germany Gloria! Margherita Vicario Italy, Switzerland Langue étrangère Fremdsprache Claire Burger France, Germany, Belgium My Favourite Cake Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moqadam Iran, France, Sweden, Germany Pepe Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France Shambhala Min Bahadur Bham Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, China, Turkey, United States, Qatar, Taiwan Small Things Like These (opening film) Tim Mielants Ireland, Belgium Sons Vogter Gustav Möller Denmark, Sweden Suspended Time Hors du temps Olivier Assayas France, Germany A Traveler's Needs 여행자의 필요 Hong Sang-soo South Korea Who Do I Belong To Meryam Joobeur Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Berlinale Special The following films are selected for the Berlinale Special section: English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country Berlinale Special Gala Cuckoo Tilman Singer Germany Love Lies Bleeding Rose Glass United States, United Kingdom The Roundup: Punishment 범죄도시4 Heo Myeong-haeng South Korea Seven Veils Atom Egoyan Canada Spaceman Johan Renck United States The Strangers’ Case Brandt Andersen Jordan Treasure Julia von Heinz Germany, France Berlinale Special Abiding Nowhere 無所住 Tsai Ming-liang Taiwan, United States At Averroès & Rosa Parks Averroès & Rosa Parks Nicolas Philibert France August My Heaven オーガスト・マイ・ヘヴン Riho Kudo Japan The Box Man 箱男 Gakuryu Ishii Japan Chime チャイム Kiyoshi Kurosawa Dostoyevsky (6 episodes) Dostoevskij Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo Italy Eleven Tomorrows: Berlinale Meets Football Elf Mal Morgen: Berlinale Meets Fußball Maximilian Bungarten, Anna-Maria Dutoit,Kilian Armando Friedrich, Indira Geisel,Eva Gemmer, Felix Herrmann,Hannah Jandl, Justina Jürgensen,Hilarija Ločmele, Daniela Magnani-Hüller,Sophie Mühe, Camille Tricaud,Marie Zrenner Germany The Empty Grave Das leere Grab Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece Mlay Germany, Tanzania exergue – on documenta 14 Dimitris Athiridis Greece Filmstunde_23 Edgar Reitz, Jörg Adolph Germany Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger David Hinton United Kingdom Sasquatch Sunset David Zellner and Nathan Zellner United States Shikun Amos Gitai Israel, France, Switzerland, Brazil, United Kingdom Supersex (episodes 1–3) Matteo Rovere, Francesco Carrozzini, Francesca Mazzoleni Italy Turn in the Wound Abel Ferrara United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, United States
Encounters The following films are selected for the Encounters section: English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country Arcadia Yorgos Zois Greece, Bulgaria, United States Cidade; Campo Juliana Rojas Brazil, Germany, France Demba Mamadou Dia Senegal, Germany Direct Action Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell Germany, France Sleep with Your Eyes Open Dormir de Olhos Abertos Nele Wohlatz Brazil, Argentina, Taiwan, Germany The Fable Raam Reddy India, United States A Family Une Famille Christine Angot France Favoriten Ruth Beckermann Austria Ivo Eva Trobisch Germany The Great Yawn of History Khamyazeye bozorg Aliyar Rasti Iran Some Rain Must Fall 空房间里的女人 Qiu Yang China, United States, France, Singapore Hands in the Fire Mãos no Fogo Margarida Gil Portugal Matt and Mara Kazik Radwanski Canada Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing Travis Wilkerson United States You Burn Me Tú me Abrasas Matías Piñeiro Argentina, Spain
Berlinale Short Film Competition The following films are selected for the Berlinale's Short Film Competition section: English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country Baldilocks Kaalkapje Marthe Peters Belgium Bye-Bye, Turtle Adieu tortue Selin Öksüzoğlu France Circle 서클 Joung Yumi South Korea City Museum / My Paradise Stadtmuseum / Moi Rai Boris Dewjatkin Germany City of Poets Sara Rajaei Netherlands Goodbye First Love 经过 Shuli Huang United States Kawauso カワウソ Akihito Izuhara Japan Lick a Wound Les animaux vont mieux Nathan Ghali France The Moon Also Rises 月亮照常升起 Yuyan Wang France An Odd Turn Un movimiento extraño Francisco Lezama Argentina Pacific Vein Ulu Braun Germany Preoperational Model Philip Ullman Netherlands Remains of the Hot Day 热天午后 Wenqian Zhang China Sojourn to Shangri-La 是日访古 Lin Yihan Tako Tsubo Fanny Sorgo, Eva Pedroza Austria, Germany That's All From Me So viel von mir Eva Könnemann Germany Towards the Sun, Far From the Center Al sol, lejos del centro Luciana Merino, Pascal Viveros Chile Unwanted Kinship Ungewollte Verwandtschaft Pavel Mozhar Germany Wandering Bird Oiseau de passage Victor Dupuis Belgium We Will Not Be the Last of Our Kind Mili Pecherer France
Panorama The following films are selected for the Panorama section: English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country Birgitte Stærmose Denmark, Kosovo, Sweden, Finland All Shall Be Well 從今以後 Ray Yeung Hong Kong Andrea Gets a Divorce Andrea lässt sich scheiden Josef Hader Austria Baldiga – Unlocked Heart Baldiga – Entsichertes Herz Markus Stein Germany Betânia Marcelo Botta Brazil Between the Temples Nathan Silver United StatesA Bit of a StrangerТрішки чужа Svitlana Lishchynska Ukraine Brief History of a Family 家庭简史 Lin Jianjie China, Denmark Crossing Levan Akin Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia Cu Li Never Cries Cu Li Không Bao Giờ Khóc Lân Phạm Ngọc Vietnam, Philippines, France, Singapore, Norway Diaries from Lebanon Myriam El Hajj Lebanon, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia Every You Every Me Alle die Du bist Michael Fetter Nathansky Germany, Spain Faruk Aslı Özge Germany, France, Turkey I'm Not Everything I Want to Be Ještě nejsem, kým chci být Klára Tasovská Austria, Czechia, Slovakia I Saw the TV Glow Jane Schoenbrun United States I Saw Three Black Lights Yo vi tres luces negrasi Santiago Lozano Álvarez Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico Janet Planet Annie Baker United States Meanwhile on Earth Pendant ce temps sur Terre Jérémy Clapin France Memories of a Burning Body Memorias de un cuerpo que arde Antonella Sudasassi Furniss Costa Rica, Spain My New Friends Les gens d’à côté André Téchiné France My Stolen Planet Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man Farahnaz Sharifi Germany, Iran No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor Palestine, Norway The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt Germany, United Kingdom Paradises of Diane Les Paradis de Diane Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann Switzerland Rising Up at Night Tongo Saa Nelson Makengo Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar Scorched Earth Verbrannte Erde Thomas Arslan Germany Sex Dag Johan Haugerud Norway Teaches of Peaches Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer Germany The Visitor Bruce LaBruce United Kingdom Which Way Africa? À quand l'Afrique? David-Pierre Fila Republic of the Congo, Angola, Cameroon Zeit Verbrechen (episodes 1–4) Mariko Minoguchi, Jan Bonny, Helene Hegemann, Faraz Shariat Germany
Forum The following films are selected for the Forum section: