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Berlin International Film Festival

Annual film festival in Germany

Berlin International Film Festival

Annual film festival in Germany

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locationBerlin, Germany
awardsGolden Bear, Silver Bear
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The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's "Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the "Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year.

About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by independent juries and organisations.

The European Film Market (EFM), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The Berlinale Talents, a week-long series of lectures and workshops, is a gathering of young filmmakers held in partnership with the festival.

History

Delphi Filmpalast

First festival

During the peak of the Cold War in 1950, Oscar Martay, a film officer of the Information Service Branch of the American High Commissioner for Germany stationed in West Berlin, proposed the idea of a film festival in West Berlin. The proposal was put through a committee, which included members of the Senate of West Berlin and people from the West German film industry, on 9 October 1950. Through his efforts and influence, the American military administration was persuaded to assist and to give loans for the first years of the Berlin International Film Festival, which commenced in June 1951. Film historian Dr. Alfred Bauer was the festival's first director, a position he would hold until 1976.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca opened the first festival at the Titania-Palast in Steglitz on 6 June 1951. The festival ran from 6 to 17 June, with Waldbühne being another festival venue.

The winners of the inaugural awards in 1951 were determined by a West German panel, and there were five winners of the Golden Bear, divided by categories and genres. Cinderella, which won the Golden Bear for a Music Film, also won the audience award.

Early years and awards

The FIAPF (Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films) banned the awarding of jury prizes at the festival,

Prior to the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a selection of the films were also screened in East Berlin.

The fifth edition in 1955 saw the first (West) German film to win the Golden Bear, Robert Siodmak's Die Ratten.

In 1957, the Zoo Palast became the main venue for the festival, and remained so until the move to Potsdamer Platz in 2000 (see Venues below).

1960s

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In 1963, two years after the Berlin Wall had been erected, a daily show of the Berlinale was shown on television in East Germany, with five films in competition broadcast.

Controversy arose in 1964 with the rejection by Bauer, on insistence from the church, of Vilgot Sjöman's second film, 491, from the competition.

Werner Herzog's first feature film, Lebenszeichen, premiered at the festival in 1968.

1970s

The 20th edition of the festival in 1970 was cut short and awards not issued following controversy over the showing of Michael Verhoeven's anti-war film o.k.. The jury, headed by American film director George Stevens, decided after a 7–2 vote to remove the film from the competition, justifying their decision by citing a FIAPF guideline that said: "All film festivals should contribute to better understanding between nations". Stevens claimed that the film, which includes a gang rape of a Vietnamese woman by American soldiers during the Vietnam War, was anti-American. One jury member, Dušan Makavejev, protested against this measure, stood up for the film and supported Verhoeven and producer Rob Houwer. Verhoeven defended his film by stating in these terms: "I have not made an anti-American film... The biggest part of the American people today is against the war in Vietnam". Other directors taking part in the festival withdrew their films in protest, and the jury was accused of censorship and eventually disbanded, so no prizes were awarded and the competition was suspended.

This scandal had such a big effect that it was unclear if the festival would continue to take place the next year. The following year, the festival was re-formed and a new International Forum for New Cinema was created.

1975 saw the first East German film to be entered into the festival, Jacob the Liar.

At the premiere of In the Realm of the Senses in 1976, the film was confiscated in the projection room by West Berlin police and the "Forum" management criminally accused of the public screening a pornographic film.

Bauer was succeeded by film journalist Wolf Donner in 1976, who gave German films higher priority.

That festival, the 28th edition, saw the jury award the Golden Bear to Spain for its contribution to the festival rather than a specific film. The 1978 festival also saw the start of the European Film Market as well as a new section, "Cinema for People Six and up" (which later became "Kinderfilmfest").

Just before the 1979 festival, Donner announced that he was resigning. The festival also saw further controversy that year when the Soviet Union and other socialist states withdrew their films and delegates in protest at the selection of The Deer Hunter and their solidarity with "the heroic people of Vietnam".

1980–2000

Donner was followed by Moritz de Hadeln, who held the position from 1980 until director Dieter Kosslick took over in 2001.

In 1981, de Hadeln only nominated one (West) German film for the competition, Der Neger Erwin, and other West German producers and directors called for his resignation and proposed a boycott although no boycott took place.

In 1986, Gina Lollobrigida was invited to head the jury at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, which awarded the Golden Bear to Reinhard Hauff's film Stammheim. She said the majority decision was "prefabricated", and opposed it.

21st century

Kosslick started making some changes to the festival, moving the emphasis from Hollywood in order to focus more on German and international cinema. He introduced various events to assist the development of emerging talent in German cinema. In 2010, for the 60th edition of the festival, Werner Herzog was appointed president of the jury. Also in that year, the city of Berlin unveiled its Boulevard of the Stars, with the first of 40 stars devoted to actors and filmmakers of the German-speaking film and TV industry. First to be honoured in the Boulevard was German-American actress Marlene Dietrich. In 2012 the 100th anniversary of the historic Studio Babelsberg was celebrated at the 62nd edition of the festival, with the screening of 10 classic films made at the studios.

A new Series section, devoted to longform television series, was introduced in 2015.

In June 2018, it was announced that Mariette Rissenbeek would serve as the new executive director alongside artistic director Carlo Chatrian. They assumed their posts after Kosslick's final edition in 2019. Rissenbeek became the first woman to lead the Berlinale.

A shortened 71st festival took place virtually in March 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

73rd Berlin International Film Festival held in February 2023, was the first completely in-person Berlinale since the 70th in 2020.

Tricia Tuttle took over as the new artistic director in April 2024; the 75th Berlinale 2025 is her first festival.

Description and governance

The Berlinale is considered one of the five major film festivals in the world, alongside Venice, Cannes, Sundance and Toronto, and is the largest based on attendance. As of 2020, around 325,000 tickets were sold, and nearly 16,000 film industry professionals from 130 countries attended the festival. It is held in Berlin. It attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year. For the 2022 event, still feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, 156,472 tickets were sold.

About 400 films are shown in several sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards, the Golden Bear and Silver Bears.

In 2022, festival was receiving €10.3 million from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. There was consideration given by the federal government to help compensate for revenue lost and additional expenditure owing to the pandemic, with funds drawn from the Neustart Kultur programme.

Since 2019, Mariette Rissenbeek has been the festival's executive director; Carlo Chatrian is its artistic director. In September 2023, it was reported that artistic director Carlo Chatrian will relinquish his post after 2024 Berlinale. On 12 December 2023 it was announced by the German culture ministry that Tricia Tuttle, formerly director of the BFI London Film Festival, will be the sole director of the Berlinale from April 2024.

Entries

The festival is open to films of every length and genre, but there is priority given to international and European premieres, and the films need to have been completed within the year preceding the festival. Submissions open in September of the preceding year.

Festival programme

Conference after a screening
Journalists at BIFF in 2008

the festival is composed of eight different sections:

  • Competition: feature-length films yet to be released outside their country of origin, which compete for several prizes, including the top Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears for acting, writing and production
  • Berlinale Special (a diverse selection of films, events and people) & Berlinale Series (for television series)
  • Perspectives a juried competition for first feature films from international filmmakers
  • Berlinale Shorts, for short films since 2007 a separate section; short films were honoured with Golden and Silver Bears from 1955, with a separate jury for shorts established in 2003
  • Panorama: originally known as "Information show" screening innovative, mostly independent, films. In 1986 it was renamed "Panorama" showing films that "break with convention and tackle contemporary themes in a novel way, discover new talents or new cinematographic style."
  • Forum & Forum Expanded: reflections on the medium of film; a selection of around 40 films, independently curated and organised by Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art as part of the Berlinale, since 1971 Barbara Wurm, the author and curator, was appointed new head of Berlinale Forum on 7 March 2023 succeeding Cristina Nord, taking charge as of 1 August 2023.
  • Generation: comprising Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus, two competition programmes screening international cinema exploring the worlds of children and teenagers; started in 1978 with a selection "Cinema for People Six and up"; then Kinderfilmfest ("Children's Film Festival"); expanded to include the 14plus competition in 2004; renamed Generation in 2007, with the two sections
  • Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage, established in 1977, curated by the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, and awarder of the Honorary Golden Bear for a lifetime's achievement in filmmaking

"Perspektive Deutsches Kino" (Perspectives on German Cinema) was created in 2002 by incoming director Dieter Kosslick with Alfred Holighaus. This was dropped from 2024 Berlinale due to budget cuts.

A section called "Culinary Cinema" had also been introduced by Kosslick in 2007, as well as a series called "NATIVe" (for indigenous filmmakers) in 2013; however, these were dropped after his departure in 2019.

A section titled Encounters which was designed to foster "daring works" initiated in 2020, running until it was replaced by Perspectives in 2025.

Awards

The Silver Bear statue

The Golden Bear (Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. In its first year in 1951, it was awarded to the best film in each of five categories,

From 1952 to 1955, the Golden and Silver Bears were awarded by audience voting, as the FIAPF had determined after the first festival that only the Cannes and the Venice film festivals were allowed to appoint official juries. A Silver Bear (Silberner Bär) and a Bronze Berlin Bear, determined by audience vote, were also awarded from 1952 to 1955. After the FIAPF ruled to allow it, an official international jury determined the prizes from 1956 onwards, and in the same year a second Golden Bear was added, for best short film, as well as a second category of award, the Silver Bear, for individual achievements in acting or directing. In 1965, a runner-up prize to the Golden Bear was added.

The statuettes awarded as trophies are based on the Bär first created by sculptor Renée Sintenis (1888–1965) in 1932. The bear, based on the coat of arms of Berlin and depicting a bear standing on its hind legs with its arms raised, became popular in the 1930s, bringing wealth to Sintenis. Since the 3rd edition of the festival in 1953, replicas of the bear have been produced by the Noack Foundry.

International jury prizes

The main prizes in the festival are those awarded by the international jury since 1956, which today include the Golden Bear and various Silver Bears.

, the Golden Bear for Best Film is awarded to the producers of the best feature film.

, the categories of Silver Bear awards are:

  • Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
  • Silver Bear Jury Prize
  • Silver Bear for Best Director
  • Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance
  • Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance
  • Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
  • Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution

Other Berlinale awards

The Honorary Golden Bear has been awarded for lifetime achievement since 1982, when it was awarded to James Stewart. It is presented to someone with an exceptional artistic career, and is given to the guest of honour of the Homage section which has been run since 1977 by the Berlinale and the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen.

Awards for short films are awarded by a separate international short film jury consisting of three filmmakers and artists. , the short film award are:

  • Golden Bear for Best Short Film
  • Silver Bear for Best Short Film
  • Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards

There are also awards given by separate juries or via other routes at the Berlinale. These include:

  • The Berlinale Camera has been awarded since 1986, with the trophy modelled on a real camera, made with 128 parts, some movable. It is awarded to "personalities and institutions that have made a unique contribution to film", as a way for the festival to express its thanks to friends and supporters of the festival. Past winners include Isabella Rossellini, Michael Ballhaus, Claude Chabrol, Jodie Foster, Otto Sander, Karlheinz Böhm, Clint Eastwood, Gina Lollobrigida, Sydney Pollack, and Curt Siodmak.
  • Crystal Bears (Gläserner Bär), Grand Prix and special prizes are awarded in the Generation section (grouped separately into Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus)
  • GWFF Best First Feature Award (since 2006), worth 50,000 Euros, is funded by Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten.
  • The Heiner Carow Prize (for best German young film; established 2013 by the DEFA Foundation) is awarded to films shown in the Panorama program.
  • Three prizes are awarded in the Encounters section (since 2020).
  • Berlinale Documentary Award (since 2017), worth 40,000 Euros, sponsored by public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), with entries from the Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Forum, Generation, Berlinale Special and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sections.
  • Berlinale Series Award, established in 2023, is given to the winning television series. The first award was won by the Italian series The Good Mothers by Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso.
  • Panorama Audience Award, established in 1999
  • Compass-Perspektive-Award, for the best film in the current Perspektive Deutsches Kino program
  • Readers' awards, one each by Berliner Morgenpost and Tagesspiegel, and the Teddy Readers' Award
  • Several development awards

Independent awards

The Shooting Stars Award for young European acting talent is independently awarded by European Film Promotion at Berlinale Palast.

There are also many other prizes given by independent juries (not connected to the Berlinale) at the event. These include, among others:

  • FIPRESCI awards for best film in each of the Competition, Encounters, Panorama and Forum sections
  • Teddy Awards, for films with LGBT topics
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, since 1992
  • Amnesty International Film Award, since 2005
  • Peace Film Prize

Former awards

  • Silver Bear for Best Actor (1956–2020) (replaced by Best Leading and Supporting Performance)
  • Silver Bear for Best Actress (1956–2020) (replaced by Best Leading and Supporting Performance)
  • Silver Bear for Outstanding Single Achievement (1956–2005, occasional)
  • Silver Bear for Special Artistic Achievement (1956–2007, occasional) (replaced by Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution)
  • Alfred Bauer Prize (1987-2020) (replaced by Silver Bear Jury Prize, after it came to light that the role played by Berlinale founding director Alfred Bauer in the Reich Film Office () during Nazi period was more substantial than had previously been realised, and had been covered up by Bauer after the Second World War)
  • Cinema Fairbindet, an award given by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) at the festival between 2011 and 2014
  • Silver Bear for Film Music (2002–2007)

Venues

Cubix2008.jpg|Cubix Kino at Alexanderplatz File:Verti Music Hall by night.jpg|Verti Music Hall on Uber-Platz in Friedrichshain File:Sasquatch Sunset (Deutschlandpremiere Berlinale 2024) Zoo Palast 1.jpg|Zoo Palast The Theater am Potsdamer Platz, a theatre for musicals which is known as the Berlinale Palast during the festival, is the venue for the premieres of Competition film and several Special Gala films, as well as the opening and awards ceremonies. The CinemaxX Potsdamer Platz, with its 19 screens, has been a Berlinale screening venue since 2000, two years after its opening in 1998, and is currently used for press screenings. A multifunctional hall with seating for 1900 during the film festival, the Uber Eats Music Hall (known from 2018 to 2024 as the Verti Music Hall) in the Friedrichshain district on the east side of Berlin became a Berlinale screening venue in 2022.

Venues for the festival in 2025 and in previous years are given in the following table (seats available at each venue as supplied on the 2025 Berlinale website).

NameAs festival venueSeatingLocationCommentsCurrent venuesPrevious venues
Academy of the Arts (AdK)2015-512Hanseatenweg 10
The exhibition space and screening hall of the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in the Tiergarten district was used as a venue before the Berlinale moved its main activities to Potsdamer Platz in 2000. It was briefly a venue for the Forum program from 2015, and once again took on duties as screening venue after the closure of the Sony Center at the end of 2019.
Arsenal235Potsdamer Strasse 2
The *Kino Arsenal* at the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art (Institut für Film und Videokunst, formerly known as Friends of the German Film Archive until 2008) in Potsdamer Strasse is the main venue of the Forum event. The original Arsenal, in Welserstraße in Berlin-Schöneberg, was where this section was born. In 1999, Arsenal moved with Friends of German Film Archive, German Film Museum and the German Film and Television Academy Berlin into the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz. There are two screens here, with seating for 235 and 75.
75
Berlinale Palast2000–1639Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1
CinemaxX200019 screens with total of 1500 seatsPotsdamer Strasse 5
Used for market screenings and select press screenings according to 2025 website.
City Kino Wedding218Müllerstrasse 74
Colosseum525Schönhauser Allee 123
Opened in 1924 with 1200 seats
CineStar CUBIX2007-(9 screens)Rathausstrasse 1
In 2007, the CineStar CUBIX multiplex cinema (Cubix am Alexanderplatz, styled CUBIX), which opened in November 2000, started screening films for the festival on three of its screens. From 2020, after the closure of the Sony Center, the festival expanded its use of CineStar CUBIX to use all nine screens.
Delphi Filmpalastsince 1950s675Kantstrasse 12a
title=Festival Map: Delphi Filmpalastwebsite= Berlinaleurl=https://www.berlinale.de/en/service/map/map.html?loc=delphi-filmpalastaccess-date=18 September 2022}} It is located near the Berlin Zoologischer Garten and has been used for the festival almost since its inception. Since 1981 it has been one of the main venues for the Forum programme, maintaining its old style as a picture palace. Seating an audience of up to 673 people, it is one of Germany's biggest independent screens. In February 2022, ready for the 72nd edition of the festival, a state-of-the-art Christie CP4440-RGB laser cinema projector was installed.
Deutsche Kinemathek/E-Werk1977—157Mauerstrasse 79
The Deutsche Kinemathek opened in 1963.Since 1977, the Deutsche Kinemathek has supervised the annual "Retrospective and Homage" section of the Berlinale.
Filmtheater am Friedrichshain (FaF)323Bötzowstrasse 1-5
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) 1 and 22007—505Stresemannstrasse 29
HAU was founded in 2003 by combining three theaters[1] in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
199Hallesches Ufer 34
Haus der Berliner Festspiele (HdBF)over 1000Schaperstrasse 24
Haus der Berliner Festspiele is a listed building with seating for over 1000 visitors and now used regularly for screenings at the Berlinale.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HFW)1012John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in the middle of Tiergarten Park, is the venue for the premieres of Generation, the youth section of the festival.
HUB75Marlene-Dietrich-Platz
As of 2025 this serves as a temporary festival hub for meetings between members of the film industry as well as some podium discussions and talks open to the public.
JVA Plötzensee (correctional institution)150Friedrich-Olbrich-Damm 16
Since 2018 the organizers of the Berlinale have scheduled screenings at the correctional institution, since 2019 external visitors can also register for tickets.
Kino im Zeiss-Großplanetarium307Prenzlauer Allee 80
The Zeiss Major Planetarium is a planetarium, which has two spaces available for film screenings, the planetarium hall with 307 seats, and a cinema hall with 160 seats. It was one of the last buildings built in the GDR, constructed in 1987.
160
KLICK Kino84Windscheidstrasse 19
Odeon Kino265Hauptstrasse 116
First opened in 1950.
SAVVY Contemporary84Reinickendorfer Strasse 17
Silent Green Kulturquartier250Gerichtstrasse 35
Formerly used as a crematorium and columbarium, this facility has been renovated and in 2015 was opened as a cultural events venue.
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA79Lindower Strasse 20/22, Haus C
opened in 2023 as a transnational center for cultural encounters
Stage Bluemax Theater526Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 4
Thalia (Thalia Potsdam)350Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 50, Potsdam
Uber Eats Music Hall2018–1900Uber Platz 2
known as Verti Music Hall until 2024
Urania Berlin866An der Urania 17
Urania Berlin is used for film premieres in the Generation section.
Wolf Kino49Weserstrasse 59
Zoo Palast 1 & 21957—1999;2014—779Hardenbergstrasse 29a
*The *Zoo Palast* was built in 1957 to designs by cinema architect , and opened with the film *Die Zürcher Verlobung*, starring Liselotte Pulver, who also cut the ribbon in the opening ceremony. It was purpose-built for the festival. It remained the home of the festival Until 1999, and was the venue for films premiering in competition. It closed from 2011 until late 2013 for a complete interior reconstruction and renovation, opening in time for the 2014 festival with seven cinemas and offering a total of 1,650 seats, and space for 791 in the main auditorium. The renovations were designed by architect Anna Maske. Liselotte Pulver again reopened the cinema after renovations in 1994 and 2013.
275
Titiana-Palast1951 – ?1200Schlosstrasse 5-6
The first festival was screened at the *Titiana-Palast* in Steglitz, as well as the open-air cinema at Waldbühne, in June 1951. The Titiana Palast building, dating from 1926, still bears this name on a sign outside, but is known as the *Cineplex Titania*. It was renovated in 2014, creating seven cinemas with over 1,200 seats, along with 7.1 Dolby Digital sound technology.
WaldbühneGlockenturmstraße 1
CineStar SonyCenteruntil 2019The eight-screen CineStar Sony Center, and later the adjoining CineStar IMAX, both located in the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz, were public venues until the closure of the Sony Center at the end of 2019.
Kino Babylon2008–2011Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 30
The Kino Babylon was a Berlinale venue from 2008 (when it hosted its new "Generation14plus" event) to 2010, but has not been listed as such since 2011.
Friedrichstadt-Palast2009-20221635Friedrichstrasse 107
This venue not only has the largest theatre stage in the world, but was the biggest cinema of the film festival, with 1,635 seats available for screenings. Films from the Competition and Berlinale Special Gala sections were shown at Friedrichstadt-Palast, and a digital 4K laser projector was supplied for the festival.
Kino International2010s-2024555Karl-Marx-Allee 33
title=Kino Internationalwebsite=visitBerlin.deurl=https://www.visitberlin.de/en/kino-internationalaccess-date=18 September 2022}} The cinema is closed for renovation and schedule to reopen in 2026.

Jury presidents

Main article: List of Berlin International Film Festival jury presidents

Since 1956, the jury of the Festival has been chaired by an internationally recognised personality of cinema, except in 2021, when the directors of six previous Golden-Bear-winning films determined the awards for the Competition of the 71st Berlinale.

World Cinema Fund

The World Cinema Fund (WCF) is associated with the Berlinale, and was established to provide financial support to feature film projects in countries with a weak film industry infrastructure. It was established by Dieter Kosslick

The WCF is a collaboration with the Federal Foundation for Culture, and awarded in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, the Foreign Ministry and German producers. It aims "to develop and support cinema in regions with a weak film infrastructure, while fostering cultural diversity in German cinemas", and supports films that could not be made without extra funding. It provides funding for production and distribution of feature films and feature-length documentaries, with a focus on countries in Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Caucasus, as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia, and Sri Lanka.

Films receiving funding from the WCF have included:

  • Paradise Now (2005, Palestine)
  • The Other (2007, Argentina)
  • Ajami (2009, Israel/Palestine)
  • The Wind Journeys (2009, Colombia, Argentina)
  • Harmony Lessons (2013, Kazakhstan)
  • Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (Vietnam, 2015)
  • Rojo (2018, Argentina)
  • Talking About Trees (2019, Sudan, Chad)
  • Whether the Weather Is Fine (Philippines, 2021)

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