Berlinale Sets 2024 Date

The 74th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) will take place from February 15 to 25, 2024.

Ticket sales for this year’s Berlinale totaled 320,000 by the time the festival concluded on Sunday, February 26. 

In addition to the public, this year’s festival saw 20,000 accredited professionals from 132 countries, including 2,800 media representatives, while the Berlinale Co-Production Market organized 1,500 meetings.

“Full cinemas, moving moments, many prominent guests, and a curious audience characterized the Berlinale 2023,” said Berlinale co-directors Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian in a joint statement.

“We see this as living cinema culture in all its diversity. The focus was on enjoyment and shared experiences. We hope that this enthusiasm for cinema will continue after the festival.”

The festival closed with Nicholas Philibert’s "On the Adamant" which was also awarded the festival’s Golden Bear.

Berlinale enjoys an eventful history and was created for the Berlin public in 1951, at the beginning of the Cold War, as a “showcase of the free world”.

The festival was developed into a place of intercultural exchange and a platform for the critical cinematic exploration of social issues. To this day it is considered the most political of all the major film festivals.

Berlinale brings the big stars of international cinema to Berlin and discovers new talents. It accompanies filmmakers of all disciplines on their paths into the spotlight and supports careers, projects, dreams, and visions.

Every year, around 400 movies of all genres, lengths, and formats are shown in the various sections and special presentations of the Berlinale. 

The audience is invited to encounter highly contrasting milieus, ways of life, and attitudes, to put their judgments and prejudices to the test, and to reinvigorate their experience of seeing and perceiving in the realm between classic narrative forms and extraordinary aesthetics. 

The program also thrives on an intense dialogue with its audiences. A rich array of spoken-word events, audience discussions, and expert panels facilitate active participation in the festival.