Distribution Watch: Berlinale 2026

Last updated: August 9, 2026.

Like last year, I’ll start with links to Film Workers for Palestine and Strike Germany who continue to advocate for putting pressure on the Berlinale regarding the festival and German government’s anti-Palestinian actions.

I’ll try my best to track what titles in the 2026 Berlinale have North American distribution, although I’m only one person and can’t guarantee I’ll have this up to date all the time. Not every title gets a press release and coverage when they get acquired, and multiple films will likely have the fate of quietly dropping on some streaming service further down the line (unfortunately quite a few films, especially in the Forum, will probably never get seen outside of the festival circuit).

Titles listed below in bold will have a confirmed distributor in Canada and/or the United States. The name(s) of the distributor will be listed in brackets and hyperlinked to a source. Sometimes a film might have distribution in one country and not the other, so I’ll make that distinction where necessary.

Like in prior years, short films and TV series will not be included here as I’m only focused on feature film distribution. Rep titles will be in italics, and I plan to update the distributor info on those titles soon.

If I’m missing something you can leave a comment or contact me directly and I’ll add anything that’s missing.

• A New Dawn (dir. Yoshitoshi Shinomiya)

• At the Sea (dir. Kornél Mundruczó)

• Dao (dir. Alain Gomis) [Janus Films]

• Dust (dir. Anke Blondé)

• Everybody Digs Bill Evans (dir. Grant Gee) [Cohen Media Group]

• Flies (dir. Fernando Eimbcke)

• Home Stories (dir. Eva Trobisch)

• In a Whisper (dir. Leyla Bouzid) [Strand Releasing]

• Josephine (dir. Beth de Araújo) [Sumerian Pictures]

• My Wife Cries (dir. Angela Schanelec)

• Nightborn (dir. Hanna Bergholm)

• Nina Roza (dir. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles) [Entract Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• Queen at Sea (dir. Lance Hammer) [Greenwich Entertainment]

• Rose (dir. Markus Schleinzer) [MUBI]

• Rosebush Pruning (dir. Karim Aïnouz) [MUBI]

• Salvation (dir. Emin Alper)

• Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars (dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) [Films We Like for Canada; no US distribution]

• The Loneliest Man in Town (dirs. Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel)

• We Are All Strangers (dir. Anthony Chen) [Film Movement]

• Wolfram (dir. Warwick Thornton)

• Yellow Letters (dir. İlker Çatak) [Films We Like for Canada; no US distribution]

• Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird) (dirs. Anna Fitch & Banker White)

• 17 (dir. Kosara Mitić)

• A Prayer for the Dying (dir. Dara Van Dusen)

• Animol (dir. Ashley Walters)

• Chronicles From the Siege (dir. Abdallah Alkhatib)

• Filipiñana (dir. Rafael Manuel) [Kino Lorber]

• Forest High (dir. Manon Coubia)

• Light Pillar (dir. Zao Xu)

• Our Secret (dir. Grace Passô)

• The Red Hangar (dir. Juan Pablo Sallato)

• The River Train (dir. Lorenzo Ferro & Lucas A. Vignale)

• Take Me Home (dir. Liz Sargent)

• Trial of Hein (dir. Kai Stänicke) [Strand Releasing]

• Truly Naked (dir. Muriel d’Ansembourg)

• Where To? (dir. Assaf Machnes)

• A Child of My Own (dir. Maite Alberdi) [Netflix]

• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) (dirs. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) [A24]

• Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (dir. Gore Verbinski) [Briarcliff Entertainment]

• Heysel 85 (dir. Teodora Ana Mihai)

• No Good Men (dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat)

• Saccharine (dir. Natalie Erika James) [IFC/Shudder]

• Sleep No More (dir. Edwin)

• The Ballad of Judas Priest (dirs. Sam Dunn & Tom Morello) [Sony]

• The Blood Countess (dir. Ulrike Ottinger)

• The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (dir. Noah Segan) [Sony Pictures Classics]

• The Testament of Ann Lee (dir. Mona Fastvold) [Searchlight Pictures]

• The Weight (dir. Padraic McKinley)

• TUTU (dir. Sam Pollard)

• Wax & Gold (dir. Ruth Beckermann)

• Who Killed Alex Odeh? (dirs. Jason Osder & William Lafi Youmans) [Watermelon Pictures]

• A Russian Winter (dir. Patric Chiha)

• Allegro Pastell (dir. Anna Roller)

• Around Paradise (dir. Yulia Lokshina)

• Árru (dir. Elle Sofe Sara)

• Bucks Harbor (dir. Pete Muller)

• Douglas Gordon by Douglas Gordon (dir. Finlay Pretsell)

• Enjoy Your Stay (dirs. Dominik Locher & Honeylyn Joy Alipio)

• Enough is Enough (dir. Elisé Sawasawa)

• Four Minus Three (dir. Adrian Goiginger) [A-Z Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• I Understand Your Displeasure (dir. Kilian Armando Friedrich)

• If I Were Alive (dir. André Novais Oliveira)

• Isabel (dir. Gabe Klinger)

• Iván & Hadoum (dir. Ian de la Rosa)

• Jaripeo (dirs. Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig)

• Lady (dir. Olive Nwosu)

• Lali (dir. Sarmad Khoosat)

• London (dir. Sebastian Brameshuber)

• Mouse (dirs. Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan)

• Narciso (dir. Marcelo Martinessi)

• Numb (dir. Takuya Uchiyama)

• Only Rebels Win (dir. Danielle Arbid)

• Paradise (dir. Jérémy Comte) [Elevation Pictures for Canada; no US distribution]

• Prosecution (dir. Faraz Shariat)

• Raging (dir. Ryan Machado)

• Roya (dir. Mahnaz Mohammadi)

• Safe Exit (dir. Mohammed Hammad)

• Shanghai Daughter (dir. Agnis Shen Zhongmin)

• Siri Hustvedt – Dance Around the Self (dir. Sabine Lidl)

• The Day She Returns (dir. Hong Sang-soo) [Cinema Guild]

• The Education of Jane Cumming (dir. Sophie Heldman)

• The Garden We Dreamed (dir. Joaquín del Paso)

• The Hidden Face of the Earth (dir. Arnaud Alain)

• The Moment (dir. Aidan Zamiri) [A24]

• The Other Side of the Sun (dir. Tawfik Sabouni)

• Traces (dirs. Alisa Kovalenko & Marysia Nikitiuk)

• Tristan Forever (dirs. Tobias Nölle & Loran Bonnardot)

• Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest (dir. Viv Li)

• A Hungarian Village (1974) (dir. Judit Elek)

• A Lot Talk (dir. Pascale Bodet)

• AnyMart (dir. Yusuke Iwasaki)

• Barbara Forever (dir. Brydie O’Connor)

• Black Lions - Roman Wolves (dir. Haile Gerima)

• Cesarean Weekend (dir. Mohammad Shirvani)

• Chronos - Flow of Time (dir. Volker Koepp)

• Collapse (dir. Anat Even)

• Crocodile (dirs. The Critics & Pietra Brettkelly)

• Doggerland (dir. Kim Ekberg)

• Eight Bridges (dir. James Benning)

• Einar Schleef - No Germany Did I Find (dir. Sandra Prechtel)

• Everything Else Is Noise (dir. Nicolás Pereda) [Pragda]

• Flying Tigers (dir. Madhusree Dutta)

• Foreign Travel (dir. Ted Fendt)

• Forest up in the Mountain (dir. Sofia Bordenave)

• Frauen in Berlin (1981) (dir. Chetna Vora)

• Gemstones (dir. Simón Vélez)

• Ghost in the Cell (dir. Joko Anwar) [Well Go USA]

• Given Names (dir. Nurith Aviv)

• Hear the Yellow (dir. Banu Sıvacı)

• I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival (dir. Janaína Marques)

• If Pigeons Turned to Gold (dir. Pepa Lubojacki)

• Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman (dirs. Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karera Kampire, Paul Shemisi & Anne Reijniers)

• Lust (dir. Ralitza Petrova)

• Masayume (dir. Nao Yoshigai)

• Members of the Problematic Family (dir. R Gowtham)

• My Brother’s Wedding (1983) (dir. Charles Burnett)

• My Name (dir. Chung Ji-young)

• On Our Own (dir. Tudor Cristian Jurgiu)

• Panda (dir. Xinyang Zhang)

• River Dreams (dir. Kristina Mikhailova)

• Scenario (dir. Marie Wilke)

• Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party (dir. Daniela Magnani Hüller)

• The Day of Wrath: Tales from Tripoli (dir. Rania Rafei)

• The Moths & the Flame (dir. Kevin Contento)

• We Are the Fruits of the Forest (dir. Rithy Panh)

• When You Listen to This Song (dir. Mona Achache)

• Women as Lovers (dir. Koxi)

• Born of the Yam (dirs. Mark Chua & Lam Li Shuen)

• Uchronia (dir. Fil Ieropoulos)

• A Family (dir. Mees Peijnenburg)

• Black Burns Fast (dir. Sanduela Asanda)

• Chimney Town: Frozen in Time (dir. Yusuke Hirota)

• Don’t Come Out (dir. Victoria Linares Villegas)

• En Route To (dir. Yoo Jaein)

• Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays (dir. Frederike Migom)

• Four Girls (dir. Karen Suzane)

• Ghost School (dir. Seemab Gul)

• Gugu’s World (dir. Allan Deberton)

• Hotel Oblique (dir. Merlin Flügel)

• Matapanki (dir. Diego Mapache Fuentes)

• Not a Hero (dir. Rima Das)

• Papaya (dir. Priscilla Kellen)

• Sad Girlz (dir. Fernanda Tovar)

• Sunny Dancer (dir. George Jaques)

• The Atlas of the Universe (dir. Paul Negoescu)

• The Fabulous Time Machine (dir. Eliza Capai)

• The Lights, They Fall (dir. Saša Vajda)

• What Will I Become? (dirs. Lexie Bean & Logan Rozos)

• Carnival in Flanders (1935) (dir. Jacques Feyder)

• Crystal Palace (1934) (dir. Hryhori Hrycher)

• Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979) (dir. Grigori Kromanov)

• In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) (dir. Pradip Krishen)

• Leaving Las Vegas (1995) (dir. Mike Figgis)

• Ninja Scroll (1993) (dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri)

• Prefab Story (1979) (dir. Věra Chytilová)

• Secrets of a Soul (1926) (dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

• The Mirage (1979) (dir. Ahmed Bouanani)

• The Pornographers (1966) (dir. Shōhei Imamura)

• Bamboozled (2000) (dir. Spike Lee)

• Bells from the Deep (1993) (dir. Werner Herzog)

• Berlin, Bahnhof Friedrichstraße 1990 (1991) (dirs. Konstanze Binder, Lilly Grote, Ulrike Herdin & Julia Kunert)

• The Border Guard (1995) (dir. Stefan Trampe)

• Boyz n the Hood (1991) (dir. John Singleton)

• Decay (dir. Mykhailo Belikov)

• The Double Life of Veronique (1991) (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)

• From the East (1993) (dir. Chantal Akerman)

• Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991) (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

• Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993) (dir. Dušan Makavejev)

• In the Splendour of Happiness (1990) (dirs. Johann Feindt, Jeanine Meerapfel, Helga Reidemeister, Dieter Schumann & Tamara Trampe)

• Party Girl (dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer)

• Prince in Hell (dir. Michael Stock)

• Slacker (dir. Richard Linklater)

• Sunny Point (dir. Wolf Vogel)

• Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989) (dir. Ulrike Ottinger)

• Juice (1992) (dir. Ernest Dickerson)

• Lola and Billy the Kid (1999) (dir. Kutluğ Ataman)

• Orange Vests (1993) (dir. Yury Khashevatsky)

• Run Lola Run (1998) (dir. Tom Tykwer)

• Videograms of a Revolution (dirs. Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujica)

• Wildwood, NJ (dirs. Ruth Leithman & Carol Weaks Cassidy)

• A Fantastic Woman (2017) (dir. Sebastián Lelio)

• A Thousand Clouds of Peace (2003) (dir. Julián Hernández)

• The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) (dir. Auraeus Solito)

• Kokomo City (2023) (dir. D. Smith)

• Queens Don’t Cry (2002) (dir. Rosa von Praunheim)

• Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1985) (dirs. Elfi Mikesch & Monika Treut)

• Tomboy (2011) (dir. Céline Sciamma)

• The Watermelon Woman (1996) (dir. Cheryl Dunye)

• Beautiful and Neat Room (dir. Maria Petschnig)

• Desire Lines (dir. Dane Komljen)

• Worry Time (dir. Tom Brennan)

• One Minute is an Eternity for Those Who Are Suffering (dirs. Fabio Rogerio & Wesley Pereira de Castro)

• Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (dir. Goran Hugo Olsson) [Icarus Films]

• Justa (dir. Teresa Villaverde)

• Turgaud (dir. Adilkhan Yerzhanov)