Romania is participating, between February 12 and 22, in the 76th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute.
According to a press release sent on Tuesday by AGERPRES, Romanian teams are participating, with the support of the Titu Maiorescu Romanian Cultural Institute in Berlin, in the competitive programs and reference sections of the festival, strengthening the visibility of Romanian film in the world.
Romanian films will be screened in five sections of the festival: Berlinale Shorts, Forum, Generation Kplus, Berlinale Special (Berlinale Co-Pro Series 2026) and Retrospective.
In the Berlinale Shorts competition, Romania is represented by "Shot Reverse Shot / Plan Contraplan" by Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflanca, a documentary that juxtaposes photographs taken by American journalist Edward Serotta in communist Romania with clandestine images of the Securitate, offering a surprising perspective on history.
Also in this section, the Romanian-French-Lebanon co-production "Someday, a Child" (Yawman ma walad) by Marie-Rose Osta explores the story of a boy with supernatural gifts who lives under the daily threat of conflict in a Lebanese village.
In the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival, the feature film "De capul nostru" was selected, directed by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, with the theme of the emotional isolation of a teenager who tries to create a surrogate family for two runaway children.
In the Generation Kplus section, the film "Atlasul universului" by Paul Negoescu was selected, a Romanian-Bulgarian co-production, which follows the journey of a ten-year-old boy in search of his lost left shoe, offering the young audience a story about courage, friendship and self-discovery.
The film team will be represented at Berlinale by producers Irina Enea and Adriana Bumbes, who will also participate in KIDS Regio - Berlinale Meeting Point 2026, an event within the co-production market, with the children's feature film project "Pericol / Kid Hazard", an adventure production with a remarkable international track record, selected in multiple international forums and festivals, the cited source informs.
As part of the Berlinale Co-Pro Series 2026, ICR Berlin supports the participation of producer Anda Ionescu and director and screenwriter Cristina Grosan with the TV miniseries in development "Angelmaker".
The Festival's retrospective includes "Videograms of a Revolution / Videogramme einer Revolution" by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, a historical documentary based on the archives of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, and the Berlinale Special Gala presents "Heysel 85" by Teodora Ana Mihai, a film about the tragedy at the Heysel stadium and the complexity of human responsibilities in the face of catastrophe.
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In parallel with the festival, the ICR Berlin is developing the Playlab initiative, an experimental platform dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue and the promotion of young Romanian creators.
Playlab Edition #2 - "Love, Fear, and Other Rituals. Romanian Film & Art Lounge Berlinale 2026" (February 17 - March 6, 2026) transforms the ICR Berlin Gallery into a space for meeting and reflection for filmmakers, visual artists, students, curators and the general public. During the event, visitors will be able to discover Romanian student short films and contemporary visual art projects that explore themes such as love, fear and current rituals, the press release informs.
Playlab #2 thus asserts itself as a temporary cultural hub, consolidating Romania's presence in the international context and creating opportunities for dialogue and exchange of ideas between professionals and the public, the ICR mentions.
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