Sandra Hüller in 'Rose' SchubertROW-PicturesWalkerWorm-FilmGerald_Kerkletz Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment The Berlin International Film Festival unveiled its 2026 lineup on Tuesday, revealing a program sure to delight the festival's many hardcore arthouse fans, but with little in the way of big Hollywood titles to draw in the undecided. Bar a last-minute addition, the 76th Berlinale (Feb. 12-22), will not feature any studio productions this year, something that could put a damper on the glam factor in the German capital. But Berlinale festival director Trica Tuttle and her team, have pulled together an impressively diverse competition lineup, with 22 features across virtually every genre. 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Among the higher-profile titles in competition for Golden Bear at the 76th edition of the Berlinale this year are At the Sea, from Piece of Woman director Kornél Mundruczo, featuring Amy Adams, and Dan Levy, about a freshly-sober woman who to her family's home to confront her buried trauma; Beth de Araújo's drama thriller Josephine, starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan; the dementia drama Queen at Sea starring Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay from Ballast director Lance Hammer; Rosebush Pruning, an English-language thriller from Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz, starring Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, Elle Fanning, and Pamela Anderson; and Rose, from Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer (Michael), a 17th century transgender drama featuring Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall). All, except Josephine, which will head to Berlin straight from Sundance, are world premieres. 'Rosebush Pruning' @Felix-Dickinson Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, an assistant director on Makoto Shinkai's anime blockbuster Your Name, will premiere A New Dawn, his first feature as a director, in competition in Berlin. Award-watchers will have an eye on Yellow Letters, the new feature from German director İlker Çatak, whose previous film, The Teacher's Lounge, premiered in Berlin's Panorama sidebar in 2023 and went on to score an Oscar nomination for best international feature. And fans of Rupert Grint's serious, post-Harry Potter career will get to see the British star in the thriller Nightborn, from director Hanna Bergholm, playing a young father who moves with his partner back to her childhood home in the Finnish forest, only to see their dreams of a perfect family turn into a nightmare after their baby is born. Other competition stand-outs include Wolfram, a 1930s outback drama from Australian director Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah); Dao from Alain Gomis, winner of Berlin's 2017 Grand Jury Prize for Félicité; Flies, the latest from acclaimed Brazilian helmer Fernando Eimbcke, a 2008 Berlinale competition contender with Lake Tahoe; We Are All Strangers, by Cannes regular Anthony Chen (Ilo Ilo); and Grant Gee's Everybody Digs Bill Evans, featuring Norwegian star Anders Danielsen Lie (Sentimental Value, The Worst Person in the World) as legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans. Tuttle also named the 13 features that will screen in Berlin's Perspectives sidebar for first features, noting that a 14th title may be announced later. The Perspectives lineup including several promising debuts, including A Prayer for the Dying, from U.S. director Dara Van Dusen, a Western featuring Johnny Flynn, John C. Reilly, and Kristine Kujath Thorp; Animol from Brit actor and rapper Ashley Walters (aka Asher D), a prison drama starring Tut Nyuot, Vladyslav Baliuk, Sekou Diaby, and Adolescent star Stephen Graham; and Take Me Home from Korean-American filmmaker Liz Sargent, which will premiere in Sundance. The latter stars Sargent's sister Anna Sargent as a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability who is struggling to care for her aging adoptive parents. "Festivals have a hugely important role to play in enabling the discovery of the next generation of major talents, and we've been excited by the future when viewing the debuts in Perspectives," said Tuttle. Iconic German director Wim Wenders (Perfect Days, Paris Texas) heads up this year's Berlinale jury, which will pick the winners of the festival's Gold and Silve