Berlinale Bloggers 2026

Comedies, thrillers, a love story, anime, a western, other genres: the competition at the 76th Berlinale presents cinema in all its beautiful diversity. The Berlinale bloggers are looking forward to the 22 films in competition and to more cinematic highlights from other festival sections. They know for sure: the film city of Berlin will still have so much to offer in 2026! 

Berlinale Bloggers 2026 © Tobias Schrank


For us blogging live from Berlin

  • Arizbeth Becerril

    Arizbeth Becerril is a cultural manager specializing in film and a key figure in the promotion and development of Latin American and international cinema.

    Portrait photo of Arizbeth Becerril

  • Tatiana Braun

    Tatiana Braun is a programme curator for film and new media at the Goethe-Institut Montreal. She wrote for the online magazines Berliner Filmfestivals and FRAGMENTFILM and runs the podcast mémoire poétique.

    Portrait: Tatiana Braun Photo: © privat

  • Jutta Brendemühl

    Jutta Brendemühl is Program Curator for the Goethe-Institut Toronto.

    Jutta Brendemühl Photo: © Michelle Kay

  • Philipp Bühler

    Philipp Bühler has been reporting on the Berlinale as a freelance film critic since 2000.

    Philipp Bühler Photo: © Private

  • Camila Gonzatto

    Camila Gonzatto is a screenwriter and director for film and television.

    Camila Gonzatto Photo: © Private

  • Daniel Hinz

    Daniel Hinz works as a freelance reporter for publications such as Zeit Online, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung. He trained at the Deutsche Journalistenschule (German School of Journalism) in Munich. 
     

    Daniel Hinz Photo (detail): © Luisa Thomé

  • Sofia Kleftaki

    Sofia Kleftaki is a freelance journalist for online media and television.

    Portrait: Sofia Kleftaki Photo: © Argiris Koutsopoulos

  • Fernando Moreno

    Fernando “El More” Moreno is a professor of communication, has been producing the program El Cine y... on Ibero 90.9 for over 20 years, and writes about film in numerous print and online media outlets.

    Portrait photo of Fernando Moreno

  • Prathap Nair

    Prathap Nair is an independent culture journalist. He lives in Düsseldorf, Germany, and covers Berlinale for major Indian publications.

    Black and white portrait of a man looking directly into the camera. Photo: © privat

  • Deniz Sertkol

    Deniz Sertkol is a freelance film curator and critic. She has been reporting on the Berlinale since 2011. 

    Deniz Sertkol © privat

  • Ahmed Shawky

    Ahmed Shawky is a film critic, film festival programmer, and Director of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). He has served as a jury in several film festivals and writes about cinema and the entertainment industry.

    Black and white portrait of a bearded man looking directly into the camera. photo: © private

  • Hristina Stefanovska

    Hristina Stefanovska is a cultural programme coordinator at the Goethe-Institut Skopje and also an actress.

    Hristina Stefanovska © privat