List of 2026 Berlinale winners

German-Turkish director Ilker Chatak yellow letters You won the Golden Bear Award at the 76th Berlin Film Festival.

Other major awards included Sandra Hüller winning the Silver Bear for Best Leading Role; about her role rose; While Grant Gee won Best Director. Everybody Loves Bill EvansAnd Lance Hammer’s queen of the sea Anna Calder-Marshall and Tom Courtenay won Best Supporting Actor and the Silver Bear Jury Award. (Scroll down to see full list of winners)

Cha Tak’s fifth feature film, nominated for an Oscar teacher loungeDrama set in Turkey yellow letters It follows an actress and her dramatic arts professor husband whose lives are ruined by their fall for an authoritarian government.

Chairman of the judging panel Wim Wenders The film depicts life during a totalitarian era, and the story was praised as a cautionary tale for people around the world.

His words echoed those of Deadline critic Damon Wise. Berlin review where he explained yellow letters Although the story takes place in authoritarian President Recep Tayyip’s Turkey, the film is considered “the most important film ever made about Donald Trump’s America.”

Saturday night’s awards ceremony capped yet another politically charged Berlinale after a relatively calm 2025. Wenders sparked the opening press conference by suggesting that filmmakers should stay out of politics, in response to questions about the Gaza Strip and the festival’s failure to publicly declare its support for Palestine.

Festival director Tricia Tuttle, now in her second year of a five-year term, immediately raised the issue. Expressing the festive mood with a moving speech When she opened the event.

She said the Berlinale took place “in a world that seems alive and divided,” but that the festival has embraced the backlash and controversy.

“We have been publicly challenged this year. It doesn’t feel good, but it’s good because it means the Berlinale is important to people. We are a very visible cultural institution, an institution from which people expect a lot. I think we all need to accept that we live in polarized times and embrace the community we build together, because criticism and speaking out are part of democracy.”

that The rawness was evident at the awards ceremony. Golden Bear Best Short Film Award winner Marie-Rose Osta (someday a child)short story judge Ameer Fakher Eldin; and <퍼스펙티브스 제1영화상>Award-winning Palestinian director Abdallah Al-Khatib Chronicle of the SiegeIn his speech, he condemned Israel’s ongoing military attacks on Lebanon and Gaza.

“I am happy to be here to receive this award, but I am a Palestinian and I have to use this moment to talk about Palestine,” Al Khatib said. “I felt pressured to participate in the Berlin Film Festival for one reason only: to stand here and say that the Palestinian people will be free and that one day we will have a great film festival in the middle of Gaza and other Palestinian cities.”

“Our festival will stand in solidarity with people living under siege, occupation and dictatorship around the world. We will talk about politics before cinema, about resistance before art, about freedom before beauty, about humanity before culture. The long-awaited day is coming.”

In a move that al-Khatib suggested could affect his current refugee status in his native Germany, the director used his speech to accuse the German government of complicity in Israel’s deadly military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has claimed more than 80,000 lives and left three-quarters of the population of 2.1 million homeless.

“These are my final words to the German government.” “You are partners in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. I believe you are smart enough to recognize that this is true, but you choose not to care. Liberate Palestine from now until the end of the world,” he concluded.

Several prizes have been revealed ahead of tonight’s event, including a household category and a panoramic category.

The KPlus generation’s Crystal Bear went home to Allan Deveberton. Gugu’s World With special mention to Rima Das not a heroFernanda Tovar’s Grand Prize in the Film Generation 14+ category sad girls (sad girls) with special mention by Mees Peijnenburg family.

28th Panorama Audience Awards Best Feature Film Award prosecution By Faraz Shariat, with Adrian Goiginger 4 minus 3 and Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson mouse They took second and third place, respectively.

Stay tuned for awards news.

International Jury Award

The Golden Bear — by Ilker Çatak yellow letters

Silver Bear Jury Prize – Salvation by Emim Alper

Silver Bear Jury Award queen of the sea lance hammer

Best Director — Grant Gee For everyone loves bill evans

Best Leading Actress Award — Sandra Hüller rose

Best Supporting Actor — Anna Calder-Marshall, Tom Courtney queen of the sea

The Bear Award for Best Screenplay — Geneviève Dulude-de Celles Nina Rosa

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution — me (Love is a rebellious bird) Author: Anna Fitch and Banker White (USA)

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GFF First Feature Award— Chronicles of the Siege by Abdallah al-Khatib

Special Mention – Forest High (Forêt Ivre) by Manon Coubia

Berlin Film Festival Documentary Award

If the dove turned into gold – Pepa Lubojacki (Czech Republic)

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Golden Bear Best Short Film – someday a child Author: Marie-Rose Osta (Lebanon)

Silver Bear Jury Award (Short Film) — A woman’s place is everywhere Author: Fanny Texier (USA)

CUPRA Film Director Award — Jingkai Qu kleptomania (china)