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TEDDY TODAY: 15th of February 2026

TEDDY TODAY
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Welcome back to the fourth day of the Berlinale! February 15 offers another exciting day of queer cinema, with twelve film premieres, many reruns, screenings from the TEDDY 40 special programme, and the short film selection “ Constellations of Queer Memory: 40 Years of the TEDDY in the Short Film Form. ” Whether you’re discovering new films or revisiting highlights, the programme invites you to experience queer cinema in all its diversity.

In addition to the film screenings, we warmly invite you to the event “WILD AT HEART: The TEDDY as a Catalyst.” The event reflects on the TEDDY’s origins in collective festival culture and its role in supporting and connecting queer filmmaking. 

With premieres, special screenings, and space for reflection and exchange, the fourth day of the Berlinale offers many opportunities to engage with the power and diversity of queer cinema.We also have a series of interviews for you, providing fascinating background information on the making of the films and introducing this year’s TEDDY Jury.

Tickets for today’s screenings and events are available here.


Premieres

A Family 
Sun 15.02. 12:30 - Zoo Palast 1 

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    A Family

    Netherlands, Belgium | Directed by Mees Peijnenburg

    Caught in the crossfire of their parents’ divorce, Nina and Eli are torn between loyalty, anger and a longing to be seen. Through their mirrored perspectives the same story unfolds, revealing how love can fracture and still find its way home.

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Prénoms
Sun 15.02. 15:00 - Delphi Filmpalast

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    Prénoms I Given Names

    France | Directed by Nurith Aviv

    Flowers as a gift for guests, the Latin alphabet as a form of order. A film of rules which varies, multiplies and expands into a novel of nomadic world knowledge as it narrates. Nurith Aviv visits her friends and asks them about their names – c’est ça!

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Barbara Forever 
Sun 15.02. 17:30 - Cinema Paris

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    Barbara Forever

    United States | Directed by Brydie O'Connor

    Lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) was an icon and a pioneer. Infused with dyke poetry, this archive film shows how she lived, loved, worked, fought and inspired, also showing that the private is uncompromisingly political.

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This Suffocating Now 
Sun 15.02. 17:30 - Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green

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    This Suffocating Now

    Germany | Directed by Vika Kirchenbauer

    At a time when elements of fascisation are becoming ever more apparent, ever more pervasive, artist Vika Kirchenbauer takes a personal look at what is in the air in present-day Germany.

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Liebhaberinnen
Sun 15.02 18:00 - Delphi Filmpalast 

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    Liebhaberinnen I Women as Lovers

    Luxembourg, Germany | Directed by Koxi

    A sleeping bag on the ground in front of the fitness studio lockers, a coaching seminar and the morning shift briefing (to practise the salesperson smile): these are the tough situations Brigitte (Johanna Wokalek) finds herself in. She is the protagonist of this Elfriede Jelinek adaptation, in which debut filmmaker Koxi takes stock of the successful early novel by the later Nobel Prize winner by catapulting it from the 1970s into contemporary late capitalism. 

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The Education of Jane Cumming 
Sun 15.02. 18:15 - Zoo Palast 1

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    The Education of Jane Cumming

    Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain | Directed by Sophie Heldman

    Edinburgh, 1810. Two female teachers find themselves at the centre of a scandal when one of their pupils accuses them of having a love affair. A drama about prejudice, survival and the courage to stand up for the truth.

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Rose  
Sun 15.02. 18:30 - Berlinale Palast 

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    Rose

    Austria, Germany, France | Directed by Markus Schleinzer

    In the early 17th century, a soldier arrives at an isolated Protestant village in Germany claiming to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead. Even though he proves to be a good man, the villagers’ suspicions about his identity grow and they force a reckoning.

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The Ballad of Judas Priest 
Sun 15.02. 18:45 - Uber Eats Music Hall

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    The Ballad of Judas Priest

    United States | Directed by Sam Dunn, Tom Morello, Derek Tokar

    The Ballad of Judas Priest follows heavy metal pioneers Judas Priest and their half-century journey from working-class origins in England to their recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Black Burns Fast  
Sun 15.02. 19:00 - HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium

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    Black Burns Fast

    South Africa | Directed by Sandulela Asanda

    Adorkable Luthando is on track for an ordinary year at the prestigious boarding school she attends on scholarship – until the arrival of a new girl in her class ignites Luthando’s suppressed desires and threatens her self-image and relationships.

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Dust
Sun 15.02. 21:30 - Berlinale Palast 

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    Dust

    Belgium, Poland, Greece, Great Britain | Directed by Anke Blondé

    At the end of the 1990s, during the height of the Belgian tech boom, visionary entrepreneurs Luc and Geert watch their empire collapse as news of their fraud breaks. With just one day of freedom left, they part ways in search of redemption.

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I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival
Sun 15.02. 21:30 - Delphi Filmpalast 

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    I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival

    Brazil | Directed by Janaína Marques

    Fifty-something Rosa, lying in an MRI scanner, is prompted to summon a happy memory. She plunges into a meandering, subconscious road trip with her bubbly mother, where wild imagination becomes a tender, unruly form of therapy.

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Staatsschutz
Sun 15.02. 21:30 - Zoo Palast 1 

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    Staatsschutz

    Germany | Directed by Faraz Shariat

    After surviving a racist attack, state prosecutor Seyo Kim takes her own case to court – confronting both the perpetrators and a justice system that turns a blind eye to right-wing extremism.

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TEDDY 40 Retrospective Screenings

Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor 
Sun 15.02. 16:00 - Deutsche Kinemathek

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Kokomo City 
Sun 15.02. 22:00 - Zoo Palast 2

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    Kokomo City

    United States | Directed by D. Smith

    Morning routines and conversations in bed, gossip and real talk. In encounters and interviews, D. Smith portrays four Black trans sex workers in New York and Georgia. The protagonists discuss their lives with relish but without any sugar-coating. The conversations that emerge are deep and passionate reflections on socio-political and social realities as well as perceptive analyses of belonging and identity within the Black community and beyond. D...

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