Under Berlin Film Festival (UBFF) 2026 | Programme #2

13.11., 17 Uhr

Brief Masquerade

Mexico, 2025, 20 min, Dir.: Julio Bracho

Napo has lost his joy for life, and his friend Togo decides to visit him and take him to the theatre. There, Napo discovers something that will transform his life.

Salman Wants to Go

Türkiye 2025, 20 min, Dir.: Ozan Takış

Salmane is a Senegalese refugee living in Turkey. He dreams of moving to Europe, continuing his unfinished university life and supporting his family financially. During his time in Turkey, he works in different jobs and saves money to go to Europe. He makes several attempts to cross into Europe via Greece, but each time he is beaten and sent back to Turkey. Salmane, who disappeared on the day his documentary was shot, is never heard from again. While following Salmane’s own text, the film unearths the memories he left behind with the help of the memories on his phone.

Where Is Home?

Indonesia, 2025, 29 min, Dir.: Lamtiar Simorangkir

Born and raised in prison, a little boy steps into the outside world for the first time, left to navigate its fast-moving life alone. As he grows up in an orphanage, struggling to adapt and understand life, his mother is drawn back into the only world she knows, trying to survive within an environment marked by addiction, absence and instability, leaving her little room to become the parent her child needs.

Under Berlin Film Festival (UBFF) 2026 | 12–14 November

From 12 to 14 November, Under Berlin Film Festival will return for a new edition as the Berlin node of the Transterritorial Underground Film Festival.

For the past five years, the Berlin edition has been sustained as an independent, non-profit initiative, dedicated to creating space for films, filmmakers and stories that rarely find a place within commercial circuits.

The 2026 programme brings together 16 films from 15 countries — Argentina, Austria, Cameroon, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye, United States and Uruguay — presented across different programmes that bring diverse geographies, languages and sensibilities into dialogue.

This year, the selection focuses particularly on grief, binarity and human experiences that often remain outside the centre of the narrative. Stories of the invisible, approached from a range of intimate, social and cultural perspectives. All films will be screened in their original language with English subtitles. After the screenings, the gathering will continue in the same space with conversation, bread and a toast shared by audiences, filmmakers and guests.

Under Berlin Film Festival sees cinema as an experience that does not end on the screen. Each edition aims to create a space for exchange in which films become a starting point for reflection, conversation and encounters between different perspectives. The festival also encourages connections with other disciplines and with the spaces that host it, making context and audience participation part of the experience.

More information: IG: @underberlinfilmfestival

Artistic Direction and General Production: Peri Azar / Bies Culture (Spain)

Production: Transterritorial Underground Film Festival (Argentina)

Programming: Peri Azar / Tiff Cantoral

Technical Coordination: Sofía Fontenla

Social Media: Tiff Cantoral

Visuals: Randolfo Camarotto

Interpretation: Lara Ziemann