Under Berlin Film Festival (UBFF) 2026 | Programme #4

14.11., 17 Uhr

Mamma

Italy 2025, 20 min, Dir.: Mike Montagna

Marcello is a naïve and obese 40 years-old man devoted entirely to his mother, an overprotective and needy woman with whom he shares a suffocating yet comforting bond. Their days revolve around food and old Hollywood films, rituals that sustain their insular world.

When Marcello falls in love with Maddalena, a young woman who also struggles with food, this fragile balance begins to crack. Torn between his longing for independence and his fear of disappointing his mother, Marcello embarks on a tender and painful journey to affirm his own identity.

To claim his freedom without severing the bond that defines him, he must confront his most difficult challenge: living up to Mamma’s expectations while finally becoming himself.

Nancy Sport Laundry

Argentina 2021, 80 min, Dir.: Agustin Gregori

The crime of an ice cream man, the owner of a laundry, black bananas, bored young people, philosopher policemen and parallel universes.

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