Under Berlin Film Festival (UBFF) 2026 | Programme #5

14.11., 19 Uhr

1 Journey through the City

Mexico 2025, 9 min, Dir.: Alejandro Acuña Sevilla, Sara Coello Coello

Ema and Lautaro are a couple caught between crime and paper cutouts on the streets of Mexico City, where they will witness the extinction of their territory and try to imagine one possible path where the craft of flying can still be practiced. This hybrid stop-motion collage short film explores the symptoms of watching the place where one was born burn outside the window, hoping to bloom after the leap.

Three Days in Tlaquepaque

United States 2026, 6 min, Dir.: Duncan Analco

As the winter grows harsh, a woman pens a letter to a lover who has yet to write back.

Las Muertes Más Bellas del Mundo / The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World

United States 2024, 71 min, Dir.: Quique Aviles, Ellie Walton

Las Muertes Más Bellas del Mundo / The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World tells the story of five artists whose families fled El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s, landed in the nation’s capital, and created art out of war. The film follows a poet’s journey to find answers and healing through his writing of Las Muertes and interweaves portraits of Salvadoran-Washingtonian artists, including a dancer, photographer and musicians. Their voices and archival images tell a compelling, intimate and historically grounded story of a community resolving trauma and finding identity, salvation and joy.

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