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Podcast Episode · Somebody's Watching · April 27 · 1h 31m

by Vannah Taylor, Associate Editor This festival is still on the frontier when it comes to programming shorts from filmmakers challenging whatever complacencies we may be embodying and bringing fresh...

by Avery Coffey, Staff Writer At a festival like Final Girls Berlin FIlm Festival, the programming strays from repetitive perspectives that lack diversity. This is your answer to feeling bored with c...

by Vannah Taylor, Associate Editor From body horror, eco horror, or religious horror to films focused on friendship, ambition, and the queer experience, the 2026 program has it all – but one shorts ...

Das Final Girls  Berlin Film Festival kehrt zurück und wirft vom 4. bis 08. März seinen Schatten auf das City-Kino Wedding. Das Final Girls Film Festival kehrt 2026 zurück, düstere und gewagt wie eh u...

by Avery Coffey, Staff Writer I don’t think you’ll find a film festival with as niche subject matters as Final Girls.

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is back from 4–8 March 2026 with five days of boundary-pushing horror by women, trans, and

I sat down with film professor Prof. Peter Lehman and horror scholar Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas to discuss male nudity in cinema. We discuss our connections with the topic, the phallus vs the penis...

Prevenge and Timestalker filmmaker Alice Lowe has lined up two genre projects, including a horror version of the William Shakespeare classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The second project, Deadline rep...

A two-day virtual horror studies symposium (Oct 4–5, 15:00–20:00 GMT) exploring mind, folk, cosmic, and body horror.

Somebody's Watching · Episode

Berlin ist eine großartige Kinostadt und doch schaffen es einige Filme durch das Raster zu fallen. Idiocinecratic ist eine neue Filmreihe im City Kino Wedding, die sich Filmen aller Epochen und Genres...

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. They are committed to creating space for female voices and visions, whether monstrous, heroic or some messy combination of the two, in the horror genre. We all have seen more than enough representations of women as beautified victims and constructions of male fantasies or anxieties, and are working towards the primacy of women as subjects and storytellers in...

The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers.