The Greek Film Festival in Berlin is delighted to announce the opening of submissions for its 11th edition,
which will take place at Babylon Cinema on March 25–29th, 2026.
Submissions will open on October 1st, 2025 for all sections of the festival and close on December 15th, 2025.
Films are eligible only if their production was completed after January 1st, 2024.
Greek and Cypriot productions, co-productions, as well as international films that have a Greek or Cypriot theme at their core or a Greek or Cypriot cast and crew will be accepted.
The 2026 edition of the festival will include the following programs:
Emerging Greeks Competition with debut or sophomore feature-length fiction films
Documentary Competition
Short Films Competition
Special Screenings
Spotlight
Additional events, including Q&A sessions, special events, exhibitions, and live music, will be announced later.
The full regulation and the submission form are available on the festival’s official website www.thegreekfilmfestivalinberlin.com and on its FilmFreeway page.
Regardless of the section for which they may apply, all filmmakers are required to submit their films via FilmFreeway.
About the Festival
The Greek Film Festival in Berlin is Berlin’s Greek film festival founded as Hellas Filmbox Berlin in 2015. The festival offers German and international audiences a unique chance to watch the best of new Greek cinema (or related to Greece) on the big screen. We show 35 to 40 fiction films, documentaries, and shorts, most of which are German or International premieres.
The five-day event takes place every March at the historic Babylon venue in the heart of Berlin. With the attendance of filmmakers, producers, distinguished Jury members, film professionals, artists, and by organizing parallel events, discussions, exhibitions, and networking happenings, the festival has become one of the leading film events in the city. Special thanks go out to our amazing and growing festival audience. The German-Greek Cultural Association organizes the festival.
The German-Greek Cultural Association was founded by German and Greek initiators in Berlin in April 2015 with the aim of supporting and strengthening Greek-German relations through cultural projects like Hellas Filmbox Berlin (2016- 2019), The Greek Film Festival in Berlin (2020 – today), The Greek Film Festival Goes Frankfurt, The Greek Film Festival goes Köln (currently).
The initiators of the German-Greek Cultural Association were artists Asteris Kutulas and Ina Kutulas.
Currently, on the Association’s Board of Directors is Sofia Stavrianidou (Festival Director).
