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TEDDY TODAY: 20th of February 2026

TEDDY TODAY
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Welcome to the ninth day of the Berlinale! Before the awards are presented, take the chance to experience the nominated films and festival highlights on the big screen. Today offers the perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in queer cinema ahead of the celebration.

This evening, we mark a special milestone with the 40th TEDDY AWARD Ceremony at the Volksbühne Berlin. For four decades, the TEDDY has united filmmakers, artists and audiences who shape and celebrate queer cinema. The ceremony honours outstanding films and filmmakers who make queer perspectives visible and open new cinematic paths, promising an evening filled with emotion, culture, political resonance and community.

If you cannot join us in person, you can follow the ceremony via livestream and celebrate with us from wherever you are.

After the awards, the celebration continues at the legendary TEDDY After Show Party, a vibrant space for reunion, exchange and dancing that has long been an essential part of the TEDDY experience.

Tickets for today’s screenings are available here .

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    Black Burns Fast

    South Africa | Directed by Sandulela Asanda

    Adorkable Luthando is on track for an ordinary year at the prestigious boarding school she attends on scholarship – until the arrival of a new girl in her class ignites Luthando’s suppressed desires and threatens her self-image and relationships.

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    Fri 20.02. 09:30

    Zoo Palast 1

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    Die Blutgräfin I The Blood Countess

    Austria, Germany | Directed by Ulrike Ottinger

    The Blood Countess and her maid embark on a quest for the red elixir of life and a book that threatens the vampire realm. Hot on their heels are a police inspector, two vampirologists, a vegetarian nephew and his therapist.

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    Fri 20.02. 09:45

    Uber Eats Music Hall

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    Cuando llegue a casa I When I Get Home

    Mexico | Directed by Edgar Adrián

    Paco, a teenager from Guadalajara, explores his identity through his friendship with Andrea and his attraction to Mario. This tests his bond with his grandmother as he prepares for the feast of the patron saint.

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    Fri 20.02. 10:00

    Bluemax Theater

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    Bucks Harbor

    United States | Directed by Pete Muller

    Boys in Downeast Maine are shaped by the brutal winters, their harvesting of the ocean’s bounty and the rigid codes of their fathers. Bucks Harbor explores growing up in a community where a man’s worth is often defined by the strength of his back. 

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    Fri 20.02. 10:00

    Cubix 9

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    No Salgas I Don't Come Out

    Dominican Republic | Directed by Victoria Linares Villegas

    After her girlfriend’s death, Liz hides her true self until a weekend trip with friends awakens forbidden desires. The result is paranoia and violence that consumes the group as Liz’s secret unleashes a deadly force.

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    Fri 20.02. 10:00

    Zoo Palast 2

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    Stallion y la bola de cristal I Stallion and a Crystal Ball

    Spain | Directed by Christian Avilés

    In his dark, silent room, a secluded teenager casts a spell. As hallucinations warp his reality, a bubble threatens to burst. A poetic fever dream exploring queer longing and the magic and mysteries of adolescence.

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    Fri 20.02. 12:00

    Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green

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    The Ballad of Judas Priest

    United States | Directed by Sam Dunn, Tom Morello, Derek Tokar

    The Ballad of Judas Priest follows heavy metal pioneers Judas Priest and their half-century journey from working-class origins in England to their recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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    Fri 20.02. 12:30

    HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium 

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    Jaripeo

    Mexico, United States, France | Directed by Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig

    A journey to the hypermasculine rodeos of Michoacán state in Mexico delves into the subconscious of memory, queer desire and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

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    Fri 20.02. 13:00

    ADK am Hanseatenweg 

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    Staatsschutz

    Germany | Directed by Faraz Shariat

    After surviving a racist attack, state prosecutor Seyo Kim takes her own case to court – confronting both the perpetrators and a justice system that turns a blind eye to right-wing extremism.

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    Fri 20.02. 13:00

    Bluemax Theater 

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    What Will I Become?

    United States | Directed by Lexie Bean, Logan Rozos

    Co-directors Lexie and Logan weave together the stories of two trans boys who died by suicide and their trans masculine+ community, offering resources and imagination for a way forward.

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    Fri 20.02. 13:00

    Zoo Palast 2 

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    Prénoms I Given Names

    France | Directed by Nurith Aviv

    Flowers as a gift for guests, the Latin alphabet as a form of order. A film of rules which varies, multiplies and expands into a novel of nomadic world knowledge as it narrates. Nurith Aviv visits her friends and asks them about their names – c’est ça!

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    Fri 20.02. 14:30

    Cinema Paris

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    Enjoy Your Stay

    Switzerland, France, Philippines | Directed by Dominik Locher

    To avoid losing custody of her six-year-old daughter in Manila, Luz, an undocumented Filipina cleaner working in a luxury Swiss ski resort, must earn money at any cost – even if it means transgressing her own moral limits.

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    Fri 20.02. 15:30

    Zoo Palast 1 

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    La hora de irse I Time to Go

    Argentina | Directed by Renzo Cozza

    Patricio works for his sisters and feels trapped in a life that no longer fits him. Searching for change, he agrees to go on a date with a mysterious man.

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    Fri 20.02. 16:00

    Zoo Palast 2

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    At the Sea

    United States, Hungary | Directed by Kornél Mundruczó

    After rehab, Laura returns to her family’s Cape Cod home. Once the face of her late father’s renowned dance company, she built an identity tethered to his legacy and the cost of growing up in his shadow. Laura’s functional alcoholism, long ignored by everybody, finally reached a breaking point after a drunk-driving accident with her young son in the car. Now sober, she comes home changed, but to a family unprepared for this.

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    Fri 20.02. 16:00

    Uber Eats Music Hall

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    Whale 52 – Suite for Man, Boy, and Whale

    United States | Directed by Daniel Neiden

    A quiet boy and a silently grieving widower who volunteers at the boy’s school discover a magical pen and journal that enable them to hear each other with a listening heart.

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    Fri 20.02. 16:15

    Cubix 6 

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    Animol

    Great Britain | Directed by Ashley Walters

    Behind the walls of a young offender institution, Troy is thrust into a brutal world of gangs, loyalty and violence from the moment he arrives. When an unspoken bond develops with a fellow inmate, it becomes a dangerous vulnerability for them both.

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    Fri 20.02. 16:30

    Cubix 9

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    Iván & Hadoum

    Spain, Germany, Belgium | Directed by Ian de la Rosa

    In a greenhouse in southern Spain, Iván falls in love with his newly hired co-worker, Hadoum. But his long-awaited promotion interferes with their relationship, forcing Iván to decide what kind of person he wants to be.

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    Fri 20.02. 17:00

    Urania 

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    Feito Pipa I Gugu’s World

    Brazil | Directed by Allan Deberton

    Gugu, an almost-twelve-year-old boy with football dreams, is raised in the accepting care of his grandmother, Dilma. As she becomes increasingly frail and their world shifts, he struggles to protect the place where he is free to be who he is.

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    Fri 20.02. 19:15

    Cubix 6

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    Rumaragasa

    Philippines | Directed by Ryan Machado

    The mid-1990s on the Filipino island of Sibuyan. After he has been raped, a young man retreats into a world of silence and isolation. Then he witnesses a plane crash and embarks on a quest for justice.

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    Fri 20.02. 21:45

    Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

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    Saccharine

    Australia | Directed by Natalia Erika James

    Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorised by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze: eating human ashes.

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    Fri 20.02. 22:00

    Haus der Berliner Festspiele

TEDDY 40 Retrospective Screenings

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    Tomboy

    France | Directed by Céline Sciamma

    Laure is new in town. She just moved in with her family in the heart of summer. When she meets Lisa and a group of kids they assume she is a boy. She decides to become Michael.

    TEDDY 40 Retrospective

    Fri 20.02. 16:00

    Deutsche Kinemathek – Halle

Berlinale Retrospective Screenings

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    Prinz in Hölleland I Prince in Hell

    Germany | Directed by Michael Stock

    A maverick living in a trailer in Kreuzberg has a heroin habit that wrecks his relationship and, in the end, his entire precarious existence. The film is a graphic, sometimes extreme portrayal of the queer, off-the-grid milieu in gritty West Berlin.

    Berlinale Retrospective

    Fri 20.02. 14:00

    Cubix 5

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Exhibition

Industries of Denial, Stage 10: From Musa Dagh to Port Saïd - Betonhalle@Silent Green
Opening hours: February 13 7pm - 10pm | February 14 - 22, daily 12pm - 10pm | Admission free

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