Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin returns to Berlin at silent green Kulturquartier, from 5 to 7 June 2026, for a three-day laboratory of discovery and reflection dedicated to contemporary practices of the moving image, with free admission to all.

Following the edition in Paris in November 2025 at Jeu de Paume national museum, Maison Européenne de la Photographie and Studio Bastille – Opéra national de Paris, this new edition in Berlin will gather 118 works from 47 countries – 90 of which are premieres in Germany –, and includes documentary approaches, experimental fictions, videos, hybrid and multimedia forms. 

A programme as a multivers

Every day, in the Betonhalle of silent green, the public will be able to explore a programme spread across four screening rooms and an exhibition, punctuated by a range of events – carte blanche sessions, special screenings, focuses, performances, panel discussions and talks, in the presence of international artists and guests.

Among the highlights, there is two exceptional carte blanche programmes: one by Albert Serra –Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, whose radical films explore the boundaries of fiction through hypnotic forms and visual experimentation –, and one by Antoni Muntadas, a major artist on the international art scene and a pioneer of multimedia art, featuring “On Translation: Warning” installation, and “Political Advertisement 1952–2024” film, both shown in Berlin for the first time. As well as a special focus on The Netherlands and new or recent works by artists such as Broersen & Lukács, Sebastián Diaz Morales, Eva Giolo, Salomé Lamas, Leopold Emmen, Lisa Freeman, Melanie Manchot, Randa Maroufi , Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanić, Uriel Orlow, Laure Prouvost, Pink Twins, Léonard Pongo and Maryam Tafakory, among others.

For this new edition, the programme – curated by the founders and directors of the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig – has been conceived as a framework of simultaneous themes and correspondences. Through their movements between the four screening rooms and the exhibition space, spectators enact passages. A thematic cartography will enable the audience to follow lines of correspondence between works presented across distinct spaces or screenings. In this way, an immersive experience takes shape in which each film, each work, can only be fully understood in relation to others, whether within a given screening or transversally: more than a linear programme, this edition offers a space of coexisting worlds, whose exploration calls for an active practice of viewing.

The entire event will be held in English and is free of admission to all. 

For the detailed programme, please click here. 

Friday, June 5 until Sunday, June 7
Betonhalle
June 5 – Doors: 6 pm / Start: 6 pm
June 6 – Doors: 1:30 pm / Start: 2 pm
June 7 – Doors: 1:30 pm / Start: 2 pm
Admission free