Berlin International Film Festival Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale, is a film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the "Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions each year, it has the largest public attendance of any annual film festival. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections across cinematic genres. Around twenty films compete for the festival's top awards, called the Golden Bear
38th Berlin International Film Festival 38th Berlin International Film Festival The 38th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 12 to 23, 1988. The festival opened with musical film "Linie 1" by Reinhard Hauff. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Chinese film "Red Sorghum" directed by Zhang Yimou. The retrospective dedicated to dedicated to colour films titled "The History of Colour Film" was shown at the festival. Originally German actor Gert Fröbe was selected as Jury President but later he had to decline due to illness, after which Moritz de Hadeln appointed the Italian film critic Guglielmo Biraghi as the Jury President.