Final Girls Berlin Film Festival returns for 11th Edition with packed 2026 programme

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is back from 4–8 March 2026 with five days of boundary-pushing horror by women, trans, and non-binary filmmakers. Now in its 11th edition, the festival continues to build a home for genre films that take big swings politically, aesthetically, and emotionally.

Audiences can expect a packed programme of features, shorts blocks, live-scored silent cinema, talks, and workshops. For anyone who can’t make it to Berlin, select screenings will also be available online via Vimeo on Demand during the festival.

Feature Film Highlights
This year’s features span fever-dream motherhood, folk dread, queer camp chaos, and undead mayhem, moving from the intimate to the apocalyptic. Highlights include:

La Virgen de la Tosquera (The Virgin of the Quarry Lake)
Honey Bunch
Frewaka
Eve’s Bayou (Retrospective Screening)
Mother of Flies
Queens of the Dead
Dead Lover
Camp
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Shorts Programmes
The shorts programs remain the heart of the festival. Across the week, audiences can dive into global selections across themed blocks:

Ambition | Eco Horror | Psychosexual
Social Horror | Folk Horror | Queer Horror
Midnight Shorts | Nightmares | Body Horror
Religious Horror | Friendship

Beyond the Screen: Talks & Workshops
This year’s expanded programme is for those who want to think about and create horror with community and intention.

To Eat Excessively: A deep dive into female hunger, appetite, and consumption as transgression and revolt.

“And just for a few hours we was free”: A workshop for Black people and People of Colour examining the empowering potential of horror stories.

Hysterics Unplugged: Exploring the figure of the “hysteric” in cinema through sonic representation and fear.

Make your own damn sounds: A practical workshop on DIY foley and sound effects for film.

Horrors that matter: A talk by Laura Stöckler (Vienna) on deconstructing binary conceptualisations of the body in contemporary horror.

Special Event: Live Silent Film Scores
Berlin-based horror prog trio Pavone Cristallo (Bethany Barrett, Jules LaPlace, and FGB co-director Sara Neidorf) will live-score two landmark films directed by women:

The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1928) – The first Surrealist film.

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943) – A foundational experimental work.

Ticket Information
Individual Ticket: €9 (citykinowedding.de/programm)
Online Ticket: €6 (Via Vimeo on Demand during the festival)
All Access Pass: €75 (Available at finalgirlsberlin.com or in person)

Venue: City Kino Wedding, Müllerstr 74, 13349 Berlin, Germany
More Info: finalgirlsberlin.com

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
4–8 March 2026
City Kino Wedding & Online | Berlin, Germany