Festivals in Berlin

For six days, Berlin's independent performing arts scene takes over the city: From May 30 to June 4, 2026, the Performing Arts Festival (PAF...

The Performing Arts Season of the Berliner Festspiele is a four-month season encompassing international dance, theatre, and performance prod...

Pictoplasma is the world's leading festival for contemporary character design — a mix of conference, film festival, exhibition, and market c...

The PladeLu-Festival is Berlin's unusual charity rock festival held at the Columbiahalle. One day, one hall, one stage — headliners and newc...

The Plänterwald Kiezfest is the local Berlin contribution to the European Neighbourhood Week 2026 and will take place on Friday, May 29, 202...

Every year in May, Players Delight Spring Beach kicks off the Berlin open-air season: a day festival on the sandy beach of Strandbad Grünau...

The Poesiefestival Berlin is the largest German-language poetry festival – a month-long event featuring over fifty poets from around the wor...

The state champions of all German federal states meet at the end of October in Berlin for the Grand Prix Deutschland of Poetry Slam. Over tw...

Since 2007, the POOL – Movement Art Film Festival Berlin has been Berlin's central festival for dance film and cinematic movement art. In 20...

Pop-Kultur is Berlin's festival for contemporary pop music and pop culture – beyond the mainstream festival circus. For six days, Musicboard...

POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair is the official art fair of the Berlin Art Week and has been a firm fixture of Berlin's autumn art season since 20...

Right in the middle of Berlin's Steglitz-Zehlendorf district — between the Botanical Garden, the Free University, and the Grunewald forest —...

For one weekend, the grounds of Späth's Nurseries in Berlin-Baumschulenweg transform into a pottery market with national aspirations. More t...

Prenzlauerberginale is a small, unusual Berlin film festival that exclusively shows films about the Prenzlauer Berg district. Films from DEF...

PrevYou is Berlin's compact short film festival for emerging filmmakers from German-speaking countries. From May 29 to 31, 2026, the event w...

Pride Village is the official closing party of Berlin's Christopher Street Day. After the parade through the city, tens of thousands flock t...

On Mother's Day weekend, May 9th and 10th, 2026, Akazienstraße between Apostel-Paulus-Kirche and Hauptstraße will transform into a spring an...

Berlin's self-organised project spaces are the backbone of the independent art scene: small, artist-run spaces in backyards, shopfronts, and...