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Updates from the underground
Announcements, milestones and honest notes as the Founding Edition takes shape.
29 September 2026
Encore Week: Seven More Nights
The online screening of the Founding Edition continues until Sunday 5 October — the same seventy-five films, the same prices, and the Audience Award vote open until the last night.
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25 September 2026
Day Five: Underground Cinema in 39 Countries
Five days in, films made without permission, without budget and without a filter are being watched in thirty-nine countries on five continents.
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21 September 2026
The Founding Edition Is Open
Seventy-five films from thirty-one countries are streaming now. A year ago this festival was an idea; today it has a screen of its own.
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20 September 2026
Opens Tomorrow: 75 Films, From Anywhere
At midnight Berlin time the Founding Edition goes online — seventy-five films from thirty-one countries, on any device, at any hour.
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14 September 2026
One Ticket, One Vote: How the Audience Awards Work
Six Audience Awards, decided only by the people who watch. Every ticket carries one vote — and you can move it until the screening closes.
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8 September 2026
Tickets Are Open: 75 Films, Eight Nights, Anywhere
The Founding Edition streams worldwide from 21 to 28 September. One film for €4.99, a strand from €15, or the whole programme for €39 — and every ticket comes with an Audience Award vote.
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8 September 2026
Every Film Now Has Its Own Page
The programme is open to browse: a page for each of the seventy-five films with synopsis, stills, trailer, the filmmaker's portrait and statement — and a ticket button.
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8 September 2026
Two Sets of Awards That Never Touch
How the Founding Edition is judged: six Audience Awards counted from tickets, and the jury honours — including the 4U Grand Trophy and a new LGBTQ+ Award — decided by the jury alone.
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10 August 2026
Official Selection Is Here
75 films, selected from more than 600 submissions across dozens of countries — the Official Selection for BIUFF's Founding Edition is now live.
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20 July 2026
The Shape of the Berlin Experience
600+ films, dozens of countries — the final First Edition list is announced August 10.
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4 June 2026
A New Chapter, A New Channel
FilmFreeway is behind us. What comes next runs through BIUFF itself.
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27 May 2026
The Selection Continues
To every filmmaker who sent us a film and heard nothing back — you were not forgotten.
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Building What Comes Next
The inaugural edition of BIUFF is being rebuilt from the ground up. Here is where we stand — and where we're going.
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