UCM.ONE / DARLING BERLIN is supporting the 22nd edition of the Achtung Berlin Festival with a film in the competition, a panel it organized during the industry days, and the endowment of the award for Best Acting.
The lineup includes six world and German premieres in the feature film program alone, and 19 world premieres in the short and medium-length film categories. UCM.ONE and its Berlin-based film label Darling Berlin are serving as official festival partners for the eleventh time this year and are once again sponsoring the Award for Best Acting, worth 1,000 euros, which will be presented to two actors. This year’s Feature Film Jury, consisting of director and writer Christoph Hochhäusler, actress Christina Große, and producer Mariam Shatberashvili, will decide on the winners.
Deserving special attention this year is the feature film PLAN F by director Ina Balon, which UCM.ONE recently acquired for theatrical distribution and international sales. This feature film debut tells the story of two very different sisters: Franka, the punk, and Maya, the conservative, who find themselves on a nighttime road trip from Brandenburg to Berlin—triggered by Franka’s desperate attempt to rescue her youngest sister from a precarious situation. What follows is a night filled with pent-up conflicts and unexpected closeness. Director Ina Balon describes the film as a “declaration of love to failure”—not focused on reconciliation, but on “not losing sight of one another.”
PLAN F has already been honored at the 59th Hof Film Festival 2025 with the Friedrich Baur Gold Prize for Best Directing in a Debut Film as well as the Hof Critics’ Prize. As part of the achtung berlin film festival, the film is screening in the Feature Film Competition. The Berlin premiere will take place on Sunday, April 19 at 6:15 p.m. at the historic Kino Babylon in Berlin-Mitte.
The discussion will feature directors Ina Balon (PLAN F, Feature Film Competition), Yann Rehberg (VOM BÖSEN BLICK, Mid-Length Film Competition), and Ali Tamim (NOAH, Feature Film Competition). The discussion will be moderated by Karoline Rößler, herself the director of the film INTERSECTION — EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL (Berlin Special). The format is deliberately interactive: audience participation is expressly encouraged.
Eleven years of partnership
For more information about the festival and the program: achtung berlin
For more information about the film label: Darling Berlin
