Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
Final Girls Berlin occupies a highly specific and useful place in the European festival map: a genre event built around horror and fantastic cinema directed by women and non-binary filmmakers, without treating that focus as a side program or corrective footnote. Based in Berlin, it gives horror a sharper curatorial lens than broader festivals like BIFFF Brussels or Sitges usually can.
That focus makes films like Raw, Titane, Censor, and Huesera: The Bone Woman especially legible in its orbit. Final Girls Berlin is not only about representation. It is about building a programming conversation around authorship, bodily risk, feminist genre history, and newer waves of formally ambitious horror.
Its importance lies in precision. By narrowing the frame, the festival often makes the broader shape of contemporary genre cinema easier to see.
