Impressions from the UFA Film Nights 2026

Film patron Nikeata Thompson and Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Marion Ackermann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation; Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe; and Christiane von Wahlert, Executive Director of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation, at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Karin Schlautmann, Executive Vice President Corporate Communications, Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe and Dirk Kemmerer, CEO of Bertelsmann Marketing Services, at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

UFA CEO Sascha Schwingel, film ambassador Nikeata Thompson, and Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Marion Ackermann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation; Helen Müller, Head of Cultural Affairs & Corporate History at Bertelsmann; and Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Opening Ceremony of the UFA Film Nights 2026

Andrea Despot, Chair of the Board, with Jakob Meyer, Member of the Board, both of the Foundation "Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft"

Actor Jaecki Schwarz at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Ingo Lenßen at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann, and Hermann Parzinger, former president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Martin Stange, Ercan Durmaz, Nikeata Thompson, and Söhnke Möhring at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights on the rooftop terrace of the Bertelsmann representative office in Berlin

Thomas Rabe at the UFA Film Nights 2026 reception on the roof terrace of the Bertelsmann representative office Unter den Linden 1

Actor Maximilian von Pufendorf with Katharina Reschke at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Actress Adriana Altaras at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Actress Jeanette Hain at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Actor Dominic Raacke at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Actor Sebastian Schneider at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Actress Gisa Flake with Knud Riepen at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Actor Michael Trischan with Sarah Wedekind at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Hermann Parzinger, former president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Actresses Katja Riemann and Nadine Schori at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Film producer Susanne Mann with Lysann Goldbach at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Conductor George Morton and Friedemann Beyer, curator of the UFA Film Nights

Jenni Zylka, author and host, with Max Knuth at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Producer Wolf Bauer at the UFA Film Nights 2026 reception

Actor Marc Dumitru and Karin Schlautmann, Executive Vice President Corporate Communications at Bertelsmann, at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

Actors Lennart Hartmann, Jasmin Pass, and Ingo Lenßen at the reception for the 2026 UFA Film Nights

As the film ambassador for the 2026 UFA Film Nights, Nikeata Thompson will introduce the opening film, Ernst Lubitsch’s 1925 “Lady Windermere’s Fan.”

About a thousand silent film fans gathered in the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin's Museum Island

The opening film of the 2026 UFA Film Nights (“Lady Windermere’s Fan”) was accompanied by the all-female ensemble “The Roaring Dames,” led by Luiza Labouriau.

Impressions from the UFA Film Nights 2026

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