Berlin & Beyond Film Festival continues to be the leading and largest festival of contemporary German cinema in the Americas, by both audience size and programming scope. For the past decade, the festival has been attended annually by 7,000-8,000 film-goers. Over 500 motion pictures from German-speaking countries, produced in over 30 different countries, have screened at Berlin & Beyond to over 200,000 attendees, from independent works to studio pictures to topical documentaries and shorts from the filmmakers of tomorrow.