When the Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 75th ceremony in 2025, it will be doing so without any official footprint on X. That's because the German movie festival just revealed its intention to exit the social media site formerly known as Twitter by the end of the year.

The Berlin Film Festival has announced it is leaving X on December 31, 2024, after 15 years on the social media platform where it currently has 133.9K Followers The festival, which will celebrate its 75th edition from February 13 to 24,

As the festivities for this year’s Durban International Film Festival (Diff) wrapped up at the end of July, calls for submissions for next year’s gathering are now open. The 46th edition of Africa’s largest and oldest film festivals as well as one of the Oscar qualifying festivals on the continent, is set to take place from July 17 to 27.

The Berlin Film Festival has become the latest European A-list fest to exit the social media platform X. In a statement posted Monday, the Berlinale said it has "decided to say goodbye to X on Dec 31,