Magnolia won an award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2017.
The proceedings include presentations by experts, who have included Park Chan-wook, Frances McDormand, Stephen Frears, Dennis Hopper, Jia Zhangke, Walter Murch, Shah Rukh Khan, Joshua Oppenheimer, Anthony Minghella, Charlotte Rampling, Walter Salles, Ridley Scott, Raoul Peck, Tom Tykwer, Mike Leigh, Tilda Swinton, and Wim Wenders
 Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 to 2023 and is one of the "Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France

