39th Teddy Awards

Update February 22, 2025 - Last night the group had their award ceremony and winners are in BLUE.  A Special Teddy Award was given to Todd Haynes. To check winners at official site go here.

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February 6, 2025
Update: Today, February 6th, finished trying to organize which films were selected to compete in the Teddy Awards and those films that are Out of Competition.

It was not an easy task as there is no list but a database that generates different lists of films by different markers, except there is no mark for In or Out of Competition. The only way to identify if film is in competition is a little bear logo. Sigh. So let's hope the list shows the Selection well.

In the Out of Competition left out some films that will be shown but were not produced recently.

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January 27,2025
The Berlinale 2025 program has not been published in full, will happen in February 4th, but Teddy Awards organizers already announced what probably will be the first selection of films competing for Teddy 2025.

The Teddy Award – the most outstanding queer film prize in the world – is a socially engaged, political honor presented to films and people who communicate queer themes on a broad social platform, thereby contributing to tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society.

During the Berlinale the award is presented in the following categories: Best Feature, Best Documentary / Essay Film, Best Short film and Jury Award as well as the Special Teddy Award which is awarded to outstanding personalities. Every year films from all sections of the Berlin International Film Festival compete for the Teddy Awards.

From 2025, winning the Best Documentary / Essay Film entitles a film to take part in the competition for the Oscar® for Best Documentary Feature.

The Berlinale runs from February 13 to 23 with the awards ceremony on Saturday, February 22; but, Teddy Awards ceremony and party is on Friday, February 21 at Volksbühne Berlin.

The Selection

Feature Films

Competition
Drømmer (Dreams [Sex Love]), Dag Johan Haugenud, Norway (LI)
Hot Milk, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, UK (debut film) (LI)
O último azul (The Blue Trail), Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Netherlands

Berlinale Special
Kein Tier. So Wild. (No Beast. So Fierce.), Burhan Qurbani, Germany, Poland and France

Perspectives
Duas vezes João Liberada (Two Times João Liberada), Paula Tomás Marques, Portugal (debut film) (Q)
Le rendez-vous de l'été (That Summer in Paris), Valentine Cadic, France (debut film) (LI)

Panorama
愛作歹 Ai Zuo Dai (Silent Sparks), Ping Chu, Taiwan (debut film) (GI)
Ato Noturno (Night Stage), Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher, Brazil (GI)
Dreamers, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, UK (debut film) (LI)
Dreams in Nightmares, Shatara Michelle Ford, USA, Taiwan and UK (LI)
Lesbian Space Princess, Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, Australia (debut film) (animation) (LI) - BEST FEATURE FILM WINNER
Once Again... [Statues Never Die], Isaac Julien, UK (G)
Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs, USA and Germany (GI)
Queerpanorama, Jun Li, USA, Hong Kong and China (GI)

Forum
Batim (Houses), Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum, Israel and Germany (debut film) (Q)
Janine zieht aufs Land (Janine Moves to the Country), Jan Eilhardt, Germany (T)

Generation 14Plus
Zečji nasip (Sandbag Dam), Čejen Černić Čanak, Croatia, Lithuania and Slovenia (G)

Documentary / Essay Films

Panorama Dokumente
Monk in Pieces, Billy Shebar, USA, Germany and France (documentary) (LI)
Satanische Sau (The Satanic Sow), Rosa von Praunheim, Germany (documentary) (Q) - BEST DOCUMENTARY/ESSAY FILM WINNER

Forum
Queer as Punk, Yihwen Chen, Malaysia and Indonesia (documentary) (T)
Sirens Call, Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann, Germany and Netherlands (debut film) (documentary)

Short Films

Forum Expanded
Stars, Stars Collective, UK and Germany 7' (animation) (Q)

Generation 14plus
Howl, Domini Marshall, Australia 16'
Julian and the Wind, Connor Jessup, Canada (GI) 14'
Sous ma fenêtre, la boue (The Mud Under My Window), Violette Delvoye, France and Belgium 13' (animation)

Berlinale Shorts
Casi Septiembre (Close to September), Lucia G. Romero, Spain (LI) 29'
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished, Lesley Loksi Chan, Canada (documentary) 29' - BEST SHORT FILM WINNER

International Jury
Alegra Madsen, leads Frameline, USA
Jan Künemund, film journalist, curator and agent, Germany
Raul Niño Zambrano, creative director Scheffield DoctFest

The jury will view all films with a queer main plot from the Berlinale’s Queerlist, nominate three films in each category and select the winning films in the categories Best Feature Film, Best Short Film and Best Documentary/Essay Film. They also present the Teddy Jury Award.

Out Of Competition

Competition
Ari, Léonor Serraille, France and Belgium
La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower), Lucile Hadžihalilović, France and Germany (LI) 

Berlinale Special
Das Licht (The Light), Tom Tyker, Germany, UK and France
Lurker, Alex Russell, USA and Italy (debut film)

Perspectives
Come la notte (Where the Night Stands Still), Liryc Dela Cruz, Italy and Philippines
Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls), Urška Djukić, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia and Serbia (debut film) (LI)

Panorama
愛作歹 Ai Zuo Dai (Silent Sparks), Ping Chu, Taiwan (debut film) (GI)
Looking for Langston, Isaac Julien, UK 1989 (GI)
Magic Farm, Amalia Ulman, Argentina

Forum
The Trio Hall, Su Hui-yu, Taiwan
Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst (If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile), Marie Luise Lehner, Austria (debut film) (LI) - TEDDY JURY AWARD

Forum Expanded
Extra Life (and Decay), Stéphanie Lagarde, Netherlands and France 21'
Pidikwe (Rumble), Caroline Monnet, Canada, 10'
Rapture, Alisa Berger, France and Germany (VR installation)

Generation
A natureza das coisas invisíveis (The Nature of Invisible Things), Rafaela Camelo, Brazil and Chile (debut film) (L)
Wish You Were Ear, Mirjana Balogh, Hungary (animation)

Berlinale Classics
Vestida de Azul (Dressed in Blue), Antonio Giménez-Rico, Spain, 1983 (T)

To check selection at official site go here and here.