75th Berlin International Film Festival LIne Up

February 5, 2025 Last Update, Post becomes final. A few changes, a few corrections and now everything should be as it has to be for each of the festival sections listed in the post.

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Note: This post will be In Progress until festival full program becomes available at official site, which seems is scheduled to February 4, 2025.

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Update: On January 27th new films films were announced for Panorama, Forum and Generation, one for each.  Each section program is complete,

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Update: On January 21st the program was announced via a Press Conference and seems all movies have been announced for all festival sections.  All sections were updated in this post.   Final updated will be after February 4th.

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January 11, 2025
This year the festival will run from February 13 to February 23, 2025 and the Program Press Conference is scheduled to be held on January 21, 2025, at 11am at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The Berlinale 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival and is also the first edition under the direction of Tricia Tuttle.

Tricia Tuttle will open the Press Conference and give an overview of the entire festival program. She will then present the films in the Competition and the new competitive section Perspectives together with the Co-Directors of Film Programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz.

European Film Market

Under the new direction of Tanja Meissner, the European Film Market (EFM) 2025 will again open its doors from February 13 to 19, welcoming international industry representatives including producers, global sales agents and distributors as well as cinema operators, high-tech companies, and investors from all over the world.

On February 12, 2025, the inaugural EFM Distributor Award will be presented for the first time as part of the European Film Market kick-off event. The Award aims to recognize the significance of European Arthouse distribution and its central contribution to cultural diversity.

This year, Spain and its vibrant film industry will take centre stage at the Berlinale’s EFM as Country in Focus. The diversity of Spain as a production location, the creative excellence and its tech-savvy pioneering role aligns perfectly with the EFM’s focus on innovation and industry trends.

The Poster

Berlin graphic designer Claudia Schramke created the key design for the 75th Berlinale. The design places the Berlinale at the centre of a glowing visual interpretation of the theme of “time”. A modern, lively remix of the historical cinema feeling and an emotional anniversary countdown form the beating heart of the upcoming Berlinale.

For the first time, an animated key visual is at the centre of the design alongside the classic poster. This reflects the media shift towards digital channels and the importance of moving graphics in communication.



From 2025, the Winners of Three Berlinale Awards Qualify for the Oscars

From current year, the winner of the Teddy Award – Best Documentary/Essay Film will also be entitled to enter the competition for an Oscar®. This is the third award presented at the Berlinale to qualify the winning film to be submitted for the Academy Award®/Oscar® longlist alongside the Golden Bear for Best Short Film and the Berlinale Documentary Award.

Homage

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival will award Scottish actor Tilda Swinton the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement. The award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025.



“The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking. To cinema she brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humour and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work. Tilda is one of our modern filmmaking idols, and has also long been part of the Berlinale family. We are delighted to be able to present her with this Honorary Golden Bear,” says Festival Director Tricia Tuttle.

“The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio. It was my portal into the world in which I have made my life’s work - the world of international filmmaking - and I have never forgotten the debt I owe it. To be honoured in this way by this particular festival is deeply touching for me: it will be my privilege and pleasure to celebrate, once more next February, the seedbed that is this wide-eyed and reliably wonderful gathering,” says Tilda Swinton.

The Program

I find current edition competition ecclectic with many relatively new directors and a few well-established filmmakers like Radu Jude, Michel Franco, Hong Sangsoo, Iván Fund and Richard Linklater.  Perhaps what gives me the highest desire to watch is the film with Marion Cotillard playing "a dangerously seductive actor playing The Snow Queen",

Competition
19 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, among them one first feature as well as one documentary. Productions from 26 countries are represented. 17 films are world premieres. Eight films were directed or co-directed by women. Nine filmmakers have screened their films in the Berlinale previously.

Ari, Léonor Serraille, France and Belgium
Blue Moon, Richard Linklater, USA and Ireland
Dreams, Michel Franco, Mexico 
Drømmer (Dreams [Sex Love]), Dag Johan Haugenud, Norway
El Mensaje (The Message), Iván Fund, Argentina and Spain
그 자연이 네게 뭐라고 하니 Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani (What Does that Nature Say to You), Hong Sangsoo, South Korea
Hot Milk, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, UK (debut film)
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Mary Bronstein, USA
Kontinental '25, Radu Jude, Romania, Brazil, Switzerland, UK and Luxembourg
La Cache (The Safe House), Lionel Baier, Switzerland, Luxembourg and France
La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower), Lucile Hadžihalilović, France and Germany
Mutterglück (Mother's Baby), Johanna Moder, Austria, Switzerland, Germany
O último azul (The Blue Trail), Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Netherlands
Reflet dans un diamant mort (Reflection in a Dead Diamond), Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and France
生息之地 Sheng xi zhi di (Living the Land), Huo Meng, China
Strichka chasu (Timestamp), Kateryna Gornostai, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Netherlands and France (documentary)
Was Marielle weiß (What Marielle Knows), Frédéric Hambalek, Germany
想飞的女孩 Xiang fei de nv hai (Girls on Wire), Vivian Qu, China
يونان Yunan, Ameer Fakher Eldin, Germany, Canada, Italy, Palestine, Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia

International Jury
President: Todd Haynes, director, screenwriter and producer, USA
Nabil Ayouch, director, screenwriter and producer, Morocco and France
Fan Bingbing, actress, China
Bina Daigeler, costume designer, Germany
Rodrigo Moreno, director, Argentina
Amy Nicholson, film critic, USA
Maria Schrader, director, actress, screenwriter, Germany



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Berlinale Special
Program include 22 films and 1 TV serie. It's one of the most diverse sections which includes Red Carpet Galas, late-night genre thrills and talking point films.

Berlilnale Special Gala
Opening Film: Das Licht (The Light), Tom Tyker, Germany, UK and France
A Complete Unknown, James Mangold, USA
After This Dead, Lucio Castro, USA
Heldin (Late Shift), Petra Volpe, Switzerland and Germany
Islands, Jan-Ole Gerster, Germany
Köln 75, Ido Fluk, Germany, Poland and Belgium
Lurker, Alex Russell, USA and Italy (debut film)
Mickey 17, Bong Jooh Ho, USA, UK and South Korea
The Thing with Feathers, Dylan Southern, UK

Berlinale Special
A melhor mãe do mundo (The Best Mother in the World), Anna Muylaert, Brazil and Argentina
Ancestral Visions of the Future, Lemohang Jeremiah Mossese, France, Lesotho, Germany and Saudi Arabia (documentary)
Das Deutsche Volk, Marcin Wierzchowski, Germany (documentary) (debut film)
Honey Bunch, Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, Canada
Je n’avais que le néant - "Shoah" par Lanzmann (All I Had Was Nothingness), Guillaume Ribat, France
Kein Tier. So Wild. (No Beast. So Fierce.), Burhan Qurbani, Germany, Poland and France
Leibniz - Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes (Leibniz - Chronicle of a Lost Painting), Edgar Reitz and Anatol Schuster, Germany
Michtav le'David (A Letter to David), Tom Shoval, Israel and USA (documentary)
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow, Julia Loktev, USA (documentary)
Pa-gwa (The Old Woman with the Knife), Min Kyu-dong, South Korea
Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, France 1985

Berlinale Special - Honorary Golden Bear
Friendship's Death, Peter Wallen, UK, 1987

Berlinale Special - Berlinale Camera
Yella, Christian Petzold, Germany 2007

Series Special Gala
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Justin Kursel, Australia

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Perspectives
The international competitive strand for fiction feature debuts will shine a brighter spotlight on new filmmakers within the festival. The Perspectives competition comprises 14 feature film debuts, of which twelve are world premieres and two are international premieres. 19 production countries are represented. Five films were directed or co-directed by women, two films were directed by non-binary directors.

Al mosta'mera (The Settlement), Mohamed Rashad, Egypt, France, Germany, Qatar and Saudi Arabia
Baksho Bondi (Shadowbox), Tanushree Das and Saumyananda Sahi, India, France, USA and Spain
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, Kahlil Joseph, USA and Ghana (debut film)
Come la notte (Where the Night Stands Still), Liryc Dela Cruz, Italy and Philippines
Duas vezes João Liberada (Two Times João Liberada), Paula Tomás Marques, Portugal (debut film)
El Diablo Fuma [y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja] (The Devil Smokes [and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box]), Ernesto Martínez Bucio, Mexico (debut film)
河鰻 Hé mán (Eel), Chu Chun-Teng, Taiwan (debut film)
How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World, Florian Pochlatko, Austria (debut film)
Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls), Urška Djukić, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia and Serbia (debut film)
Le rendez-vous de l'été (That Summer in Paris), Valentine Cadic, France (debut film)
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo), Joel Alfonso Vargas, USA (debut film)
Minden Renben (Growing Down), Bálint Dániel Sós, Hungary (debut film)
Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen (Punching the World), Constanze Klaus, Germany (debut film)
On vous croit (We Believe You), Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers, Belgium

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Perspectives Jury
Meryam Joobeur, director, Tunisia and Canada
Aïssa Maïga, actress, France and Mali
María Zamora, producer, Spain

Jury Berlinale Documentary Award
In 2025, 16 documentary forms from the sections Competition, Berlinale Special, Panorama, Forum and Generation are nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award. To check the 16 films nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award go official site here.
Petra Costa, director, Brazil
Lea Glob, director, Denmark
Kazuhiro Sōda, director, Japan

Panorama
A total of 35 films and 1 TV series from 28 countries in current edition. Genre cinema is mixing it up in the program, multi-faceted German filmmaking will be catching the eye, while queer cinema is once again making a strong showing well beyond the common clichés.

Feature Film
Opening Film: Welcome Home Baby, Andreas Prochaska, Austria and Germany
1001 Frames, Mehrnoush Alia, Iran and USA (debut film)
愛作歹 Ai Zuo Dai (Silent Sparks), Ping Chu, Taiwan (debut film)
Ato Noturno (Night Stage), Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher, Brazil
Begyndelser (Beginnings), Jeanette Nordahl, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium
Confidente (Confidant), Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, Turkey, France, and Luxembourg
Delicious, Nele Mueller-Stöfen, Germany (debut film)
Den stygge stesøsteren (The Ugly Stepsister), Emilie Blichfeldt, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Denmark (debut film)
Dreamers, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, UK (debut film) 
Dreams in Nightmares, Shatara Michelle Ford, USA, Taiwan and UK 
Hjem kaere hjem (Home Sweet Home), Frelle Petersen, Denmark
Hysteria, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Germany
L'incroyable femme des neiges (The Incredible Snow Woman), Sébastien Betbeder, France
Lesbian Space Princess, Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, Australia (debut film ) (Animation) 
Looking for Langston, Isaac Julien, UK 1989 
Magic Farm, Amalia Ulman, Argentina
Mikusu Modan (The Longing), Toshizo Fujiwara, Japan
Olmo, Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico
Once Again... [Statues Never Die], Isaac Julien, UK
Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs, USA and Germany
Queerpanorama, Jun Li, USA, Hong Kong and China 
Schwesterherz (The Good Sister), Sarah Miro Fischer, Germany and Spain (debut film)
Sorda (Deaf), Eva Libertad, Spain
The Heart is a Muscle, Imran Hamdulay, South Africa and Saudi Arabia (debut film)
Zikaden (Cicadas), Ina Weisse, Germany and France

Panorama Dokumente

Bajo las Banderas, el Sol (Under the Flags, the Sun), Juanjo Pereiro, Paraguay, Argentina, USA, France, and Germany (debut film) (documentary)
Bedrock, Kinga Michalska, Canada (debut film) (documentary)
Die Möllner Briefe (The Moelin Letters), Martina Priessner, Germany (documentary)
Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef (I Want It All), Luzia Schmid, Germany (documentary)
Khartoum, Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Brahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, and Phil Cox, Sudan, UK, Germany and Qatar (documentary)
Listy z Wilczej (Letters from Wolf Street), Arjun Talwar, Poland and Germany (documentary)
Monk in Pieces, Billy Shebar, USA, Germany and France (documentary)
Paul, Denis Côté, Canada (documentary)
Satanische Sau (The Satanic Sow), Rosa von Praunheim, Germany (documentary)
Yalla Parkour, Areeb Zuaiter, Sweden, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Palestine (debut film) (documentary)

TV Series
Die Affäre Cum-Ex (Other People's Money), Jan Schomburg (Creator), Dustin Loose (Director), Kaspar Munk (Director), Germany, Denmark and Austria  (4 episodes)

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Forum

Forum Main Program
The 55th Forum main program comprises 31 films from five continents – including seven feature debuts – and encounters a world and its people that are not in good shape, wounded souls.

Feature Film
After Dreaming, Christine Haroutounian, USA, Armenia and Mexico (debut film)
Batim (Houses), Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum, Israel and Germany (debut film)
Bombam (Spring Night), Kang Mi-ja, South Korea
Cadet, Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan
Der Kuss des Grashüpfers (The Kiss of the Grasshopper), Elmar Imanov, Germany, Luxembourg and Italy
Fwends, Sophie Somerville, Australia (debut film)
Janine zieht aufs Land (Janine Moves to the Country), Jan Eilhardt, Germany
Minimals in a Titanic World, Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo, Rwanda, Germany and Cameroon (debut film)
Punku, Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, Peru and Spain
Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde (Eighty Plus), Želimir Žilnik, Serbia and Slovenia
The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov, Yuri Semashko, Lithuania and Germany (debut film)
The Trio Hall, Su Hui-yu, Taiwan
Vaghachipani (Tiger's Pond), Natesh Hegde, India and Singapore
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)
What's next, Cao Yiwen, Hong Kong and China (debut film) (AI animation without dialogue)

Documentary
2024 [2023], Stefan Hayn, Germany (documentary)
Canone effimero, Gianluca De Serio and Massimiliano De Serio, Italy (documentary)
Chas pidlotu (Time to the Target), Vitaly Mansky, Latvia, Czechia and Ukraine (documentary)
Colosal (Colossal), Nayibe Tavares-Abel, Dominican Republic (debut film) (documentary
Evidence, Lee Anne Schmitt, USA (documentary)
Holding Liat, Brandon Kramer, USA (documentary)
La Memoria de las Mariposas (The Memory of Butterflies), Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, Peru and Portugal (debut film) (documentary)
little boy, James Benning, USA (documentary)
Palliativstation (Palliative Care Unit), Philipp Döring, Germany (debut film) (documentary)
Queer as Punk, Yihwen Chen, Malaysia and Indonesia (documentary)
The Sense of Violence, Kim Mooyoung, South Korea (documentary)
Sirens Call, Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann, Germany and Netherlands (debut film)
Stolz & Eigensinn (Pride & Attitude), Gerd Kroske, Germany (documentary)
Underground, Kaori Oda, Japan (documentary)
Unsere Zeit wird kommen (Our Time Will Come), Ivette Löcker, Austria (documentary)
When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea, Eva Neymann, Germany and Ukraine (documentary)

Forum Special
The 2025 Forum Special is entitled "Open Wounds, Open Words" and forms a logical continuation of these programming ideas, turning its attention this time around to the positions of the younger generation: growing up, youthful awakenings, becoming an adult and part of society – in contexts marked by cultural norms, social inequality and political injustice.

Feature Films
Das falsche Wort (The Lie), Katrin Seybold, Germany, 1987 (documentary) (digital restoration)
Iracema, uma transa amazônica (Iracema), Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna, Brazil and Germany, 1975 (digital restoration)
Mes fantômes arméniens (My Armenian Phantoms), Tamara Stepanyan, France, Armenia and Qatar (documentary)
Scars of a Putsch, Nathalie Borgers, Austria and Belgium (documentary)
The Long road to The Director's Chair, Vibeke Løkkeberg, Norway (documentary)

Short Films
Guochang (Fruit Farm), Nana Xu, China 30' (documentary)
Nagota (Nudity), Sabina Bakaeva, Uzbekistan and France 26' (documentary)
Shinagani gazapkhulebis q'vaviloba (Inner Blooming Springs), Tiku Kobiashvili, Georgia 43' (documentary)

Forum Expanded
In its 20th edition, Forum Expanded brings together 24 works from 21 countries. Employing practices that span installation, film, video and sculpture, the selected artists and filmmakers employ translucence as a means of engaging with the cataclysmic realities of the present.

Short Film
Cartas do Absurdo (Letters from Absurd), Gabraz Sanna, Brazil 46'
Extra Life (and Decay), Stéphanie Lagarde, Netherlands and France 21'
Miraculous Accident, Assaf Gruber, Germany and Austria 29'
Mirage: Eigenstate, Riar Rizaldi, Indonesia, UK and Portugal 30'
ภูเขาคำราม Mountain Roars, Chonchanok Thanatteepwong and Pobwarat Maprasob, Thailand 13'
Pidikwe (Rumble), Caroline Monnet, Canada, 10'
Portales (Portals), Elena Duque, Spain 16' (animation)
Stars, Stars Collective, UK and Germany 7' (animation) 
When the Sun is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin), Jerome Everson, USA 36'

Documentary
Akher Youm (The Last Day), Mahmoud Ibrahim, Egypt 5' (documentary)
Al Basateen (The Orchards), Antoine Chapon, France 23' (documentary)
Mikuba (Cobalt), Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Congo and USA 60'  (documentary)
Mua besoj më shpëtoj portreti (I Believe the Portrait Saved Me), Alban Muja, Kosovo and Netherlands 10' (documentary)
Photosynthesizing Dead in Warehouse, Jeamin Cha, South Korea 30' (documentary)
Spetsialna Operatsiia (Special Operation), Oleksiy Radynski, Ukraine and lithuania 65' (documentary)
Tin City, Feargal Ward, Ireland 20' (documentary)
Zizi (ou oração da jaca fabulosa) (Zizi [or Praying to a Fabulous Tree]), Felipe M. Bragança, Brazil 29' (documentary)

Exhibitions / Installations
Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland (ADfD) (Alternative Monument for Germany), Alternative Monument, Germany 25' (reality installation)
beneath the placid lake, Kush Badhwar and Vyjayanthi Rao, India and Finland 10' (video installation)
Chang Gyeong, Jongwook Lee, South Korea 17' (video installation)
J-N-N, Ginan Seidl, Germany 20' (video installation)
Rapture, Alisa Berger, France and Germany 37' (VR installation)
Sinking Suns, Neda Saeedi, Austria and Germany  53' (reality and video installation)
Wilfred Buck's Star Stories, Lisa Jackson and The Macronauts, Canada 21' (360-degree dome projection)

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Generation

Generation Kplus

Feature Film
Opening Film: A natureza das coisas invisíveis (The Nature of Invisible Things), Rafaela Camelo, Brazil and Chile (debut film)
Maya, donne-moi un titre (Maya, Give Me a Title), Michel Gondry, France (animation)
Only on Earth, Robin Petré, Denmark and Spain (documentary)
Ornmol, Marlikka Perdrisat, Australia (documentary)
Pohádky Po Babičce (Tales from the Magic Garden), David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, and Jean-Claude Rozec, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia and France (animation)
Ra Bi Wa (A Story about Fire), Li Wenyu, China (animation) (debut film)
Space Cadet, Eric San, Canada (debut film) (animation)
Umibe é Iku Michi (Seaside Serendipity), Satoko Yokohama, Japan
Zhi Wu Xue Jia (The Botanist), Jing Yi, China (debut film)

Short Film
Akababuru: Expresión de Asombro (Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment), Irati Dojura Landa Yagari, Colombia 13'
Anngeerdardardor (The Thief), Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken, Denmark and Greenland 20'
Autokar, Sylwia Szkiłądź, Belgium and France 18' (animation)
Down in the Dumps, Vera van Wolferen, Netherlands 18' (animation)
El Paso (The Leap), Roberto Tarazona, Cuba 15' (documentary)
Juanita, Karen Joaquin and Uliane Tatit, Spain 20'
Little Rebels Cinema Club, Khozy Rizal, Indonesia 17'
Ruse, Rhea Shukla, India 10'

Generation 14plus

Feature Film
Opening Film: Christy, Brendan Canty, Irealand and UK (debut film)
Daye: Seret Ahl El Daye (The Tale of Daye's Family), Karim El Shenawy, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Hora do recreio (Playtime), Lucia Murat, Brazil (documentary)
I Agries Meres Mas (Our Wildest Days), Vasilis Kekatos, Greece, Belgium, Germany and France (debut film)
Paternal Leave, Alissa Jung, Germany and Italy (debut film)
Sunshine, Antoinette Jadaone, Philippines
Têtes Brûlées, Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama, Belgium (debut film)
Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), Zacharias Kunuk, Canada
Village Rockstars 2, Rima Das, India and Singapore
Zečji nasip (Sandbag Dam), Čejen Černić Čanak, Croatia, Lithuania and Slovenia
Zirkuskind (Circusboy), Julia Lemke and Anna Koch, Germany (documentary)

Short Film
Arame farpado (Barbed Wire), Gustavo de Carvalho, Brazil 22'
Atardecer en América (Sunset over America), Matias Rojas Valencia, Brazil, Chile and Colombia 17' (documentary)
Beneath Which Rivers Flow, Ali Yahya, Iraq 16' (documentary)
Fantas, Halima Elkhatabi, Canada 13'
Howl, Domini Marshall, Australia 16'
Julian and the Wind, Connor Jessup, Canada 14'
Ne réveillez pas l'enfant qui dort (Don't Woke the Sleeping Child), Kevin Aubert, Senegal, France and Morocco 28'
On a Sunday at Eleven, Alicia K. Harris, Canada 9'
Quaker, Giovanna Molina, USA 16'
Sous ma fenêtre, la boue (The Mud Under My Window), Violette Delvoye, France and Belgium 13' (animation)
Wish You Were Ear, Mirjana Balogh, Hungary 11' (animation)

Special Screening
De Menor (Underage), Caru Alves de Souza, Brazil (fictional TV series)

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Generation International Jury
Emma Branderhost, director, Netherlands
Aslı Özarslan, director, Germany
Ikoro Sekai, film curator, Canada

Children's Jury Generation Kplus
A Children's Jury with members aged 12 to 14 awards the Crystal Bears in the Generation Kplus competition. The jury members are selected by the section heads based on film questionnaires submitted the previous year.

The members of the Generation Kplus Children's Jury: Bonnie Lou Severin, Lenja Utecht, Jim Anatol Hemmert, Madó Solís Wüst, Sergey Ivanov, Wanda Grduszak, Philipp Disselhoff.

Youth Jury Generation 14plus
A Youth Jury with members aged 14 and up awards the Crystal Bears in the Generation 14plus competition. The jury members are selected by the section heads based on film questionnaires submitted the previous year.

The members of the Generation 14plus Youth Jury: Nour Ibrahim, Zeynep Atay, Tyler Kurokhtin, Jil Baalmann, Rohan Yadav.

Berlinale Shorts
20 films from a total of 18 production countries are celebrating their premieres at the 2025 Berlinale Shorts, of which 15 are world premieres. The program combines classic storytelling with surreal works, features various styles of animation and presents experimental documentary forms.

After Colossus, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Italy, Indonesia and Netherlands 29'
Amba dio, Luiza Calagian and Rosa Caldeira, Cuba, Brazil and Haiti 18'
Because of [U], Tohé Commaret, France 13'
Casa Chica, Lau Charles, Mexico 26'
Casi Septiembre (Close to September), Lucia G. Romero, Spain 29'
Children's Day, Giselle Lin, Singapore 20'
Comment ça va? (How Are You?), Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, France 31' (animation)
Dar band (Citizen-Inmate), Hesam Eslami, Iran 15' (documentary)
Élő kövek (Living Stones), Jakob Ladányi Jancsó, Hungary 20'
Futsu no seikatsu (Ordinary LIfe), Yoriko Mizushiri, France and Japan 10' (animation)
Kámen Osudu (Stone of Destiny), Julie Černá, Czechia 11' (animation)
课外活动 Ke wai huo dong (Extracurricular Activity), De'an Wei and Xu Yidan, China 22'
Koki, Ciao, Quenton Miller, Netherlands 11' (documentary)
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished, Lesley Loksi Chan, Canada 29' (documentary)
Mother's Child, Naomi Noir, Netherlands 9' (animation)
Prekid vatre (Ceasefire), Jakob Krese, Germany, Italy and Slovenia 30' (documentary)
Rückblickend Betrachtet (In Retrospect), Daniel Asadi Faezi and Mila Zhluktenko, Germany 14' (documentary)
Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts, Rein Maychaelson, Indonesia 19'
Their Eyes, Nicolas Gourault, France 23'
Through Your Eyes, Nelson Yeo, Singapore 20'

Berlinale Shorts Special Program
Happy Doom, Billy Roisz, Austria 2023 3'
Paranmanjang (Night Fishing), Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-kyong, South Korea 2011 33'
Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe (As long as shotguns remain), Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, France 2014 30'
Three Stones for Jean Genet, Frieder Schlaich, Germany 2014 7' (documentary)
Vilaine fille mauvais garçon (Two Ships), Justine Triet, France 2012 30'
Vita Lakamaya, Akihito Izuhara, Japan 2016 8'

International Short Film Jury
Dascha Daunhauer, composer and producer of film music, Germany
Jing Haase, film festivals programer and director, Denmark
Phạm Ngọc Lân, director, Vietnam

Berlinale Co-Production Market
35 film projects from 27 countries from 351 submissions. Female directors in 19 of the 35 projects.

Official Feature Project Section 2025

30 Days of Summer, Anastasiia Solonevych, Ukraine
A Few Miles South, Ben Pearce, Poland
A Place in the World, Ayşe Polat, Germany
Crocodile Rock, Kirsten Tan, USA
Dreamgirl, Kaan Müjdeci, Turkey
Galerna, Tatiana Huezo, Mexico
Girl, Don't Play, Ainhoa Rodríguez, Spain
Happy Days, Floor van der Meulen, Netherlands
Holiday, Wissam Charaf, France
Ibicaba - Visions of Paradise, Andrea Štaka, Switzerland
Keep Her Quiet, Franz Böhm and Suli Kurban, Germany
Konbini, Pedro Collantes, Spain
Lende, Katy Lena Ndiaye, France
Men and Days, Arnau Vilaró, Spain
Suffering Is Optional, Zarrar Kahn, Canada
The Earth Is Flat – I Flew Around and Saw It, Maksym Nakonechnyi, Ukraine
The Funeral, Carolina Markowicz, Brazil
The Magic Hour, Radu Muntean, Romania
You Crazy Thing, Miia Tervo, Finland

Berlinale Directors projects
Daemon, Valeria Hofmann, Chile
The Block Universe, Stephan Komandarev, Germany
The Inverted Well, Narges Kalhor, Germany

World Cinema Market project
I'm Coming For You, Cyrielle Raingou, Germany

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express
Four Seasons In Java, Kamila Andini, Indonesia
Meat, Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair, Ireland

Talent Project Market
A Certain Type, Christoffer Lossius, Norway
All That We Could Be, Rohena Gera, France
Death in Torrevieja, Adriana Arratia, Spain
Hum, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, USA and Philippines
March 14th, Alberto Gross Molo, Spain
Sentimental Fail Club, Jasmin Baumgartner, Austria
Sentinel, Carl Joseph E. Papa, Philippines
The Illusions, Ingrid Pokropek, Argentina
The Serpent, Diogo Hayashi, Brazil
The Sun Sees Everything, Wissam Tanios, Lebanon

To check projects at official site go here.

Berlinale Classics 2025
Eight digitally restored film classics, seven world premieres and one international premiere. The eras represented range from the 1930s to the 1980s. For the first time, the section features restorations by the Estonian Film Institute (EFI) and the China Film Archive. Berlinale Classics also embraces genre cinema, a nod to the 2025 Retrospective.

To read about the section and to find link to all movies in Berlinale Classics 2025 go here.

Berlinale Retrospective 2025
As announced, things will be getting “wild, weird, and bloody”. The offbeat and the wacky, mix it up with action, thrills, and graphic visuals in 15 selected genre films from East and West Germany. From a lush vampire opus to a psychedelic spaghetti western, the Retrospective 2025 shows that Germany can also do genre: but on its own terms!

To check the films go official site here.

Berlinale Series Market
Since I'm one of those film lovers that believe nowadays the concept of a TV series is more (and more with the passing of years) a "long movie" as when you binge-watch all episodes together the experience is completely different that when you watch one episode a week. So do not wonder, yes, I wait until all episodes are out to watch and exprience the "long movie" to the maximum. That's also the reason why I'm including some info about what's going to happen in the Berlinale as gives us a glimpse of what we could be watching in the near future.

The Berlinale Series Market is the EFM's boutique market for serial content from all over the world. Series with high market potential are presented under the flagship label Berlinale Series Market Selects. “This year, the Berlinale Series Market focuses on the complex, multi-layered portrayal of women and emphasises stories that reflect the diversity of the human experience,” says Tanja Meissner, Director Berlinale Pro*.

The flagship label Berlinale Series Market Selects presents 17 titles ranging from biopics, crime thrillers and dark comedies to dramas, thrillers and crime thrillers. This year's series come from Australia/USA, Brazil, Estonia/Ukraine, France, Greece, Iceland, Canada, Norway, Portugal/Poland, Spain, South Africa, South Korea and New Zealand.

To read more info about this section of the Berlinale's European Film Market go here and if you wish to read about the 17 series go here.

Books at Berlinale
Established in 2006 is the first right market at an A-Film Festival. 10 seleceted novels are presented to an audience of internationally established producers; producers and film rights holders can meet at a Matchmaking Session where publishers and literary agents can reach an agreement with film producers interested in literary material.

To read more about this program go here and if you wish to learn about the 10 books go here.