39th Teddy Awards

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

Perspectives
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) (Q)
Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls), Urška Djukić, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia and Serbia (debut film) (LI)
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)
Looking for Langston, Isaac Julien, UK 1989 (GI)
Magic Farm, Amalia Ulman, Argentina
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)
The Trio Hall, Su Hui-yu, Taiwan

Generation Kplus
A natureza das coisas invisíveis (The Nature of Invisible Things), Rafaela Camelo, Brazil and Chile (debut film) (L)
Generation 14Plus
Zečji nasip (Sandbag Dam), Čejen Černić Čanak, Croatia, Lithuania and Slovenia (G)

Retrospective
Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (Tenderness of the Wolves), Ulli Lommel, Germany, 1973

Documentary / Essay Films

Panorama Dokumente
Monk in Pieces, Billy Shebar, USA, Germany and France (documentary) (LI)

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

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

Short Films

Panorama
Once Again... [Statues Never Die], Isaac Julien, UK (G)

Forum
Extra Life (and Decay), Stéphanie Lagarde, Netherlands and France 21'
Pidikwe (Rumble), Caroline Monnet, Canada 10'
Stars, Stars Collective, UK and Germany 7' (animation) (Q)

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

Berlinale Shorts
Casi Septiembre (Close to September), Lucia G. Romero, Spain (LI)
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished, Lesley Loksi Chan, Canada (documentary) 13'

To check selection at official site go here.