75th Berlin Film Festival (2025) (2025)

“Ari”

by Léonor Serraille | with Andranic Manet, Pascal Rénéric, Théo Delezenne, Ryad Ferrad, Eva Lallier Juan

France / Belgium 2025

World premiere

“Blue Moon”

by Richard Linklater | with Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott

USA / Ireland 2025

World premiere

“La cache” (“The Safe House”)

by Lionel Baier | with Dominique Reymond, Michel Blanc, William Lebghil, Aurélien Gabrielli, Liliane Rovère

Switzerland / Luxembourg / France 2025

World premiere

“Dreams”

by Michel Franco | with Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell

Mexico 2025

World premiere

“Drømmer” (“Dreams (Sex Love)”)

by Dag Johan Haugerud | with Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Marit Jacobsen

Norway 2024

International premiere

“Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani” (“What Does That Nature Say to You”)

by Hong Sangsoo | with Ha Seongguk, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Kang Soyi

South Korea 2025

World premiere

“Hot Milk”

by Rebecca Lenkiewicz | with Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez

United Kingdom 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”

by Mary Bronstein | with Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Ivy Wolk

USA 2024

International premiere

“Kontinental ’25”

by Radu Jude | with Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța

Romania 2025

World premiere

“El mensaje” (“The Message”)

by Iván Fund | with Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Anika Bootz, Betania Cappato

Argentina / Spain 2025

World premiere

“Mother’s Baby”

by Johanna Moder | with Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw, Claes Bang, Julia Franz Richter

Austria / Switzerland / Germany 2025

World premiere

“O último azul” (“The Blue Trail”)

by Gabriel Mascaro | with Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socorrás, Adanilo

Brazil / Mexico / Chile / Netherlands 2025

World premiere

“Reflet dans un diamant mort” (“Reflection in a Dead Diamond”)

by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | with Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi Mai Nguyen

Belgium / Luxembourg / Italy / France 2025

World premiere

“Sheng xi zhi di” (“Living the Land”)

By Huo Meng │with Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao Lingzhi

People’s Republic of China 2025

World premiere

“Strichka chasu” (“Timestamp”)

by Kateryna Gornostai | with Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets

Ukraine / Luxembourg / Netherlands / France 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“La Tour de Glace” (“The Ice Tower”)

by Lucile Hadžihalilović | with Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé

France / Germany 2025

World premiere

“Was Marielle weiߔ (“What Marielle Knows”)

by Frédéric Hambalek | with Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateşçi, Moritz Treuenfels

Germany 2025

World premiere

“Xiang fei de nv hai” (“Girls on Wire”)

by Vivian Qu | with Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao

People’s Republic of China 2025

World premiere

“Yunan”

by Ameer Fakher Eldin | with Georges Khabbaz, Hanna Schygulla, Ali Suliman, Sibel Kekilli, Tom Wlaschiha

Germany / Canada / Italy / Palestine / Qatar / Jordan / Saudi Arabia 2025

World premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA

“After This Death”

by Lucio Castro | with Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger

USA 2025

World premiere

“A Complete Unknown” (“Like a Complete Unknown”)

by James Mangold | with Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook

USA 2024

German premiere

“Heldin” (“Late Shift”)

by Petra Volpe | with Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg Plüss

Switzerland / Germany 2025

World premiere

“Islands”

by Jan-Ole Gerster | with Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan Torrell

Germany 2025

World premiere

“Köln 75”

by Ido Fluk | with Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer

Germany / Poland / Belgium 2025

World premiere

“Das Licht” (“The Light”)

by Tom Tykwer | with Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Elke Biesendorfer, Julius Gause

Germany 2025

World premiere

“Lurker”

by Alex Russell | with Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic

USA / Italy 2025

International premiere | Debut film

“Mickey 17”

by Bong Joon Ho | with Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo

USA / South Korea / United Kingdom 2024

German Premiere

“The Thing With Feathers”

by Dylan Southern | with Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Sam Spruell, Vinette Robinson

United Kingdom 2025

European premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL SERIES GALA

“The Narrow Road to the Deep North”

by Justin Kurzel | with Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Simon Baker

Australia 2025

World premiere | Series

BERLINALE SPECIAL

“Ancestral Visions of the Future”

by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | with Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Zaman Mathejane, Mochesane Edwin Kotsoane, Rehauhetsoe Ernest Kotsoane

France / Lesotho / Germany / Saudi Arabia 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“Das Deutsche Volk”

by Marcin Wierzchowski

Germany 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“Honey Bunch”

by Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | with Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Kate Dickie, Jason Isaacs, India Brown

Canada 2025

World premiere

“Je n’avais que le néant – ‘Shoah’ par Claude Lanzmann” (“All I Had Was Nothingness”)

by Guillaume Ribot

France 2025

World premiere

“Kein Tier. So Wild.” (“No Beast. So Fierce.”)

by Burhan Qurbani | with Kenda Hmeidan, Verena Altenberger, Hiam Abbass, Mona Zarreh Hoshyari Khah, Mehdi Nebbou

Germany / Poland / France 2025

World premiere

“Leibniz – Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes” (“Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting”)

by Edgar Reitz, Anatol Schuster | with Edgar Selge, Aenne Schwarz, Michael Kranz, Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa

Germany 2025

World premiere

“A melhor mãe do mundo” (“The Best Mother in the World” | “Die beste Mutter der Welt”)

by Anna Muylaert | with Shirley Cruz, Seu Jorge, Rihanna Barbosa, BeninAyo

Brazil / Argentina 2025

World premiere

“Michtav Le’David” (“A Letter to David”)

by Tom Shoval | with David Cunio, Eitan Cunio, Sharon Aloni-Cunio, Silvia Cunio, Luis Cunio

Israel / USA 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow”

by Julia Loktev | with Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Ksenia Mironova, Sonya Groysman, Alesya Marokhovskaya

USA 2024

International premiere | Documentary form

“Pa-gwa” (“The Old Woman With the Knife”)

by Min Kyu-dong | with Hyeyoung Lee, Kim Sung-cheol, Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Moo-yul, Shin Sia

South Korea 2025

World premiere

“Shoah”

by Claude Lanzmann

France 1985

PERSPECTIVES

“Al Mosta’mera” (“The Settlement”)

by Mohamed Rashad | with Adham Shoukry, Ziad Islam, Hajar Omar, Mohamed Abdel Hady, Emad Ghoneim

Egypt / France / Germany / Saudi Arabia / Qatar 2025

World premiere

“Baksho Bondi” (“Shadowbox”)

by Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi | with Tillotama Shome, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman Saha

India / France / USA / Spain 2025

World premiere

“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions”

by Kahlil Joseph | with Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Funmilayo Akechukwu, Peter Hernandez

USA 2025

International premiere | Debut film

“Come la notte” (“Where the Night Stands Still”)

by Liryc Dela Cruz | with Jenny Llanto Caringal, Tess Magallanes, Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr.

Italy / Philippines 2025

World premiere

“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”))

by Ernesto Martinez Bucio | with Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Donovan Said, Laura Uribe Rojas

Mexico 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Duas Vezes João Liberada” (“Two Times João Liberada”)

by Paula Tomás Marques | with June João, André Tecedeiro, Eloísa d’Ascensão, Tiago Aires Lêdo, Jenny Larrue

Portugal 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Hé mán” (“Eel”)

by Chu Chun-Teng | with Devin Pan, Misi Ke, Chin-Yu Pan, Bella Chen, MeiHou Wu

Taiwan 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World”

by Florian Pochlatko | with Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Elke Winkens, Cornelius Obonya, Felix Pöchhacker, David Scheid

Austria 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Kaj ti je deklica” (“Little Trouble Girls”)

by Urška Djukić | with Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković, Nataša Burger, Staša Popović

Slovenia / Italy / Croatia / Serbia 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)”

by Joel Alfonso Vargas | with Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro

USA 2025

International premiere | Debut film

“Minden Rendben” (“Growing Down”)

by Bálint Dániel Sós | with Szabolcs Hajdu, Ágoston Sáfrány, Anna Hay, Zonga Jakab-Aponyi, Zsófi Szamosi

Hungary 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen” (“Punching the World”)

by Constanze Klaue | with Anton Franke, Camille Moltzen, Anja Schneider, Christian Näthe, Johannes Scheidweiler

Germany 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“On vous croit” (“We believe you”)

by Arnaud Dufeys, Charlotte Devillers | with Myriem Akheddiou, Laurent Capelluto, Natali Broods, Ulysse Goffin, Adèle Pinckaers

Belgium 2025

World premiere

“Le rendez-vous de l’été” (“That Summer in Paris”)

by Valentine Cadic | with Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Matthias Jacquin, Lou Deleuze

France 2025

World premiere | Debut film