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We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for the 2025 edition, running February 13-23. It’s the first official lineup overseen by new artistic director and former BFI London Film Festival leader Tricia Tuttle, who succeeds Carlo Chatrian and brings her background as an American journalist and curator to the annual German showcase. She’s also working with co-directors of programming, Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz, to help reposition the Berlinale’s profile among the great global film festivals and lure bigger-name filmmakers in the process.

This year’s lineup, announced Tuesday, January 21, features new films from Richard Linklater (“Blue Moon,” starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley), Michel Franco (“Dreams,” starring Jessica Chastain), Rebecca Lenkiewicz (“Hot Milk,” starring Fiona Shaw), Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), and Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”). Already confirmed in the mix are “Mickey 17” from Bong Joon Ho and Ira Sachs’ Sundance premiere “Peter Hujar’s Day,” plus Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” opening the festival. See more of the previously announced lineup here.

Related Stories 2025 Oscars: Best Supporting Actress Predictions 2025 Oscars: Best Supporting Actor Predictions Tuttle also introduced a new section titled Perspectives, a selection of 14 feature film debuts, most of which are world premieres. More titles have been added to the Berlinale Special program, including the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” looking at a handful of Oscar nominations this week.See the complete lineup below.Competition“Ari”by Léonor Serraille | with Andranic Manet, Pascal Rénéric, Théo Delezenne, Ryad Ferrad, Eva Lallier JuanFrance / Belgium 2025World premiere“Blue Moon”by Richard Linklater | with Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew ScottUSA / Ireland 2025World premiere“La cache” (“The Safe House”)by Lionel Baier | with Dominique Reymond, Michel Blanc, William Lebghil, Aurélien Gabrielli, Liliane RovèreSwitzerland / Luxembourg / France 2025World premiere“Dreams”by Michel Franco | with Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall BellMexico 2025World premiere“Drømmer” (“Dreams (Sex Love)”)by Dag Johan Haugerud | with Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Marit Jacobsen

Norway 2024International premiere“Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani” (“What Does That Nature Say to You”)by Hong Sangsoo | with Ha Seongguk, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Kang SoyiSouth Korea 2025World premiere“Hot Milk”by Rebecca Lenkiewicz | with Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent PerezUnited Kingdom 2025World 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 WolkUSA 2024International premiere“Kontinental ’25”by Radu Jude | with Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis TanțaRomania 2025World premiere“El mensaje” (“The Message”)by Iván Fund | with Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Anika Bootz, Betania CappatoArgentina / Spain 2025World premiere“Mother’s Baby”by Johanna Moder | with Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw, Claes Bang, Julia Franz RichterAustria / Switzerland / Germany 2025World premiere“O último azul” (“The Blue Trail”)by Gabriel Mascaro | with Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socorrás, AdaniloBrazil / Mexico / Chile / Netherlands 2025World 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 NguyenBelgium / Luxembourg / Italy / France 2025World premiere“Sheng xi zhi di” (“Living the Land”)By Huo Meng │with Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao LingzhiPeople’s Republic of China 2025World premiere“Strichka chasu” (“Timestamp”)by Kateryna Gornostai | with Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola KolomiietsUkraine / Luxembourg / Netherlands / France 2025World premiere | Documentary form“La Tour de Glace” (“The Ice Tower”)by Lucile Hadžihalilović | with Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar NoéFrance / Germany 2025World premiere“Was Marielle weiß” (“What Marielle Knows”)by Frédéric Hambalek | with Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateşçi, Moritz TreuenfelsGermany 2025World premiere“Xiang fei de nv hai” (“Girls on Wire”)by Vivian Qu | with Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang YouhaoPeople’s Republic of China 2025World 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 2025World premiereBerlinale Special Gala“After This Death”by Lucio Castro | with Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip EttingerUSA 2025World premiere“A Complete Unknown” (“Like a Complete Unknown”)by James Mangold | with Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd HolbrookUSA 2024German premiere“Heldin” (“Late Shift”)by Petra Volpe | with Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg PlüssSwitzerland / Germany 2025World premiere“Islands”by Jan-Ole Gerster | with Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan TorrellGermany 2025World premiere“Köln 75”by Ido Fluk | with Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander ScheerGermany / Poland / Belgium 2025World premiere“Das Licht” (“The Light”)by Tom Tykwer | with Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Elke Biesendorfer, Julius GauseGermany 2025World premiere“Lurker”by Alex Russell | with Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny SuljicUSA / Italy 2025

International premiere | Debut film“Mickey 17”by Bong Joon Ho | with Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark RuffaloUSA / South Korea / United Kingdom 2024German Premiere“The Thing With Feathers”by Dylan Southern | with Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Sam Spruell, Vinette RobinsonUnited Kingdom 2025European premiereBerlinale Special Series Gala“The Narrow Road to the Deep North”by Justin Kurzel | with Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Simon BakerAustralia 2025World premiere | SeriesBERLINALE SPECIAL “Ancestral Visions of the Future”by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | with Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Zaman Mathejane, Mochesane Edwin Kotsoane, Rehauhetsoe Ernest KotsoaneFrance / Lesotho / Germany / Saudi Arabia 2025World premiere | Documentary form“Das Deutsche Volk”by Marcin WierzchowskiGermany 2025World premiere | Documentary form“Honey Bunch”by Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | with Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Kate Dickie, Jason Isaacs, India BrownCanada 2025World premiere“Je n’avais que le néant – ‘Shoah’ par Claude Lanzmann” (“All I Had Was Nothingness”)

by Guillaume RibotFrance 2025World premiere“Kein Tier. So Wild.” (“No Beast. So Fierce.”)by Burhan Qurbani | with Kenda Hmeidan, Verena Altenberger, Hiam Abbass, Mona Zarreh Hoshyari Khah, Mehdi NebbouGermany / Poland / France 2025World 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 SukowaGermany 2025World 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, BeninAyoBrazil / Argentina 2025World premiere“Michtav Le’David” (“A Letter to David”)by Tom Shoval | with David Cunio, Eitan Cunio, Sharon Aloni-Cunio, Silvia Cunio, Luis CunioIsrael / USA 2025World 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 MarokhovskayaUSA 2024International 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 SiaSouth Korea 2025World premiere“Shoah”by Claude LanzmannFrance 1985Perspectives“Al Mosta’mera” (“The Settlement”)by Mohamed Rashad | with Adham Shoukry, Ziad Islam, Hajar Omar, Mohamed Abdel Hady, Emad GhoneimEgypt / France / Germany / Saudi Arabia / Qatar 2025World premiere“Baksho Bondi” (“Shadowbox”)by Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi | with Tillotama Shome, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman SahaIndia / France / USA / Spain 2025World premiere“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions”by Kahlil Joseph | with Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Funmilayo Akechukwu, Peter HernandezUSA 2025International 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 2025World 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 2025World 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 LarruePortugal 2025World premiere | Debut film“Hé mán” (“Eel”)by Chu Chun-Teng | with Devin Pan, Misi Ke, Chin-Yu Pan, Bella Chen, MeiHou WuTaiwan 2025World 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 ScheidAustria 2025World premiere | Debut film“Kaj ti je deklica” (“Little Trouble Girls”)by Urška Djukić | with Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković, Nataša Burger, Staša PopovićSlovenia / Italy / Croatia / Serbia 2025World 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 NavarroUSA 2025International premiere | Debut film“Minden Rendben” (“Growing Down”)by Bálint Dániel Sós | with Szabolcs Hajdu, Ágoston Sáfrány, Anna Hay, Zonga Jakab-Aponyi, Zsófi Szamosi

Hungary 2025World 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 ScheidweilerGermany 2025World premiere | Debut film“On vous croit” (“We believe you”)by Arnaud Dufeys, Charlotte Devillers | with Myriem Akheddiou, Laurent Capelluto, Natali Broods, Ulysse Goffin, Adèle PinckaersBelgium 2025World premiere“Le rendez-vous de l’été” (“That Summer in Paris”)by Valentine Cadic | with Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Matthias Jacquin, Lou DeleuzeFrance 2025World premiere | Debut filmBy providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.
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