He Berlin Film Festival today announced the complete list of titles that will officially compete, along with perspectives and special sections. A total of 19 films have been selected for the international competition.
The Argentine director Ivan Fund will participate in the Official Competition of the 75th. edition of the Berlinale along with the new films of Hong Sangsoo, Richard Linklater, Radu Jude, Michel Franco, Lucile Hadihalilovi and Gabriel Mascaroamong others.
The new artistic director of the Berlinale, Tricia Tuttleannounced in Berlin the programming that will be presented between February 13 and 23. Other films with an Argentine presence had previously been announced, such as Magic Farmof Amalia Ulman (Panorama section)
- Director: Léonor Serraille
- With Andranic Manet, Pascal Rénéric, Théo Delezenne, Ryad Ferrad, Eva Lallier Juan
- France / Belgium 2025
- world premiere
Blue Moon
- Director: Richard Linklater
- With Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott
- USA / Ireland 2025
- world premiere
The cache (The Safe House)
- Director: Lionel Baier
- With Dominique Reymond, Michel Blanc, William Lebghil, Aurélien Gabrielli, Liliane Rovère
- Switzerland / Luxembourg / France 2025
- world premiere
dreams
- Director: Michel Franco
- With Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernandez, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell
- Mexico 2025
- world premiere
Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love))
- Director: 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)
- Director: Hong Sangsoo
- With Ha Seongguk, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Kang Soyi
- South Korea 2025
- world premiere
Hot Milk
- Director: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
- With Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez
- United Kingdom 2025
- World premiere | First trade
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
- Director: Mary Bronstein
- With Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Ivy Wolk
- USA 2024
- international premiere
Continental ’25
- Director: Radu Jude
- With Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tana
- Romania 2025
- world premiere
The message
- Director: Iván Fund
- With Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Anika Bootz, Betania Cappato
- Argentina / Spain 2025
- world premiere
Mother’s Baby
- Direction: Johanna Moder
- With Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw, Claes Bang, Julia Franz Richter
- Austria / Switzerland / Germany 2025
- world premiere
The Blue Trail
- Director: 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)
- Direction: Hélène Cattet and 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)
- Director: Huo Meng
- With Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao Lingzhi
- China 2025
- world premiere
Strichka chasu (Timestamp)
- Director: Kateryna Gornostai
- With Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets
- Ukraine / Luxembourg / Netherlands / France 2025
- World premiere | Documentary
La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower)
- Director: Lucile Hadihalilovi
- With Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé
- France / Germany 2025
- world premiere
Was Marielle weiß (What Marielle Knows)
- Director: Frédéric Hambalek
- With Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateçi, Moritz Treuenfels
- Germany 2025
- world premiere
Xiang Fei by NV Hai (Girls on Wire)
- Director: Vivian Qu
- With Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao
- China 2025
- world premiere
yunan
- Director: 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
Perspectives competition (raw operations)
Al Mosta’mera (The Settlement)
- Director: 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)
- Direction: Tanushree Das and Saumyananda Sahi
- With Tillotama Shome, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman Saha
- India / France / USA / Spain 2025
- world premiere
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
- Director: Kahlil Joseph
- With Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Funmilayo Akechukwu, Peter Hernandez
- USA 2025
- International Premiere
Come la notte (Where the Night Stands Still)
- Director: Liryc Dela Cruz
- With Jenny Llanto Caringal, Tess Magallanes, Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr.
- Italy / Philippines 2025
- world premiere
The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box)
- Director: Ernesto Martinez Bucio
- With Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Donovan Said, Laura Uribe Rojas
- Mexico 2025
- world premiere
Two Times João Liberada
- Direction: Paula Tomás Marques
- With June João, André Tecedeiro, Eloísa d’Ascensão, Tiago Aires Lêdo, Jenny Larrue
- Portugal 2025
- world premiere
He man (Eel)
- Director: Chu Chun-Teng
- With Devin Pan, Misi Ke, Chin-Yu Pan, Bella Chen, MeiHou Wu
- Taiwan 2025
- world premiere
How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World
- Director: Florian Pochlatko
- With Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Elke Winkens, Cornelius Obonya, Felix Pöchhacker, David Scheid
- Austria 2025
- world premiere
Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls)
- Director: Urška uki
- With Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabakovi, Nataša Burger, Staša Popovi
- Slovenia / Italy / Croatia / Serbia 2025
- world premiere
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, tell him I’m not bad)
- Director: Joel Alfonso Vargas
- With Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro
- USA 2025
- International Premiere
Minden Rendben (Growing Down)
- Director: Bálint Dániel Sós
- With Szabolcs Hajdu, Ágoston Sáfrány, Anna Hay, Zonga Jakab-Aponyi, Zsófi Szamosi
- Hungary 2025
- world premiere
Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen (Punching the World)
- Director: Constanze Klaue
- With Anton Franke, Camille Moltzen, Anja Schneider, Christian Näthe, Johannes Scheidweiler
- Germany 2025
- world premiere
On vous croit (We believe you)
- Direction: 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)
- Director: Valentine Cadic
- With Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Matthias Jacquin, Lou Deleuze
- France 2025
- World Premiere
Berlinale Special Gala
Das Licht (The Light)
- Director: Tom Tykwer
- With Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Elke Biesendorfer, Julius Gause
- Germany 2025
- world premiere
opening movie
After This Death
- Director: Lucio Castro
- With Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger
- USA 2025
- world premiere
A Complete Unknown
- Director: James Mangold
- With Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook
- USA 2024
- German premiere
Heldin (Late Shift)
- Director: Petra Volpe
- With Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg Plüss
- Switzerland / Germany 2025
- world premiere
Islands
- Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
- With Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan Torrell
- Germany 2025
- world premiere
Cologne 75
- Direction: Ido Fluk
- With Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer
- Germany / Poland / Belgium 2025
- world premiere
Lurker
- Director: Alex Russell
- With Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic
- USA / Italy 2025
- International Premiere | First trade
Mickey 17
- Director: 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
- Director: 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
- Director: 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
- Director: 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
Deutsche Volk
- Director: Marcin Wierzchowski
- Germany 2025
- World premiere | Documentary
Honey Bunch
- Direction: Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli
- With Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Kate Dickie, Jason Isaacs, India Brown
- Canada 2025
- world premiere
Je n’avais que le néant – ‘Shoah’ by Claude Lanzmann (All I Had Was Nothingness)
- Director: Guillaume Ribot
- France 2025
- world premiere
Kein Tier. So Wild. (Not Beast. So Fierce.)
- Director: 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)
- Direction: Edgar Reitz and 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)
- Director: Anna Muylaert
- With Shirley Cruz, Seu Jorge, Rihanna Barbosa, BeninAyo
- Brazil / Argentina 2025
- world premiere
Michtav Le’David (A Letter to David)
- Director: Tom Shoval
- With David Cunio, Eitan Cunio, Sharon Aloni-Cunio, Silvia Cunio, Luis Cunio
- Israel / USA 2025
- World premiere | Documentary
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
- Director: Julia Loktev
- With Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Ksenia Mironova, Sonya Groysman, Alesya Marokhovskaya
- USA 2024
- International Premiere | Documentary
Pa-gwa (The Old Woman With the Knife)
- Director: Min Kyu-dong
- With Hyeyoung Lee, Kim Sung-cheol, Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Moo-yul, Shin Sia
- South Korea 2025
- world premiere
Shoah
- Direction: Claude Lanzmann
- France 1985
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