Today, the official lineup for the 2025 Berlinale Film Festival was announced. Here are this year’s titles:
Competition
Ari (Fr-Bel), dir. Léonor Serraille (WP)
Blue Moon (US-Ire), dir. Richard Linklater (WP) with Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott
The Safe House (Switz-Luxe-Fr), dir. Lionel Baier (WP) with Dominique Reymond, Michel Blanc, William Lebghil, Aurélien Gabrielli, Liliane Rovère
Dreams (Mex), dir. Michel Franco (WP) with Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell
Dreams (Sex Love) (Nor), dir. Dag Johan Haugerud with Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Marit Jacobsen
What Does that Nature Say to You (S Kor), dir. Hong Sangsoo (WP) with Ha Seongguk, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Kang Soyi
Hot Milk (UK), dir. Rebecca Lenkiewicz (WP) with Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (US), dir. Mary Bronstein with Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Lark White, Ivy Wolk, Daniel Zolghadri, Delaney Quinn, ASAP Rocky
Kontinental ’25 (Rom), dir. Radu Jude (WP) with Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare, Annamária Biluska, Marius Damian, Ilinca Manolache
The Message (Arg-Sp), dir. Iván Fund (WP) with Marcelo Subiotto, Mara Bestelli, Anika Bootz
Mother’s Baby (Austria-Switz-Ger), dir. Johanna Moder (WP) with Claes Bang, Julia Franz Richter, Marie Leuenberger
The Blue Trail (Bra-Mex-Chile-Neth), dir. Gabriel Mascaro (WP) with Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socorrás, Adanilo
Reflection In A Dead Diamond (Bel-Lux-It-Fr), dir. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani (WP) with Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi Mai Nguyen
Living The Land (China), dir. Huo Meng (WP) with Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao Lingzhi
Timestamp (Ukr-Lux-Neth-Fr), dir. Kateryna Gornostai (WP) with Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets
The Ice Tower (Fr-Ger), dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović (WP) with Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé
What Marielle Knows (Ger), dir. Frédéric Hambalek (WP) with Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateşçi, Moritz Treuenfels
Girls On Wire (China), dir. Vivian Qu (WP) with Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao
Yunan (Ger-Can-It-Palestine-Qat-Jor-Saudi), dir. Ameer Fakher Eldin (WP) with Georges Khabbaz, Hanna Schygulla, Ali Suliman, Sibel Kekilli, Tom Wlaschiha
Perspectives
The Settlement (Egy-Fr-Ger-Saudi-Qat), dir. Mohamed Rashad (WP) with Adham Shoukry, Ziad Islam, Hajar Omar, Mohamed Abdel Hady, Emad Ghoneim
Shadowbox (India-France-USA-Spain), dir. Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi (WP) Tillotama Shome, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman Saha
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (US), dir. Kahlil Joseph (WP) with Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Funmilayo Akechukwu, Peter Hernandez
Where the Night Stands Still (It-Phil), dir. Liryc Dela Cruz (WP) with Jenny Llanto Caringal, Tess Magallanes, Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr.
The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) (Mex), dir. Ernesto Martinez Bucio (WP) with Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Donovan Said, Laura Uribe Rojas
Two Times João Liberada (Port), dir. Paula Tomás Marques (WP)
Eel (Tai), dir. Chu Chun-Teng (WP)
How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World (Austria), dir. Florian Pochlatko (WP) with Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Elke Winkens, Cornelius Obonya, Felix Pöchhacker, David Scheid
Little Trouble Girls (Slovenia-It-Cro-Ser), dir. Urška Djukić (WP) with Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković, Nataša Burger, Staša Popović
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (US), dir. Joel Alfonso Vargas with Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro
Growing Down (Hun), dir, Bálint Dániel Sós (WP)
Punching The World (Ger), dir. Constanze Klaue (WP) with Anton Franke, Camille Moltzen, Anja Schneider, Christian Näthe, Johannes Scheidweiler
We believe You (Bel), dir. Arnaud Dufeys, Charlotte Devillers (WP) with Myriem Akheddiou, Laurent Capelluto, Natali Broods, Ulysse Goffin, Adèle Pinckaers
That Summer In Paris (Fra), dir. Valentine Cadic (WP) with Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Matthias Jacquin, Lou Deleuze
Berlinale Special Gala
After This Death (US), dir. Lucio Castro (WP) with Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger
A Complete Unknown (US), dir. James Mangold with Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook
Late Shift (Switz-Ger), dir. Petra Volpe (WP) with Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg Plüss Switzerland
Islands (Ger), dir. Jan-Ole Gerster (WP) with Sam Riley, Jack Farthing, Bruna Cusí
Köln 75 (Ger-Pol-Bel), dir. Ido Fluk (WP) with Mala Emde, John Magaro, Alexander Scheer
The Light (Ger), dir. Tom Tykwer (WP) with Lars Eidinger, Nicolette Krebitz, Michael Ihnow
Lurker (US-It), dir. Alex Russell with Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zach Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic
Mickey 17 (US-S Kor-UK), dir. Bong Joon Ho with Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
The Thing With Feathers (UK), dir. Dylan Southern with Benedict Cumberbatch
Berlinale Special Series Gala
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Australia), dir. Justin Kurzel (WP) with Jacob Elordi, Odessa Young, Ciarán Hinds, Olivia DeJonge, Heather Mitchell, Thomas Weatherall, Show Kasamatsu, Taki Abe, Charles An, Jack McGreal, Simon Baker, George Simitzis
Berlinale Special
Ancestral Visions of the Future (Fr-Lesotho-Ger-Saudi), dir. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (WP)
Das Deutsche Volk (Ger), dir. Marcin Wierzchowski (WP)
Honey Bunch (Can), dir. Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli (WP) with Jason Isaacs, Kate Dickie, Julian Richings
All I Had Was Nothingness (Fr), dir. Guillaume Ribot (WP)
No Beast. So Fierce. (Ger-Pol-Fr), dir. Burhan Qurbani (WP) with Kenda Hmeidan, Verena Altenberger, Hiam Abbass, Mona Zarreh Hoshyari Khah, Mehdi Nebbou
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting (Ger), dir. Edgar Reitz, Anatol Schuster (WP) with Edgar Selge, Aenne Schwarz, Michael Kranz, Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa
The Best Mother in the World (Bra-Arg), dir. Anna Muylaert (WP)
A Letter To David (Isr-US), dir. Tom Shoval (WP) with David Cunio, Eitan Cunio, Sharon Aloni-Cunio, Silvia Cunio, Luis Cunio
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (US), dir. Julia Loktev with Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Ksenia Mironova, Sonya Groysman, Alesya Marokhovskaya
The Old Woman With The Knife (S Kor), dir. Min Kyu-dong (WP) with Kim Mu-yeol, Kim Sung-cheol, Cynthia
Shoah (Fr), dir. Claude Lanzmann
Berlinale Special – Honorary Golden Bear
Friendship’s Death (UK), dir. Peter Wollen
So what do you think of the lineup? Which films excite you the most? We will be back at a later date to rank our most anticipated titles from the festival. Stay tuned for more from Next Best Picture and be sure to visit the Berlinale website for more information on the festival including more additions to the lineup.