The Berlin Movie Competition has unveiled the lineup for the 2025 version, working February 13-23. It’s the primary official lineup overseen by new creative director and former BFI London Movie Competition chief Tricia Tuttle, who succeeds Carlo Chatrian and brings her background as an American journalist and curator to the annual German showcase. She’s additionally working with co-directors of programming, Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz, to assist reposition the Berlinale’s profile among the many nice international movie festivals and lure bigger-name filmmakers within the course of.
This 12 months’s lineup, introduced Tuesday, January 21, options new movies from Richard Linklater (“Blue Moon,” starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley), Michel Franco (“Goals,” starring Jessica Chastain), Rebecca Lenkiewicz (“Sizzling 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 within the combine are “Mickey 17” from Bong Joon Ho and Ira Sachs’ Sundance premiere “Peter Hujar’s Day,” plus Tom Tykwer’s “The Gentle” opening the pageant. See extra of the beforehand introduced lineup right here.
Tuttle additionally launched a brand new part titled Views, a collection of 14 function movie debuts, most of that are world premieres. Extra titles have been added to the Berlinale Particular program, together with the Bob Dylan biopic “A Full Unknown,” taking a look at a handful of Oscar nominations this week.
See the entire lineup beneath.
Competitors
“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 / Eire 2025
World premiere
“La cache” (“The Secure Home”)
by Lionel Baier | with Dominique Reymond, Michel Blanc, William Lebghil, Aurélien Gabrielli, Liliane Rovère
Switzerland / Luxembourg / France 2025
World premiere
“Goals”
by Michel Franco | with Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Buddy, Marshall Bell
Mexico 2025
World premiere
“Drømmer” (“Goals (Intercourse Love)”)
by Dag Johan Haugerud | with Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Marit Jacobsen
Norway 2024
Worldwide 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
“Sizzling Milk”
by Rebecca Lenkiewicz | with Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez
United Kingdom 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
“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
Worldwide 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
“Mom’s Child”
by Johanna Moder | with Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw, Claes Bang, Julia Franz Richter
Austria / Switzerland / Germany 2025
World premiere
“O último azul” (“The Blue Path”)
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 Lifeless 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” (“Residing the Land”)
By Huo Meng │with Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao Lingzhi
Folks’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 kind
“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 weiß” (“What Marielle Is aware of”)
by Frédéric Hambalek | with Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateşçi, Moritz Treuenfels
Germany 2025
World premiere
“Xiang fei de nv hai” (“Ladies on Wire”)
by Vivian Qu | with Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao
Folks’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 Particular Gala
“After This Demise”
by Lucio Castro | with Mia Maestro, Lee Tempo, Rupert Buddy, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger
USA 2025
World premiere
“A Full Unknown” (“Like a Full 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 Gentle”)
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
Worldwide premiere | Debut movie
“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 Factor With Feathers”
by Dylan Southern | with Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Sam Spruell, Vinette Robinson
United Kingdom 2025
European premiere
Berlinale Particular Sequence Gala
“The Slim Highway to the Deep North”
by Justin Kurzel | with Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Younger, Olivia DeJonge, Simon Baker
Australia 2025
World premiere | Sequence
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 kind
“Das Deutsche Volk”
by Marcin Wierzchowski
Germany 2025
World premiere | Documentary kind
“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 Misplaced Portray”)
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 Greatest Mom within 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 kind
“My Undesirable Pals: Half I – Final Air in Moscow”
by Julia Loktev | with Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Ksenia Mironova, Sonya Groysman, Alesya Marokhovskaya
USA 2024
Worldwide premiere | Documentary kind
“Pa-gwa” (“The Previous Lady 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
Views
“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: Phrases & Situations”
by Kahlil Joseph | with Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Funmilayo Akechukwu, Peter Hernandez
USA 2025
Worldwide premiere | Debut movie
“Come la notte” (“The place the Night time Stands Nonetheless”)
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 Satan Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches within the Similar Field”))
by Ernesto Martinez Bucio | with Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Donovan Stated, Laura Uribe Rojas
Mexico 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
“Duas Vezes João Liberada” (“Two Instances João Liberada”)
by Paula Tomás Marques | with June João, André Tecedeiro, Eloísa d’Ascensão, Tiago Aires Lêdo, Jenny Larrue
Portugal 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
“Hé mán” (“Eel”)
by Chu Chun-Teng | with Devin Pan, Misi Ke, Chin-Yu Pan, Bella Chen, MeiHou Wu
Taiwan 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
“Learn how to Be Regular and the Oddness of the Different World”
by Florian Pochlatko | with Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Elke Winkens, Cornelius Obonya, Felix Pöchhacker, David Scheid
Austria 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
“Kaj ti je deklica” (“Little Bother Ladies”)
by Urška Djukić | with Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković, Nataša Burger, Staša Popović
Slovenia / Italy / Croatia / Serbia 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
“Mad Payments to Pay (or Future, dile que no soy malo)”
by Joel Alfonso Vargas | with Juan Collado, Future Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro
USA 2025
Worldwide premiere | Debut movie
“Minden Rendben” (“Rising Down”)
by Bálint Dániel Sós | with Szabolcs Hajdu, Ágoston Sáfrány, Anna Hay, Zonga Jakab-Aponyi, Zsófi Szamosi
Hungary 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
“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 movie
“On vous croit” (“We imagine 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 time in Paris”)
by Valentine Cadic | with Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Matthias Jacquin, Lou Deleuze
France 2025
World premiere | Debut movie