Berlin 2025: Competition line-up revealed for film festival
Ahead of the Berlin Film Festival next month, movies including Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon and Michel Franco’s Dreams have been confirmed to be in competition at the German event.
The 75th Berlin Film Festival will take place between February 13th and February 23rd, 2025. Previously, it was revealed that Tom Tykwer’s upcoming movie The Light, part of the Berlinale Special Gala, is scheduled to open the festival.
Madeleine Sims-Fewer’s new film, Honey Bunch, is among the major productions in competition at Berlin. Significantly, Romanian director Radu Jude, who won the ‘Golden Bear’ in 2021 for Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn, is returning to Berlin with his new movie, Kontinental ’25.
British director Rebecca Lenkiewicz is the only filmmaker in competition at the upcoming edition of the festival to be in competition with a debut feature. Her movie, Hot Milk, stars Emma Mackey, Vicky Krieps and Vincent Perez.
Other significant films set to be shown in Berlin include James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, both part of the Berlinale Special Gala.
American director Todd Haynes is set to be Jury President at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Meanwhile, last month, it was revealed Tilda Swinton would receive an honorary ‘Golden Bear’ at the 2025 edition of the annual event next month.
In reaction to the news, Swinton said, “The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio. It was my portal into the world in which I have made my life’s work – the world of international filmmaking – and I have never forgotten the debt I owe it.”
She continued: “To be honoured in this way by this particular festival is deeply touching for me: it will be my privilege and pleasure to celebrate, once more next February, the seedbed that is this wide-eyed and reliably wonderful gathering.”
See the full line-up for the Berlin Film Festival below.
Berlin Film Festival 2025: The line-up
‘Competition‘
- Ari
- Blue Moon
- The Safe House
- Dreams
- Dreams (Sex Love)
- What Does that Nature Say to You
- Hot Milk
- If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
- Kontinental ’25
- The Message
- Mother’s Baby
- The Blue Trail
- Reflection In A Dead Diamond
- Living The Land
- Timestamp
- The Ice Tower
- What Marielle Knows
- Girls On Wire
- Yunan
‘Perspectives‘
- The Settlement
- Shadowbox
- BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
- Where the Night Stands Still
- The Devil Smokes
- Two Times João Liberada
- Eel
- How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World
- Little Trouble Girls
- Mad Bills to Pay
- Growing Down
- Punching The World
- We believe You
- That Summer In Paris
‘Berlinale Special Gala‘
- After This Death
- A Complete Unknown
- Late Shift
- Islands
- Köln 75
- The Light
- Lurker
- Mickey 17
- The Thing With Feathers
‘Berlinale Special Series Gala‘
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North
‘Berlinale Special‘
- Ancestral Visions of the Future
- Das Deutsche Volk
- Honey Bunch
- All I Had Was Nothingness
- No Beast. So Fierce.
- Leibniz
- The Best Mother in the World
- A Letter To David
- My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
- The Old Woman With The Knife
- Shoah
‘Berlinale Special – Honorary Golden Bear‘
- Friendship’s Death
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