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Cinematic Strategies that Cross Borders and Highlight Realities

The 2025 Panorama films

1001 Frames by Mehrnoush Alia
IRN, USA 2025, Panorama
© Maaa Film

Gabriel Faryas, Henrique Barreira
Ato noturno | Night Stage by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher
BRA 2025, Panorama
© Avante Films, Vulcana Cinema

Bajo las banderas, el sol | Under the Flags, the Sun by Juanjo Pereira
PRY, ARG, USA, FRA, DEU 2025, Panorama

Bedrock by Kinga Michalska
CAN 2025, Panorama
© Hanna Linkowska / Filmoption International

Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik
Begyndelser | Beginnings by Jeanette Nordahl
DNK, SWE, BEL 2025, Panorama
© Thomas Howalt Andersen, Danni Riddertoft

Saadet Işıl Aksoy
Confidente | Confidante by Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
TUR, FRA, LUX 2025, Panorama
© İİ Film, Les Films du Tambour, 3B Productions, Bidibul Productions

Carla Díaz, Naila Schuberth
Delicious by Nele Mueller-Stöfen
DEU 2025, Panorama
© Netflix

Lea Myren
Den stygge stesøsteren | The Ugly Stepsister by Emilie Blichfeldt
NOR, POL, SWE, DNK 2025, Panorama
© Marcel Zyskind

Ronkę Adékoluęjo, Ann Akinjirin
Dreamers by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
GBR 2025, Panorama
© Dreamers Production Ltd.

Dezi Bing, Denée Benton, Sasha Compere
Dreams in Nightmares by Shatara Michelle Ford
USA, TWN, GBR 2024, Panorama
© Po Wei Su / 118W Films

Keenan Arrison
The Heart Is a Muscle by Imran Hamdulay
ZAF, SAU 2025, Panorama
© The Star Film Company

Karen Tygesen, Jette Søndergaard
Hjem kaere hjem | Home Sweet Home by Frelle Petersen
DNK 2025, Panorama
© Rolf Konow

Devrim Lingnau
Hysteria by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
DEU 2025, Panorama
© filmfaust

Hildegard Knef
Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef | I Want It All by Luzia Schmid
DEU 2025, Panorama
© Privatarchiv Hildegard Knef

Blanche Gardin
L’ Incroyable femme des neiges | The Incredible Snow Woman by Sébastien Betbeder
FRA 2025, Panorama
© Envie de Tempête Productions

Majdi
Khartoum by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox
SDN, GBR, DEU, QAT 2025, Panorama
© Native Voice Films

Lesbian Space Princess by Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese
AUS 2025, Panorama
© We Made A Thing Studios

Arjun Talwar
Listy z Wilczej | Letters from Wolf Street by Arjun Talwar
POL, DEU 2025, Panorama
© Arjun Talwar / Unisolo Studio

Pas de Deux No. 2
Looking for Langston by Isaac Julien
GBR 1989, Panorama
© Isaac Julien

Chloë Sevigny
Magic Farm by Amalia Ulman
USA, ARG 2025, Panorama
© MUBI

Rino Tsuneishi, Daiki Ido
Mikusu Modan | The Longing by Toshizo Fujiwara
JPN 2025, Panorama
© Toshizo Produce

Die Möllner Briefe | The Moelln Letters by Martina Priessner
DEU 2025, Panorama
© inselfilm produktion

Meredith Monk
Monk in Pieces by Billy Shebar, David Roberts
USA, DEU, FRA 2025, Panorama
© 110th Street Films

Aivan Uttapa, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Diego Olmedo
Olmo by Fernando Eimbcke
USA, MEX 2025, Panorama
© Plan B Entertainment

Diasporic Dream-Space No. 1
Once Again... (Statues Never Die) by Isaac Julien
GBR 2025, Panorama
© Isaac Julien

Nils Strunk, Justus von Dohnányi
Other People’s Money | Die Affäre Cum-Ex by Jan Schomburg, Dustin Loose, Kaspar Munk
DEU, DNK, AUT 2025, Panorama
© X Filme Creative Pool GmbH / True Content Entertainment ApS / EPO-Film / ZDF / DR / Petro Domenigg

Paul by Denis Côté
CAN 2025, Panorama
© Coop Vidéo de Montréal

Ben Whishaw
Peter Hujar’s Day by Ira Sachs
USA, DEU 2025, Panorama
© One Two Films

Jayden Cheung
Queerpanorama by Jun Li
USA, HKG/CHN 2025, Panorama
© Good Sin Production

Justus Herrmann, Armin Dallapiccola, Nico Ehrenteit
Satanische Sau | Satanic Sow by Rosa von Praunheim
DEU 2025, Panorama
© Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion

Marie Bloching, Anton Weil
Schwesterherz | The Good Sister by Sarah Miro Fischer
DEU, ESP 2025, Panorama
© Selma von Polheim Gravesen / dffb

Akira Huang
Silent Sparks by Ping Chu
TWN 2024, Panorama
© Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation

Sorda | Deaf by Eva Libertad
ESP 2025, Panorama
© Nuria Jean

Julia Franz Richter
Welcome Home Baby by Andreas Prochaska
AUT, DEU 2025, Panorama
© Lotus Filmproduktion, Senator Film Produktion

PK Gaza
Yalla Parkour by Areeb Zuaiter
SWE, QAT, SAU, PSE 2024, Panorama
© PK Gaza

Nina Hoss, Saskia Rosendahl
Zikaden | Cicadas by Ina Weisse
DEU, FRA 2025, Panorama
© Judith Kaufmann / Lupa Film
The Panorama provides a unique look at contemporary international cinema that combines artistic quality with social relevance. The section seeks films that evoke a direct emotional response, not shying away from films with an activist heart. Panorama presents a broad spectrum of film forms, looking for thrilling and exciting independent filmmaking from all around the globe. Queer works have been a vital part of the section's profile over the years, while feminist perspectives and documentary forms make up about a third of the selection each year.
“The filmmakers in this year’s Panorama programme have developed diverse cinematic strategies to address the unspoken and capture the unimaginable or forgotten. They tell stories of societal fractures, battered bodies, and precarious health systems. They depict shaky democracies and social terror, while simultaneously focusing on humanity and solidarity,” notes section head Michael Stütz.
The Rise of Genre
Genre cinema plays a prominent role in this year’s programme, with the psychological homeland horror of Welcome Home Baby by Andreas Prochaska - the Panorama opening film - and the satirical Norwegian body horror Den stygge stesøsteren (The Ugly Stepsister) by Emilie Blichfeldt. Çağla Zenzirci & Guillaume Giovanetti's Turkish political thriller Confidente (Confidante) keeps us on edge, while the gay Taiwanese gangster ballad Silent Sparks by Ping Chu presents a post-prison romance under threat. Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s German conspiracy thriller Hysteria is ambiguous and provocative, embracing the film-within-a-film motif and enriching it with political subject matter and breathtaking twists.
Global Documentary Cinema
With the international documentaries, Panorama offers a glimpse of the faded but still-present ghosts of a fallen dictatorship via archival footage in Bajo las banderas, el sol (Under the Flags, the Sun) by Juanjo Pereira, while Kinga Michalskas Bedrock looks at ten Holocaust memorials and reflects on the power of remembering and the threat posed by forgetting. Likewise set in Poland, Listy z Wilczej (Letters from Wolf Street) observes personal and political developments on the titular Wilcza Street in Warsaw through the lens of director Arjun Talwar. In her documentary collaboration Yalla Parkour, director Areeb Zuaiter follows young freerunner Ahmed and his friends in Gaza, addressing themes of memory, homesickness, living conditions, and everyday life before the start of the current war.
Queer Cinema with Claws
Queer cinema bares its claws and reveals a sense of adventure with the moody, sex-positive identity theft drama Queerpanorama from Jun Li, to a genre mix full of desire, greed and fame set in the world of acting in Ato noturno (Night Stage) from Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher. We travel through America with the queer black femme road movie Dreams in Nightmares from Shatara Michelle Ford, and hop aboard a problematic ship in the intergalactic journey Lesbian Space Princess from Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese.
These are just three of the threads the Panorama invites the audience to discover.