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The Berlinale sections take the stage: Forum Expanded leads the way and gives insights into this year's programme.

News | Berlinale Shorts

20 films are celebrating their premieres at the 2025 Berlinale Shorts. The programme combines classic storytelling with surreal works, features various styles of animation and presents experimental documentary forms.

News | Berlinale Classics

The 2025 Classics include among others Konrad Wolf's Solo Sunny, which screened in Competition at the 1980 Berlinale, the legendary war drama Hell's Angels by Howard Hughes and James Whale and the crime classic Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood.

News | Berlinale Talents

From February 15 to 20, 2025, Berlinale Talents will welcome 201 selected filmmakers to Berlin. Dieu Hao Do, Sibel Kekilli and Vincenza Cristina Saccà form this year's Talents Footprints - Mastercard Enablement Programme jury.

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On Monday, February 17, 2025, Books at Berlinale will present ten novelties by international authors with high potential for film adaptation as part of the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

75th Anniversary

A selection of the most impressive feature film debuts from 75 years of Berlinale history. Episode 1: À bout de souffle by Jean-Luc Godard from 1960.

News | Forum Expanded

In its 20th edition, Forum Expanded brings together 24 installations, films, videos and sculptures that employ translucence as a means of engaging with the cataclysmic realities of the present.

News | Forum

In 2025, the Forum Special is once again showing a programme of historical and current films that confronts the devastating state of the present by taking a conscious look back at the past.

News | Berlinale Co-Production Market

As part of the 22nd Berlinale Co-Production Market, the producers will meet potential partners to realise their projects as international co-productions in the coming years. A new prize, the Gen Z Audience Award, will also be presented for the first time.

News | Berlinale

News | Berlinale Goes Kiez

For the upcoming edition, the Berlinale is once again focusing on neighbourhood cinemas. As a tribute to cinema and its film-cultural and socio-political programme, the festival would like to celebrate film and especially cinema at eight selected locations.

Retrospective 2025

The offbeat and the wacky, mix it up with action, thrills, and graphic visuals in 15 selected genre films from East and West Germany. From a lush vampire opus to a psychedelic spaghetti western.

Sustainable Travel

The Berlinale Event Ticket of the Deutsche Bahn.