Tickets go on sale on Monday, February 10, 2025, at 10.00 am. Tickets are available online and always three days in advance. All information on booking, payment, prices and concessions.
FAQs for a Respectful and Open Dialogue During the Berlinale
The Berlinale invites all guests, the film teams and the audience to participate in an exchange that is open, pluralistic and mutually respectful. For more read our FAQs Dialogue & Exchange
In a Berlinale Note, Festival Director Tricia Tuttle shares her thoughts on free speech, brave spaces, and film.
Timothée Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Jessica Chastain, Jacob Elordi, Benedict Cumberbatch, Margaret Qualley and many others are expected to attend the festival. Oscar nominated director Edward Berger will give the laudation for Honorary Golden Bear winner Tilda Swinton.
From February 15 to 21, Berlinale Goes Kiez will put the spotlight on neighbourhood cinema. Over seven days, selected festival films will be shown in arthouse cinemas of the capital region. The series will be complemented by a special screening at the JVA Plötzensee correctional facility.
In short texts, the Berlinale sections introduce themselves and their 2025 programme.
Awareness Team and Anti-Discrimination
During and shortly after the Berlinale, additional Awareness Teams are available to offer preliminary advice to any visitors or employees who observe, experience or are affected by discrimination in connection with the festival.
The Awareness Team can be contacted by emailing or by phoning +49 30 259 202 95 daily from February 13 to 23 (from 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm) and from February 24 to 28 (from 12.00 pm to 3.00 pm).
With this year's theme "Listen Courageously - Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance", Berlinale Talents invites the public to visit HAU Hebbel am Ufer. The programme includes 14 public talks as well as a variety of events for the 200 invited Talents.
Director’s Talks are an integral part of WCF Day every year. In further panels, the production conditions in specific WCF funding regions and new focal points of the WCF funding strategy are presented.
It has already been announced that the American director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes will be President of the International Jury. Now his colleagues have also been revealed. Together with Nabil Ayouch, Fan Bingbing, Bina Daigeler, Rodrigo Moreno, Amy Nicholson and Maria Schrader, he will decide on the awarding of the prizes in the 2025 Competition.
The members of the International Short Film Jury, the Berlinale Documentary Film Award jury, the Perspectives jury and the Generation juries have also been confirmed.
The festival kicks off on February 13 with a full programme: The International Jury will be presented at the Opening Gala and the Honorary Golden Bear will be awarded to Tilda Swinton. The Gala - hosted by Désirée Nosbusch - can also be followed live on the big screen in seven German cities - including a subsequent screening of Das Licht.
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival will award Scottish actor Tilda Swinton the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement. The award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025.
As the first major market of the year, the European Film Market with its EFM Industry Sessions programme offers the perfect stage to discuss the trends and ideas that will engage the industry in the coming film year. In addition to panel discussions, there will be 14 interactive panels and workshops for producers at the EFM Producers Hub.
At the 75th Berlinale Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Rainer Rother will be honoured with the Berlinale Camera. The film expert is also head of the Retrospective section and responsible for Berlinale Classics.