Berlinale Programme
On this page you can find all titles that have already been announced for the programme of the 75th Berlinale.
The entire programme – including screening times and locations – will be released here on February 4, 2025.
Panorama
In the studio of a well-known director, female actors audition for the role of Scheherazade in “A Thousand and One Nights”. But the women gradually realise that the director has more in mind than just casting the leading role.
Forum
A doubling of mise-en-scène. Views of a city and a family. Political Berlin, private Bavaria. Painting within the film image. Realities observed within a necessarily shifting frame. A mobile phone film with the potential for deceleration. A social medium.
Berlinale Special Gala
New York, 1961. An unknown 19-year-old named Bob Dylan arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide.
Berlinale Shorts
In the chaotic aftermath following the collapse of Indonesia’s dictatorship, a team of researchers discovers a forgotten archive revealing a covert operation that manipulated dreams and memories.
Forum
Tasked with shielding her from the news of her father’s death, young soldier Atom escorts Claudette on a road trip into the conflict-ridden Armenian countryside. A hallucinatory odyssey through the mythologies of a nation in a state of permanent war.
Berlinale Special Gala
A woman’s affair with an enigmatic underground musician throws her life into chaos when he disappears. Forced to fend off his obsessive fans, she also has to confront her fractured marriage, and reclaim her identity and her future.
Generation Kplus
Kari, an Indigenous girl, is afraid to laugh. But a new interpretation of the old legend of Kiraparamia helps her to set herself free.
Forum Expanded
Brothers Ziad and Moody spend their last day in their family home, which is scheduled for demolition. As they move furniture outside, Moody turns on the TV to pass the time, and they hear news about the demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem.
Forum Expanded
In 2015, in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi district and its orchards were razed to the ground as punishment for the population's uprising against the regime. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood.
Perspectives
After a man dies in a fatal accident at work, the only compensation offered to the family is the chance for his two sons, Hossam (23) and Maro (12), to be employed in the same factory, side by side with the man responsible for their father’s death.
Forum Expanded Exhibition
The augmented reality installation Alternative Monument for Germany (ADfD) commemorates migration from queer, feminist, and migrant perspectives. During the Berlinale, ADfD will be at silent green’s garden, accessible via the Monuments AR app.
Generation Kplus
During the summer holidays, the paths of two ten-year-old girls cross in a hospital and they form an unexpected bond. Their connection leads them on a bittersweet journey of loss, farewells and quiet discoveries about life.
Berlinale Shorts
Nadia is a biologist researching the native flora and fauna of Cuba. One day the forest sounds different. Something has happened. Her Haitian homeland has never felt further away.
Berlinale Special
A poetic allegory of the filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s childhood, an ode to cinema and an inner nod to his mother. Through fragmented narratives and mythic imagery, Mosese crafts a haunting reflection on dislocation and belonging.
Generation Kplus
Kaali embarks on an intense search through the town of Tasiilaq in East Greenland, determined to find his missing sled dog. After an encounter with a group of young bullies, he recovers the dog but risks losing his only friend.