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.
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Twofold mise-en-scène. Views of a city and a family. Political Berlin, private Franconia. Painting within the film image. Realities observed within a necessarily shifting frame. A mobile phone film with the potential for deceleration. A social medium.
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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.
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Sasha is non-binary and came to Israel from the Soviet Union as a child in the 1990s. Haunted by memories, they visit the houses they used to live in. A quiet meditation in black and white on what it means to feel at home in a house, a body, and in time.
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An alcoholic woman and an ailing man forge a life-affirming bond, but old habits die hard. Kang Mi-ja’s austere drama with the great Han Ye-ri in the lead casts an unsparing eye on the ill-fated romance between two lonely souls, crippled by their past.
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A military-set post-horror. Educating monsters. History teacher Alina is received coldly upon bringing her son Serik to the cadet school that will make him a man. A pupil dies, as the smell of past corpses emanates from the cellar of the present.
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Moving through Italy’s regions, the De Serio brothers come across an alternative popular culture and shoot a rectangular film about polyvocal songs, music ethnology and oral tradition. Radically contemporary, energetic, close to nature, local. Lyrical.
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Spring, summer, autumn, winter... still war in Lviv, western Ukraine. Torn between normality and a state of emergency. For one year, Mansky follows the life cycle of a society’s grieving rites and everyday rituals, where death is the order of the day.
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Genealogy, uncomfortable questions and reams of archival material are Tavares-Abel’s tools in discovering the political truths of her family and the Dominican Republic. Election fraud and dictatorship are frighteningly topical. Activism suggests itself.
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Taking her dad’s job at the Olin Corporation as a starting point, Lee Anne Schmitt interweaves meditative reflections on her biography and her own body with a history of the rise and widespread influence of conservative think tanks in the United States.
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As the child of survivors of the Sinti persecution by the Nazis, Melanie Spitta holds the “thread of the truth” in this film. No reparations were paid. “The courts believed the perpetrators, not us.” Shock, evidence, warning, accusation.
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Two young women in the world – a reunion weekend in Melbourne. Em’s on a break, Jessie’s always been chill. Dialogue like a babbling brook, sweet, smart, banal to heavy and back again, honest and unafraid of pathos. A generation of happy wounded souls.
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Nana Xu travels to the place built by her father as a prisoner during the Cultural Revolution: first a work camp, later a prison, fruit farm and treatment centre. Conversations with last remaining witnesses, where home is still shaped by a repressed past.
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Liat is one of the hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows her relatives from right up close, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and humanity amidst war, trauma and diplomacy.
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A young Indigenous woman leaves the village for the city. Cinema Novo, hybrid fiction, road trip and an ecological avant-garde perspective, Iracema shows that trees, animals and people were already being destroyed by extractivist capitalism 50 years ago.
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Far away from the big city, Janine is unwelcome, yet an eye-catcher: a sensual, queer subject of projection with wine-red hair. Jan Eilhardt travels with her to engage with his own rural past, opening old wounds and infiltrating a hostile milieu.