The Berlin International Film Festival has announced the complete lineups for its Panorama, Generation, and Forum sections, while also expanding the Berlinale Special program with additional titles ahead of the 75th edition of the festival, scheduled for February 13–23, 2025.
Berlinale Special
Berlinale Special, which had previously named four titles, now includes eight additional films. New entries include “Mickey 17” by Bong Joon Ho, “Shoah” by Claude Lanzmann, “Das Licht” (“The Light”) by Tom Tykwer, and “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Justin Kurzel. A total of 21 titles will screen in the section, with the final films to be announced on January 21.
Here is the lineup of films announced so far for the Berlinale Special:
- “Ancestral Visions of the Future”
Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
France/Lesotho/Germany/Saudi Arabia - “Honey Bunch”
Directors: Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
Canada - “Islands”
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Germany
Berlinale Special Gala - “Je n’avais que le néant – ‘Shoah' par Lanzmann” (“All I Had Was Nothingness”)
Director: Guillaume Ribot
France - “Köln 75”
Director: Ido Fluk
Germany/Poland/Belgium - “Das Licht” (“The Light”)
Director: Tom Tykwer
Germany - “A melhor mãe do mundo” (“The Best Mother in the World”)
Director: Anna Muylaert
Brazil/Argentina - “Mickey 17”
Director: Bong Joon Ho
USA/South Korea/United Kingdom - “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”
Director: Justin Kurzel
Australia - “Pa-gwa” (“The Old Woman with the Knife”)
Director: Min Kyu-dong
South Korea - “Shoah”
Director: Claude Lanzmann
France - “The Thing with Feathers”
Director: Dylan Southern
United Kingdom
Panorama
Panorama, which had earlier revealed 12 films, has now confirmed its complete 2025 program. This year, 34 films from 28 countries will be shown. “Welcome Home Baby” (Austria/Germany), directed by Andreas Prochaska, has been set as the opening title. Additional new works include films by Sir Isaac Julien, Ina Weisse, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Amalia Ulman, Jeanette Nordahl, Sébastien Betbeder, and Fernando Eimbcke. The section will also screen four episodes of the series “Other People’s Money.”
Panorama head Michael Stütz said this year’s lineup explores “societal fractures, battered bodies and precarious health systems,” adding that filmmakers have developed “diverse cinematic strategies to address the unspoken and capture the unimaginable or forgotten,” while still focusing on “humanity and solidarity.”
The Panorama Audience Award will return for the 27th time, with audience members voting on their favorite documentary and fiction films to determine the winner of the Panorama Audience Award.
Here is the full lineup of films in the Berlinale Panorama section:
- “1001 Frames”
Director: Mehrnoush Alia
USA - “Ato noturno” (“Night Stage”)
Directors: Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher
Brazil - “Bajo las banderas, el sol” (“Under the Flags, the Sun”)
Director: Juanjo Pereira
Paraguay/Argentina/USA/France/Germany - “Bedrock”
Director: Kinga Michalska
Canada - “Begyndelser” (“Beginnings”)
Director: Jeanette Nordahl
Denmark/Sweden/Belgium - “Confidente” (“Confidante')
Directors: Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
Türkiye/France/Luxemburg - “Delicious”
Director: Nele Mueller-Stöfen
Germany - “Den stygge stesøsteren” (“The Ugly Stepsister”)
Director: Emilie Blichfeldt
Norway/Poland/Sweden/Denmark - “Dreamers”
Director: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
United Kingdom - “Dreams in Nightmares”
Director: Shatara Michelle Ford
USA/Taiwan/United Kingdom - “The Heart Is a Muscle”
Director: Imran Hamdulay
South Africa/Saudi Arabia - “Hjem kaere hjem” (“Home Sweet Home”)
Director: Frelle Petersen
Denmark - “Hysteria”
Director: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Germany - “Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef” (“I Want It All”)
Director: Luzia Schmid
Germany - “L' Incroyable femme des neiges” (“The Incredible Snow Woman”)
Director: Sébastien Betbeder
France - “Khartoum”
Directors: Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox
Sudan/UK/Germany/Qatar - “Lesbian Space Princess”
Directors: Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese
Australia - “Listy z Wilczej” (“Letters from Wolf Street”)
Director: Arjun Talwar
Poland/Germany - “Looking for Langston”
Director: Isaac Julien
United Kingdom - “Magic Farm”
Director: Amalia Ulman
USA/Argentina - “Mikusu Modan” (“The Longing”)
Director: Toshizo Fujiwara
Japan - “Die Möllner Briefe” (“The Moelln Letters”)
Director: Martina Priessner
Germany - “Monk in Pieces”
Director: Billy Shebar
USA/Germany/France - “Olmo”
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
USA/Mexico - “Once Again… (Statues Never Die)”
Director: Isaac Julien
United Kingdom - “Other People's Money” (“Die Affäre Cum-EX”)
Directors: Jan Schomburg, Dustin Loose, Kaspar Munk
Germany/Denmark/Austria - “Paul”
Director: Denis Côté
Canada - “Peter Hujar's Day”
Director: Ira Sachs
USA/Germany - “Queerpanorama”
Director: Jun Li
USA/Hong Kong/China - “Schwesterherz” (“The Good Sister”)
Director: Sarah Miro Fischer
Germany/Spain - “Silent Sparks”
Director: Ping Chu
Taiwan - “Sorda” (“Deaf”)
Director: Eva Libertad
Spain - “Welcome Home Baby”
Director: Andreas Prochaska
Austria/Germany - “Yalla Parkour”
Director: Areeb Zuaiter
Sweden/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Palestine - “Zikaden” (“Cicadas”)
Director: Ina Weisse
Germany/France
Berlinale Generation
The Generation section, which had previously confirmed eight feature-length films and seven short films, has now finalized its lineup. The full slate includes 18 feature films, 20 shorts, and one series. Notable additions include the feature debut of Alissa Jung, along with new works by Zacharias Kunuk, Lucia Murat, Robin Petré, and Satoko Yokohama.
Brendan Canty’s “Christy” will open the 14plus competition, while “The Nature of Invisible Things” (“A natureza das coisas invisíveis”) by Rafaela Camelo will open Kplus.
Generation section head Sebastian Markt said many films reflect the challenges young audiences face in a world that feels “daunting, confusing and inhospitable.” He described this year’s selection as “films that understand cinema as a space of community” and a reminder of “the scope of our actions and agency,” emphasizing “imagination and fantasy as a source of empowerment.”
Following is the full slate of Berlinale Genration films:
- “Akababuru: Expresión de asombro” (“Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment”)
Director: Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí
Colombia
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “A natureza das coisas invisíveis” (“The Nature of Invisible Things”)
Director: Rafaela Camelo
Brazil/Chile
Generation Kplus - “Anngeerdardardor” (“The Thief”)
Director: Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken
Denmark/Greenland
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “Arame farpado” (“Barbed Wire”)
Director: Gustavo de Carvalho
Brazil
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “Atardecer en América” (“Sunset over America”)
Director: Matías Rojas Valencia
Brazil/Chile/Colombia
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “Autokar”
Director: Sylwia Szkiłądź
Belgium/France
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “Beneath Which Rivers Flow”
Director: Ali Yahya
Iraq
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “Christy”
Director: Brendan Canty
Ireland/United Kingdom
Generation 14plus - “Daye: Seret Ahl El Daye” (“The Tale of Daye’s Family”)
Director: Karim El Shenawy
Egypt/Saudi Arabia
Generation 14plus - “De menor” (“Underage”)
Director: Caru Alves de Souza
Brazil | 2025
Generation 14plus Special Screening, Series - “Down in the Dumps” (“Tief unten”)
Director: Vera van Wolferen
Netherlands
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “El paso” (“The Leap”)
Director: Roberto Tarazona
Cuba
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “Fantas”
Director: Halima Elkhatabi
Canada
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “Hora do recreio” (“Playtime”)
Director: Lucia Murat
Brazil
Generation 14plus - “Howl”
Director: Domini Marshall
Australia
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “I Agries Meres Mas” (“Our Wildest Days”)
Director: Vasilis Kekatos
Greece/France
Generation 14plus - “Juanita”
Directors: Karen Joaquín, Uliane Tatit
Spain
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “Julian and the Wind”
Director: Connor Jessup
Canada
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “Little Rebels Cinema Club”
Director: Khozy Rizal
Indonesia
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “Maya, donne-moi un titre” (“Maya, Give Me a Title”)
Director: Michel Gondry
France
Generation Kplus - “Ne réveillez pas l'enfant qui dort” (“Don't Wake the Sleeping Child”)
Director: Kevin Aubert
Senegal/France/Morocco
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “On a Sunday at Eleven” (“Sonntags um Elf”)
Director: Alicia K. Harris
Canada
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “Only on Earth”
Director: Robin Petré
Denmark/Spain
Generation Kplus - “Ornmol” (“White Ochre”)
Director: Marlikka Perdrisat
Australia
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “Paternal Leave”
Director: Alissa Jung
Germany/Italy
Generation 14plus - “Pohádky Po Babičce” (“Tales From the Magic Garden”)
Directors: David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec
Czechia/Slovakia/Slovenia/France
Generation Kplus - “Quaker”
Director: Giovanna Molina
USA | 2025
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “Ran Bi Wa” (“A Story about Fire”)
Director: Li Wenyu
People’s Republic of China
Generation Kplus - “Ruse” (“Finte”)
Director: Rhea Shukla
India
Generation Kplus, Short Film - “Sous ma fenêtre, la boue” (“The Mud Under My Window”)
Director: Violette Delvoye
France/Belgium
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “Space Cadet”
Director: Eric San
Canada
Generation Kplus - “Sunshine”
Director: Antoinette Jadaone
Philippines
Generation 14plus - “Têtes Brûlées”
Director: Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama
Belgium
Generation 14plus - “Uiksaringitara” (“Wrong Husband”)
Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Canada
Generation 14plus - “Umibe é Iku Michi” (“Seaside Serendipity”)
Director: Satoko Yokohama
Japan
Generation Kplus - “Village Rockstars 2”
Director: Rima Das
India/Singapore
Generation 14plus - “Wish You Were Ear”
Director: Mirjana Balogh
Hungary
Generation 14plus, Short Film - “Zečji nasip” (“Sandbag Dam”)
Director: Čejen Černić Čanak
Croatia/Lithuania/Slovenia
Generation 14plus - “Zirkuskind” (“Circusboy”)
Director: Julia Lemke, Anna Koch
Germany
Generation Kplus
Forum
Forum, marking its 55th edition, will showcase 30 films from five continents, including seven feature debuts.
Forum head Barbara Wurm described the section as spotlighting cinema that “moves beyond the cult and the commercial,” offering “sparks of humanity” and serving as “a seismograph of our time.”
Full lineup of films for Forum 2025 follows.
- “2024 (2023)”
Director: Stefan Hayn
Germany - “After Dreaming”
Director: Christine Haroutounian
USA/Armenia/Mexico - “Batim” (“Houses”)
Director: Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum
Israel/Germany - “Bombam” (“Spring Night”)
Director: Kang Mi-ja
South Korea - “Cadet”
Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Kazakhstan | 2024
Forum | European Premiere - “Canone effimero”
Directors: Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio
Italy - “Chas pidlotu” (“Time to the Target”)
Director: Vitaly Mansky
Latvia/Czechia/Ukraine - “Colosal”
Director: Nayibe Tavares-Abel
Dominican Republic - “Evidence”
Director: Lee Anne Schmitt
USA - “Fwends”
Director: Sophie Somerville
Australia - “Holding Liat”
Director: Brandon Kramer
USA - “Janine zieht aufs Land” (“Janine Moves to the Country”)
Director: Jan Eilhardt
Germany - “Der Kuss des Grashüpfers” (“The Kiss of the Grasshopper”)
Director: Elmar Imanov
Germany/Luxembourg/Italy - “little boy”
Director: James Benning
USA - “La memoria de las mariposas” (“The Memory of Butterflies”)
Director: Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
Peru/Portugal - “Minimals in a Titanic World”
Director: Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo
Rwanda/Germany/Cameroon - “Palliativstation” (“Palliative Care Unit”)
Director: Philipp Döring
Germany - “Punku”
Director: Juan Daniel Fernández Molero
Peru/Spain - “Queer as Punk”
Director: Yihwen Chen
Malaysia/Indonesia - “Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde” (“Eighty Plus”)
Director: Želimir Žilnik
Serbia/Slovenia - “The Sense of Violence”
Director: Kim Mooyoung
South Korea - “Sirens Call”
Directors: Miri Ian Gossing, Lina Sieckmann
Germany/Netherlands - “The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov”
Director: Yuri Semashko
Lithuania - “The Trio Hall”
Director: Su Hui-yu
Taiwan - “Underground”
Director: Kaori Oda
Japan - “Unsere Zeit wird kommen” (“Our Time Will Come”)
Director: Ivette Löcker
Austria - “Vaghachipani” (“Tiger's Pond”)
Director: Natesh Hegde
India/Singapore - “Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst” (“If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile”)
Director: Marie Luise Lehner
Austria - “What's next?”
Director: Cao Yiwen
Hong Kong/China - “When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea”
Director: Eva Neymann
Germany/Ukraine