The full lineup for the Berlinale will be announced soon in the German capital. Follow Live Below the titles have also been revealed.
This year’s Berlinale runs from February 13 to 23. The festival will mark the first edition with Tricia Tuttle at its helm. Tuttle replaces previous festival directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Riesenbeek. Tuttle was the last Chairman of the BFI’s London Film Festival.
The festival has already announced a series of titles. German director Tom Tykwer opens the Berlin Film Festival with his latest film a light (Das Licht). The film will be released on February 13. The film will have its world premiere and will be screened out of competition at the Berlinale Palace. Starring in the picture is German actor Lars Edinger (death) and Nicolette Krebitz (A cloud in our house).
The film tells the story of the Engels family. Tim (Lars Edinger), Melina (Nicolette Krebitz), their twins Frieda (Elke Besendorfer) and John (Julius Goes) and Melina’s son Dio (Elias Eldridge) are a family who live more side by side than together and nothing brings them together until housekeeper Farrah (Tala Religion) enters their lives. The mysterious woman from Syria puts Engels’ world to an unexpected test and brings to light feelings that have long been hidden. In the process, she follows a plan of her own that will radically change the family’s lives.
Tom Tykwer has opened the Berlinale twice before: in 2002 with his first international production sky And in 2009 with the political thriller film International.
Michel Gondry and Ira Sachs are among the most prominent filmmakers set to debut new feature-length works in sidebar competition at next year’s Berlin Film Festival. Gondry will screen Maya, give me an address (Maya, donne-moi un titre) in the sidebar of the Berlin generation. The festival’s website describes the film as “a poignant love letter from Gondry to his daughter Maya that brings to life a poetic and entertaining journey that invites you to dream and laugh.” Sachs returns to the Berlinale Panorama Competition with peter hugar day, Starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. The film is described as “a 1974 conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his girlfriend Linda Rosencrantz.” Bong Joon Ho’s latest work Mickey 17 Starring Robert Pattinson will also be shown in Berlin.
Live update lineup below:
Berlinale special concert
After this death Written by Lucio Castro | With Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger World Premiere USA 2025
Completely anonymous (Just Like Anonymous) by James Mangold | With Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook USA 2024 Premiere in Germany
Hildene (Late Shift) by Pietra Volpi | With Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riessen, Urs Bühler, Margareta Schoch, Jörg Plass Switzerland/Germany World Premiere 2025
Lurking By Alex Russell | With Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zach Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Soljic USA/Italy 2025 International Premiere | Debut film
Das Deutsche Volk By Marcin Wierzchowski World Premiere Germany 2025 | Documentary format
kin layer. Very wild. (No monster. Very ferocious.) By Burhan Qurbani | With Kinda Hamidan, Verena Altenberger, Hiyam Abbas, Mona Zareh Hoshyari Kha, Mehdi Nabou Germany/Poland/France World Premiere 2025
Leibniz – Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes (Leibniz – Chronicle of the Lost Painting) By Edgar Ritz, Anatole Schuster | With Edgar Seelig, Ian Schwarz, Michael Kranz, Lars Edinger and Barbara Sokwa, World Premiere Germany 2025
Mitzvah of David (Letter to David) By Tom Cheval | With David Cuneo, Eitan Cuneo, Sharon Aloni Cuneo, Sylvia Cuneo, Louis Cuneo Israel/USA 2025 World Premiere | Documentary format
My Unwanted Friends: Part 1 – The Last Air in Moscow Written by Julia Loktev | With Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Ksenia Mironova, Sonya Groysman, Alicia Marukhovskaya USA 2024 International Premiere | Documentary format
Viewpoints movies
Bakshaw Bondi (Shadowbox) Written by Tanushree Das, Soumyananda Sahi | With Tilottama Sumi, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman Saha India / France / USA / Spain World Premiere 2025
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions Written by Khalil Youssef | With Kaniza Schaal, Hope Geisel, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Funmilayo Akechukwu, Peter Hernandez USA 2025 International Premiere | Debut movie
Come on no note (Where Still the Night) by Lyric Dela Cruz | With Jenny Lanto Caringal, Tess Magallanes and Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr. Italy/Philippines 2025 World Premiere
El Diablo Foma (yguarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja) (The Devil Smokes (And Keeps Burning Matches in the Same Box)) by Ernesto Martinez Bocio | With Mariabão Bravo Aveña, Rafael Nieto Martinez, Regina Alejandra, Donovan Said, Laura Uribe Rojas Mexico 2025 World Premiere | Debut movie
How to be normal and the strangeness of the other world Written by Florian Buchlatko | With Luisa Céline Gavron, Elke Winkens, Cornelius Obonia, Felix Buchhacker, David Shedd World Premiere Austria 2025 | Debut movie
That’s what I said (Little Girls of Trouble) by Orska Dokić | With Jara Sofia Ostan, Minna Svajer, Sasa Tabakovich, Natasa Berger, Steša Popović Slovenia/Italy/Croatia/Serbia 2025 World Premiere | Debut movie
Mad bills to pay (or fate, dile que no soy malo) by Joel Alfonso Vargas | With Juan Collado, Destiny Chico, Johanna Florentino, Natalie Navarro USA 2025 International Premiere | Debut movie
Mit der Faust in Schlagen’s World (For you the world) by Constanze Klaw | With Anton Franke, Camille Moltzen, Anya Schneider, Christian Nath, Johannes Schadeweiler Germany 2025 World Premiere | Debut movie
Colony (Settlement) by Muhammad Rashad | With Adham Shoukry, Ziad Islam, Hager Omar, Mohamed Abdel Hadi, Imad Ghoneim Egypt / France / Germany / Saudi Arabia / Qatar 2025 World Premiere