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75th Anniversary

A selection of the most impressive feature film debuts from 75 years of Berlinale history. Episode 3: Mala Noche by Gus Van Sant 1986.

News | Berlinale Special

The 2025 Berlinale Special shines with Red Carpet Galas, late-night genre thrills and talking point films. Another eight films have now been invited. These include the first series and the new film by Parasite director Bong Joon Ho.

News | Panorama

Panorama is presenting a total of 34 films from 28 countries in 2025. Genre cinema is mixing it up in the programme, multi-faceted German filmmaking will be catching the eye while queer cinema is once again making a strong showing well beyond the common clichés. Welcome Home Baby by Andreas Prochaska is opening the section.

News | Generation

Between millennia-old legends and daring visions of human futures, the two competitions Kplus and 14plus 2025 span a wide range of narrative forms. These include theatrical re-enactments that break the fourth wall, a cinema of great emotions, films in which a dance-like dialogue between bodies unfolds, and also animations that touch on the abstract.

News | Forum

The 55th Forum main programme comprises 30 films from five continents and encounters a world and its people that are in a bad state. And yet: there is at least a hint of optimism to be found, even if the individual fates they narrate are hardly easy.

News | Berlinale Co-Production Market

On February 18 and 19, the Berlinale Co-Production Market is organising Co-Pro Series for the eleventh time. For this edition, ten international series projects from Europe, Brazil, New Zealand, Canada and the USA have been invited.

News | European Film Market

The flagship label Berlinale Series Market Selects presents 17 titles ranging from biopics, crime thrillers and dark comedies to dramas, thrillers and crime thrillers.

News | Berlinale Shorts

20 films are celebrating their premieres at the 2025 Berlinale Shorts. The programme combines classic storytelling with surreal works, features various styles of animation and presents experimental documentary forms.

News | Programme

The Berlinale sections take the stage: Forum Expanded leads the way and gives insights into this year's programme.

News | Berlinale Classics

The 2025 Classics include among others Konrad Wolf's Solo Sunny, which screened in Competition at the 1980 Berlinale, the legendary war drama Hell's Angels by Howard Hughes and James Whale and the crime classic Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood.

News | Berlinale

Retrospective 2025

The offbeat and the wacky, mix it up with action, thrills, and graphic visuals in 15 selected genre films from East and West Germany. From a lush vampire opus to a psychedelic spaghetti western.

Sustainable Travel

The Berlinale Event Ticket of the Deutsche Bahn.