Perspectives
The 2025 Perspectives films
Adham Shoukry, Zeyad Islam
Al mosta’mera | The Settlement by Mohamed Rashad
EGY, FRA, DEU, QAT, SAU 2025, Perspectives
© Hassala Films
Tillotama Shome
Baksho Bondi | Shadowbox by Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi
IND, FRA, USA, ESP 2025, Perspectives
© Saumyananda Sahi / Moonweave Films
Funmilayo Akechukwu
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions by Kahlil Joseph
USA 2025, Perspectives
© Participant
Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr., Tess Magallanes, Jenny Llanto Caringal
Come la notte | Where the Night Stands Still by Liryc Dela Cruz
ITA, PHL 2025, Perspectives
© Walang Hanggan
Laura Uribe Rojas, Bernardo Gamboa, Micaela Gramajo, Regina Alejandra, Rafael Nieto Matrínez, Donovan Said, Mariapau Bravo Aviña
El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja) | The Devil Smokes (And Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) by Ernesto Martínez Bucio
MEX 2025, Perspectives
© Odei Zabaleta
Fresco Mafalda, June João, Eloísa d’Ascensão, Helena Estrela, Cristiana Cruz Forte, Marcelo Tavares, Paula Tomás Marques, Pedro Miguel Gonçalves
Duas vezes João Liberada | Two Times João Liberada by Paula Tomás Marques
PRT 2025, Perspectives
© Fresco Mafalda | Cristiana Cruz Forte, Paula Tomás Marques
Devin Pan, Misi Ke
Hé mán | Eel by Chu Chung-Teng
TWN 2025, Perspectives
© Static Film & Visual Art Productions
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World by Florian Pochlatko
AUT 2025, Perspectives
© Golden Girls Film
Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger
Kaj ti je deklica | Little Trouble Girls by Urška Djukić
SVN, HRV, ITA, SRB 2025, Perspectives
© SPOK Films
Destiny Checo, Juan Collado
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) by Joel Alfonso Vargas
USA 2025, Perspectives
Zsófi Szamosi, Szabolcs Hajdu, Ágoston Sáfrány, Eliza Sodró
Minden Rendben | Growing Down by Bálint Dániel Sós
HUN 2025, Perspectives
Anton Franke
Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen | Punching the World by Constanze Klaue
DEU 2025, Perspectives
© Flare Film / Chromosom Film
Ulysse Goffin, Myriem Akheddiou, Alisa Laub, Adèle Pinckaers
On vous croit | We believe you by Charlotte Devillers, Arnaud Dufeys
BEL 2025, Perspectives
© Makintosh Films
Blandine Madec
Le rendez-vous de l’été | That Summer in Paris by Valentine Cadic
FRA 2025, Perspectives
© 2024 Comme des Cinemas - Cinq de Trefle Productions
The international competitive strand for fiction feature debuts will shine a brighter spotlight on new filmmakers within the festival.
Perspectives emerges from the Best First Feature Award at the Berlinale, run in partnership with GWFF since 2006. A jury of three will decide which of the up to 14 fiction debuts will win the Best First Feature Award – funded by GWFF.
The section will offer a visible platform for exceptional emerging filmmakers from around the world. The features represent a genuinely international range of voices who have a bold and fluent cinematic language and offer arresting perspectives and new ways of seeing the world.
Festival photos 2025
Meryam Joobeur, María Zamora, Aïssa Maïga
The Perspectives jury on the evening of the Award Ceremony in the Berlinale Palast.
Perspectives · Feb 22, 2025
Kahlil Joseph, Jacqueline Lyanga
The director and the Co-Director of Film Programming share a hug at the premiere.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions · Perspectives · Feb 19, 2025
Chin-Yu Pan, Devin Pan
The actors during Q&A.
Hé mán · Perspectives · Feb 19, 2025
Film Team
The filmmakers constantly provide unusual perspectives both in front of and inside the cinema.
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) · Berlinale Goes Kiez · Perspectives · Feb 19, 2025
Group Picture
The film team is celebrated at the Stage Bluemax Theater.
Al mosta’mera · Perspectives · Feb 18, 2025
Jenny Larrue
At the premiere at the Stage Bluemax Theater.
Duas vezes João Liberada · Perspectives · Feb 18, 2025
Pépin Struye, Nicolas Bier, Arnaud Dufeys, Adèle Pinckaers, Myriem Akheddiou, Charlotte Devillers, Laurent Capelluto, Natali Broods, Arnaud Ponthière
Cheers! The film team celebrates appropriately at the Photo Call.
On vous croit · Perspectives · Feb 17, 2025
Florian Pochlatko, Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Unbridled joy: the director and the leading actor at the Photo Call.
How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World · Perspectives · Feb 16, 2025
Premiere in the Stage Bluemax Theater
Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen · Perspectives · Feb 16, 2025
Film Team
Devilishly sweet ensemble on the Red Carpet.
El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja) · Perspectives · Feb 15, 2025
Jara Sofija Ostan
A debut feature film does not necessarily mean there must be room for improvement. The actor poses professionally at the Photo Call.
Kaj ti je deklica · Perspectives · Feb 14, 2025
Valentine Cadic
The director at the Stage Bluemax Theater.
Le rendez-vous de l’été · Perspectives · Feb 14, 2025
Cross-section awards respectively awards of the Independent Juries:
- Prize of the FIPRESCI Jury
- TEDDY AWARDS, the most important queer film award in the world, which began in Panorama and can now go to films in all sections of the Berlinale.
- Amnesty International Film Award
- Heiner Carow Prize
- Peace Film Prize