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“Wild, Weird, Bloody. German Genre Films of the 70s” is the topic of the 2025 Retrospective. In this interview, Rainer Rother and Annika Haupts discuss the appeal of imperfection, the desire for genre and the fascination for the outlaw in this year's programme.

News | Programme

Panorama, Generation and Forum complete their programmes with one title each.

News | Berlinale Special

The Bob Dylan biopic will be shown as a Berlinale Special Gala. The section will present a total of 21 works, 15 of them world premieres. The programme ranges from star power and popular forms to serious reflection.

In its first year, the new section presents itself as stylistically and thematically diverse. 14 films will be competing for the Best First Feature Award in 2025.

75th Anniversary

A selection of the most impressive feature film debuts from 75 years of Berlinale history. Episode 6: Grbavica by Jasmila Žbanić from 2006.

News | 75th Berlinale

The festival kicks off on February 13 with a full programme: The International Jury will be presented at the Opening Gala and the Honorary Golden Bear will be awarded to Tilda Swinton. The Gala - hosted by Désirée Nosbusch - can also be followed live on the big screen in seven German cities - including a subsequent screening of Das Licht.

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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 | Panorama

Panorama is presenting a total of 35 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 | 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 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.

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The Berlinale Event Ticket of the Deutsche Bahn.