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1001 Frames

1001 Frames

  • by Mehrnoush Alia
  • with Mohammad Aghebati, Shayesteh Sajadi
  • 87'
  • Iran, USA 2025
  • Colour
  • Farsi
  • Subtitles: English

In the studio of a well-known director, female actors audition for the role of Scheherazade in “A Thousand and One Nights”. But the women gradually realise that the director has more in mind than just casting the leading role.

19 Going on 20: Short Films from 19 Years of Forum Expanded

19 Going on 20: Short Films from 19 Years of Forum Expanded

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Berlinale section Forum Expanded, 19 Going on 20 brings together short films from the last 19 festival editions, providing an insight into the wide variety of cinematic forms that make up the Forum Expanded.

2024 (2023)

2024 (2023)

  • by Stefan Hayn
  • 64'
  • Germany 2025
  • Colour
  • German
  • Subtitles: English

Twofold mise-en-scène. Views of a city and a family. Political Berlin, private Franconia. Painting within the film image. Realities observed within a necessarily shifting frame. A mobile phone film with the potential for deceleration. A social medium.

After Colossus

After Colossus

  • by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
  • with Ari Dwianto, Jamaluddin Latif, Nizar Tama, Annisa Hertami, Berti Galang
  • 29'
  • Italy, Indonesia, Netherlands 2024
  • Colour
  • Indonesian
  • Subtitles: English

In the chaotic aftermath following the collapse of Indonesia’s dictatorship, a team of researchers discovers a forgotten archive revealing a covert operation that manipulated dreams and memories.

After Dreaming

After Dreaming

  • by Christine Haroutounian
  • with Veronika Poghosyan, Davit Beybutyan
  • 105'
  • Armenia, USA, Mexico 2025
  • Colour
  • Armenian
  • Subtitles: English

Tasked with shielding her from the news of her father’s death, young soldier Atom escorts Claudette on a road trip into the conflict-ridden Armenian countryside. A hallucinatory odyssey through the mythologies of a nation in a state of permanent war.

After This Death

After This Death

  • by Lucio Castro
  • with Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger
  • 96'
  • USA 2025
  • Colour
  • English, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English

A woman’s affair with an enigmatic underground musician spirals into chaos when he vanishes, forcing her to fend off his obsessive fans, confront her fractured marriage, and fight to reclaim her identity and future.

Akababuru: Expresión de asombro | Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment | Akababuru: Ausdruck des Erstaunens

Akababuru: Expresión de asombro

Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment | Akababuru: Ausdruck des Erstaunens

  • by Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí
  • with Heluney Nerio Niaza, Wayra Andrea Aguilar Tascón, Escolástica Yagarí Gónzalez, Kipara Niaza, Isabel Yailu Vergara Niaza
  • 13'
  • Colombia 2025
  • Colour
  • Emberá-Chamí, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • recommendation: 9 years and up

Kari, an Indigenous girl, is afraid to laugh. But a new interpretation of the old legend of Kiraparamia helps her to set herself free.

Akher Youm | The Last Day

Akher Youm

The Last Day

  • by Mahmoud Ibrahim
  • with Ziad Reda, Mohamed Mahmoud
  • 5'
  • Egypt 2024
  • Colour
  • Arabic
  • Subtitles: English

Brothers Ziad and Moody spend their last day in their family home, which is scheduled for demolition. As they move furniture outside, Moody turns on the TV to pass the time, and they hear news about the demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem.

Al Basateen | The Orchards

Al Basateen

The Orchards

  • by Antoine Chapon
  • 23'
  • France 2025
  • Colour
  • Arabic
  • Subtitles: English

In 2015, in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi district and its orchards were razed to the ground as punishment for the population’s uprising against the regime. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood.

Al mosta'mera | The Settlement

Al mosta'mera

The Settlement

  • by Mohamed Rashad
  • with Adham Shoukry, Ziad Islam, Hajar Omar, Mohamed Abdel Hady, Emad Ghoneim
  • 94'
  • Egypt, France, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia 2025
  • Colour
  • Arabic
  • Subtitles: English

After a man dies in a fatal accident at work, the only compensation offered to the family is the chance for his two sons, Hossam (23) and Maro (12), to be employed in the same factory, side by side with the man responsible for their father’s death.

Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland (ADfD) | Alternative Monument for Germany

Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland (ADfD)

Alternative Monument for Germany

  • by Alternative Monument
  • 25'
  • Germany 2024
  • Colour
  • Arabic, English, German, Kurdish, Turkish

The augmented reality installation Alternative Monument for Germany (ADfD) commemorates migration from queer, feminist, and migrant perspectives. During the Berlinale, ADfD will be at Silent Green’s garden, accessible via the Monuments AR app.

Anba dlo

Anba dlo

  • by Luiza Calagian, Rosa Caldeira
  • with Berline Charles, Feguenson Hermogène, Doreen Granados, Alejandra de Jesús Garcell
  • 18'
  • Cuba, Brazil, Haiti 2025
  • Colour
  • Spanish, Haitian Creole
  • Subtitles: English

Nadia is a biologist researching the native flora and fauna of Cuba. One day the forest sounds different. Something has happened. Her Haitian homeland has never felt further away.

Ancestral Visions of the Future

Ancestral Visions of the Future

  • by Lemohang Mosese
  • with Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Mochesane Kotsoane, Rehauhetsoe Kotsoane
  • 90'
  • France, Lesotho, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia 2025
  • Colour
  • English
  • Subtitles: English

A poetic allegory of the filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s childhood, an ode to cinema and an inner nod to his mother. Through fragmented narratives and mythic imagery, Mosese crafts a haunting reflection on dislocation and belonging.

Anngeerdardardor | The Thief | Dieb

Anngeerdardardor

The Thief | Dieb

  • by Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken
  • with Kamillo Ignatiussen, Mikkel Paalu P. Bianco, Simujooq Ikila
  • 20'
  • Denmark, Greenland 2025
  • Colour
  • Greenlandic
  • Subtitles: English
  • recommendation: 12 years and up

Kaali embarks on an intense search through the town of Tasiilaq in East Greenland, determined to find his missing sled dog. After an encounter with a group of young bullies, he recovers the dog but risks losing his only friend.

Arame farpado | Barbed Wire

Arame farpado

Barbed Wire

  • by Gustavo de Carvalho
  • with Camila Botelho, Isabella Guido, Ricardo Bagge, Gabriel Novaes, Bruna Domingues
  • 22'
  • Brazil 2025
  • Colour
  • Portuguese
  • Subtitles: English, German
  • recommendation: 14 years and up

After a serious accident in rural Brazil, two sisters and their stepfather are forced to spend the night in a hospital emergency room. As they face challenging interactions with strangers, they also struggle with their own family dynamics.

Ari

Ari

  • by Léonor Serraille
  • with Andranic Manet, Pascal Rénéric, Théo Delezenne, Ryad Ferrad, Eva Lallier Juan
  • 88'
  • France, Belgium 2025
  • Colour
  • French
  • Subtitles: English, German

Ari, a young teacher, quits his job and is thrown out of the house by his father. Lost and alone, he reconnects with old friends, triggering a journey of self-discovery.

Atardecer en América | Sunset over America

Atardecer en América

Sunset over America

  • by Matías Rojas Valencia
  • 17'
  • Brazil, Chile, Colombia 2025
  • Colour
  • Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • recommendation: 14 years and up

The Andean plateau is one of the most dangerous migration routes in Latin America. A teenager recalls the night she crossed the plateau and the feeling of being accompanied by a spiritual presence that wanders like the wind.

Ato noturno | Night Stage

Ato noturno

Night Stage

  • by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher
  • with Gabriel Faryas, Cirillo Luna, Henrique Barreira, Ivo Müller, Kaya Rodrigues
  • 119'
  • Brazil 2025
  • Colour
  • Portuguese
  • Subtitles: English

An actor and a politician start a secret affair and together discover their fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dream of fame, the more they feel the urge to put themselves at risk.

Autokar

Autokar

  • by Sylwia Szkiłądź
  • with Natalia Wolska, Anna Seniuk, Henryk Niebudek, Elżbieta Gaertner, Marcin Pempuś
  • 18'
  • Belgium, France 2025
  • Colour
  • Polish, French
  • Subtitles: English
  • recommendation: 9 years and up

In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves her home in Poland and travels by herself to Belgium. Her perceptions transform the reality of migration into an imaginative experience of initiation.

Award Ceremony Generation Kplus

Award Ceremony Generation Kplus

Screening of a feature-length and a short film from the Generation Kplus competition, selected by the Children’s Jury.

Awards Ceremony Generation 14plus

Awards Ceremony Generation 14plus

Screening of a feature-length and a short film from the Generation 14plus competition, selected by the Youth Jury.

Bajo las banderas, el sol | Under the Flags, the Sun

Bajo las banderas, el sol

Under the Flags, the Sun

  • by Juanjo Pereira
  • 90'
  • Paraguay, Argentina, USA, France, Germany 2025
  • Colour & Black/White
  • Guaraní, Spanish, German, French, English, Portuguese
  • Subtitles: English

This fully archival journey through the 35 years of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime in Paraguay reveals unseen footage and explores one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, whose effects still resonate today.

Baksho Bondi | Shadowbox

Baksho Bondi

Shadowbox

  • by Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi
  • with Tillotama Shome, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman Saha
  • 91'
  • India, France, USA, Spain 2025
  • Colour
  • Bengali, Hindi
  • Subtitles: English

Maya discovers that her husband – an ex-soldier who is suffering from PTSD – is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. She and her teenage son are forced to go to extremes to keep the family together.

Batim | Houses

Batim

Houses

  • by Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum
  • with Yael Eisenberg, Tali Sharon, Evgenia Dodina
  • 98'
  • Israel, Germany 2025
  • Colour & Black/White
  • Hebrew, Russian
  • Subtitles: English

Sasha is non-binary and came to Israel from the Soviet Union as a child in the 1990s. Haunted by memories, they visit the houses they used to live in. A quiet meditation in black and white on what it means to feel at home in a house, a body, and in time.

Because of (U)

Because of (U)

  • by Tohé Commaret
  • with Emma Gonzales-Commaret, Bastien Domergues
  • 13'
  • France 2024
  • Colour
  • French
  • Subtitles: English

Laura endures her narcissistic boyfriend’s rants with silent anger. She feels abandoned by the world and searches for something to hold onto between the dreary blocks of flats – while the music plays elsewhere.

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