Berlinale Programme
On this page you can find all titles that have already been announced for the programme of the 75th Berlinale.
The entire programme – including screening times and locations – will be released here on February 4, 2025.
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As the child of survivors of the Sinti persecution by the Nazis, Melanie Spitta holds the “thread of the truth” in this film. No reparations were paid. “The courts believed the perpetrators, not us”. Shock, evidence, warning, accusation.
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Nana Xu travels to the place built by her father as a prisoner during the Cultural Revolution: first a work camp, later a prison, fruit farm and treatment centre. Conversations with last remaining witnesses, where home is still shaped by a repressed past.
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A young Indigenous woman leaves the village for the city. Cinema Novo, hybrid fiction, road trip and an ecological avant-garde perspective, Iracema shows that trees, animals and people were already being destroyed by extractivist capitalism 50 years ago.
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In 1973, Vibeke Løkkeberg filmed the beginnings of the feminist film movement at the First International Women’s Film Seminar, held at the Arsenal cinema. Her footage was lost for 50 years. Today, it confronts us with past battles still yet to be won.
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A tender posthumous letter to Tamara’s father, who was a film actor in Soviet Armenia. She already watched him on TV as a child before later establishing herself as a filmmaker. A captivating sleepwalk through the landscapes of Armenian film history.
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A piercingly open talk between a mother and a daughter about growing up as a woman in Uzbekistan, now and back then. Confessions about sex no one really wanted, about the experience of misogyny and gender asymmetry. Naked truths as a form of therapy.
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His scars form the starting point of her research trip to track down the young people crushed by the military putsch of September 12th, 1980. The dream of Turkish democracy in pieces, the way to an authoritarian regime and political Islam already paved.
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In 2024, protests are held on the streets of Tbilisi against the so-called “Foreign Agents” law. Tina, Luka, director Tiku and their friends also take part. They resist by being there for one another – gathering courage for what lies ahead.