Berlinale 2025

A family faces collapse as they deal with modern issues, searching for new beginnings in a troubled world.

Forced from home after quitting teaching, Ari navigates life's uncertainties. His reunion with childhood friends becomes a catalyst for personal transformation.

Tells the story of Lorenz Hart's struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of "Oklahoma!".

The ten-year-old boy lived through the events of May 1968 hidden away at his grandparents' house, surrounded by his uncles and great-grandmother, all bivouacked around a mysterious hideout. Adapted from the novel by Christophe Boltanski.

Romance blossoms between a wealthy socialite and a Mexican ballet dancer, intertwining their contrasting lives and cultures.

Johanne documents her intense crush on her french teacher. Her mother, grandmother end up reading these intimate writings. They're both horrified by the contents but taken by the powerful writing and story. Johanne navigates romantic ideals vs reality, exploring emotions of self-discovery, love, sexuality.

A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents' house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and libations.

With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.

With her life literally crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a cellar one day, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that Orsolya must try to resolve.

In the Argentinian countryside, a child's special gift gives her opportunistic guardians the idea of offering consultations with an animal medium in order to earn a living.

It showcases maternal anxieties.

A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.

In 1991, Bawangtai Village was still very lively and looked the most nostalgic in my memory. Xu Chuang, a young man living in his grandmother's house, experienced various spring planting and autumn harvest, weddings and funerals in the village. With the rise of migrant workers, young people are gradually leaving the land and going to the city, and the countryside is quietly changing.

Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with students and teachers striving to continue learning even under constant threat.

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

To maximize economic productivity, the government orders the elderly to relocate to distant housing colonies. Tereza, 77, refuses-instead embarking on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.

Julia and Tobias face hilarious and cringe-worthy moments when their young daughter Marielle unexpectedly gains mind-reading powers. As family secrets come to light, they struggle to maintain privacy and normalcy in their daily lives.

Tian Tian, the single mother of a five-year-old daughter, kills a drug dealer and is then pursued for vengeance. The only person she can turn to for help is her female cousin, Fang Di.

An exiled Arab author travels to a remote island in the North Sea to commit suicide. There he stays at a modest hotel run by a devoted elderly woman whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires and instincts for life.

New York, 1961. An unknown 19-year-old named Bob Dylan arrives with his revolutionary talent. He forges relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a performance that reverberates worldwide.

A woman's affair with an enigmatic underground musician throws her life into chaos when he disappears. Forced to fend off his obsessive fans, she also has to confront her fractured marriage, and reclaim her identity and her future.

In a dreamlike journey through memory and myth, a young boy's experiences in Lesotho blend with cinema's magic, honoring his mother while exploring themes of home and identity.

In the wake of a tragic hate crime in Hanau, Germany, survivors and bereaved families navigate loss and healing. Their journeys reveal personal struggles and societal challenges as the country faces its deep-rooted biases.

Floria, a dedicated nurse, tirelessly serves in an understaffed hospital ward. However, today her shift becomes a tense and urgent race against the clock.