Berlinale 2025, il programma: ci sono Richard Linklater, Michel Franco e Bong Joon Ho

Pochissima Italia nella 75° edizione del Festival di Berlino, la prima sotto la guida di Tricia Tuttle

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Berlinale 2025

C’è poca Italia, anzi pochissima, nella line-up della Berlinale 2025, in programma dal 13 al 23 febbraio sotto la direzione artistica di Tricia Tuttle, ex direttrice del BFI London Film Festival succeduta a Carlo Chatrian e Mariette Rissenbeek.

Dopo l’annuncio del film d’apertura (il Das Licht di Tom Tykwer di cui vi parlavamo qui) e l’anticipazione di Mickey 17 di Bong Joon Ho, l’organizzazione della 75ª edizione ha svelato il programma completo e i film del concorso ufficiale che concorreranno per l’Orso d’Oro, assegnato quest’anno da una giuria presieduta da Todd Haynes, regista di May December e Carol. Spiccano, tra i titoli, Blue Moon di Richard Linklater, interpretato da Ethan Hawke e Margaret Qualley, e Dreams di Michel Franco, che ritrova Jessica Chastain dopo il commovente Memory, presentato a Venezia nel 2023. Occhi puntati anche su Hot Milk, il debutto nel lungometraggio dell’acclamata sceneggiatrice Rebecca Lenkiewicz (She Said) con Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw e Vicky Krieps e If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, il film di Mary Bronstein con Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky e Conan O’Brien.

Margaret Qualley e Ethan Hawke in una scena di Blue Moon

Non ci sono titoli italiani in concorso, anticipavamo in apertura, se non due co-produzioni: Yunan di Ameer Fakher Eldin (co-produzione Germania, Canada, Italia, Palestina, Qatar, Giordania e Arabia Saudita) e Reflet dans un diamant mort dei registi Hélène Cattet e Bruno Forzan, realizzato insieme al Belgio, Lussemburgo e Francia.

In generale, il programma del concorso comprende film provenienti da 26 paesi e otto film diretti o co-diretti da registe donne.“Siamo fieramente orgogliosi dei film in concorso quest’anno, che mostrano l’ampiezza del cinema e offrono affascinanti scorci su vite e luoghi diversi”, ha dichiarato Tuttle, descrivendo i film selezionati come “drammi intimi che ci chiedono di comprendere le fragilità e i punti di forza dell’essere umano: c’è una commedia delicata ma anche la satira più tagliente e nera; ci sono film che rendono omaggio ai grandi del cinema e quelli che utilizzano la tela più completa di questa forma d’arte”.

Nell’annunciare la scaletta, la nuova Direttrice ha parlato del suo desiderio di ampliare l’appeal del festival, pur mantenendo le sue radici politiche. “Non possiamo e non vogliamo sottrarci alla politica. È probabilmente nel DNA della città e del festival stesso”, ha affermato. “Ma è giusto dire che la Berlinale è tante cose, per tutti i festival e per tutte le culture in questo momento, l’agenda delle notizie può spesso dominare la scena. Noi speriamo davvero che i film che il pubblico vedrà nel corso di queste settimane di festival faranno parlare della vivacità della forma d’arte stessa”.

Per l’edizione numero 75, la Berlinale ha introdotto una nuova sezione competitiva chiamata Perspectives, composta da 14 lungometraggi d’esordio, 12 dei quali in anteprima mondiale. “Perspectives, il nostro nuovo concorso per lungometraggi di finzione, riunisce eccezionali registi internazionali, che spaziano dall’India al Messico, da Taiwan all’Egitto, dagli Stati Uniti alla Slovenia”, ha dichiarato Tuttle.

Altri nove titoli, infine, sono stati aggiunti al programma Special Gala, tra cui il candidato all’Oscar A Complete Unknown di James Mangold con Timothée Chalamet, già presentato giorni fa in anteprima a Roma. Il festival ospiterà anche una proiezione del film di Peter Wollen del 1987 Friendship’s Death, interpretato da Tilda Swinton, come parte del suo tributo all’Orso d’Oro onorario.

Questa la line-up completa di Berlino 2025

CONCORSO

ARI
di Léonor Serraille | con Andranic Manet, Pascal Rénéric, Théo Delezenne, Ryad Ferrad, Eva Lallier Juan
France / Belgium 2025 – World premiere

BLUE MOON
di Richard Linklater | con Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott
USA / Ireland 2025 – World premiere

LA CACHE (“THE SAFE HOUSE”)
di Lionel Baier | con Dominique Reymond, Michel Blanc, William Lebghil, Aurélien Gabrielli, Liliane Rovère
Switzerland / Luxembourg / France 2025 – World premiere

DREAMS
di Michel Franco | con Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell
Mexico 2025 – World premiere

DRØMMER (“DREAMS (SEX LOVE)”)
di Dag Johan Haugerud | con Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Marit Jacobsen
Norway 2024 – International premiere

GEU JAYEONI NEGE MWORAGO HANI (“WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU”)
di Hong Sangsoo | con Ha Seongguk, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Kang Soyi
South Korea 2025 – World premiere

HOT MILK
di Rebecca Lenkiewicz | con Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez
United Kingdom 2025 – World premiere | Debut film

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
di Mary Bronstein | con Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Ivy Wolk
USA 2024 – International premiere

KONTINENTAL ’25
di Radu Jude | con Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța
Romania 2025 – World premiere

EL MENSAJE (“THE MESSAGE”)
di Iván Fund | con Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Anika Bootz, Betania Cappato
Argentina / Spain 2025 – World premiere

MOTHER’S BABY
di Johanna Moder | con Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw, Claes Bang, Julia Franz Richter
Austria / Switzerland / Germany 2025 – World premiere

O ÚLTIMO AZUL (“THE BLUE TRAIL”)
di Gabriel Mascaro | con Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socorrás, Adanilo
Brazil / Mexico / Chile / Netherlands 2025 – World premiere

REFLET DANS UN DIAMANT MORT (“REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND”)
di Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | con Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi Mai Nguyen
Belgium / Luxembourg / Italy / France 2025 – World premiere

SHENG XI ZHI DI (“LIVING THE LAND”)
di Huo Meng │con Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao Lingzhi
China 2025 – World premiere

STRICHKA CHASU (“TIMESTAMP”)
di Kateryna Gornostai | con Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets
Ukraine / Luxembourg / Netherlands / France 2025 – World premiere | Documentary form

LA TOUR DE GLACE (“THE ICE TOWER”)
di Lucile Hadžihalilović | con Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé
France / Germany 2025 – World premiere

WAS MARIELLE WEISS (“WHAT MARIELLE KNOWS”)
di Frédéric Hambalek | con Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateşçi, Moritz Treuenfels
Germany 2025 – World premiere

XIANG FEI DE NV HAI (“GIRLS ON WIRE”)
di Vivian Qu | con Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao
China 2025 – World premiere

YUNAN
di Ameer Fakher Eldin | con Georges Khabbaz, Hanna Schygulla, Ali Suliman, Sibel Kekilli, Tom Wlaschiha
Germany / Canada / Italy / Palestine / Qatar / Jordan / Saudi Arabia 2025 – World premiere

 

 

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA

AFTER THIS DEATH
di Lucio Castro | con Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger
USA 2025 – World premiere

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
di James Mangold | con Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook
USA 2024 – German premiere

HELDIN (“LATE SHIFT”)
di Petra Volpe | con Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg Plüss
Switzerland / Germany 2025 – World premiere

ISLANDS
di Jan-Ole Gerster | con Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan Torrell
Germany 2025 – World premiere

KÖLN 75
di Ido Fluk | con Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer
Germany / Poland / Belgium 2025 – World premiere

DAS LICHT (“THE LIGHT”)
di Tom Tykwer | con Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Elke Biesendorfer, Julius Gause
Germany 2025 – World premiere

LURKER
di Alex Russell | con Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic
USA / Italy 2025 – International premiere | Debut film

MICKEY 17
di Bong Joon Ho | con Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
USA / South Korea / United Kingdom 2024 – German Premiere

THE THING WITH FEATHERS
di Dylan Southern | con Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Sam Spruell, Vinette Robinson
United Kingdom 2025 – European premiere

 

BERLINALE SPECIAL SERIES GALA

THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH
di Justin Kurzel | con Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Simon Baker
Australia 2025 – World premiere | Series

 

BERLINALE SPECIAL

ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
di Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | con Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Zaman Mathejane, Mochesane Edwin Kotsoane, Rehauhetsoe Ernest Kotsoane
France / Lesotho / Germany / Saudi Arabia 2025 – World premiere | Documentary form

DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK
di Marcin Wierzchowski
Germany 2025 – World premiere | Documentary form

HONEY BUNCH
di Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | con Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Kate Dickie, Jason Isaacs, India Brown
Canada 2025 – World premiere

JE N’AVAIS QUE LE NÉANT – ‘SHOAH’ PAR CLAUDE LANZMANN (“ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS”)
di Guillaume Ribot
France 2025 – World premiere

KEIN TIER. SO WILD. (“NO BEAST. SO FIERCE.”)
di Burhan Qurbani | con Kenda Hmeidan, Verena Altenberger, Hiam Abbass, Mona Zarreh Hoshyari Khah, Mehdi Nebbou
Germany / Poland / France 2025 – World premiere

LEIBNIZ – CHRONIK EINES VERSCHOLLENEN BILDES (“LEIBNIZ – CHRONICLE OF A LOST PAINTING”)
di Edgar Reitz, Anatol Schuster | con Edgar Selge, Aenne Schwarz, Michael Kranz, Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa
Germany 2025 – World premiere

A MELHOR MÃE DO MUNDO (“THE BEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD” | “DIE BESTE MUTTER DER WELT”)
di Anna Muylaert | con Shirley Cruz, Seu Jorge, Rihanna Barbosa, BeninAyo
Brazil / Argentina 2025 – World premiere

MICHTAV LE’DAVID (“A LETTER TO DAVID”)
di Tom Shoval | con David Cunio, Eitan Cunio, Sharon Aloni-Cunio, Silvia Cunio, Luis Cunio
Israel / USA 2025 – World premiere | Documentary form

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
di Julia Loktev | con Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Ksenia Mironova, Sonya Groysman, Alesya Marokhovskaya
USA 2024 – International premiere | Documentary form

PA-GWA (“THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE”)
di Min Kyu-dong | con Hyeyoung Lee, Kim Sung-cheol, Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Moo-yul, Shin Sia
South Korea 2025 – World premiere

SHOAH
di Claude Lanzmann
France 1985

 

PERSPECTIVES

AL MOSTA’MERA (“THE SETTLEMENT”)
di Mohamed Rashad | con Adham Shoukry, Ziad Islam, Hajar Omar, Mohamed Abdel Hady, Emad Ghoneim
Egypt / France / Germany / Saudi Arabia / Qatar 2025 – World premiere

BAKSHO BONDI (“SHADOWBOX”)
di Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi | con Tillotama Shome, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman Saha
India / France / USA / Spain 2025 – World premiere

BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS
di Kahlil Joseph | con Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Funmilayo Akechukwu, Peter Hernandez
USA 2025 – International premiere | Debut film

COME LA NOTTE (“WHERE THE NIGHT STANDS STILL”)
di Liryc Dela Cruz | con Jenny Llanto Caringal, Tess Magallanes, Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr.
Italy / Philippines 2025 – World premiere

“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”))
di Ernesto Martinez Bucio | con Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Donovan Said, Laura Uribe Rojas
Mexico 2025 – World premiere | Debut film

World premiere

“Reflet dans un diamant mort” (“Reflection in a Dead Diamond”)

by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | with Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi Mai Nguyen

Belgium / Luxembourg / Italy / France 2025

World premiere

“Sheng xi zhi di” (“Living the Land”)

By Huo Meng │with Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao Lingzhi

People’s Republic of China 2025

World premiere

“Strichka chasu” (“Timestamp”)

by Kateryna Gornostai | with Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets

Ukraine / Luxembourg / Netherlands / France 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“La Tour de Glace” (“The Ice Tower”)

by Lucile Hadžihalilović | with Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé

France / Germany 2025

World premiere

“Was Marielle weiß” (“What Marielle Knows”)

by Frédéric Hambalek | with Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateşçi, Moritz Treuenfels

Germany 2025

World premiere

“Xiang fei de nv hai” (“Girls on Wire”)

by Vivian Qu | with Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao

People’s Republic of China 2025

World premiere

“Yunan”

by Ameer Fakher Eldin | with Georges Khabbaz, Hanna Schygulla, Ali Suliman, Sibel Kekilli, Tom Wlaschiha

Germany / Canada / Italy / Palestine / Qatar / Jordan / Saudi Arabia 2025

World premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA

“After This Death”

by Lucio Castro | with Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger

USA 2025

World premiere

“A Complete Unknown” (“Like a Complete Unknown”)

by James Mangold | with Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook

USA 2024

German premiere

“Heldin” (“Late Shift”)

by Petra Volpe | with Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg Plüss

Switzerland / Germany 2025

World premiere

“Islands”

by Jan-Ole Gerster | with Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan Torrell

Germany 2025

World premiere

“Köln 75”

by Ido Fluk | with Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer

World premiere

“Reflet dans un diamant mort” (“Reflection in a Dead Diamond”)

by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | with Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi Mai Nguyen

Belgium / Luxembourg / Italy / France 2025

World premiere

“Sheng xi zhi di” (“Living the Land”)

By Huo Meng │with Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao Lingzhi

People’s Republic of China 2025

World premiere

“Strichka chasu” (“Timestamp”)

by Kateryna Gornostai | with Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets

Ukraine / Luxembourg / Netherlands / France 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“La Tour de Glace” (“The Ice Tower”)

by Lucile Hadžihalilović | with Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé

France / Germany 2025

World premiere

“Was Marielle weiß” (“What Marielle Knows”)

by Frédéric Hambalek | with Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateşçi, Moritz Treuenfels

Germany 2025

World premiere

“Xiang fei de nv hai” (“Girls on Wire”)

by Vivian Qu | with Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao

People’s Republic of China 2025

World premiere

“Yunan”

by Ameer Fakher Eldin | with Georges Khabbaz, Hanna Schygulla, Ali Suliman, Sibel Kekilli, Tom Wlaschiha

Germany / Canada / Italy / Palestine / Qatar / Jordan / Saudi Arabia 2025

World premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA

“After This Death”

by Lucio Castro | with Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, Philip Ettinger

USA 2025

World premiere

“A Complete Unknown” (“Like a Complete Unknown”)

by James Mangold | with Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook

USA 2024

German premiere

“Heldin” (“Late Shift”)

by Petra Volpe | with Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg Plüss

Switzerland / Germany 2025

World premiere

“Islands”

by Jan-Ole Gerster | with Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan Torrell

Germany 2025

World premiere

“Köln 75”

by Ido Fluk | with Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer

Germany / Poland / Belgium 2025

World premiere

“Das Licht” (“The Light”)

by Tom Tykwer | with Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Elke Biesendorfer, Julius Gause

Germany 2025

World premiere

“Lurker”

by Alex Russell | with Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic

USA / Italy 2025

International premiere | Debut film

“Mickey 17”

by Bong Joon Ho | with Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo

USA / South Korea / United Kingdom 2024

German Premiere

“The Thing With Feathers”

by Dylan Southern | with Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Sam Spruell, Vinette Robinson

United Kingdom 2025

European premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL SERIES GALA

“The Narrow Road to the Deep North”

by Justin Kurzel | with Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Simon Baker

Australia 2025

World premiere | Series

BERLINALE SPECIAL

“Ancestral Visions of the Future”

by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | with Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Zaman Mathejane, Mochesane Edwin Kotsoane, Rehauhetsoe Ernest Kotsoane

France / Lesotho / Germany / Saudi Arabia 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“Das Deutsche Volk”

by Marcin Wierzchowski

Germany 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“Honey Bunch”

by Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | with Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Kate Dickie, Jason Isaacs, India Brown

Canada 2025

World premiere

“Je n’avais que le néant – ‘Shoah’ par Claude Lanzmann” (“All I Had Was Nothingness”)

by Guillaume Ribot

France 2025

World premiere

“Kein Tier. So Wild.” (“No Beast. So Fierce.”)

by Burhan Qurbani | with Kenda Hmeidan, Verena Altenberger, Hiam Abbass, Mona Zarreh Hoshyari Khah, Mehdi Nebbou

Germany / Poland / France 2025

World premiere

“Leibniz – Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes” (“Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting”)

by Edgar Reitz, Anatol Schuster | with Edgar Selge, Aenne Schwarz, Michael Kranz, Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa

Germany 2025

World premiere

“A melhor mãe do mundo” (“The Best Mother in the World” | “Die beste Mutter der Welt”)

by Anna Muylaert | with Shirley Cruz, Seu Jorge, Rihanna Barbosa, BeninAyo

Brazil / Argentina 2025

World premiere

“Michtav Le’David” (“A Letter to David”)

by Tom Shoval | with David Cunio, Eitan Cunio, Sharon Aloni-Cunio, Silvia Cunio, Luis Cunio

Israel / USA 2025

World premiere | Documentary form

“My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow”

by Julia Loktev | with Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Ksenia Mironova, Sonya Groysman, Alesya Marokhovskaya

USA 2024

International premiere | Documentary form

“Pa-gwa” (“The Old Woman With the Knife”)

by Min Kyu-dong | with Hyeyoung Lee, Kim Sung-cheol, Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Moo-yul, Shin Sia

South Korea 2025

World premiere

“Shoah”

by Claude Lanzmann

France 1985

PERSPECTIVES

“Al Mosta’mera” (“The Settlement”)

by Mohamed Rashad | with Adham Shoukry, Ziad Islam, Hajar Omar, Mohamed Abdel Hady, Emad Ghoneim

Egypt / France / Germany / Saudi Arabia / Qatar 2025

World premiere

“Baksho Bondi” (“Shadowbox”)

by Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi | with Tillotama Shome, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman Saha

India / France / USA / Spain 2025

World premiere

“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions”

by Kahlil Joseph | with Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Funmilayo Akechukwu, Peter Hernandez

USA 2025

International premiere | Debut film

“Come la notte” (“Where the Night Stands Still”)

by Liryc Dela Cruz | with Jenny Llanto Caringal, Tess Magallanes, Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr.

Italy / Philippines 2025

World premiere

“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 Martinez Bucio | with Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Donovan Said, Laura Uribe Rojas

Mexico 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Duas Vezes João Liberada” (“Two Times João Liberada”)

by Paula Tomás Marques | with June João, André Tecedeiro, Eloísa d’Ascensão, Tiago Aires Lêdo, Jenny Larrue

Portugal 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Hé mán” (“Eel”)

by Chu Chun-Teng | with Devin Pan, Misi Ke, Chin-Yu Pan, Bella Chen, MeiHou Wu

Taiwan 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World”

by Florian Pochlatko | with Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Elke Winkens, Cornelius Obonya, Felix Pöchhacker, David Scheid

Austria 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Kaj ti je deklica” (“Little Trouble Girls”)

by Urška Djukić | with Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković, Nataša Burger, Staša Popović

Slovenia / Italy / Croatia / Serbia 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)”

by Joel Alfonso Vargas | with Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro

USA 2025

International premiere | Debut film

“Minden Rendben” (“Growing Down”)

by Bálint Dániel Sós | with Szabolcs Hajdu, Ágoston Sáfrány, Anna Hay, Zonga Jakab-Aponyi, Zsófi Szamosi

Hungary 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen” (“Punching the World”)

by Constanze Klaue | with Anton Franke, Camille Moltzen, Anja Schneider, Christian Näthe, Johannes Scheidweiler

Germany 2025

World premiere | Debut film

“On vous croit” (“We believe you”)

by Arnaud Dufeys, Charlotte Devillers | with Myriem Akheddiou, Laurent Capelluto, Natali Broods, Ulysse Goffin, Adèle Pinckaers

Belgium 2025

World premiere

“Le rendez-vous de l’été” (“That Summer in Paris”)

by Valentine Cadic | with Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Matthias Jacquin, Lou Deleuze

France 2025

World premiere | Debut film