This year will mark the seventy-fifth edition of the Berlin Film Festival which has been the first to give us a preview of films that will begin seeing throughout the rest of 2025 and beyond. This edition of Berlinale will see a new artistic director, Tricia Tuttle who begins her tenure at the festival which runs from February 13th to February 23rd.
Todd Haynes will be the Jury President who will lead his panel to select which films will take home prizes. The American filmmaker will be joined by Chinese actress, Fan Bingbing; German actress and filmmaker, Maria Schrader; German costume designer, Bina Daigeler; Argentinian filmmaker, Rodrigo Moreno; Moroccan filmmaker, Nabil Ayouch and American film critic, Amy Nicholson.
Some of the films in the Main Competition includes new films by Richard Linklater ("Blue Moon"), Hong Sang-soo ("What Does That Nature Say to You"), Radu Jude ("Kontinental '25"), Lucile Hadžihalilović ("La Tour de Glace"), Michel Franco ("Dreams"), Rebecca Lenkiewicz ("Hot Milk") and Vivian Qu ("Girls on Wire").
Films selected for the Berlinale Special screenings are the latest from German filmmaker, Tom Tykwer, "Das Licht (The Light)" which will kick off the fest. The director who broke through with his 1998 action-drama, "Run Lola Run" has returned with his first feature film in ten years in a story about a fractured middle-class family living in a world that has become unstable. The follow-up to the Korean director, Bong Joon-ho Best Picture Oscar-winning film, "Parasite" is an English-language sci-fi comedy, "Mickey 17". Robert Pattinson stars as a man who wants to get off Earth and becomes a disposable worker who is continuously cloned on a long journey through space to start a human colony on a new planet. And "A Complete Unknown" , the musical biopic on Bob Dylan from director, James Mangold that earned eight Academy Award nominations will make it's German premiere at the fest.
And the British actress Tilda Swinton will be awarded this year's Honorary Golden Bear. There will be screening of a 4K remastering of one of her early screen roles in Peter Wollen's 1987 sci-fi drama, "Friendship's Death". Swinton appears as a female extraterrestrial on a mission to Earth in the name of peace yet inadvertently lands in Amman, Jordan during the events of Black September in 1970.
