Berlin Film Festival Unveils Lineup (Updating Live)

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For their 75th anniversary, the Berlin International Film Festival will reveal all the films that will be shown, with screenings scheduled from February 13th through the 23rd.

2021’s festival will see the inaugural leadership of Tricia Tuttle as the artistic director, a role she previously held at the BFI London Film Festival. As we earlier mentioned, the event will kick off with “The Light,” directed by Tom Tykwer, who is making his return to cinema screens after seven years and four seasons spent working on the successful TV show “Babylon Berlin.

In the Berlinale Special section, Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi black comedy “Mickey 17” featuring Robert Pattinson is set to be screened. This will be alongside Justin Kurzel’s World War II series titled “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” starring Jacob Elordi. Following its debut at Sundance, the drama “The Thing With Feathers,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, will also be shown in Berlinale Special. Additionally, Min Kyu-dong’s film “The Old Woman With the Knife” and Anna Muylaert’s movie “The Best Mother in the World” are scheduled to screen here as well.

At this year’s Berlinale, a special showing is planned for Claude Lanzmann’s influential 1985 film “Shoah” about the Holocaust. This film, which took over a decade to create, includes interviews with survivors, witnesses, and participants of the events. The screening aligns with the debut of Guillaume Ribot’s movie “All I Had Was Nothingness,” which delves into the creation process behind this documentary.

The Panorama segment will kick off playing “Welcome Home Baby” by Andreas Prochaska, followed by a collection of 34 films hailing from 28 different nations. The Generation category, centered around youth-themed movies, will present “Christy” directed by Brendan Canty and “The Nature of Invisible Things,” created by Rafaela Camelo.

In this year’s competition, Todd Haynes, the director of “May December,” is presiding as the jury president, while Tilda Swinton will be honored with the festival’s Golden Bear for her Lifetime Achievement.

The full lineup will appear below, updating live.

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”)

Directed by James Mangold, this film stars Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, and 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”)

Directed by Tom Tykwer, featuring Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Elke Biesendorfer, and 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”

Featuring the performances of Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Sam Spruell, and Vinette Robinson (Directed by Dylan Southern)

United Kingdom 2025

European premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL 

“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

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2025-01-21 13:17