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GERMAN FILMS AT BERLINALE & EFM 2025

GERMAN FILMS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

German Films is happy to present an exclusive 2025 German Films Showreel of upcoming productions, showcasing highlights from the competition programs of this year's Berlinale, as well as Sundance and Rotterdam. 
Our German Films 2025 Festival Highlights Brochure features all productions highlighted in the showreel. Have a look!

FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS - THE FILMMAKERS

© German Films/ Marcus Höhn/ Christoph Stricker

Happy Anniversary, FACE TO FACE! The 10th edition of our talent campaign is presenting key personalities from the German film industry to the international film world again. FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS - THE FILMMAKERS features a great new range of talents that represent the diversity of German cinema. This year's group of filmmakers includes the actors Aaron Altaras (THE ZWEIFLERS, RAVE ON), Lea Drinda (CITY OF BLOOD, DYING), Thea Ehre (LIGHT, TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT) writer-directors Leonie Krippendorff (IN HEAT, COCOON) and Mariko Minoguchi (ZEIT VERBRECHEN, TIDES, RELATIVITY), as well as DOP Tim Kuhn (HAPPY HOLIDAYS, DEAR MR. FUEHRER). 

Find more information here

GERMAN FILMS ABROAD 2024: FACTS & FIGURES

In 2024, 531 German films were released in 67 countries, generating a total box office revenue of 116.2 million euros and reaching over 15.8 million admissions worldwide.

Find more about German Films Abroad in 2024 here.

IN COMPETITION

WHAT MARIELLE KNOWS

by Frédéric Hambalek

Cast: Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Ateşçi, Moritz Treuenfels

2025, Germany 

Fiction Feature, 86'

Production: Walker+Worm

Sales: Lucky Number 

IN COMPETITION

© Red Balloon Film GmbH

YUNAN

by Ameer Fakher Eldin

Cast: Georges Khabbaz, Hanna Schygulla, Ali Suliman, Sibel Kekilli, Tom Wlaschiha

2025, Germany/ Canada/ Palestine/ Italy/ Qatar/ Jordan

Fiction Feature, 124'

Production: Red Balloon Film

Sales: Intramovies

PERSPECTIVES

© Flare Film, Chromosom Film

PUNCHING THE WORLD 

by Constanze Klaue 

Cast: Anton Franke, Camille Moltzen, Anja Schneider, Christian Näthe, Johannes Scheidweiler

2025, Germany

Fiction Feature, 110'

Production: Chromosom Film, Flare Film

Sales: The Yellow Affair by Newen Connect

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA

© One Two Films

KÖLN 75

by Ido Fluk 

Cast: Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer, Ulrich Tukur 

2025, Germany/ Poland/ Belgium

Fiction Feature, 116'

Production: One Two Films

Sales: Bankside Films

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA

© Frederic Batier, X Verleih AG

THE LIGHT

by Tom Tykwer

Cast: Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Elke Biesendorfer, Julius Gause, Elyas Eldridge, Toby Onwumere

2025, Germany/ France

Fiction Feature, 162'

Production: X Filme Creative Pool, Gretchenfilm, B.A. Filmproduktion

Sales: Beta Cinema 

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA

© Juan Sarmiento G. / 2025 augenschein Filmproduktion, LEONINE Studios

ISLANDS

by Jan-Ole Gerster 

Cast: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan Torrell

2025, Germany 

Fiction Feature, 123'

Production: Augenschein Filmproduktion

Sales: Protagonist Pictures

BERLINALE SPECIAL

© Marcin Wierzchowski

DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK

by Marcin Wierzchowski  

2025, Germany

Documentary

Production & Sales: milk&water, Strandfilm

BERLINALE SPECIAL

© Lukasz Bak/Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, Port au Prince Pictures, Goodfellas,

NO BEAST. SO FIERCE.

by Burhan Qurbani 

Cast: Kenda Hmeidan, Verena Altenberger, Banafshe Hourmazdi

2025, Germany/ France/ Poland

Fiction Feature, 142'

Production: Sommerhaus Filmproduktion

Sales: Goodfellas

BERLINALE SPECIAL

© Ella Knorz

LEIBNIZ - CHRONICLE OF A LOST PAINTING 

by Edgar Reitz

Cast: Edgar Selge, Aenne Schwarz, Michael Kranz, Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa

2025, Germany 

Fiction Feature, 104'

Production & Sales: if…productions, Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion

PANORAMA

© Netflix

DELICIOUS

by Nele Mueller-Stöfen

Cast: Fahri Yardim, Valerie Pachner, Carla Díaz, Naila Schuberth, Caspar Hoffmann

2025, Germany 

Fiction Feature, 100'

Production: Komplizen Film

Sales: Netflix

PANORAMA

© filmfaust

HYSTERIA

by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay 

Cast: Devrim Lingnau, Mehdi Meskar, Serkan Kaya, Nicolette Krebitz, Aziz Çapkurt

2025, Germany

Fiction Feature, 100'

Production: filmfaust

Sales: Pluto Film Distribution

PANORAMA

© X Filme Creative Pool GmbH / True Content Entertainment ApS / EPO-Film / ZDF / DR / Petro Domenigg

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY

by Jan Schomburg, Dustin Loose, Kaspar Munk

Cast: Justus von Dohnányi, Nils Strunk, Lisa Wagner, Karen-Lise Mynster, David Dencik

2025, Germany/ Denmark/ Austria

Series, 8 x one hour 

Production: X Filme Creative Pool

Sales: Beta Cinema

PANORAMA

© Selma von Polheim Gravesen, dffb

THE GOOD SISTER

by Sarah Miro Fischer 

Cast: Marie Bloching, Anton Weil, Proschat Madani, Laura Balzer, Jane Chirwa

2025, Germany/ Spain

Fiction Feature, 96'

Production: Arkanum Pictures

Sales: New Europe Film Sales

PANORAMA

© Privatarchiv Hildegard Knef

I WANT IT ALL. HILDEGARD KNEF.

by Luzia Schmid 

2025, Germany

Documentary, 90'

Production: zero one film

Sales: Magnetfilm

PANORAMA

© Judith Kaufmann, Lupa Film

ZIKADEN

by Ina Weisse 

Cast: Nina Hoss, Saskia Rosendahl, Vincent Macaigne

2025, Germany/ France

Fiction Feature, 100'

Production: Lupa Film

Sales: Beta Cinema

PANORAMA DOKUMENTE

© Inselfilm

THE MOELLN LETTERS

by Martina Priessner 

Cast: Hava Arslan, İbrahim Arslan, Namık Arslan, Yeliz Burhan

2025, Germany/ Iran

Documentary, 96'

Production: inselfilm produktion

Sales: New Docs

PANORAMA DOKUMENTE

© Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion

THE SATANIC SOW

by Rosa von Praunheim 

Cast: Armin Dallapiccola, Justus Herrmann, Nico Ehrenteit, Katy Karrenbauer, Gerhard Haase-Hindenber

2025, Germany 

Fiction Feature, 85'

Production: Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion

Sales: missingFILMs

GENERATION KPLUS

  • CIRCUSBOY by Anna Koch, Julia Lemke 

GENERATION 14PLUS

  • PATERNAL LEAVE by Alissa Jung 

BERLINALE SHORTS

  • ​​​​​​IN RETROSPECT by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
  • PREKID VATRE (CEASEFIRE) by Jakob Krese 

FORUM

  • PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT by Philipp Döring
  • SIRENS CALL by Miri Ian Gossing, Lina Sieckmann 
  • THE KISS OF THE GRASSHOPPER by Elmar Imanov 
  • JANINE MOVES TO THE COUNTRY by Jan Eilhardt
  • WHEN LIGHTNING FLASHES OVER THE SEA by EVA Neymann

FORUM SPECIAL

  • FRUIT FARM (GUOCHANG) by Nana Xu 
  • IRACEMA (IRACEMA, UMA TRANSA AMAZÔNICA) by Jorge Bodanzky, Orlando Senna
  • THE LIE by Katrin Seibold

FORUM EXPANDED

  • ALTERNATIVE MONUMENT FOR GERMANY by Alternative Monument
  • J-N-N by Ginan Seidl 
  • MIRACULOUS ACCIDENT by Assaf Gruber 

FURTHER GERMAN CO-PRODUCTIONS

COMPETITION

  • MOTHER’S BABY by Johanna Moder (AT/CH/DE, Match Factory Productions)
  • THE ICE TOWER by Lucile Hadžihalilović (FR/DE, Sutor Kolonko)

PERSPECTIVES 

  • THE SETTLEMENT by Mohamed Rashad (EG/FR/DE/QA/SA)

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA

  • LATE SHIFT (HELDIN) by Petra Volpe (CH/DE, MM Zodiac)

BERLINALE SPECIAL

  • ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE by Lemohang Jeremiah Moses (FR/LS/DE/SA/QA, Seera Films)

PANORAMA

  • PETER HUJAR’S DAY by Ira Sachs (US/DE, One Two Films)
  • WELCOME HOME BABY by Andreas Prochaska (AT/DE, Senator Film Produktion)

PANORAMA DOKUMENTE

  • BAJOS LAS BANDERAS, EL SOL (UNDER THE FLAGS, THE SUN) by Juanjo Pereira (PY/AR/US/FR/DE)
  • KHARTOUM by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox (SD/UK/DE/QA)
  • MONK IN PIECES by Billy Shebar (US/DE/FR)
  • LETTERS FROM WOLF STREET by Arjun Talwar (PL/DE, inselfilm production)

FORUM

  • BATIM by Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum (IS/DE, Zwillingfilm)
  • MINIMALS IN A TITANIC WOLRD by Mbabazi Sharangabo Philbert Aimé (RW/DE, Chromosom Film)

 FORUM SPECIAL

  • IRACEMA by Jorge Bodanzky, Orlando Senna (BR/DE)

FORUM EXPANDED

  • RAPTURE by Alisa Berger (FR/DE, FORTIS FEM FILM)
  • SINKING SUNS by Neda Saeedi (AT/DE)
  • STARS by STARS Collective (UK/DE)

RETROPERSPEKTIVE

  • BLOODY FRIDAY by Ralf Olsen (BRD/IT)
  • CARNATIONS IN ASPIC by Günter Reisch
  • DEADLOCK by Roland Klick
  • DON’T CHEAT, DARLING! by Joachim Hasler (GDR)
  • HAT OFF, WHEN YOU KISS! by Rolf Losansky (GDR)
  • JONATHAN by Hans W. Geißendörfer
  • LADY DRACULA by Franz Josef Gottlieb
  • ONE OR THE OTHER OF US by Wolfgang Petersen
  • ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD by Horst Bonnet (GDR)
  • OUTPUT by Michael Fengler
  • ROCKER by Klaus Lemke
  • SPARE PARTS by Rainer Erler
  • STRANGE CITY by Rudolf Thome
  • TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES by Ulli Lommel
  • THE GIRLS FROM ATLANTIS by Eckhart Schmidt

BERLINALE CLASSICS

  • SOLO SUNNY by Konrad Wolf (DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe „Babelsberg“)

EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS 2025

© Elena Zaucke

For the 28th edition of European Shooting Stars, a jury of industry experts selected ten of the most gifted young European acting talents who will be presented to the film industry, public and international press during the Berlinale Festival.

The event culminates in the awards ceremony on Monday, Feb 17, where each of the talents will be presented with the EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS Award by the European Film Promotion (EFP).

This year's Shooting Star from Germany is Devrim Lignau.

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