Michel Gondry and Ira Sachs are among the many headline filmmakers set to debut new characteristic works throughout the sidebar competitions at subsequent yr’s Berlin Movie Pageant.
The German competition introduced the pair this afternoon as a part of its first crop of confirmed titles.
Gondry will display Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, donne-moi un titre) in Berlin’s Era sidebar. The competition’s web site describes the movie as Gondry’s “stop-motion love letter to his daughter Maya brings to life a poetic and amusing journey that invitations you to dream and snort.”
Additionally set for the Era competitors is Our Wildest Days (I Agries Meres Mas) by Greek filmmaker Vasilis Kekatos who’s finest recognized for his 2019 brief movie The Distance Between Us and the Sky, which gained the Brief Movie Palme d’Or on the 2019 Cannes Movie Pageant. He additionally created the favored Greek collection Milky Method.
Ira Sachs returns to the Berlinale’s Panorama competitors with Peter Hujar’s Day, starring Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Corridor. The movie is described as a “1974 dialog between photographer Peter Hujar and his good friend Linda Rosenkrantz.” The competition description says the movie “supplies a glimpse into the New York downtown artwork scene of the time and the private struggles and epiphanies that outline an artist’s life.” Sachs was final on the Berlinale with the cult favourite Passages, additionally starring Wishaw.
Elsewhere, within the Berlinale Specials programme, German director Jan-Ole Gerster debuts Islands, a neo-noir thriller starring Sam Riley and Stacy Martin. Director-duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli will debut Honey Bunch. Each movies are offered as Latenight Specials.
Scroll down for the total checklist of titles. Subsequent 12 months’s Berlin Movie Pageant runs February 13–23.
The competition will mark competition head Tricia Tuttle’s first version on the helm. Tuttle changed the competition’s former dual-directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek. Tuttle was final head of the BFI’s London Movie Pageant.
Berlinale Particular
Berlinale Particular
by Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | with Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Kate Dickie, Jason Isaacs, India Brown
Canada 2025
World premiere
Diana’s husband takes her to an experimental trauma clinic deep within the wilderness, however she can not bear in mind why. As her recollections start to creep again so, too, do some sudden and sinister truths about her marriage.
Berlinale Particular
by Jan-Ole Gerster | with Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing
Germany 2025
World premiere
Tom, a tennis coach at a luxurious resort, has his life modified when a brand new household arrives. Issues take a darkish flip when the husband disappears and each Tom and the spouse develop into suspects.
Berlinale Particular Gala
by Ido Fluk | with Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer
Germany / Poland / Belgium 2025
World premiere
The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the Seventies Cologne music scene, who risked every part to organise the best solo live performance in music historical past: Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Live performance.
Panorama
by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher | with Gabriel Faryas, Cirillo Luna, Henrique Barreira, Ivo Müller, Kaya Rodrigues
Brazil 2025
World premiere
An actor and a politician begin a secret affair and collectively uncover their fetish for having intercourse in public locations. The nearer they get to their dream of fame, the extra they really feel the urge to place themselves in danger.
Bajo las banderas, el sol Below the Flags, the Solar
Panorama Dokumente
by Juanjo Pereira
Paraguay / Argentina / USA / France / Germany 2025
World premiere | Debut movie | Documentary kind
This totally archival journey by means of the 35 years of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime in Paraguay reveals unseen footage and explores one of many longest-running dictatorships in historical past, whose results nonetheless resonate at present.
Den stygge stesøsteren The Ugly Stepsister
Panorama
by Emilie Blichfeldt | with Lea Myren, Thea Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli
Norway / Poland / Sweden / Denmark 2025
European premiere | Debut movie
Elvira will go to any lengths to compete along with her insanely stunning stepsister. In a fairy-tale kingdom the place magnificence is a brutal enterprise, she makes use of blood, sweat and tears to catch the Prince’s eye. A twisted tackle the basic Cinderella story.
Panorama
by Shatara Michelle Ford | with Denée Benton, Mars Storm Rucker, Dezi Bing, Sasha Compere, Charlie Barnett
USA / Taiwan / United Kingdom 2024
Worldwide premiere
Three Black queer femmes of their mid-thirties take a street journey throughout the American Midwest in quest of their good friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
Hjem kaere hjem Dwelling Candy Dwelling
Panorama
by Frelle Petersen | with Jette Søndergaard, Karen Tygesen, Mimi Bræmer Dueholm, Hanne Knudsen, Finn Nissen
Denmark 2025
World premiere
Sofie begins her new work as a carer making residence visits to previous folks. She is rapidly confronted with the cruel realities of this difficult job. A exact, genuine illustration of a occupation that continues to be largely invisible to the general public eye.
Panorama Dokumente
by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox | with Khadmallah, Majdi, Jawad, Lokain, Wilson
Sudan / United Kingdom / Germany / Qatar 2025
European premiere | Documentary kind
5 lives, one metropolis, the destiny of a nation. A civil servant, a tea girl, a resistance committee volunteer and two avenue boys are pressured to flee when civil struggle breaks out in Sudan. An emotional and lyrical portrait of 5 folks from Khartoum.
Panorama
by Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese | with Shabana Azeez, Gemma Chua Tran, Richard Roxburgh, Bernie Van Tiel, Mark Bonanno
Australia 2025
World premiere | Debut movie | Animation
The introverted house princess Saira is pressured to go away her residence planet of Clitopolis on an inter-gay-lactic mission to avoid wasting her ex-girlfriend who has been kidnapped and is being held ransom by the Straight White Maliens.
Die Möllner Briefe The Moelln Letters
Panorama Dokumente
by Martina Priessner | with Hava Arslan, İbrahim Arslan, Namık Arslan, Yeliz Burhan
Germany 2025
World premiere | Documentary kind
Thirty years after the racist assaults in Mölln, survivor İbrahim Arslan discovers a whole lot of forgotten letters of solidarity. The movie follows him and his household of their wrestle to foster a brand new, victim-centred tradition of remembrance.
Panorama Dokumente
by Denis Côté | with Cleansing Simp Paul
Canada 2025
World premiere | Documentary kind
Scuffling with despair and social nervousness, Paul has discovered refuge in serving ladies who invite him to wash their houses. By sharing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he combats loneliness and takes it in the future at a time.
Panorama
by Ira Sachs | with Ben Wishaw, Rebecca Corridor
USA / Germany 2025
Worldwide premiere
A 1974 dialog between photographer Peter Hujar and his good friend Linda Rosenkrantz supplies a glimpse into the New York downtown artwork scene of the time and the private struggles and epiphanies that outline an artist’s life.
Panorama
by Eva Libertad | with Miriam Garlo, Álvaro Cervantes, Elena Irureta, Joaquín Notario
Spain 2025
World premiere
Ángela, a deaf lady, is anticipating a baby along with her listening to accomplice, Héctor. The newborn’s arrival causes a disaster of their relationship, forcing Ángela to face the challenges of elevating her daughter in a world which isn’t made for her.
Panorama
by Andreas Prochaska | with Julia Franz Richter, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Gerti Drassl, Maria Hofstätter, Gerhard Liebmann
Austria / Germany 2025
World premiere
Judith works as an emergency physician in Berlin. When she inherits a home in Austria from the household who gave her away as a baby, her quest to unravel the thriller of her origins turns right into a nightmarish journey into the previous and the darkish locations of her soul.
Era
A natureza das coisas invisíveis The Nature of Invisible Issues | Die Natur der unsichtbaren Dinge
Era Kplus
by Rafaela Camelo | with Laura Brandão, Serena, Larissa Mauro, Camila Márdila, Aline Marta Maia
Brazil / Chile 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
In the course of the summer season holidays, the paths of two ten-year-old women cross in a hospital they usually kind an sudden bond. Their connection leads them on a bittersweet journey of loss, farewells and quiet discoveries about life.
Era
by Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken | with Kamillo Ignatiussen, Mikkel Paalu P. Bianco, Simujook Ikila
Denmark 2025
World premiere | Brief Movie
Kaali embarks on an intense search by means of the city of Tasiilaq in East Greenland, decided to seek out his lacking sled canine. After an encounter with a bunch of younger bullies, he recovers the canine however dangers dropping his solely good friend.
Era Kplus
by Sylwia Szkiłądź | with Natalia Wolska, Henryk Niebudek, Elżbieta Gaertner, Marcin Pempuś, Lidia Sadowa
Belgium / France 2025
World premiere | Animation | Brief Movie
Within the Nineties, 8-year-old Agata leaves her residence in Poland and travels by herself to Belgium. Her perceptions rework the truth of migration into an imaginative expertise of initiation.
Era 14plus
by Ali Yahya | with Ibrahim Halim, Hakima Ali, Karim Halim
Iraq 2025
World premiere | Documentary kind | Brief Movie
Within the marshlands of southern Iraq, Ibrahim looks like a stranger on the earth. His sole companion is his devoted buffalo. However a looming environmental disaster threatens the one life he is aware of and the one dwelling being he really understands.
Era 14plus
by Halima Elkhatabi | with Tania Doumbe Fines, Juan Mateo Barrera Gonzales, Bourriquet, Adam Hilali, Ryan Hilali
Canada 2024
Worldwide premiere | Brief Movie
Tania decides to take her horse Fantas to the town and introduce it to some associates within the working-class neighbourhood the place she and her household dwell. Two worlds which have by no means crossed paths earlier than collide on this little city story.
I Agries Meres Mas Our Wildest Days
Era 14plus
by Vasilis Kekatos | with Daphne Patakia, Nikolakis Zeginoglou, Stavros Tsoumanis, Eva Samioti, Natalia Swift
Greece / France
World premiere | Debut movie
Chloe leaves her household behind and joins a bunch of youngsters crossing Greece. On her journey, she helps poor folks in unconventional methods and begins to marvel if tenderness is the final word act of rise up.
Maya, donne-moi un titre Maya, Give Me a Title
Era Kplus
by Michel Gondry | with Maya Gondry, Pierre Niney
France
Worldwide premiere | Animation
Michel Gondry’s stop-motion love letter to his daughter Maya brings to life a poetic and amusing journey that invitations you to dream and snort.
Ne réveillez pas l’enfant qui dort Don’t Wake the Sleeping Baby
Era 14plus
by Kevin Aubert | with Khadia Ndiaye Fall, Mame Binta Sane, Samba Ly, Adji Mareme Hanne
Senegal / France 2025
World premiere | Brief Movie
Fifteen-year-old Diamant from Dakar goals of constructing movies, however her household has different plans for her. To Diamant, nonetheless, these are out of the query. She falls right into a deep sleep from which nobody can wake her.
Era Kplus
by Alicia Okay. Harris | with Zoe Peak, Amia Ogieva, Samaya Hodge, Jasmine Greatest, Malea Yarde
Canada 2024
Worldwide premiere | Brief Movie
A younger Black ballerina carries out her Sunday rituals whereas going through the strain to carry out whiteness. The movie is an unapologetic celebration of the highly effective, ancestral bond embedded in Black ladies.
Era Kplus
by Marlikka Perdrisat
Australia 2025
World premiere | Documentary kind | Brief Movie
Kupungarri in northwestern Australia is likely one of the most pure locations left on the earth. The small group strengthens its younger folks by means of a detailed reference to Nation. Pleasure grows as they put together for the most important occasion of the yr, the Mowanjum Pageant.
Era Kplus
by Eric (aka Child Koala) San
Canada 2025
World premiere | Debut movie | Animation
When the astronaut Celeste blasts off into house on her first solo mission, the guardian robotic that has accompanied her all through her childhood is left alone to marvel: What now? A tomorrow-days lullaby about discovering your house within the universe.
Era 14plus
by Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama | with Safa Gharbaoui
Belgium 2025
World premiere | Debut movie
Twelve-year-old Eya has to face the sudden dying of her beloved older brother Younès. In an intense grieving course of, she attracts on her creativity, resilience and the assist of Younès’ associates to return to phrases along with her loss.
Era 14plus
by Rima Das | with Bhanita Das, Basanti Das, Junumoni Boro, Manabendra Das, Boloram Das
India / Singapore 2024
European premiere
In a small and charming village, a teenage lady passionately pursues her musical dream. However the harsh realities of life get in the best way. Defying the challenges, she embarks on a journey to rediscover the profound harmonies between music and life.
Era 14plus
by Čejen Černić Čanak | with Lav Novosel, Andrija Žunac, Leon Grgić, Petra Mikolaci, Tanja Smoje
Croatia / Lithuania / Slovenia 2024
World premiere
In a village getting ready to flooding, Marko’s life is turned the other way up when Slaven returns for his father’s funeral and rekindles their forbidden romance. Marko should confront his household and make a tough selection.
Era 14plus
by Karim El Shenawy | with Aseel Omran, Islam Mobarak, Haneen Saeed, Badr Mohamed
Egypt 2024
European premiere
Daye, a 14-year-old Nubian albino with a golden voice, is used to having to stay up for himself. Impressed by his idol Mohamed Mounir, he and his household journey to Cairo so he can audition for “The Voice”.
