The Berlin Film Festival is to fete Tilda Swinton with an Honorary Golden Bear for her career achievement. The award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025. "The range of Tilda Swinton's work is breathtaking. To cinema she brings so much humanity…

Michel Gondry and Ira Sachs are among the headline filmmakers set to debut new feature works within the sidebar competitions at next year's Berlin Film Festival.  The German festival announced the pair this afternoon as part of its first crop of confirmed titles.  Gondry will screen Maya, Give Me…

German filmmaker Tom Tykwer will open the Berlin Film Festival with his latest feature The Light (Das Licht). The screening will take place on February 13. It will be a world premiere and the film will screen out of competition in the Berlinale Palast. Starring in the pic are German actors Lars…

The Berlin Film Festival will occupy two new venues across the German capital during next year's edition.  The festival said Tuesday that it will use Stage Bluemax Theater at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz as a new premiere screening venue. Organizers said that once adapted for the event, the venue will…

Veteran filmmaker Todd Haynes will head the competition jury at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival. The announcement was made this morning by the festival. In a statement, Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle described Haynes as a "dazzlingly gifted writer and director."  “His body of work is at once…

EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn-based distributor KimStim has picked up all U.S. rights to Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage's feature Who by Fire.  The film debuted at the Berlin Film Festival where it won Best Film in the Generation 17 competition. The film will have its U.S. premiere at the upcoming New…

Berlinale Festival Director Tricia Tuttle has unveiled the selection committee that will help her shape her inaugural Competition and Berlinale Special line-ups for the 2025 edition. It comprises former Jerusalem Film Festival artistic director Elad Samorzik, Locarno and Festival Scope co-founder…

The Berlin Film Festival is launching a new section called Perspectives, a competitive strand devoted to international fiction feature debuts. The strand is being launched with an eye on strengthening the breadth of new talent at the festival, which will also discontinue its Encounters strand, first…

Jacqueline Lyanga, former US delegate to the Berlinale, and Panorama section head Michael Stütz have been hired as Co-Directors Of Film Programming at the German festival.  The festival said today that Lyanga and Stütz will work with new Berlinale head Tricia Tuttle to curate the Competition and…

Rarely in recent decades has the festival circuit been as disrupted as it has in the past 12 months. A confluence of local and global issues — from war to inflation, political unrest to societal shifts — have created a perfect storm for many of these vital cultural platforms, leading to funding…

German-French international sales veteran Tanja Meissner has been appointed as the new director of Berlinale Pro, the department overseeing all of the Berlin Film Festival’s professional activities, in a role that encompasses director of the European Film Market (EFM). The Berlinale said Meissner’s…

Berlin Film Festival 2025 Dates  Next year's Berlin Film Festival will run from February 13 to 23. The edition will be Tricia Tuttle’s first as festival head. Tuttle takes over from Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek and Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian, who stepped down after the last edition…