Berlinale 2025: The 10 movies we can’t wait to watch at this year’s 75th edition

The 2025 Berlinale is just around the corner (13-23 February), and for Tricia Tuttle’s first year as festival boss the former director of the BFI London Film Festival and her programming team have spoiled us for choice.

And rightly so – it's the festival’s 75th anniversary after all.

That said, they’ve made whittling our most anticipated films to a mere 10 titles a tough ask. Of course, we’ll be there on the ground to watch all the Competition films vying for the coveted Golden Bear, but there are other sidebar sections to think of and it’s going to be a challenge fitting them all in. 

That said, here goes.  

These are movies that have already piqued our interest.

(Berlinale Special Gala) 

Delayed and rescheduled countless times, Bong Joon-ho's long-awaited follow-up to his Oscar-winning Parasite is finally coming our way... And the Berlinale hit the jackpot thanks to the delays by securing the World Premiere. Set in the dystopian future, Mickey 17 sees Robert Pattinson star as a space traveller who agrees to be endlessly cloned each time he snuffs it. However, when he comes face-to-face with another version of himself, shit truly hits the fan for the two “disposables”. Based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, the delicious premise recalls Duncan Jones’ Moon with a black comedy twist. There’s every reason to get excited, especially since the South Korean filmmaker has proven he can ace spectacle (The Host), dystopia (Snowpiercer) and excels when it comes to merging humour and social commentary (Okja, Parasite).

(Competition)

Blue Moon is Richard Linklater’s latest feature and his first return to the Berlinale since the premiere of his epic coming-of-age drama Boyhood in 2014 – a film which won him the Silver Bear for Best Director