Berlin Film Festival Unveils Full Panorama Selection

Berlin Film Festival Unveils Full Panorama Selection

The Berlin Film Festival’s 2025 Panorama section will launch with Welcome Home Baby, a psychological horror film from Austrian director Andreas Prochaska, leading a lineup of 34 films from 28 countries. The section head Michael Stütz unveiled the full program that addresses societal fractures, health systems, and democratic instability on Thursday.

Prochaska’s film reimagines the homeland horror genre as a response to 1950s German-language cinema. The selection continues its genre focus with the Norwegian body horror The Ugly Stepsister, Turkish political thriller Confidante, and Taiwanese gangster narrative Silent Sparks.

German productions hold a significant presence this year with six films. Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay presents the conspiracy thriller Hysteria, while five female directors bring new works. Debut features come from Nele Mueller-Stöfen with Delicious and Sarah Miro Fischer with The Good Sister. Ina Weisse reunites with Nina Hoss for Cicadas.

The documentary selections include Martina Priessner’s The Moelln Letters, examining the 1993 racist arson attacks in Mölln, and Luzia Schmid’s I Want It All, focusing on the German screen legend Hildegard Knef.

Queer cinema features prominently, with Teddy Award winners returning to Berlin. Sir Isaac Julien presents his 1989 work Looking for Langston alongside its sequel Statues Never Die, while Ira Sachs brings Peter Hujar’s Day. The 39th Teddy Award ceremony will honor Berlinale Jury President Todd Haynes with the 2025 Special Teddy for lifetime achievement.

International documentaries include Under the Flags, the Sun, exploring a fallen dictatorship’s legacy, and Bedrock, examining Holocaust memorials. Director Areeb Zuaiter’s Yalla Parkour documents Gaza’s freerunning community before the current conflict.

The section will conclude with the 27th Panorama Audience Award, determined by festivalgoers voting for their favorite documentary and fiction features at the Zoo Palast during the Berlinale’s final Sunday.

Full list of 2025 Panorama titles

1001 Frames by Mehrnoush Alia
USA 2025, World premiere | Debut film

Bedrock by Kinga Michalska
Canada 2025, World premiere | Debut film

Beginnings by Jeanette Nordahl
Denmark / Sweden / Belgium 2025, World premiere

Confidante by Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
Turkey / France / Luxembourg 2025, World premiere

Delicious by Nele Mueller-Stöfen
Germany 2025, World premiere | Debut film

Dreamers by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
United Kingdom 2025, World premiere | Debut film

Dreams in Nightmares by Shatara Michelle Ford
USA / Taiwan / United Kingdom 2024, International premiere

The Good Sister by Sarah Miro Fischer
Germany / Spain 2025, World premiere | Debut film

The Heart Is a Muscle by Imran Hamdulay
South Africa / Saudi Arabia 2025, World premiere | Debut film

Home Sweet Home by Frelle Petersen
Denmark 2025, World premiere

Hysteria by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Germany 2025, World premiere

The Incredible Snow Woman by Sébastien Betbeder
France 2025, World premiere

I Want It All by Luzia Schmid
Germany 2025, World premiere | Documentary form

Khartoum by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox
Sudan / United Kingdom / Germany / Qatar 2025, European premiere

Lesbian Space Princess by Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese
Australia 2025, World premiere | Debut film

Letters from Wolf Street by Arjun Talwar
Poland / Germany 2025, World premiere

The Longing by Toshizo Fujiwara
Japan 2025, World premiere

Looking for Langston by Isaac Julien
United Kingdom 1989, No premiere

Magic Farm by Amalia Ulman
USA / Argentina 2025, International premiere

The Moelln Letters by Martina Priessner
Germany 2025, World premiere

Monk in Pieces by Billy Shebar
USA 2025, World premiere

Olmo by Fernando Eimbcke
USA / Mexico 2025, World premiere

Once Again… (Statues Never Die) by Isaac Julien
United Kingdom 2025, World premiere

Other People’s Money by Jan Schomburg, Dustin Loose, Kaspar Munk
Germany / Denmark / Austria 2025, World premiere

Paul by Denis Côté
Canada 2025, World premiere

Peter Hujar’s Day by Ira Sachs
USA / Germany 2025, International premiere

Queerpanorama by Jun Li
USA / Hong Kong, China 2025, World premiere

Silent Sparks by Ping Chu
Taiwan 2024, International premiere | Debut film

Sorda by Eva Libertad
Spain 2025, World premiere

The Ugly Stepsister by Emilie Blichfeldt
Norway / Poland / Sweden / Denmark 2025, European premiere | Debut film

Under the Flags, the Sun by Juanjo Pereira
Paraguay / Argentina / USA / France / Germany 2025, World premiere | Debut film

Welcome Home Baby by Andreas Prochaska
Austria / Germany 2025, World premiere

Yalla Parkour by Areeb Zuaiter
Sweden / Qatar / Saudi Arabia / Palestine 2024, European premiere | Debut film

Zikaden by Ina Weisse
Germany / France 2025, World premiere