Berlin Festival Adds Final Titles to Panorama, Forum, and Generation Sidebars
The Berlin International Film Festival has added a trio of last-minute additions to its sidebar sections ahead of the 75th-anniversary event.
Two Berlinale veterans, German directors Rosa von Praunheim and Gerd Kroske, will return to the festival with their latest works, while Chinese director Jing Yi will attend for the first time with her debut feature.
Von Praunheim’s Satanische Sau (The Satanic Sow) joins the Panorama Special lineup. Praunheim’s latest is described as a hybrid film, both farce and factual, and is pitched as the swan song for the 82-year-old LGBTQ+ pioneer, whose oeuvre consists of more than 150 works, including such features as City of Lost Souls (1983), The Einstein of Sex (1999), and the 2005 documentary Heroes and Gay Nazis.
Documentary Kroske returns to the Berlinale for the fifth time with Stolz & Eigensinn (Pride & Attitude), a non-fiction feature exploring the lives of female industrial workers in former East Germany. Kroske is perhaps best known for his Kehraus trilogy of feature documentaries, which follow the lives of three Leipzig street sweepers. Pride & Attitude will premiere in this year’s Forum program.
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Finally, the Generation Kplus section completes its line-up with the addition of Jing Yi’s debut feature Zhi Wu Xue Jia (The Botanist) in competition. The debut is described as a poignant tale of friendship between a boy and girl in northwest China, weaving themes of resilience and discovery through the poetic lens of botany.
The 2025 Berlinale runs Feb. 13-23.
