COMPETITION
‘Blue Moon’ review: Ethan Hawke sings in Richard Linklater drama
Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley co-star in a poignant portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart
‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ review: Dag Johan Haugerud concludes his trilogy at Berlin
‘Girls On Wire’ review: Implausible action drama from China’s Vivian Qu
‘Kontinental ’25’ review: Radu Jude returns after winning the Golden Bear
‘Mother’s Baby’ review: Postpartum stress under the lens in meticulous Berlin title
‘Resurrection’ review: Jackson Yee stars in Bi Gan’s sprawling cinematic vision
‘The Message’ review: Low-key black-and-white pleasure from Argentina’s Iván Fund
‘The Safe House’ review: Cluttered 1960s Paris-set chamber piece
‘Timestamp’ review: Doc is a powerful, fractured portrait of school days in Ukraine
‘What Does That Nature Say To You’ review: Long chats and fast zooms with Hong Sangsoo
‘What Marielle Knows’ review: Stylish, sly German comedy starring Julia Jentsch
‘Yunan’ review: Enigmatic second film in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s ‘Homeland’ trilogy
PANORAMA
‘1001 Frames’ review: Experimental thriller shot clandestinely in Iran
Mehrnoush Alia uses the legend of Scheherazade to explore male power and manipulation
‘Deaf’ review: A new baby poses challenges for her hearing-impaired mother in Spanish debut
‘Dreamers’ review: Tender queer migrant drama from Britain
‘Dreams In Nightmares’: Queer black femmes shine in confident reframing of the road trip movie
‘Home Sweet Home’ review: Subdued Danish care worker drama stars Jette Søndergaard
‘Hysteria’ review: Tense German satirical thriller eyes breakout status
‘Lesbian Space Princess’ review: Queer Australian animation could be a crowdpleaser
‘Magic Farm’ review: Chloe Sevigny, Alex Wolff star in uneasy Argentina-set satire
‘Night Stage’ review: Sexy queer drama from Brazil has thematic smarts to match
‘Olmo’ review: Fernando Eimbcke delivers Plan B’s first micro-budget feature
‘Paul’ review: Denis Côté doc explores the surprising benefits of submissive cleaning
‘The Good Sister’ review: Siblings face down an accusation of rape in sharp German debut
‘The Longing’ review: Toshizo Fujiwara directs and stars in sweet Panorama drama
‘Welcome Home Baby’ review: Austrian genre title opens Panorama at Berlin
GENERATION
‘The Botanist’ review: Award-winning Chinese drama finds magic in nature
Promising debut from Jing Yi takes the top Generation youth prize at Berlin
SPECIAL GALAS
‘After This Death’ review: Niche US-set mystery is an 'arch, implausible affair'
Argentianian filmmaker Lucio Castro’s second feature bows as a Berlinale Special
‘Honey Bunch’ review: Bold Canadian period genre from the makers of ’Violation’
‘Late Shift’ review: Leonie Benesch excels as a Swiss nurse under pressure
‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ review: A powerful ‘Shoah’ through the eyes of its maker
‘Islands’ review: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin scorch in Canary Islands suspense
‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ review: Bloody Korean actioner centres around an older assassin
‘Köln 75’ review: Lively re-staging of a 1975 jazz show is a showcase for actor Mala Emde
‘Mickey 17’ review: Bong Joon Ho unites with Robert Pattinson for quirky near-future drama
‘No Beast. So Fierce.’ review: Richard III moves to modern Berlin, and becomes Rashida
‘The Light’ review: Tom Tykwer’s Berlin opener is a murky meld of fantasy and drama
FORUM
‘Holding Liat’ review: Israeli family suffers their own hostage crisis
Berlin doc winner confronts the aftermath of the Hamas attacks of October 7