BERLINALE: Die Filme im Wettbewerb
List activity
1 view
• 1 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
101 titles
- DirectorEmily AtefStarsMarlene BurowFelix KramerCedric EichSet in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsThomas SchubertPaula BeerLangston UibelA group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.BERLINALE 2023: Großer Preis der Jury
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsJingchun WangMei YongXi QiTwo married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.BERLINALE 2019: Silberne Bären für Jingchun WANG und Mei YONG
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsJames NortonVanessa KirbyPeter SarsgaardA Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.BERLINALE 2019: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorCeline SongStarsGreta LeeTeo YooJohn MagaroNora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorPiero MessinaStarsGael García BernalRenate ReinsveBérénice BejoTwo people who have loved each other, and continue to love each other, even after one of them dies.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyStarsMichele De LucchiAn extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsNina MeloHan ChangKe-Xi WuAfter saying "no" on her wedding day, Joice leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorAlonso RuizpalaciosStarsRaúl BrionesRooney MaraAnna DíazFollows the life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorMati DiopStarsGildas AdannouHabib AhandessiJoséa GuedjeThe journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.BERLINALE 2024: Goldener Bär
- DirectorAaron SchimbergStarsSebastian StanRenate ReinsveAdam PearsonAfter undergoing a facial reconstructive surgery, Edward becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life.BERLINALE 2024: Silberner Bär für Sebastian STAN
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsLyna KhoudriAnamaria VartolomeiCamille CottinA small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.BERLINALE 2024: Preis der Jury
- DirectorMargherita VicarioStarsGalatéa BellugiCarlotta GambaVeronica LucchesiIt re-imagines the world of classical music on more equal standing in a Baroque-era Venice.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsVincent MacaigneMicha LescotNine d'UrsoDuring COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, two married couples quarantine together in a country house, leading to rising tensions and revelations about their relationships.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsLiv Lisa FriesJohannes HegemannSina MartensIn Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorMaryam MoghadamBehtash SanaeehaStarsLili FarhadpourEsmaeel MehrabiMohammad HeidariSeventy-year-old Mahin, solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life. A chance encounter becomes an unforgettable evening.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorClaire BurgerStarsLilith GrasmugJosefa HeinsiusNina HossFanny is 17 and still looking for herself. She struggles to make friends. When she goes to Germany, she meets pen pal Lena, who dreams of getting involved politically. Fanny is troubled. To please Lena, she is ready to do anything.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorMeryam JoobeurStarsSalha NasraouiMohamed GrayaâMalek MecherguiA Tunisian woman is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth when her son returns home from war and unleashes a darkness throughout their village.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorNelson Carlo de Los Santos AriasStarsJhon NarváezSor María RíosJorge Puntillón GarcíaA voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn't understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.BERLINALE 2024: Silberner Bär für Nelson Carlo de los SANTOS ARIAS
- DirectorMin Bahadur BhamStarsThinley LhamoSonam TopdenTenzing DalhaIn a Himalayan polyandrous village, pregnant PEMA faces scrutiny as her husband vanishes. With her monk brother-in-law, her de facto spouse, she seeks him in the wild, unraveling her own self-discovery along the journeyBERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorTim MielantsStarsCillian MurphyEmily WatsonCiarán HindsIn 1985 devoted father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his own.BERLINALE 2024: Silberner Bär für Emily WATSON
- DirectorMatthias GlasnerStarsLars EidingerCorinna HarfouchLilith StangenbergLissy enjoys husband Gerd's deterioration in a home. Her joy is temporary as her health rapidly declines.BERLINALE 2024: Silberner Bär für Matthias GLASNER
- DirectorSeverin FialaVeronika FranzStarsAnja PlaschgMaria HofstätterDavid ScheidAustria in the 18th century. Forests surround villages. Killing a baby gets a woman sentenced to death. Agnes readies for married life with her beloved. But her mind and heart grow heavy. A gloomy path alone, evil thoughts arising.BERLINALE 2024: Silberner Bär für Martin GSCHLACHT
- DirectorGustav MöllerStarsSidse Babett KnudsenSebastian BullDar SalimThe idealistic prison officer Eva is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works.BERLINALE 2024: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsYunhee ChoKwon Hae-hyoIsabelle HuppertA French woman drinks makgeolli in Korea after losing her means of income, then teaches French to two Korean women.BERLINALE 2024: Großer Preis der Jury
- DirectorEdwin ZbonekStarsGötz GeorgeGünther UngeheuerAlexander AllersonEnd of the WWII, concentration camp somewhere in Poland. Prisoners have heard that Germans have plans to kill them all, before the Allies come. One of the prisoners escapes, and tries to find the Allies. A manhunt begins.BERLINALE 1963: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsHardy KrügerPeter van EyckIngrid AndreeAn interpretation of Hamlet finds the heir Claudius Steel Works struggling with his mother's to uncle Van Eyk in a sterile industrial post-WW2 West Germany.BERLINALE 1959: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsDominique SandaLino CapolicchioHelmut BergerThe story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.BERLINALE 1971: Goldener Bär
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsJacques GamblinDenis PodalydèsCharlotte KadyIn German-occupied France, two filmmakers solve the collaboration dilemma differently.BERLINALE 2002: Silberner Bär für Jacques GAMBLIN
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsRuth LeuwerikRossano BrazziGiorgio AlbertazziA redhead, approaching forty, is bored with her husband and with life in general. Having an affair with another man fails to produce the excitement she is craving. So she leaves Germany, seeking adventure and fulfillment in Venice, where she finds work in a hotel. Initially, life seems more interesting, and she has new romantic adventures. But when she realizes that her British lover is merely using her for a personal vendetta against a German Nazi, she finds herself running away once again.BERLINALE 1962: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsJuliette MaynielGötz GeorgeHans MahnkeAt the end of WWII a German soldier who had often been ordered to execute women and children deserts and tries to find a hiding place in his native village. Almost immediately the entire village is evacuated, except for the deserter and a French girl who is a compulsive worker. Believing that the Nazi regime is gone forever they tear down all Nazi placards. The girl also steals civilian clothes for the soldier from her employer. But the next day the Germans are back and determined to find out who took away the placards. The employer dares not report the girl for fear that he would also be punished. When the deserter understands that there is no refuge and that his parents and younger sister will be murdered if the Germans find him, he shoots himself. Fifteen years later when a short-time fun-fair is built the deserter's corpse turns up, but even his parents prefer to forget what happened and to let the corpse remain unidentified.BERLINALE 1960: Silberner Bär für Juliette MAYNIEL
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBirol ÜnelSibel KekilliGüven KiraçWith the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.BERLINALE 2004: Goldener Bär
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaKlaus LöwitschIvan DesnyMaria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.BERLINALE 1979: Silberner Bär für Hanna SCHYGULLA
- DirectorHans-Christian SchmidStarsSandra HüllerBurghart KlaußnerImogen KoggeA young woman with epilepsy suffers a breakdown during her first year at university, then decides to seek help from a priest in battling the troubles associated with her strict upbringing.BERLINALE 2006: Silberner Bär für Sandra HÜLLER
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsJulia JentschFabian HinrichsAlexander HeldA dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.BERLINALE 2005: Silberner Bär für Julia JENTSCH
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossDevid StriesowHinnerk SchönemannYella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.BERLINALE 2007: Silberner Bär für Nina HOSS
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldRainer BockA doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.BERLINALE 2012: Silberner Bär für Christian PETZOLD
- DirectorJosé PadilhaStarsWagner MouraAndré RamiroCaio JunqueiraIn 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.BERLINALE 2008: Goldener Bär
- DirectorMaria SchraderStarsMaren EggertDan StevensSandra HüllerIn order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.BERLINALE 2021: Silberner Bär für Maren EGGERT
- DirectorDaniel BrühlStarsDaniel BrühlPeter KurthRike EckermannExplores the subjects of gentrification and social inequality in Berlin.BERLINALE 2021: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsUlrich TukurHans KremerTherese AffolterStammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and accused of the murder of four US servicemen in a terrorist bombing attack. After a hunger strike at the trial's start, Meins dies. The next to die is Meinhof, an apparent suicide. As the trial stretches on, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe continuously disrupt the proceedings with accusations that they are being purposely undernourished and spied upon.BERLINALE 1986: Goldener Bär
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsRosel ZechHilmar ThateCornelia FroboessPartially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.BERLINALE 1982: Goldener Bär
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsMirjana KaranovicLuna Zimic MijovicLeon LucevA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.BERLINALE 2006: Goldener Bär
- DirectorRolf ThieleStarsJean-Claude BrialyNadja TillerWerner HinzTonio is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks.BERLINALE 1964: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorDoris DörrieStarsElmar WepperHannelore ElsnerAya IrizukiAfter Rudi's wife Trudi suddenly dies, he travels to Japan to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer.BERLINALE 2008: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorWolfgang BeckerStarsDaniel BrühlKatrin SassChulpan KhamatovaIn 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.BERLINALE 2003: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorValeska GrisebachStarsAndreas MüllerIlka WelzAnett DornbuschA metalworker and volunteer firefighter, who is content with his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, sees his life turn upside down when he falls in love with an attractive waitress from a nearby town.BERLINALE 2006: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsYves MontandCharles VanelPeter van EyckIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.BERLINALE 1953: Goldener Bär
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsMaria SchellCurd JürgensHeidemarie HatheyerIn the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to become a mother but hasn't been able to. Paulines child is born and the two women agree that Anna John will keep the newborn as her own baby. As Pauline is going to move to West Germany, she wants to see her child once again for the last time but Anna John refuses. Pauline panics and kidnaps by mistake the terminally ill kid of the neighbor woman. Meanwhile Anna John instructs her brother Bruno (Curd Jürgens) to get rid of Pauline but Bruno stumbles and kills himself with his own knife before he could find Pauline.BERLINALE 1955: Goldener Bär
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsLilli PalmerRomy SchneiderTherese GiehseIn a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.BERLINALE 1958: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsJohn GavinLiselotte PulverJock MahoneyOn the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.BERLINALE 1958: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsHeinz RühmannSigfrit SteinerSiegfried LowitzHaving doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.BERLINALE 1958: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsHayley MillsHorst BuchholzJohn MillsA twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.BERLINALE 1959: Silberner Bär für Hayley MILLS
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.BERLINALE 1960: Silberner Bär für Jean-Luc GODARD
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsGustaf GründgensLiselotte PulverSabine SinjenIn early-18th-century London, Queen Anne, the last of the House of Stuart, is a weak ruler. She is committed to peace in the War of Spanish Succession. The Duchess of Marlborough, whose husband is commander-in-chief of the British Army, has high hopes of a war.BERLINALE 1960: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsJeanne MoreauMarcello MastroianniMonica VittiA day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.BERLINALE 1961: Goldener Bär
- DirectorBernhard WickiStarsHorst BollmannRichard MünchChristiane NielsenA monk is struggling with the consequences of a miracle that he prayed for.BERLINALE 1961: Silberner Bär für Bernhard WICKI
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsO.E. HasseJohanna von KoczianMartin HeldA furious comedy about three incurable idealists, who want to go down in history as a prosecutor, a politician and a doctor. One desperately wants to introduce the death penalty in order to bring the law of Moses back into the world, another wants to resurrect communism, free from its Russian heritage. The third believes in love as the last great asset of humanity. And then there is also a fourth, who more than anything else is looking for professional gain. They all have one thing in common - they love the same woman. And so, at the end, it is a woman who rules on their manly machinations and drives the game of the unreformable one step forward.BERLINALE 1961: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsFred AstaireLilli PalmerDebbie ReynoldsJessica Poole, is marrying Roger Henderson. When her father arrives, he disrupts the household of his ex-wife and befriends their cook.BERLINALE 1961: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorFrancisco Rovira BeletaStarsPierre BriceManuel GilJulián MateosThe film is divided into three parts: 'Restlessness', 'Violence' and 'Death', to explain the motivations, evolution and defeat of three young misfits from Barcelona who end up being robbers. The way of crime is an easy way for them: a boy and a worker without a job or benefit are induced by 'el Señorito', the son of a rich lawyer. Together they form a band. Hard and violent, the film is made with a clear intention of social criticism and research of realism, culminating in a final scene that raised quite controversial.BERLINALE 1962: Silberner Bär für Pierre BRICE
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsMontgomery CliftSusannah YorkLarry ParksAn examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.BERLINALE 1963: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsGötz GeorgeHans NielsenRudolf PlatteA German choir consisting of eight men is on a vacation in Yugoslavia. Most are middle-aged former Nazis. They arrive at a village populated solely by women who avoid contact with the men. 20 years earlier the Germans murdered all the males in the village. The choir tries to lighten the mood with a German song, but then avoidance is replaced by hostility. When asking to buy bread they are referred to a woman who gives them a box with 437 empty bullet shells, leftover from the murders. By using a book, "Yugoslavian for tourists" a young boy makes contact with a woman who became mentally ill then. She misunderstands his words and thinks that she will get her son back if she will bake bread. Meanwhile the men steal and slaughter a pig. The women then throw their car down a mountainside. On the next day the choir and the women reconcile. A priest from a nearby village finds a car that the men may borrow for one day. Since their own car is insured they do not report the women. When they leave, the mentally ill woman runs after them to give them the bread she has baked.BERLINALE 1964: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorRolf ThieleStarsMichael MaienElena NathanailGerd BaltusLieutenant Beckerath is invited by Captain Kunz von Arnstatt to tea with his family. There, Count Sibling Siegmund and Sieglinde provoke him, but that does not stop him from holding Sieglinde's hand.BERLINALE 1965: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsClaudia CardinaleFranco NeroLee J. CobbThe new chief of the Carabinieri in a small Sicilian town must fight corrupt officials, the frightened silence of witnesses and the local Mafia boss to solve a murder.BERLINALE 1968: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorRichard HarrisUri ZoharStarsRichard HarrisRomy SchneiderKim BurfieldEitan is yesterday's football star waiting for a tomorrow. He is a man who has nothing left but guts consulting the prospects of having to find a new profession and having to face a loving woman who doesn't understand his problems.BERLINALE 1971: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaWolfgang SchenckUlli LommelIn the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.BERLINALE 1974: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorHeidi GenéeStarsKaterina JacobSiemen RühaakHannelore ElsnerBERLINALE 1977: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorOlle HellbomStarsStaffan GötestamLars SöderdahlAllan EdwallBrothers Jonatan and Skorpan lead a revolution against the tyrant Tengil in the magical afterlife land of Nangijala.BERLINALE 1978: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYftach KatzurAnat AtzmonJonathan SagallThree friends live their lives in 1950s Israel, each looking for someone to love.BERLINALE 1978: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorKonrad WolfWolfgang KohlhaaseStarsRenate KrößnerAlexander LangHeide KippSunny is a singer in a band which is constantly on the road. She therefore leads a relatively restless life, which she cannot afford to give up, having to rely on the fee she gets paid..BERLINALE 1980: Silberner Bär für Renate KRÖSSNER
- DirectorStéphanie ChuatVéronique ReymondStarsNina HossLars EidingerMarthe KellerLisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.BERLINALE 2020: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorCarla SimónStarsJosep AbadJordi Pujol DolcetAnna OtinThe life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.BERLINALE 2022: Goldener Bär
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiWen JiangRujun TengWhen a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.BERLINALE 1988: Goldener Bär
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJessica LangeArmin Mueller-StahlFrederic ForrestA lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.BERLINALE 1990: Goldener Bär
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.BERLINALE 1989: Goldener Bär
- DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsFan LiaoGwei Lun-MeiXuebing WangAn ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.BERLINALE 2014: Goldener Bär
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsDaveigh ChaseSuzanne PleshetteMiyu IrinoDuring her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.BERLINALE 2002: Goldener Bär
- DirectorQuan'an WangStarsNan YuBa'toerSen'geSet in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care of her, as well as her disabled husband.BERLINALE 2007: Goldener Bär
- DirectorClaudia LlosaStarsMagaly SolierSusi SánchezEfraín SolísFausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.BERLINALE 2009: Goldener Bär
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsBora AltasErdal BesikçiogluTülin ÖzenThe quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.BERLINALE 2010: Goldener Bär
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsJim CaviezelSean PennNick NolteAdaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.BERLINALE 1999: Goldener Bär
- DirectorCãlin Peter NetzerStarsLuminita GheorghiuBogdan DumitracheNatasa RaabAfter the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.BERLINALE 2013: Goldener Bär
- DirectorAnthony MinghellaStarsRalph FiennesJuliette BinocheWillem DafoeAt the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.BERLINALE 1997: Silberner Bär für Juliette BINOCHE
- DirectorHerrmann ZschocheStarsKatrin SassCornelia FörderEnrico RobertNina Kern is a divorced woman in her late twenties who will soon be fully deprived of her custody rights for her three children, who already reside in a home for the displaced, due to many years of willful neglect. Although she has broken her promise to change her moral conduct many times, she is given one last chance on probation. A civil engineer and a teacher assume responsibility over her bond, trying to help Nina, or at least her 5 year-old daughter Mireille, to be released from the home. Nina makes a diligent effort to hold down her job as part of a subway cleaning crew and be a good mother to her daughter. She experiences some successes, but also some setbacks. Though in the end her probation is eventually dropped, she believes that she is not mature enough to bear the full burden of raising all of her kids. With a heavy heart, she resigns her custody rights for her daughter Jacqueline, with whom she has not come to terms.BERLINALE 1982: Silberner Bär für Katrin SASS
- DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsWilliam HurtAlbert BrooksHolly HunterTake two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.BERLINALE 1988: Silberner Bär für Holly HUNTER
- DirectorNicolas PhilibertStarsMamadi BarriWalid BenzianeSabine BerlièreFollows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.BERLINALE 2023: Goldener Bär
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsAnabela MoreiraRita BlancoMadalena AlmeidaFollows five women who fight for the stability of a hotel they inherited, living an "old and irresolvable conflict," with many conversations that have been postponed and much that remains to be said within a family.BERLINALE 2023: Preis der Jury
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsLouis GarrelDamien MonginEsther GarrelThree siblings, a father and a grandmother run a business in the form of a travelling puppet show. When the father dies, the remaining family members try to keep his legacy alive.BERLINALE 2023: Silberner Bär für Philippe GARREL
- DirectorEstibaliz Urresola SolagurenStarsSofía OteroPatricia López ArnaizAne GabarainDuring a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.BERLINALE 2023: Silberner Bär für Sofia OTERO
- DirectorChristoph HochhäuslerStarsTimocin ZieglerThea EhreMichael SiderisFollows an undercover investigator infiltrating the world of a trans woman who has links to a major drug dealer and with whom he was in love under her former identity.BERLINALE 2023: Silberner Bär für Thea EHRE
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsAliocha SchneiderAgathe BonitzerMarisha TriantafyllidouAbandoned as a baby, Jon finds himself in prison on a manslaughter charge. He falls in love with prison guard Iro, unaware of their fateful connection.BERLINALE 2023: Silberner Bär für Angela SCHANELEC
- DirectorGiacomo AbbruzzeseStarsMorr NdiayeWahab OladitiSalem KisitaAfter a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.BERLINALE 2023: Silberner Bär für Helene LOUVART
- DirectorJian LiuStarsZijian DongDongyu ZhouXu ChangchuSet in China in the 1990s, takes a look at youth featuring a group of art students.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorMatt JohnsonStarsJay BaruchelGlenn HowertonMatt JohnsonThe story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsVicky KriepsRonald ZehrfeldTobias ReschThe relationship between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorIvan SenStarsSimon BakerRob CollinsNatasha Wanganeen'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorJohn TrengoveStarsJesse EisenbergAdrien BrodyOdessa YoungConflicted about his girlfriend's pregnancy, Ralphie's life spirals out of control when he meets a mysterious family of men.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorLu ZhangStarsBai Qing XinYao HuangZhuangzhuang TianGu Wentong learns the whereabouts of his father, who lost contact with him more than 40 years ago. Encouraged by his new friend, Gu Wentong decides to face his father and rebuild the long-lost father-son relationship.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsNatasha WanganeenCraig BehennaMwajemi HusseinFollowed by BlackWoman, who is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert. Once she escapes the cage, she walks from desert to mountain to city, to find - more captivity.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsNanoka HaraHokuto MatsumuraEri FukatsuA modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.BERLINALE 2023: Nominierung für den Goldenen Bären