The 2025 Berlinale runs through February 23. Keep checking back below as Deadline reviews the best and buzziest movies of the festival. Click on the titles to read the full reviews.

After 75 years, the Berlin Film Festival retains its reputation and the vitality of its programming and operations.

Organisers of the Berlin Film Festival hope that politics will not eclipse the movies this time round even as they try to liven up an event that has looked jaded in recent years.

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival hosted the premiere of director Richard Linklater’s latest film, Blue Moon. The film features a stellar ensemble cast, with Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott.

No, Wesley Byrne, a street cleaner from Greater Manchester, is. But the Sheeran double couldn't make it to the Berlin world premiere on his girlfriend's birthday because his boss wouldn't let him go.

Although it’s a story of the future, it feels like a story that could happen in the present,” said director Bong Joon-ho of his dystopian science fiction film ‘Mickey 17,’

Filmmakers attending Germany's Berlinale film festival presented Culture Minister Claudia Roth with an open letter on Wednesday calling on political parties to prevent any cooperation with far-right or anti-democratic forces ahead of the election.

Films laying bare the strains and difficulties of modern motherhood are grabbing the spotlight at this year's Berlin film festival, with three fresh takes on an age-old theme all produced by women directors.

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