On 13 February, the Berlinale 2025 will open with Tom Tykwer's ‘The Light’. Tykwer's first cinema film after his ten-year work on the television series ‘Babylon Berlin’ will be shown in the Berlinale Specials section.
The Ecumenical Jury will award prizes in the International Competition, Panorama and Forum. The new director of the Berlinale, Tricia Tuttle, has established ‘Perspectives’ as a new section in which international feature film debuts will be shown. As before, the Berlinale also includes the Generation, Berlinale Shorts, Retrospective and Berlinale Classics sections. This year's Honorary Golden Bear goes to actress Tilda Swinton, while the Berlinale Camera is awarded to Dr Rainer Rother, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek and head of the Retrospective.