In the Ble Berlinale 2025 competition, these 10 films are the largest contenders for the Golden Bear

Now it will start again: the world's strongest film festival - the- Opens the gates and attracts masses of cineasts into the numerous cinemas of the capital. The heart of the festival is of course theCompetition for the golden bear, and we took a look at which filmsThe favorites of this year's Berlinaleare.

Some well -known performers and filmmakers of the competition films are also expected at the Berlinale, including Rose ByrneIf I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Marion Cotillard ausThe ice towerand Jessica ChastainDreams.

A film by Richard Linklater is always a film that you should have on the screen. The American filmmaker always runs a little bit under the radar, but we owe a lot of great films to him, includingA Scanner Darkly,Boyhood, dieBefore-Trilogy and finallyA Killer Romance. So now he can be seen again with a film at the Berlinale, namely with the biopicBlue MoonHard over the songwriter Lorenz. His partner, the composer Richard Rodgers, celebrates great professional successes, while he has arrived at the bottom of his life from self -doubt. A film that is certainly great again, especially because there is a great cast with Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley and Bobby Cannavale.

If someone is used to making hard decisions, then Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) inContinental `25. Because he works as a bailiff in Romania, is constantly confronted with the fate of other people and regularly has to make difficult decisions. But one day when she has to drive away a homeless from the basement of a residential building, the incident ends in a tragedy - a situation that forces Orsolya into a deep crisis out of feelings of guilt. And that means that she begins to rethink her life as part of a misanthropic system.

Also the German contributionWhat Marielle knowsFrédéric Hambalek is a contender on the Golden Bear. The drama deals with the title -giving Marielle - a young girl who one day develops telepathic skills. For example, she can hear what her parents say, although they are not in the room. This presents the family with a difficult task, because somehow they now have to learn to deal with this fact, no matter how absurd, embarrassing and unpredictable, what Marielle can do. Especially when some well -guarded family secrets come to light.

TheFilmmaker Hong Sangsoo is no longer a stranger-especially not at the Berlinale, where he is now showing a film for the seventh time. His film was already there in 2008Night and dayto see. WithThe woman who ranhe won the silver bear in 2018, in 2021 he won forIntroductionthe script price. This year is What Does that Nature Say to You(So ​​far there has been no starting date in Germany, nor a German title) in competition. This tells the meeting of a friend of a young poet with his family, in which the poet said more and more begins to understand the dynamics within his family. Just because of the Berlinale history of Hong Sangsoo, a great contender on the Golden Bear.

With his filmSexThe Norwegian Dag Johan Hauberud was already seen in the Panorama section last year at the Berlinale. The second partLoveThe director showed his trilogy at the film festival in Venice, and the end of this film series is now makingDreamsIn the competition of the Berlinale 2025. In the center of the drama is Johanne (Ella Øgere), who is in love for the first time - albeit in her teacher. Because she cannot live out this love, she writes down her feelings, and one day these records find her mother and grandma. After the first shock about it, they are preserved what a literary potential in Johanne is slumbering, which is why they think about publication; A fact that forces the three women to deal with their different views of love and sex.

The British director Rebecca Lenkiewicz has already made some films. Most recently she made the drama in 2022She saidIn itself, which tells the story of the two journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who published the first revelation article about Harvey Weinstein. Lenkiewicz was not behind the camera for this film, but wrote the script. AtHot Milkhas taken over both of them (script and director), and that was worth it: it is told by Rose (Fiona Shaw), who is sick, but nobody knows what the illness is. Therefore, she travels to Spain with her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) to healer Dr. To see Gómez (Vincent Perez), which promises to heal the disease. Once there, Rose and Sofie are becoming more and more common, Sofia is increasingly starting to solve from her excessive mother. The newly gained freedom ensures that the mother-daughter relationship changes completely, and both women have to try to accept, accept and defend the new roles.

The great toois expected at the Berlinale and that brings her new filmIf I Had Legs I'd Kick Youwith. In it she plays an overwhelmed onewho would like to throw everything down and just drown. Of course, the fact that she is left alone by her husband (Christian Slater) does not help. Your patients and her colleague (Conan O'Brien) are also increasingly noticing their poor condition. Because she also has a hole in her apartment, she has to move out for a few days and gets in a dilapidated motel. There she meets the friendly stoner James (), who is unexpectedly at her side in this difficult time.

The 16-year-old Jeanne (Clara Pacini) flew out of the children's home in the 1970s and one day ends up in a film studio. There she meets the mysterious actress Cristina (Marion Cotillard), who immediately captivates her. Between the two there is an enigmatic connection and Jeanne is moving further into the world of the film - especially in the film in which Cristina plays the leading role:The snow queen. Jeanne is losing more and more in it and can inThe Ice Towersoon no longer distinguish between fiction and reality.

InGreekIs Munir (Georges Khabbaz) on a remotepulled to make it clear how he wants to spend the last part of his life. But he doesn't get too much to think when Valeska (Hanna Schygulla) suddenly appears there. It is as much in search of the great questions of life like Munir, but also helps him with her warm and clever being. The two are increasingly approaching each other, and Munir is doing better every day.

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