Berlinale 2025: We already love these 10 great films and you will come to the cinema this year

If the latest and most exciting films are shown in Berlin once a year at the Berlinale, this is a wonderful opportunity to look closely. Because here is negotiating (for the 75th time!) This year, which will come to cinemas next. And there are 2025 real jewels ...

This year one of the best -known directors in Germany is delivering the opening film at the Berlinale: Tom Tykwer! With a portrait of the Engels family who became strangers among each other. The one from Tim (Lars Eidinger), his wife Milena (Nicolette Krebitz), their almost adult twins Frieda and Jon as well as half -brother Dio. They deny their lives as well as the housekeeper Farrah (Tala Al-Deen) steps into your life. A mysterious Syrian who shook the life of the family, but also her views.

The film tells the story of the famous lyrics Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), who went into history with pieces such as "Blue Moon" and "My Funny Valentine". When he suddenly realized on the evening of March 31, 1945 that he is in the shadow of his partner Richard Rodgers all the time. Who celebrates huge success with his musical production "Oklahoma!" The consequences that pulls hard from it change everything at one time. A moving costume film with a lot of music, a gorgeous Margaret Qualley and for a real story.

New York in the 1960s vibrates from a cultural spirit of optimism and the music scene is on fire! Right in the middle: A mysterious 19-year-old from Minnesota. Bob Dylan! With his guitar and an extraordinary text talent, his path to fame quickly shows steeply up. He ties in close friendships, plays folk for a long time and soon bravely goes his own way. A provocative decision that triggers a cultural echo worldwide. An unforgettable music film with Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Edward Norton as Peeete Seger. And best of all: everyone sings live!

Screenwriter and director Nele Mueller stoves celebrates her debut as a director. With an illustrious film in which a family hired a housemaid on their Provence vacation. And everything first developed and then developed into a nightmare. With stars like Valerie Pachner and Fahri Yardim or Oscar winner Volker Bertelmann ("In the West nothing new") for the music. Dramatically exciting, indulgent pictures and socially critical. Great!

The young ballet dancer Fernando from Mexico (wonderful: Isaac Hernández) dreams of a life in the USA and a career as a ballet dancer. Because he believes that his wealthy, well -known beloved Jennifer (Jessica Chastain) would support him, he risks the dangerous border crossing to the USA. But his presence causes the life of Jennifer to seriously mess up and she tries to push him out of her life by all means.

Vera Brandes (Mala Emde) is just 16, but her passion for jazz is so big that she stuck to establish him in the music world of the 1970s. Despite the resistance of her parents (wonderful: Ulrich Tukur as her father!) And the challenges in the industry dominated by men, she brings international jazz greats to Germany as a concert organizer. Her biggest triumph is the planned concert by the renowned jazz pianist Keith Jarrett (John Magaro) on January 24, 1975 in the Cologne Opera. But shortly before the start, the event threatens to fail, and Vera is faced with the task of saving a concert that will later be one of the greatest ever into history. After a real story!

Betting and more unusual than any documentary about the great German pop singer before: Carefully selected archive material becomes alive, the life of a remarkable woman has been in the showbiz for 50 years and, despite triumphant success and painful defeats, always preserved her dignity and her steadfast humor. Very special!

In the new masterpiece of director Jan Ole Gerster, four -sided Tom (Sam Riley) works as a tennis coach in an aging hotel castle on Fuerteventura. His everyday life: throw balls, collect, yawning boredom, party, hangover ... and again from the front. But instead of enjoying his never -ending vacation, the senselessness of everyday life has long taken possession of him. Until the beautiful Anne (Stacy Martin) arrives with her family and changes everything: she wants tennis lessons for her 7-year-old son Anton, her husband is celebrating. And then disappears without a trace. Figure, wonderfully multi -layered and a great Sam Riley!

Five years after his furious adaptation of "Berlin Alexanderplatz", Burhan Qurbani returns with a directorial work that William Shakespeare's "Richard III." Interpreted completely newly and moved to Berlin. The film takes you into a world that appears familiar and yet is a special and strange thing: right into the middle of a relentless war of two Arabic -born families, in which the youngest daughter Rashida (Kenda Hmeidan) brutally and regardless Losses paves up - to finally pay a high price for it. Impressive!

In the 1970s, 15-year-old Jeanne (Clara Pacini) flew from an orphanage in the mountains to explore the world. On her way to Paris, she finds shelter in a warehouse. The next morning she encounters a mysterious figure that she thinks is the snow queen (Marion Cotillard). And discovers that the hall is a film studio in which Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale is filmed. Jeanne is fascinated by Christina, the leading actress who takes her fold. A close relationship develops between the two, but Christina has an increasingly dangerous influence on Jeanne, since she believes that it recognizes a younger version of herself in it. By the way: August Diehl is also there.