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TEDDY TODAY: 18th of February 2025

Wondering which movie is premiering today and where it’s showing? You’ll find the answers here!

INTERVIEWS:

Dreamers

As her freedom is threatened, Isio, a Nigerian migrant freshly placed in a UK asylum removal centre, searches for the will to battle the system and finds a kindred spirit who might help her through. Freedom is elusive, but love is eternal. 

Premiere: 18.02./15:30, Zoo Palast 1

More information about the film can be found here

Duas Vezes João Liberada (Two Times João Liberada)

João stars in a biopic about the gender-nonconforming Liberada, who was persecuted by the Inquisition. When the film’s director is struck down by a mysterious paralysis, João navigates the chaos, determined to honour Liberada’s story and finish the film. 

Premiere: 18.02./21:30, Stage Blumax Theater

More information about the film can be found here

Howl

Daisy and Lila are best friends. At a suburban house party, shifting desires and tough choices force them to reconsider their place in the world and what they mean to each other.

Premiere: 18.02./12:30, Urania

More information about the film can be found here

Janine zieht aufs Land (Janine Moves to the Country)

Far away from the big city, Janine is unwelcome, yet an eye-catcher: a sensual, queer subject of projection with wine-red hair. Jan Eilhardt travels with her to engage with his own rural past, opening old wounds and infiltrating a hostile milieu.

Premiere: 18.02./18:30, Delphi Filmpalast

More information can be found here

Lesbian Space Princess

The introverted space princess Saira is forced to leave her home planet of Clitopolis on an inter-gay-lactic mission to save her ex-girlfriend who has been kidnapped and is being held ransom by the Straight White Maliens. 

Premiere: 18.02./21:30, Urania

More information about the film can be found here

Monk in Pieces

Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her time. In her seventh decade of creativity, she ponders how her unique work can continue without her. 

Premiere: 18.02./18:15, Haus der Berliner Festspiele

More information about the film can be found here

PREMIERES:

Blue Moon

Directed by: Richard Linklater
USA, Ireland, 2025, 100′

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his stattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his groundbreaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./19:00, Berlinale Palast 

Dreamers

Directed by: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
Great Britain, 2025, 79′

As her freedom is threatened, Isio, a Nigerian migrant freshly placed in a UK asylum removal centre, searches for the will to battle the system and finds a kindred spirit who might help her through. Freedom is elusive, but love is eternal. 

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./15:30, Zoo Palast 1

Duas Vezes João Liberada (Two Times João Liberada)

Directed by: Paula Tomás Marques
Portugal, 2025, 70′

João stars in a biopic about the gender-nonconforming Liberada, who was persecuted by the Inquisition. When the film’s director is struck down by a mysterious paralysis, João navigates the chaos, determined to honour Liberada’s story and finish the film. 

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./21:30, Stage Blumax Theater

Howl

Directed by: Domini Marshall
Australia, 2025, 16′

Daisy and Lila are best friends. At a suburban house party, shifting desires and tough choices force them to reconsider their place in the world and what they mean to each other. 

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./12:30, Urania

Janine zieht aufs Land (Janine Moves to the Country)

Directed by: Jan Eilhardt
Germany, 2025, 74′

Far away from the big city, Janine is unwelcome, yet an eye-catcher: a sensual, queer subject of projection with wine-red hair. Jan Eilhardt travels with her to engage with his own rural past, opening old wounds and infiltrating a hostile milieu.

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./18:30, Delphi Filmpalast

Lesbian Space Princess

Directed by: Leela Varghese, Emma Hough Hobbs
Australia, 2025, 86′

The introverted space princess Saira is forced to leave her home planet of Clitopolis on an inter-gay-lactic mission to save her ex-girlfriend who has been kidnapped and is being held ransom by the Straight White Maliens. 

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./21:30, Urania

Monk in Pieces

Directed by: Billy Shebar, David Roberts
USA, Germany, France, 2025, 94′

Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her time. In her seventh decade of creativity, she ponders how her unique work can continue without her. 

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./18:15, Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Pidikwe (Rumble)

Directed by: Caroline Monnet
Canada, 2025, 10′

Featuring Indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future. 

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./15:00, Arsenal 1

STARS

Directed by: STARS Collective
Great Britain, Germany, 2025, 7′

STARS tells of the Nommo: extra-terrestrial Afro-hermaphrodite anthro-amphibian migrants. Delivered from outer space via the Dogon of Mali, STARS is a queer African tale of tails, told through animation, music, and poetry. 

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./15:00, Arsenal 1

Wish You Were Ear

Directed by: Mirjana Balogh
Hungary, 2025, 11′

In a world where ex-partners have to swap a chosen body part after breaking up, someone rediscovers their former ear on someone else. A journey towards self-acceptance begins.

SCREENING TIMES:

18.02./12:30, Urania

RERUNS:

Ari
18.02./17:00, Odeon  

Ato noturno (Night Stage)
18.02./13:15, Cubix 5

Dreams in Nightmares
18.02./10:30, Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Le Rendez-vous de l’été (That Summer in Paris)
18.02./15:30, Colosseum 1

Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
18.02./15:30, Cubix 8
18.02./19:00, Zoo Palast 2

Magic Farm
18.02./22:00, Cubix 7

Queer as Punk
18.02./12:30, Cubix 8

RAPTURE
18.02./12:00, Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green

Silent Sparks
18.02./13:30, Cubix 7

Sirens Call
18.02./21:30, Arsenal 1

Zečji nasip (Sandbag Dam)
18.02./10:00, Zoo Palast 2

TEDDY TODAY: 15th of February 2025

The third day of the Berlinale has arrived and brings with it a series of exciting TEDDY films. Seven films premiere today!

INTERVIEWS:

Le Rendez-vous de l’été (That Summer in Paris)

Paris, the 2024 Olympic Games. Blandine (30) arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disorientated by the hustle and bustle of the city where nothing seems to go her way, she navigates the chaos of Paris and an unexpected reunion. 

Premiere: 15.02./18:30, Stage Blumax Theater

More information can be found here

Queerpanorama

A gay man impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next hook-up. Only by pretending to be someone else can he be truly himself.

Premiere: 15.02./21:30, Urania

More information about the movie can be found here

Satanische Sau (Satanic Sow)

Rosa von Praunheim is the satanic sow, incarnated by the wanton actor Armin Dallapiccola. A poetic compendium of life and death with pushy fans, the Good Lord, lovers and Rosa’s horrified mother.

Premiere: 15.02./22:15, Zoo Palast 2

More information about the movie can be found here

PREMIERES:

Ari

Directed by: Léonor Serraille
France, Belgium, 2025, 88′

Ari, a young teacher, quits his job and is thrown out of the house by his father. Lost and alone, he reconnects with old friends, triggering a journey of self-discovery.

SCREENING TIMES:

15.02./15:30, Berlinale Palast 

Come la notte (Where the Night Stands Still)

Directed by: Liryc Dela Cruz
Italy, Philippines

Three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, meet in the villa that one of the sisters has inherited. Shared memories and buried grievances come to the surface and put their fragile relationship to the test. 

SCREENING TIMES:

15.02./21 :30, Stage Blumax Theater

Le Rendez-vous de l’été (That Summer in Paris)

Directed by: Valentine Cadic
France, 2025, 77′

Paris, the 2024 Olympic Games. Blandine (30) arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disorientated by the hustle and bustle of the city where nothing seems to go her way, she navigates the chaos of Paris and an unexpected reunion. 

SCREENING TIMES:

15.02./18:30, Stage Blumax Theater

Queerpanorama

Directed by: Jun Li
USA, Hong Kong, China, 2025, 87′

A gay man impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next hook-up. Only by pretending to be someone else can he be truly himself.

SCREENING TIMES:

15.02./21:30, Urania

Satanische Sau (Satanic Sow)

Directed by: Rosa von Praunheim
Germany, 2025, 85′

Rosa von Praunheim is the satanic sow, incarnated by the wanton actor Armin Dallapiccola. A poetic compendium of life and death with pushy fans, the Good Lord, lovers and Rosa’s horrified mother.

SCREENING TIMES:

15.02./22:15, Zoo Palast 2

The Trio Hall

Directed by: Su Hui-yu
Taiwan, 2025, 85′

This spectacularly eccentric satire by Su Hui-yu draws on 1970s Taiwanese TV culture and has a roller-skating Hitler dance with Stalin and Mao do the same with Chiang Kai-shek. A revue show of dictators in cahoots with the entertainment industry. 

SCREENING TIMES:

15.02./19:00, Arsenal 1

Vestida de azul (Dressed in Blue)

Directed by: Antonio Giménez-Rico
Spain, 1983, 99′

Documentary form about six trans women and their lives in 1980s Madrid. They speak frankly about their experiences as performers and prostitutes, facing marginalisation and the repressive laws that endured even after the end of the Franco era. 

SCREENING TIMES:

15.02./21:30, ADK am Hanseatenweg

RERUNS:

A natureza das coisas invisíveis (The Nature of Invisible Things)
15.02./10:00, Zoo Palast 2

Ato noturno (Night Stage)
15.02./10:30, Haus der Berliner Festspiele 

Das Licht (The Light)
15.02./10:00, HKW 1 – Miriam Makeba Auditorium
15.02./20:30, Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (Tenderness of the Wolves)
15.02./21:00, Cubix 5

Hot Milk
15.02./13:00, Urania
15.02./15:15, Uber Eats Music Hall

Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls)
15.02./13:00, Cubix 9

Kein Tier. So Wild. (No Beast. So Fierce.)
15.02./19:00, Cubix 9

Peter Hujar’s Day
15.02./ 15:30, Urania

RAPTURE
15.02./12:00, Betonhalle@Silent Green

Sirens Call
15.02./21:00, Betonhalle@Silent Green

TEDDY TODAY: 14th of February 2025

Welcome back to the second day of the 75th Berlinale and its queer program! Today you can expect numerous premieres of fascinating queer films as well as the TEDDY Jury Reception. You can find more information about the event here.

INTERVIEWS:

Ato noturno (Night Stage)

An actor and a politician start a secret affair and together discover their fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dream of fame, the more they feel the urge to put themselves at risk. 

Premiere: 14.02./21:00, Zoo Palast 1

More information about the film can be found here

Kein Tier. So Wild. (No Beast. So Fierce.)

After a bloody gang war, Rashida, the youngest daughter of the Yorks, rises to become the leader of the Berlin underworld. Shakespeare’s “Richard III” is retold in the here and now as the story of an Arab gangster queen.

Premiere: 14.02./20:30, Haus der Berliner Festspiele

More information about the movie can be found here

Peter Hujar’s Day

A 1974 conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz provides a glimpse into the New York downtown art scene of the time and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.

Premiere: 14.02./18:30, Zoo Palast 1

More information about the movie can be found here

Sirens Call

In this feature-length debut, nomadic siren Una journeys through postmodern reality, navigating survival, identity and belonging. A dive into the merfolk subculture between self-care and political activism, a hybrid of science fiction and documentary.

Premiere: 14.02./17:45, Delphi Filmpalast

More information about the movie can be found here

PREMIERES:

A natureza das coisas invisíveis (The Nature of Invisible Things)

Directed by: Rafaela Camelo
Chile, Brazil, 2025, 90′

During the summer holidays, the paths of two ten-year-old girls cross in a hospital and they form an unexpected bond. Their connection leads them on a bittersweet journey of loss, farewells and quiet discoveries about life. 

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./15:30 HKW 1 – Miriam Makeba Auditorium

Ato noturno (Night Stage)

Directed by: Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher
Brazil, 2025, 119′

An actor and a politician start a secret affair and together discover their fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dream of fame, the more they feel the urge to put themselves at risk. 

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./21:00, Zoo Palast 1

Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (Tenderness of the Wolves)

Directed by: Ulli Lommel
Federal Republic of Germany, 1973, 82′

Ulli Lommel’s film about a serial killer in the early post-war era echoes the real story of “wolf man” murderer Fritz Haarmann. A mix of Fritz Lang’s M and Hitchcock’s Psycho that follows in the tradition of Weimar cinema.

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./20:30, Deutsche Kinemathek / E-Werk

Extra Life (And Decay)

Directed by: Stéphanie Lagarde
France, Netherlands, 2025, 21′

A polyphonic narrator – filmmaker, parent, forest, insects, fungi, childcare worker – declares their absolute refusal of labor exploitation, and their necessity to join collective bodies in resistance. 

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./16:00, Arsenal 1

Hot Milk

Directed by: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Great Britain, 2025, 92′

Rose and her daughter Sofia journey to a Spanish seaside town to meet an enigmatic healer. As Sofia embraces an affair with an alluring stranger, tensions with her overbearing mother threaten their fragile bond.

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./22:00, Berlinale Palast  

Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls)

Directed by: Urška Djukić
Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, 2025, 89′

During a weekend of rehearsals with the school choir at a convent, an introverted teenager begins to view the world from a new perspective. New desires, beliefs and values emerge, and this awakening threatens to disrupt her friendships and the choir. 

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./18:30, Stage Blumax Theater

Kein Tier. So Wild. (No Beast. So Fierce.)

Directed by: Burhan Qurbani
Germany, Poland, France, 2025, 142′

After a bloody gang war, Rashida, the youngest daughter of the Yorks, rises to become the leader of the Berlin underworld. Shakespeare’s “Richard III” is retold in the here and now as the story of an Arab gangster queen.

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./20:30, Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Peter Hujar’s Day

Directed by: Ira Sachs
USA, Germany, 2025, 75′

A 1974 conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz provides a glimpse into the New York downtown art scene of the time and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./18:30, Zoo Palast 1

RAPTURE

Directed by: Alisa Berger
France, Germany, 2025, 37′

A diptych about the exiled Ukrainian vogue dancer Marko and his abandoned apartment in Donbas, Ukraine. Marko embarks on a VR experiment, visiting his inaccessible home, recreated through 3D scans and original photographs from the occupied area.

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./19:00, Betonhalle@Silent Green

Sirens Call

Directed by: Miri Ian Gossing, Lina Sieckmann
Germany, Netherlands, 2025, 121′

In this feature-length debut, nomadic siren “Una” journeys through postmodern reality, navigating survival, identity and belonging. A dive into the merfolk subculture between self-care and political activism, a hybrid of science fiction and documentary.

SCREENING TIMES:

14.02./17:45, Delphi Filmpalast

RERUNS:

Ato noturno (Night Stage)
14.02./21:00, Zoo Palast 2

Das Licht (The Light)
14.02./18:00, Uber Eats Music Hall