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.

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.

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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.

The Berlin international film festival is underway in the German capital until Sunday. It closes on the same day as the German snap elections. Timely given that this 75th edition has featured quite a bit of politics - with films covering the themes of immigrant identity as well as the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.