Competition - Journey Into Cinema

An unrequited love story powers Dreams, the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s powerful Sex Love trilogy, playing in Competition.

What Does that Nature Say to You, the latest film from Hong Sangsoo, is another poetic slice of life gem about what constitutes a good life.

Kontinental ’25 is Radu Jude’s latest examination of the way we live now that is alternately humorous, terrifying and deeply stimulating.

Set entirely on the opening night of Oklahoma!, Richard Linklater’s talky film Blue Moon reunites him with Before trilogy star Ethan Hawke.

A trip to a trauma retreat turns increasingly nightmarish in Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s Honey Bunch, playing in Berlinale Special.

Vivian Qu’s gritty crime story Girls on Wire is a grim tale about the inevitability of fate that is weighed down by clichéd and stilted storytelling.

The A24 formula works to fine effect in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, starring the excellent Rose Byrne.

Dark horse black comedy What Marielle Knows is the funniest film in the Berlinale Competition so far. A Hollywood remake can’t be far away.

Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a loving and deeply satisfying riff on classic spy tropes with a true and abiding love of the genre.

Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower is a forbidding and slow riff on Hans Christian Andersen with a movie star performance from Marion Cotillard.