74th (2024) Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear (1-20) and Panorama (21- 50) competitors
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1. Dahomey (2024)
68 min | Documentary
The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.
Director: Mati Diop | Stars: Gildas Adannou, Habib Ahandessi, Joséa Guedje
Votes: 122
2. Another End (2024)
129 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Two people who have loved each other, and continue to love each other, even after one of them dies.
Director: Piero Messina | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams
Votes: 278
3. Architecton (2024)
98 min | Documentary
An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone.
Director: Victor Kossakovsky | Star: Michele De Lucchi
Votes: 57
4. Black Tea (2024)
110 min | Drama, Romance
After saying "no" on her wedding day, Joice leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Nina Melo, Han Chang, Ke-Xi Wu, Michael Chang
Votes: 172
5. La Cocina (2024)
139 min | Drama
Follows the life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush.
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios | Stars: Raúl Briones, Rooney Mara, Anna Díaz, Motell Gyn Foster
Votes: 201
6. The Devil's Bath (2024)
121 min | Drama, History, Horror
Austria in the 18th century. Forests surround villages. Killing a baby gets a woman sentenced to death. Agnes readies for married life with her beloved. But her mind and heart grow heavy. A gloomy path alone, evil thoughts arising.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid, Tim Valerian Alberti
Votes: 253
7. A Different Man (2024)
112 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
After undergoing a facial reconstructive surgery, Edward becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life.
Director: Aaron Schimberg | Stars: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson, Miles G. Jackson
Votes: 279
8. The Empire (2024)
110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, Camille Cottin, Fabrice Luchini
Votes: 422
9. From Hilde, with Love (2024)
124 min | Biography, Drama, History
In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann, Sina Martens, Lisa Lee Paulick
Votes: 97
10. Gloria! (2024)
106 min | Drama, History
It re-imagines the world of classical music on more equal standing in a Baroque-era Venice.
Director: Margherita Vicario | Stars: Galatéa Bellugi, Carlotta Gamba, Veronica Lucchesi, Maria Vittoria Dallasta
Votes: 284
11. Langue étrangère (2024)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Fanny is 17 and still looking for herself. She struggles to make friends. When she goes to Germany, she meets pen pal Lena, who dreams of getting involved politically. Fanny is troubled. To please Lena, she is ready to do anything.
Director: Claire Burger | Stars: Lilith Grasmug, Josefa Heinsius, Nina Hoss, Chiara Mastroianni
Votes: 68
12. My Favourite Cake (2024)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Seventy-year-old Mahin, solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life. A chance encounter becomes an unforgettable evening.
Directors: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha | Stars: Lili Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mohammad Heidari, Melika Pazouki
Votes: 188
13. Shambhala (2024)
150 min | Drama
In a Himalayan polyandrous village, pregnant PEMA faces scrutiny as her husband vanishes. With her monk brother-in-law, her de facto spouse, she seeks him in the wild, unraveling her own self-discovery along the journey
Director: Min Bahadur Bham | Stars: Thinley Lhamo, Sonam Topden, Tenzing Dalha, Karma Wangyal Gurung
Votes: 59
14. Small Things Like These (2024)
96 min | Drama, History
In 1985 devoted father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his own.
Director: Tim Mielants | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Ciarán Hinds, Joanne Crawford, Clare Dunne
Votes: 299
15. Dying (2024)
183 min | Drama
Lissy enjoys husband Gerd's deterioration in a home. Her joy is temporary as her health rapidly declines.
Director: Matthias Glasner | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg, Ronald Zehrfeld
Votes: 191
16. Sons (2024)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
The idealistic prison officer Eva is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works.
Director: Gustav Möller | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Sebastian Bull, Dar Salim, Marina Bouras
Votes: 168
17. Suspended Time (2024)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
During COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, two married couples quarantine together in a country house, leading to rising tensions and revelations about their relationships.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nine d'Urso, Nora Hamzawi
Votes: 87
18. Pepe (2024)
122 min | Drama
A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn't understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
Director: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias | Stars: Jhon Narváez, Fareed Matjila, Nicolás Marín Caly, Harmony Ahalwa
Votes: 85
19. A Traveler's Needs (2024)
90 min | Drama
A French woman drinks makgeolli in Korea after losing her means of income, then teaches French to two Korean women.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yunhee Cho, Kwon Hae-hyo, Isabelle Huppert, Hye-young Lee
Votes: 154
20. Who Do I Belong To (2024)
120 min | Drama
A Tunisian woman is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth when her son returns home from war and unleashes a darkness throughout their village.
Director: Meryam Joobeur | Stars: Salha Nasraoui, Mohamed Grayaâ, Malek Mechergui, Adam Bessa
Votes: 61
21. Memories of a Burning Body (2024)
90 min | Drama
Ana, Patricia and Mayela grow up when sexuality is taboo. Now channeled as one 65-year-old, the protagonist revisits intertwined memories, secrets and desires, giving voice to unspoken past experiences.
Director: Antonella Sudasassi
Votes: 10
22. No Other Land (2024)
95 min | Documentary
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
Directors: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
Votes: 268
23. Afterwar (2024)
85 min | Drama
AFTERWAR is filmed over 15 years. Director Birgitte Stærmose originally met the cast in 2008 when they were children selling cigarettes and peanuts on the streets of postwar Pristina and ... See full summary »
Director: Birgitte Stærmose | Stars: Lirija Abdullahu, Sadije Abdullahu, Xhevahire Abdullahu, Shpresim Azemi
Votes: 19
24. All Shall Be Well (2024)
93 min | Drama
Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.
Director: Ray Yeung | Stars: Patra Au, Lin-Lin Li, Tai-Bo, So-Ying Hui
Votes: 105
25. Andrea lässt sich scheiden (2024)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
A policewoman wants a divorce and city job promotion but after hitting her drunk husband with her car in an accidental collision, she flees the scene, committing a hit-and-run.
Director: Josef Hader | Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Josef Hader, Thomas Schubert, Robert Stadlober
Votes: 275
26. Baldiga: Unlocked Heart (2024)
92 min | Documentary
Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the artist Jürgen Baldiga who sensitively and authentically captured the West Berlin queer scene of the 1980s and early 1990s with his camera.
Director: Markus Stein | Stars: Jürgen Baldiga, Ichgola Androgyn, Birgit Baldiga, Tima die Göttliche
Votes: 19
27. Betânia (2024)
120 min | Drama
Not so far from the Amazon there is a Brazilian desert where Betânia tries to reborn while the world ends.
Director: Marcelo Botta | Stars: Diana Mattos, Ulysses Azevedo, Nádia D'Cássia, Caçula Rodrigues
Votes: 26
28. Between the Temples (2024)
R | 111 min | Comedy
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Director: Nathan Silver | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon, Caroline Aaron
Votes: 145
29. A Bit of a Stranger (2024)
90 min | Documentary
Four generations of Ukrainian women from one family explore how their ethnic identity has been destroyed and embark on an emotional journey shaped by their new found memories and family history.
Director: Svitlana Lishchynska | Stars: Svitlana Lishchynska, Alexadra Lishchynska, Valentyna Zahumenna, Stefania Kudiakova
Votes: 18
30. Brief History of a Family (2024)
99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
Director: Jianjie Lin | Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Muran Lin, Xilun Sun, Feng Zu
Votes: 130
31. Crossing (2024)
105 min | Drama
Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
Director: Levan Akin | Stars: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli
Votes: 257
32. Cu Li Never Cries (2024)
93 min | Drama
After inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.
Director: Pham Ngoc Lan | Stars: Minh-Châu, Xuan An Ngo, Ha-Phuong, Kieu-Trinh
Votes: 36
33. Diaries from Lebanon (2024)
110 min | Documentary
War, Politics or Revolution. These are the choices of Georges, Joumana, and Perla Joe. Three destinies, and the same desire to change a sick country: Lebanon. How to keep on dreaming when all around us is falling apart?
Director: Myriam El Hajj | Stars: Joumana Haddad, Perla Joe Maalouli, Georges Moufarrej
Votes: 15
34. Every You Every Me (2024)
104 min | Drama, Romance
Nadine seeks to revive a failing relationship. She struggles to reconnect with the emotions that first drew her to her partner. Something in him she once cherished now seems lost.
Director: Michael Fetter Nathansky | Stars: Aenne Schwarz, Carlo Ljubek, Youness Aabbaz, Sara Fazilat
Votes: 51
35. Faruk (2024)
97 min | Biography, Drama
A filmmaker daughter documents the imminent demolition of her father Faruk's apartment building in Istanbul. Faruk, who is over 90, increasingly becomes the protagonist.
Director: Asli Özge | Stars: Derya Erkenci, Gönül Gezer, Faruk Özge
Votes: 47
36. Jeste nejsem, kým chci být (2024)
90 min | Documentary
Czechoslovakian photographer seeks freedom after 1968 Prague Spring suppression. Undertakes long journey to break from repressive regime's constraints.
Director: Klára Tasovská | Star: Libuse Jarcovjakova
Votes: 19
37. I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Horror
Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously cancelled.
Director: Jane Schoenbrun | Stars: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard
Votes: 406
38. Yo vi tres luces negras (2024)
87 min | Drama
An old man enters the Colombian jungle seeking a peaceful place to die, but paramilitary soldiers controlling the area threaten his journey to death.
Director: Santiago Lozano Álvarez | Stars: John Alex Castillo, Carol Hurtado, Jesús María Mina, Julián Ramirez
Votes: 22
39. Janet Planet (2023)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
Director: Annie Baker | Stars: Zoe Ziegler, Luke Philip Bosco, June Walker Grossman, Abby Harri
Votes: 130
40. Pendant ce temps sur Terre (2024)
89 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A 23 year-old girl is contacted by an unknown life form claiming to be able to bring her older brother safely back to Earth, who disappeared during a space mission.
Director: Jérémy Clapin | Stars: Megan Northam, Dimitri Doré, Sébastien Pouderoux, Catherine Salée
Votes: 97
41. My New Friends (2024)
85 min | Drama
Lucie a police officer is fond of her new neighbors a young couple. Soon she discovers that Yann, the father has a heavy criminal record. Lucie's moral conflict between her professionalism and her desire to help this family.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Hafsia Herzi, Isabelle Huppert, Moustapha Mbengue, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Votes: 35
42. My Stolen Planet (2024)
82 min | Documentary
Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people's memories in form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.
Director: Farahnaz Sharifi
Votes: 36
43. The Outrun (2024)
118 min | Drama
After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland's Orkney Islands (where she grew up) hoping to heal. Adapted from Amy Liptrot's bestselling memoir.
Director: Nora Fingscheidt | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Saskia Reeves, Stephen Dillane, Lauren Lyle
Votes: 182
44. Les Paradis de Diane (2024)
95 min | Drama
After the birth of her first child, Diane disappears in an unknown city, but her body reawakens her memories and what she is fleeing from.
Directors: Jan Gassmann, Carmen Jaquier | Stars: Dorothée de Koon, Aurore Clément, Roland Bonjour, Omar Ayuso
Votes: 41
45. Rising Up at Night (2024)
96 min | Documentary
A Plans to build the largest power plant on the Congo plunge 17 million people into darkness and insecurity.
Director: Nelson Makengo
Votes: 9
46. Verbrannte Erde (2024)
101 min | Thriller
Twelve years after he fled, career criminal Trojan returns to Berlin. A valuable painting is set to be stolen in the city. But the meticulously planned heist soon runs out of control.
Director: Thomas Arslan | Stars: Misel Maticevic, Marie Leuenberger, Alexander Fehling, Till Wonka
Votes: 43
47. Sex (2024)
125 min | Drama, Romance
Follows two colleagues who in different ways struggle with the same issues about their sexuality.
Director: Dag Johan Haugerud | Stars: Thorbjørn Harr, Jan Gunnar Røise, Anne Marie Ottersen, Nasrin Khusrawi
Votes: 109
48. Teaches of Peaches (2024)
102 min | Documentary
Seamlessly weaving together exclusive archival gems with dynamic tour footage, this documentary captures the transformative journey of Canadian Merrill Nisker into the internationally acclaimed cultural powerhouse that is Peaches.
Directors: Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer | Stars: Peaches, Leslie Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Shirley Manson
Votes: 27
49. The Visitor (2024)
101 min | Comedy
A refugee is among multiple identical men appearing around London. Masked as a homeless man, he visits the home of an upper class family and befriended by their maid. He intimately interacts with each catalyzing their spiritual awakenings.
Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Bishop Black, Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill, Ray Filar
Votes: 66
50. À quand l'Afrique? (2024)
90 min | Documentary
Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.
Director: David-Pierre Fila | Stars: Samuel Fosso, Joseph Ki-zerbo, Simon Njami, Imam Souleymane
Votes: 14
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