The festival returns for its 75th edition from February 13 to 23, its first under the artistic direction of Tricia Tuttle. It will open with Tom Tykwer's The Light.

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Honey Bunch
Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she cannot remember why ... As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
Paul
Subject to depression and social anxiety, Paul has found refuge in serving women who invite him to clean their homes. By sharing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he combats loneliness and takes it one day at a time.
Mickey 17
The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes, has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job … to die, for a living.
Delicious
A family's apparently perfect façade starts to crumble when an accident leads them to hire a maid.
Cicadas
A woman whose marriage is crumbling and is struggling to care for her ageing parents has an encounter with a single mother that leads to an unexpected bond.
Village Rockstars 2
A teenage girl continues to follow her music dream.
The Thing With Feathers
Struggling to process the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, a young father loses his hold on reality as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
Dreams
Johanne’s intimate writings about her crush on her teacher ignite both tension and self-reflection within her family, as her mother and grandmother confront their own unfulfilled dreams and desires.
1001 Frames
In the studio of a well-known director, female actors audition for the role of Scheherazade in A Thousand and One Nights. But the women gradually realise that the director has more in mind than just casting the leading role.
Wrong Husband
An Arctic fairy tale about a couple who, though promised to each other at birth, become separated.
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Berlin International Film Festival Features

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Director Denis Côté on entering the world of a 'simp' and his dominatrices for Paul
A test of love
Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer on Honey Bunch
'When you fall in love, you get very self-obsessed'
Filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud on depicting young desire in Dreams
'It’s not just making a movie for me, it’s a journey'
Rima Das on bringing sequel Village Rockstars 2 to the screen
'I wanted her to have the space to not know what's right and wrong all the time'
Sarah Miro Fischer on the torn loyalties of her protagonist in The Good Sister
'Reality offers impromptu flowers that you’re able to harvest'
Iván Fund talks about his loose and intuitive approach to filmmaking and story in The Message
Tales from the tundra
Zacharias Kunuk on telling traditional stories in Wrong Husband
Something universal
Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs discuss Lesbian Space Princess
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