Berlinale 2025 critics ratings

Scaled to 0-10

Very Good New Films

1. "Heldin (Late Shift)" (Petra Volpe, Sui/D 2025) [8.60/5 1.0]
2. "Hysteria" (Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, D 2025) [8.60/5 1.2]
3. "Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Reflet dans un diamant mort)" (Hélène Cattet/Bruno Forzani, B/Lux/I/F 2025) [7.75/4 1.1]

Good New Films

4. "Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen (Punching the World)" (Constanze Klaue, D 2025) [7.27/15 1.2]

   The rest is below 6 or is not new or has not enough votes.

All official sections

Wettbewerb [6.25/9]

1. "The Safe House (La cache)" (Lionel Baier, Schweiz/Lux/F 2025) [10.00/2 0.0]
2. "Girls on Wire (Xiang fei de nv hai)" (Vivian Qu, CHN 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
3. "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" (Mary Bronstein, USA 2024) [8.00/3 1.6]
4. "Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Reflet dans un diamant mort)" (Hélène Cattet/Bruno Forzani, B/Lux/I/F 2025) [7.75/4 1.1]
5. "Hot Milk" (Rebecca Lenkiewicz, UK 2025) [6.00/2 0.0]
6. "The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace)" (Lucile Hadžihalilović, F/D 2025) [6.00/2 2.0]
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7. "Blue Moon" (Richard Linklater, USA/Irl 2025) [4.50/2 1.5]
8. "What Does that Nature Say to You (Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani)" (Hong Sangsoo, KOR 2025) [4.00/1 0.0]
9. "Kontinental '25" (Radu Jude, Rumänien 2025) [2.00/1 0.0]
"Ari" (Léonor Serraille, F/B 2025) [-]
"Dreams" (Michel Franco, MX 2025) [-]
"Dreams - Sex Love (Drømmer)" (Dag Johan Haugerud, Nor 2024) [-]
"Living the Land (Sheng xi zhi di)" (Huo Meng, CHN 2025) [-]
"Mother's Baby" (Johanna Moder, Ö / Schweiz / D 2025) [-]
"The Blue Trail (O último azul)" (Gabriel Mascaro, Bra/MX/Chile/NL 2025) [-]
"The Message (El mensaje)" (Iván Fund, Arg/Spa 2025) [-]
"Timestamp (Strichka chasu)" (Kateryna Gornostai, Ukr/Lux/NL/F 2025) [-]
"What Marielle Knows (Was Marielle weiß)" (Frédéric Hambalek, D 2025) [-]
"Yunan" (Ameer Fakher Eldin, D//Palästina/... 2025) [-]

Perspectives [4.65/5]

1. "How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World" (Florian Pochlatko, Ö 2025) [8.00/2 2.0]
2. "We Believe You (On vous croit)" (Arnaud Dufeys, Charlotte Devillers, B 2025) [8.00/3 1.6]
3. "Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen (Punching the World)" (Constanze Klaue, D 2025) [7.27/15 1.2]
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4. "BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions" (Kahlil Joseph, USA 2025) Sundance [0.00/1 0.0]
5. "Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)" (Joel Alfonso Vargas, USA 2025) Sundance [0.00/1 0.0]
"Eel (Hé mán)" (Chu Chun-Teng, Tai 2025) [-]
"Growing Down (Minden Rendben)" (Bálint Dániel Sós, Ung 2025) [-]
"Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica)" (Urška Djukić, Slo/I/Kro/Ser 2025) [-]
"Shadowbox (Baksho Bondi)" (Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi, Ind/F/USA/Spa 2025) [-]
"That Summer in Paris (Le rendez-vous de l'été)" (Valentine Cadic, F 2025) [-]
"The Devil Smokes - and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box (El Diablo Fuma)" (Ernesto Martínez Bucio, MX 2025) [-]
"The Settlement (Al mosta'mera)" (Mohamed Rashad, Ägypten/F/D/Katar/SA 2025) [-]
"Two Times João Liberada (Duas vezes João Liberada)" (Paula Tomás Marques, POR 2025) [-]
"Where the Night Stands Still (Come la notte)" (Liryc Dela Cruz, Ita/Phi 2025) [-]

Panorama [6.02/15]

1. "Looking for Langston" (Isaac Julien, UK 1989) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Queerpanorama" (Jun Li, USA/ Hongkong, China 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
3. "Lesbian Space Princess" (Emma Hough Hobbs/Leela Varghese, Australien) Adelaide [9.06/1 0.0]
4. "Dreams in Nightmares" (Shatara Michelle Ford, USA/Taiwan/UK 2024) Blackstar [8.85/1 0.0]
5. "Hysteria" (Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, D 2025) [8.60/5 1.2]
6. "Deaf (Sorda)" (Eva Libertad, Spanien) [8.00/1 0.0]
7. "The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren)" (Emilie Blichfeldt, Norway) Sundance [7.80/1 0.0]
8. "Khartoum" (Anas Saeed/Rawia Alhag..., Sudan/UK/D/Qatar) Sundance [7.00/1 0.0]
9. "Home Sweet Home (Hjem kaere hjem)" (Frelle Petersen, Den) [6.00/1 0.0]
10. "Olmo" (Fernando Eimbcke, USA/ MX 2025) [6.00/3 0.8]
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11. "Magic Farm" (Amalia Ulman, USA/ Argentinien 2025) [5.00/2 1.0]
12. "The Heart Is a Muscle" (Imran Hamdulay, Südafrika/SA 2025) [4.00/1 0.0]
13. "Peter Hujar's Day" (Ira Sachs, USA/D 2025) Sundance [0.00/1 0.0]
14. "Silent Sparks" (Ping Chu, Taiwan 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
15. "Yalla Parkour" (Areeb Zuaiter, Schweden/Katar/SA/Palästina 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"1001 Frames" (Mehrnoush Alia, USA/Iran 2025) [-]
"Ato noturno (Night Stage)" (Marcio Reolon/Filipe Matzembacher, Bra 2025) [-]
"Bedrock" (Kinga Michalska, Can 2025) [-]
"Begyndelser (Beginnings)" (Jeanette Nordahl, Dän/SWE/ 2025) [-]
"Cicadas (Zikaden)" (Ina Weisse, D/F 2025) [-]
"Confidante (Confidente)" (Çağla Zencirci/Guillaume Giovanetti, Türkei/F/Lux 2025) [-]
"Delicious" (Nele Mueller-Stöfen, D 2025) [-]
"Die Affäre Cum-Ex (Other People’s Money)" (Jan Schomburg, Dustin Loose, Kaspar Munk, D/Den/Ö 2025) [-]
"Die Möllner Briefe" (Martina Priessner, D) [-]
"Dreamers" (Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, UK 2025) [-]
"Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef (I Want It All)" (Luzia Schmid, D 2025) [-]
"Listy z Wilczej (Letters from Wolf Street)" (Arjun Talwar, Polen / D 2025) [-]
"Monk in Pieces" (Billy Shebar, USA/D/F 2025) [-]
"Night Stage (Ato noturno)" (Marcio Reolon/Filipe Matzembacher, Bra 2025) [-]
"Once Again.. Mit (Statues Never Die)" (Isaac Julien, UK 2025) [-]
"Paul" (Denis Côté, Can) [-]
"Schwesterherz (The Good Sister)" (Sarah Miro Fischer, D / Spanien 2025) [-]
"The Incredible Snow Woman (L’ Incroyable femme des neiges)" (Sébastien Betbeder, F 2025) [-]
"The Longing (Mikusu Modan)" (Toshizo Fujiwara, Japan 2025) [-]
"Under the Flags, the Sun" (Bajo las banderas, el sol) (Juanjo Pereira, Par/Arg/USA/F/D) [-]
"Welcome Home Baby" (Andreas Prochaska, Ö/D 2025) [-]

Generation [5.94/11]

1. "The Nature of Invisible Things" (Rafaela Camelo, Bra/Ch) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Wrong Husband (Uiksaringitara)" (Zacharias Kunuk, Kanada 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
3. "Only on Earth" (Robin Petré, Den/Spanien 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
4. "Village Rockstars 2" (Rima Das, Indien/Singapur 2024) [7.98/1 0.0]
5. "The Tale of Daye’s Family" (Karim El Shenawy, Ägypten 2024) [6.88/1 0.0]
6. "Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, donne-moi un titre)" (Michel Gondry, F 2024) [6.84/1 0.0]
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7. "Our Wildest Days (I Agries Meres Mas)" (Vasilis Kekatos, GRE/F) [5.60/1 0.0]
8. "Tales From the Magic Garden (Pohádky po babičce)" (David Súkup/Patrik Pašš/Leon Vidmar/Jean-Claude Rozec, CZ/Svk/Slo/F 2025) [5.00/1 0.0]
9. "Têtes Brûlées" (Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama, B) [4.00/1 0.0]
10. "Sandbag Dam (Zečji nasip)" (Čejen Černić Čanak, Kroatien/Litauen/Slowenien 2024) [1.00/1 0.0]
11. "Sunshine" (Antoinette Jadaone, Philippinen 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"A Story about Fire | Eine Geschichte vom Feuer (Ran Bi Wa)" (Li Wenyu, CHN 2025) [-]
"Christy" (Brendan Canty, Irland/UK 2025) [-]
"Hora do recreio (Playtime)" (Lucia Murat, Brasilien 2025) [-]
"Paternal Leave" (Alissa Jung, D / Italien 2025) [-]
"Seaside Serendipity (Umibe é Iku Michi)" (Satoko Yokohama, Japan 2025) [-]
"Space Cadet" (Eric San aka Kid Koala, Kanada) [-]
"Underage | Minderjährig (De menor)" (Caru Alves de Souza, Brasilien 2025) [-]
"Zirkuskind (Circusboy)" (Julia Lemke, Anna Koch, D 2025) [-]

Forum [7.61/10]

1. "Fruit Farm (Guochang)" (Nana Xu, D/CHN 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Inner Blooming Springs (Shinagani gazapkhulebis q’vaviloba)" (Tiku Kobiashvili, Georgien 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
3. "Sirens Call" (Miri Ian Gossing, Lina Sieckmann, D/NL 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
4. "Iracema (Iracema, uma transa amazônica)" (Jorge Bodanzky, Orlando Senna, Bra/BRD 1975) [8.00/1 0.0]
5. "Scars of a Putsch" (Nathalie Borgers, Ö/B 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
6. "Das falsche Wort (The Lie)" (Katrin Seybold, BRD 1987) [7.00/1 0.0]
7. "Cadet" (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kasachstan 2024) [6.78/1 0.0]
8. "Underground" (Kaori Oda, Japan 2024) [6.04/1 0.0]
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9. "Spring Night (Bombam)" (Kang Mi-ja, Südkorea 2024) [5.55/1 0.0]
10. "The Sense of Violence" (Kim Mooyoung, KOR 2024) [4.75/1 0.0]
"2024 (2023)" (Stefan Hayn, D 2025) [-]
"After Dreaming" (Christine Haroutounian, USA/ Armenien / MX 2025) [-]
"Canone effimero" (Gianluca De Serio/Massimiliano De Serio, I 2025) [-]
"Chas pidlotu (Time to the Target)" (Vitaly Mansky, Lettland/CZ/Ukr 2025) [-]
"Colossal (Colosal)" (Nayibe Tavares-Abel, Dominikanische Republik 2025) [-]
"Der Kuss des Grashüpfers (The Kiss of the Grasshopper)" (Elmar Imanov, D/Lux/I 2025) [-]
"Eighty Plus (Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde)" (Želimir Žilnik, Ser/Slo 2025) [-]
"Evidence" (Lee Anne Schmitt, USA 2025) [-]
"Fwends" (Sophie Somerville, Aus 2025) [-]
"Holding Liat" (Brandon Kramer, USA 2025) [-]
"Houses (Batim)" (Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum, Israel / D 2025) [-]
"Janine Moves to the Country (Janine zieht aufs Land)" (Jan Eilhardt, D 2025) [-]
"Minimals in a Titanic World" (Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo, Ruanda/D/Kamerun 2025) [-]
"My Armenian Phantoms (Mes fantômes arméniens)" (Tamara Stepanyan, F/Armenien/Katar 2025) [-]
"Nudity (Nagota)" (Sabina Bakaeva, Usbekistan/F 2025) [-]
"Palliative Care Unit (Palliativstation)" (Philipp Döring, D 2025) [-]
"Punku" (Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, Peru/Spanien 2025) [-]
"Queer as Punk" (Yihwen Chen, Malaysia/Indonesien 2025) [-]
"The Long Road to The Director's Chair" (Vibeke Løkkeberg, Nor 2025) [-]
"The Memory of Butterflies (La memoria de las mariposas)" (Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, Peru/POR 2025) [-]
"The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov" (Yuri Semashko, Lit 2025) [-]
"The Trio Hall" (Su Hui-yu, Taiwan 2025) [-]
"Tiger’s Pond (Vaghachipani)" (Natesh Hegde, Indien/Singapur 2025) [-]
"Unsere Zeit wird kommen (Our Time Will Come)" (Ivette Löcker, Ö 2025) [-]
"Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst (If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile)" (Marie Luise Lehner, Ö 2025) [-]
"What’s next?" (Cao Yiwen, Hongkong, China 2025) [-]
"When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea" (Eva Neymann, D/Ukr 2025) [-]
"little boy" (James Benning, USA 2025) [-]

Forum Expanded [2.39/7]

1. "Chang Gyeong" (Jangwook Lee, Kor 2025) [6.67/3 0.9]
2. "Mirage: Eigenstate" (Riar Rizaldi, Indonesien/UK/POR 2024) [6.38/1 0.0]
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3. "Photosynthesizing Dead in Warehouse" (Jeamin Cha, Südkorea 2024) [3.67/1 0.0]
4. "Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland (ADfD) (Alternative Monument for Germany)" (Alternative Monument, D 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
5. "Sinking Suns" (Neda Saeedi, Ö/D 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
6. "The last day (Akher Youm)" (Mahmoud Ibrahim, Ägypten 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
7. "Tin City" (Feargal Ward, Irland 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Al Basateen (The Orchards)" (Antoine Chapon, F 2025) [-]
"Cobalt (Mikuba)" (Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Demokratische Republik Kongo/USA 2025) [-]
"Extra Life (and Decay)" (Stéphanie Lagarde, NL/F 2025) [-]
"I believe the portrait saved me (Mua besoj më shpëtoj portreti)" (Alban Muja, Kosovo/NL 2025) [-]
"J-N-N" (Ginan Seidl, D 2025) [-]
"Letters from Absurd (Cartas do Absurdo)" (Gabraz Sanna, Brasilien 2025) [-]
"Miraculous Accident" (Assaf Gruber, D/Ö 2025) [-]
"Mountain Roars" (Chonchanok Thanatteepwong/Pobwarat Maprasob, Thailand 2025) [-]
"Portales (Portals)" (Elena Duque, Spanien 2025) [-]
"RAPTURE" (Alisa Berger, F/D 2025) [-]
"Rumble (Pidikwe)" (Caroline Monnet, Kanada 2025) [-]
"STARS" (STARS Collective, UK/D 2025) [-]
"Special Operation (Spetsialna Operatsiia)" (Oleksiy Radynski, Ukr/Litauen 2025) [-]
"When the Sun is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin)" (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA 2025) [-]
"Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories" (Lisa Jackson, The Macronauts, Kanada 2025) [-]
"Zizi (or Praying to a Fabulous Tree)" (Felipe M. Bragança, Brasilien 2025) [-]
"beneath the placid lake" (Kush Badhwar/Vyjayanthi Rao, Indien/Finnland 2025) [-]

Special [8.30/13]

1. "A Complete Unknown" (James Mangold, USA 2024) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Honey Bunch" (Madeleine Sims-Fewer/Dusty Mancinelli, Kanada) [10.00/1 0.0]
3. "Shoah" (Claude Lanzmann, F 1985) [9.02/1 0.0]
4. "Mickey 17" (Bong Joon Ho, USA/Kor/UK 2024) [8.80/1 0.0]
5. "Heldin (Late Shift)" (Petra Volpe, Sui/D 2025) [8.60/5 1.0]
6. "The Best Mother in the World (A melhor mãe do mundo)" (Anna Muylaert, Bra/Arg 2025) [8.50/2 0.5]
7. "My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow" (Julia Loktev, USA 2024) [8.25/1 0.0]
8. "After This Death" (Lucio Castro, USA 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
9. "Lurker" (Alex Russell, USA/Italien 2025) Sundance [8.00/1 0.0]
10. "The Old Woman with the Knife (Pa-gwa)" (Min Kyu-dong, Kor 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
11. "The Thing with Feathers" (Dylan Southern, UK 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
12. "Friendship's Death" (Peter Wollen, UK 1987) Goldener Ehrenbär [6.75/1 0.0]
13. "Kein Tier. So Wild. (No Beast. So Fierce.)" (Burhan Qurbani, D/Pol/F 2025) [6.00/3 0.8]
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"A Letter to David (Michtav Le'David)" (Tom Shoval, Isr/USA 2025) [-]
"Ancestral Visions of the Future" (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, F/Lesotho/D/Katar/Saudi-Arabien 2025) [-]
"Das Deutsche Volk" (Marcin Wierzchowski, D 2025) [-]
"Das Licht" (Tom Tykwer, D/F) [-]
"Islands" (Jan-Ole Gerster, D) [-]
"Je n’avais que le néant – "Shoah" par Lanzmann (All I Had Was Nothingness)" (Guillaume Ribot, F 2025) [-]
"Köln 75" (Ido Fluk, D/Polen/B) [-]
"Leibniz – Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes (Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting)" (Edgar Reitz, Anatol Schuster, D 2025) [-]
"The Narrow Road to the Deep North" (Justin Kurzel, Aus 2025) [-]

Retrospektive [6.13/22]

1. "Dirty Harry" (Don Siegel, USA 1971) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Dressed in Blue (Vestida de azul)" (Antonio Giménez-Rico, Spanien 1983) [8.71/1 0.0]
3. "The Goddess (Shennü)" (Wu Yonggang, China 1934) [7.83/1 0.0]
4. "Games for Teenagers (Naerata ometi)" (Leida Laius/Arvo Iho, Estland/UdSSR 1985) [7.81/1 0.0]
5. "Seisaku's Wife (Seisaku no Tsuma)" (Yasuzô Masumura, Japan 1965) [7.78/1 0.0]
6. "Blutiger Freitag (Bloody Friday)" (Rolf Olsen BRD/I 1972) [7.22/1 0.0]
7. "Solo Sunny" (Konrad Wolf, Deutsche Demokratische Republik 1980) [7.21/1 0.0]
8. "Rocker" (Klaus Lemke, BRD 1972) [7.15/1 0.0]
9. "Einer von uns beiden (One or the Other of Us)" (Wolfgang Petersen, BRD 1974) [7.08/1 0.0]
10. "Fremde Stadt (Strange City)" (Rudolf Thome, BRD 1972) [7.07/1 0.0]
11. "Nelken in Aspik (Carnations in Aspic)" (Günter Reisch, DDR 1976) [7.04/1 0.0]
12. "Deadlock" (Roland Klick, BRD 1970) [6.93/1 0.0]
13. "Orpheus in der Unterwelt (Orpheus in the Underworld)" (Horst Bonnet, DDR 1973) [6.87/1 0.0]
14. "Jonathan" (Hans W. Geißendörfer, BRD 1970) [6.74/1 0.0]
15. "Männer sind zum Lieben da (The Girls from Atlantis)" (Eckhart Schmidt, BRD 1970) [6.51/1 0.0]
16. "Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (Tenderness of the Wolves)" (Ulli Lommel, BRD 1973) [6.43/1 0.0]
17. "Fleisch (Spare Parts)" (Rainer Erler, BRD 1979) [6.03/1 0.0]
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18. "Hut ab, wenn du küsst! (Hat Off When You Kiss)" (Rolf Losansky, DDR 1971) [5.65/1 0.0]
19. "Lady Dracula" (Franz Josef Gottlieb, BRD 1978) [4.77/1 0.0]
20. "Der Fall Paradin (The Paradine Case)" (Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1947) [0.00/1 0.0]
21. "Hell's Angels" (Howard Hughes, James Whale, USA 1930) [0.00/1 0.0]
22. "Mädchen mit Gewalt (The Brutes)" (Roger Fritz, BRD 1970) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Nicht schummeln, Liebling! (Don’t Cheat, Darling!)" (Joachim Hasler, DDR 1973) [-]

Woche der Kritik [6.61/5]

1. "Mexico will no longer exist! (Aoquic iez in Mexico!)" (Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco, MX 2024) [7.30/1 0.0]
2. "Measures for a Funeral" (Sofia Bohdanowicz, CA 2024) [6.87/1 0.0]
3. "In Her Time (Iris’ Version)" (Diane Severin Nguyen, USA 2024) [6.84/1 0.0]
4. "Sleep #2" (Radu Jude, RO 2024) [6.25/1 0.0]
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5. "East of Noon" (Hala Elkoussy, NL/EG/QA 2024) [5.80/1 0.0]
"All Quiet at Sunrise" (Zhu Xin, CN 2025) [-]
"All We Ever Wanted" (Frédéric Jaeger, D 2024) [-]
"Before You Fade Away into Nothing" (Skinner Myers, USA 2025) [-]
"Casablanca" (Adriano Valerio, FR/IT 2023) [-]
"Vulcanizadora" (Joel Potrykus, US 2024) [-]

Predictions

All films

Sorted by avg vote, unfiltered:
1. "A Complete Unknown" (James Mangold, USA 2024) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Dirty Harry" (Don Siegel, USA 1971) [10.00/1 0.0]
3. "Fruit Farm (Guochang)" (Nana Xu, D/CHN 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
4. "Honey Bunch" (Madeleine Sims-Fewer/Dusty Mancinelli, Kanada) [10.00/1 0.0]
5. "Inner Blooming Springs (Shinagani gazapkhulebis q’vaviloba)" (Tiku Kobiashvili, Georgien 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
6. "Looking for Langston" (Isaac Julien, UK 1989) [10.00/1 0.0]
7. "Queerpanorama" (Jun Li, USA/ Hongkong, China 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
8. "Sirens Call" (Miri Ian Gossing, Lina Sieckmann, D/NL 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
9. "The Nature of Invisible Things" (Rafaela Camelo, Bra/Ch) [10.00/1 0.0]
10. "Wrong Husband (Uiksaringitara)" (Zacharias Kunuk, Kanada 2025) [10.00/1 0.0]
11. "Lesbian Space Princess" (Emma Hough Hobbs/Leela Varghese, Australien) Adelaide [9.06/1 0.0]
12. "Shoah" (Claude Lanzmann, F 1985) [9.02/1 0.0]
13. "Dreams in Nightmares" (Shatara Michelle Ford, USA/Taiwan/UK 2024) Blackstar [8.85/1 0.0]
14. "Mickey 17" (Bong Joon Ho, USA/Kor/UK 2024) [8.80/1 0.0]
15. "Dressed in Blue (Vestida de azul)" (Antonio Giménez-Rico, Spanien 1983) [8.71/1 0.0]
16. "Heldin (Late Shift)" (Petra Volpe, Sui/D 2025) [8.60/5 1.0]
17. "Hysteria" (Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, D 2025) [8.60/5 1.2]
18. "The Best Mother in the World (A melhor mãe do mundo)" (Anna Muylaert, Bra/Arg 2025) [8.50/2 0.5]
19. "My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow" (Julia Loktev, USA 2024) [8.25/1 0.0]
20. "After This Death" (Lucio Castro, USA 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
21. "Deaf (Sorda)" (Eva Libertad, Spanien) [8.00/1 0.0]
22. "Girls on Wire (Xiang fei de nv hai)" (Vivian Qu, CHN 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
23. "How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World" (Florian Pochlatko, Ö 2025) [8.00/2 2.0]
24. "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" (Mary Bronstein, USA 2024) [8.00/3 1.6]
25. "Iracema (Iracema, uma transa amazônica)" (Jorge Bodanzky, Orlando Senna, Bra/BRD 1975) [8.00/1 0.0]
26. "Lurker" (Alex Russell, USA/Italien 2025) Sundance [8.00/1 0.0]
27. "Only on Earth" (Robin Petré, Den/Spanien 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
28. "Scars of a Putsch" (Nathalie Borgers, Ö/B 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
29. "The Old Woman with the Knife (Pa-gwa)" (Min Kyu-dong, Kor 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
30. "The Safe House (La cache)" (Lionel Baier, Schweiz/Lux/F 2025) [8.00/3 0.0]
31. "The Thing with Feathers" (Dylan Southern, UK 2025) [8.00/1 0.0]
32. "We Believe You (On vous croit)" (Arnaud Dufeys, Charlotte Devillers, B 2025) [8.00/3 1.6]
33. "Village Rockstars 2" (Rima Das, Indien/Singapur 2024) [7.98/1 0.0]
34. "The Goddess (Shennü)" (Wu Yonggang, China 1934) [7.83/1 0.0]
35. "Games for Teenagers (Naerata ometi)" (Leida Laius/Arvo Iho, Estland/UdSSR 1985) [7.81/1 0.0]
36. "The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren)" (Emilie Blichfeldt, Norway) Sundance [7.80/1 0.0]
37. "Seisaku's Wife (Seisaku no Tsuma)" (Yasuzô Masumura, Japan 1965) [7.78/1 0.0]
38. "Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Reflet dans un diamant mort)" (Hélène Cattet/Bruno Forzani, B/Lux/I/F 2025) [7.75/4 1.1]
39. "Hot Milk" (Rebecca Lenkiewicz, UK 2025) [7.33/3 0.0]
40. "Mexico will no longer exist! (Aoquic iez in Mexico!)" (Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco, MX 2024) [7.30/1 0.0]
41. "Blutiger Freitag (Bloody Friday)" (Rolf Olsen BRD/I 1972) [7.22/1 0.0]
42. "Solo Sunny" (Konrad Wolf, Deutsche Demokratische Republik 1980) [7.21/1 0.0]
43. "Rocker" (Klaus Lemke, BRD 1972) [7.15/1 0.0]
44. "Einer von uns beiden (One or the Other of Us)" (Wolfgang Petersen, BRD 1974) [7.08/1 0.0]
45. "Fremde Stadt (Strange City)" (Rudolf Thome, BRD 1972) [7.07/1 0.0]
46. "Nelken in Aspik (Carnations in Aspic)" (Günter Reisch, DDR 1976) [7.04/1 0.0]
47. "Das falsche Wort (The Lie)" (Katrin Seybold, BRD 1987) [7.00/1 0.0]
48. "Khartoum" (Anas Saeed/Rawia Alhag..., Sudan/UK/D/Qatar) Sundance [7.00/1 0.0]
49. "Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen (Punching the World)" (Constanze Klaue, D 2025) [6.95/20 1.2]
50. "Deadlock" (Roland Klick, BRD 1970) [6.93/1 0.0]
51. "The Tale of Daye’s Family" (Karim El Shenawy, Ägypten 2024) [6.88/1 0.0]
52. "Measures for a Funeral" (Sofia Bohdanowicz, CA 2024) [6.87/1 0.0]
53. "Orpheus in der Unterwelt (Orpheus in the Underworld)" (Horst Bonnet, DDR 1973) [6.87/1 0.0]
54. "In Her Time (Iris’ Version)" (Diane Severin Nguyen, USA 2024) [6.84/1 0.0]
55. "Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, donne-moi un titre)" (Michel Gondry, F 2024) [6.84/1 0.0]
56. "Cadet" (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kasachstan 2024) [6.78/1 0.0]
57. "Friendship's Death" (Peter Wollen, UK 1987) Goldener Ehrenbär [6.75/1 0.0]
58. "Jonathan" (Hans W. Geißendörfer, BRD 1970) [6.74/1 0.0]
59. "Chang Gyeong" (Jangwook Lee, Kor 2025) [6.67/3 0.9]
60. "Männer sind zum Lieben da (The Girls from Atlantis)" (Eckhart Schmidt, BRD 1970) [6.51/1 0.0]
61. "Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (Tenderness of the Wolves)" (Ulli Lommel, BRD 1973) [6.43/1 0.0]
62. "Mirage: Eigenstate" (Riar Rizaldi, Indonesien/UK/POR 2024) [6.38/1 0.0]
63. "Sleep #2" (Radu Jude, RO 2024) [6.25/1 0.0]
64. "Underground" (Kaori Oda, Japan 2024) [6.04/1 0.0]
65. "Fleisch (Spare Parts)" (Rainer Erler, BRD 1979) [6.03/1 0.0]
66. "Home Sweet Home (Hjem kaere hjem)" (Frelle Petersen, Den) [6.00/1 0.0]
67. "Kein Tier. So Wild. (No Beast. So Fierce.)" (Burhan Qurbani, D/Pol/F 2025) [6.00/3 0.8]
68. "Olmo" (Fernando Eimbcke, USA/ MX 2025) [6.00/3 0.8]
69. "The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace)" (Lucile Hadžihalilović, F/D 2025) [6.00/2 2.0]
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70. "East of Noon" (Hala Elkoussy, NL/EG/QA 2024) [5.80/1 0.0]
71. "Hut ab, wenn du küsst! (Hat Off When You Kiss)" (Rolf Losansky, DDR 1971) [5.65/1 0.0]
72. "Our Wildest Days (I Agries Meres Mas)" (Vasilis Kekatos, GRE/F) [5.60/1 0.0]
73. "Spring Night (Bombam)" (Kang Mi-ja, Südkorea 2024) [5.55/1 0.0]
74. "Magic Farm" (Amalia Ulman, USA/ Argentinien 2025) [5.00/2 1.0]
75. "Tales From the Magic Garden (Pohádky po babičce)" (David Súkup/Patrik Pašš/Leon Vidmar/Jean-Claude Rozec, CZ/Svk/Slo/F 2025) [5.00/1 0.0]
76. "The Message (El mensaje)" (Iván Fund, Arg/Spa 2025) [5.00/2 0.0]
77. "Lady Dracula" (Franz Josef Gottlieb, BRD 1978) [4.77/1 0.0]
78. "The Sense of Violence" (Kim Mooyoung, KOR 2024) [4.75/1 0.0]
79. "Blue Moon" (Richard Linklater, USA/Irl 2025) [4.50/2 1.5]
80. "The Heart Is a Muscle" (Imran Hamdulay, Südafrika/SA 2025) [4.00/1 0.0]
81. "Têtes Brûlées" (Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama, B) [4.00/1 0.0]
82. "What Does that Nature Say to You (Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani)" (Hong Sangsoo, KOR 2025) [4.00/1 0.0]
83. "Photosynthesizing Dead in Warehouse" (Jeamin Cha, Südkorea 2024) [3.67/1 0.0]
84. "Kontinental '25" (Radu Jude, Rumänien 2025) [2.00/1 0.0]
85. "Sandbag Dam (Zečji nasip)" (Čejen Černić Čanak, Kroatien/Litauen/Slowenien 2024) [1.00/1 0.0]
"1001 Frames" (Mehrnoush Alia, USA/Iran 2025) [-]
"2024 (2023)" (Stefan Hayn, D 2025) [-]
"A Letter to David (Michtav Le'David)" (Tom Shoval, Isr/USA 2025) [-]
"A Story about Fire | Eine Geschichte vom Feuer (Ran Bi Wa)" (Li Wenyu, CHN 2025) [-]
"After Dreaming" (Christine Haroutounian, USA/ Armenien / MX 2025) [-]
"Al Basateen (The Orchards)" (Antoine Chapon, F 2025) [-]
"All Quiet at Sunrise" (Zhu Xin, CN 2025) [-]
"All We Ever Wanted" (Frédéric Jaeger, D 2024) [-]
86. "Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland (ADfD) (Alternative Monument for Germany)" (Alternative Monument, D 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Ancestral Visions of the Future" (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, F/Lesotho/D/Katar/Saudi-Arabien 2025) [-]
"Ari" (Léonor Serraille, F/B 2025) [-]
"Ato noturno (Night Stage)" (Marcio Reolon/Filipe Matzembacher, Bra 2025) [-]
87. "BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions" (Kahlil Joseph, USA 2025) Sundance [0.00/1 0.0]
"Bedrock" (Kinga Michalska, Can 2025) [-]
"Before You Fade Away into Nothing" (Skinner Myers, USA 2025) [-]
"Begyndelser (Beginnings)" (Jeanette Nordahl, Dän/SWE/ 2025) [-]
"Canone effimero" (Gianluca De Serio/Massimiliano De Serio, I 2025) [-]
"Casablanca" (Adriano Valerio, FR/IT 2023) [-]
"Chas pidlotu (Time to the Target)" (Vitaly Mansky, Lettland/CZ/Ukr 2025) [-]
"Christy" (Brendan Canty, Irland/UK 2025) [-]
"Cicadas (Zikaden)" (Ina Weisse, D/F 2025) [-]
"Cobalt (Mikuba)" (Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Demokratische Republik Kongo/USA 2025) [-]
"Colossal (Colosal)" (Nayibe Tavares-Abel, Dominikanische Republik 2025) [-]
"Confidante (Confidente)" (Çağla Zencirci/Guillaume Giovanetti, Türkei/F/Lux 2025) [-]
"Das Deutsche Volk" (Marcin Wierzchowski, D 2025) [-]
"Das Licht" (Tom Tykwer, D/F) [-]
"Delicious" (Nele Mueller-Stöfen, D 2025) [-]
88. "Der Fall Paradin (The Paradine Case)" (Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1947) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Der Kuss des Grashüpfers (The Kiss of the Grasshopper)" (Elmar Imanov, D/Lux/I 2025) [-]
"Die Affäre Cum-Ex (Other People’s Money)" (Jan Schomburg, Dustin Loose, Kaspar Munk, D/Den/Ö 2025) [-]
"Die Möllner Briefe" (Martina Priessner, D) [-]
"Dreamers" (Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, UK 2025) [-]
"Dreams - Sex Love (Drømmer)" (Dag Johan Haugerud, Nor 2024) [-]
"Dreams" (Michel Franco, MX 2025) [-]
"Eel (Hé mán)" (Chu Chun-Teng, Tai 2025) [-]
"Eighty Plus (Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde)" (Želimir Žilnik, Ser/Slo 2025) [-]
"Evidence" (Lee Anne Schmitt, USA 2025) [-]
"Extra Life (and Decay)" (Stéphanie Lagarde, NL/F 2025) [-]
"Fwends" (Sophie Somerville, Aus 2025) [-]
"Growing Down (Minden Rendben)" (Bálint Dániel Sós, Ung 2025) [-]
89. "Hell's Angels" (Howard Hughes, James Whale, USA 1930) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Holding Liat" (Brandon Kramer, USA 2025) [-]
"Hora do recreio (Playtime)" (Lucia Murat, Brasilien 2025) [-]
"Houses (Batim)" (Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum, Israel / D 2025) [-]
"I believe the portrait saved me (Mua besoj më shpëtoj portreti)" (Alban Muja, Kosovo/NL 2025) [-]
"Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef (I Want It All)" (Luzia Schmid, D 2025) [-]
"Islands" (Jan-Ole Gerster, D) [-]
"J-N-N" (Ginan Seidl, D 2025) [-]
"Janine Moves to the Country (Janine zieht aufs Land)" (Jan Eilhardt, D 2025) [-]
"Je n’avais que le néant – "Shoah" par Lanzmann (All I Had Was Nothingness)" (Guillaume Ribot, F 2025) [-]
"Köln 75" (Ido Fluk, D/Polen/B) [-]
"Leibniz – Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes (Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting)" (Edgar Reitz, Anatol Schuster, D 2025) [-]
"Letters from Absurd (Cartas do Absurdo)" (Gabraz Sanna, Brasilien 2025) [-]
"Listy z Wilczej (Letters from Wolf Street)" (Arjun Talwar, Polen / D 2025) [-]
"Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica)" (Urška Djukić, Slo/I/Kro/Ser 2025) [-]
"Living the Land (Sheng xi zhi di)" (Huo Meng, CHN 2025) [-]
90. "Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)" (Joel Alfonso Vargas, USA 2025) Sundance [0.00/1 0.0]
"Minimals in a Titanic World" (Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo, Ruanda/D/Kamerun 2025) [-]
"Miraculous Accident" (Assaf Gruber, D/Ö 2025) [-]
"Monk in Pieces" (Billy Shebar, USA/D/F 2025) [-]
"Mother's Baby" (Johanna Moder, Ö / Schweiz / D 2025) [-]
"Mountain Roars" (Chonchanok Thanatteepwong/Pobwarat Maprasob, Thailand 2025) [-]
"My Armenian Phantoms (Mes fantômes arméniens)" (Tamara Stepanyan, F/Armenien/Katar 2025) [-]
91. "Mädchen mit Gewalt (The Brutes)" (Roger Fritz, BRD 1970) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Nicht schummeln, Liebling! (Don’t Cheat, Darling!)" (Joachim Hasler, DDR 1973) [-]
"Night Stage (Ato noturno)" (Marcio Reolon/Filipe Matzembacher, Bra 2025) [-]
"Nudity (Nagota)" (Sabina Bakaeva, Usbekistan/F 2025) [-]
"Once Again.. Mit (Statues Never Die)" (Isaac Julien, UK 2025) [-]
"Palliative Care Unit (Palliativstation)" (Philipp Döring, D 2025) [-]
"Paternal Leave" (Alissa Jung, D / Italien 2025) [-]
"Paul" (Denis Côté, Can) [-]
92. "Peter Hujar's Day" (Ira Sachs, USA/D 2025) Sundance [0.00/1 0.0]
"Portales (Portals)" (Elena Duque, Spanien 2025) [-]
"Punku" (Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, Peru/Spanien 2025) [-]
"Queer as Punk" (Yihwen Chen, Malaysia/Indonesien 2025) [-]
"RAPTURE" (Alisa Berger, F/D 2025) [-]
"Rumble (Pidikwe)" (Caroline Monnet, Kanada 2025) [-]
"STARS" (STARS Collective, UK/D 2025) [-]
"Schwesterherz (The Good Sister)" (Sarah Miro Fischer, D / Spanien 2025) [-]
"Seaside Serendipity (Umibe é Iku Michi)" (Satoko Yokohama, Japan 2025) [-]
"Shadowbox (Baksho Bondi)" (Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi, Ind/F/USA/Spa 2025) [-]
93. "Silent Sparks" (Ping Chu, Taiwan 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
94. "Sinking Suns" (Neda Saeedi, Ö/D 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Space Cadet" (Eric San aka Kid Koala, Kanada) [-]
"Special Operation (Spetsialna Operatsiia)" (Oleksiy Radynski, Ukr/Litauen 2025) [-]
95. "Sunshine" (Antoinette Jadaone, Philippinen 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"That Summer in Paris (Le rendez-vous de l'été)" (Valentine Cadic, F 2025) [-]
"The Blue Trail (O último azul)" (Gabriel Mascaro, Bra/MX/Chile/NL 2025) [-]
"The Devil Smokes - and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box (El Diablo Fuma)" (Ernesto Martínez Bucio, MX 2025) [-]
"The Incredible Snow Woman (L’ Incroyable femme des neiges)" (Sébastien Betbeder, F 2025) [-]
"The Long Road to The Director's Chair" (Vibeke Løkkeberg, Nor 2025) [-]
"The Longing (Mikusu Modan)" (Toshizo Fujiwara, Japan 2025) [-]
"The Memory of Butterflies (La memoria de las mariposas)" (Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, Peru/POR 2025) [-]
"The Narrow Road to the Deep North" (Justin Kurzel, Aus 2025) [-]
"The Settlement (Al mosta'mera)" (Mohamed Rashad, Ägypten/F/D/Katar/SA 2025) [-]
"The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov" (Yuri Semashko, Lit 2025) [-]
"The Trio Hall" (Su Hui-yu, Taiwan 2025) [-]
96. "The last day (Akher Youm)" (Mahmoud Ibrahim, Ägypten 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Tiger’s Pond (Vaghachipani)" (Natesh Hegde, Indien/Singapur 2025) [-]
"Timestamp (Strichka chasu)" (Kateryna Gornostai, Ukr/Lux/NL/F 2025) [-]
97. "Tin City" (Feargal Ward, Irland 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Two Times João Liberada (Duas vezes João Liberada)" (Paula Tomás Marques, POR 2025) [-]
"Under the Flags, the Sun" (Bajo las banderas, el sol) (Juanjo Pereira, Par/Arg/USA/F/D) [-]
"Underage | Minderjährig (De menor)" (Caru Alves de Souza, Brasilien 2025) [-]
"Unsere Zeit wird kommen (Our Time Will Come)" (Ivette Löcker, Ö 2025) [-]
"Vulcanizadora" (Joel Potrykus, US 2024) [-]
"Welcome Home Baby" (Andreas Prochaska, Ö/D 2025) [-]
"Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst (If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile)" (Marie Luise Lehner, Ö 2025) [-]
"What Marielle Knows (Was Marielle weiß)" (Frédéric Hambalek, D 2025) [-]
"What’s next?" (Cao Yiwen, Hongkong, China 2025) [-]
"When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea" (Eva Neymann, D/Ukr 2025) [-]
"When the Sun is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin)" (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA 2025) [-]
"Where the Night Stands Still (Come la notte)" (Liryc Dela Cruz, Ita/Phi 2025) [-]
"Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories" (Lisa Jackson, The Macronauts, Kanada 2025) [-]
98. "Yalla Parkour" (Areeb Zuaiter, Schweden/Katar/SA/Palästina 2024) [0.00/1 0.0]
"Yunan" (Ameer Fakher Eldin, D//Palästina/... 2025) [-]
"Zirkuskind (Circusboy)" (Julia Lemke, Anna Koch, D 2025) [-]
"Zizi (or Praying to a Fabulous Tree)" (Felipe M. Bragança, Brasilien 2025) [-]
"beneath the placid lake" (Kush Badhwar/Vyjayanthi Rao, Indien/Finnland 2025) [-]
"little boy" (James Benning, USA 2025) [-]

261/270 Critics

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