BerlinaleSelection

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Seven hypnotic and erratic fugue-like miniatures search for answers.

Two professional actors undergo an immersive process to find out what it takes to be a cop in Mexico City.

The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.

A man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.

Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.

A skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business.

A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.

A day in the life of Leo and his daughter, Molly, as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future.

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.

A recently deceased man discovers that the afterlife isn't quite what he was expecting.

A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives.

Christian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts.

A man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.

In a rehab clinic Romy Schneider gives her last interview to two journalists. Three days, driven by romantic desire, professional ambition and the urge for living.

Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.

At work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.

A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.

Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

Muzaffer goes to his parent's house to shoot his film. He is thinking of casting his relatives in the film, but his father struggles with the forest administration of the oaks he grows, and his mother grows ill with diseases brought on by old age.

Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.