When Everything Was Blue (2025)

BOB

A girl invites a costumed stranger off the street to her older sister's dinner party. The mysterious man simply called 'Bob' seems friendly enough - What could possibly go wrong?

The Great Stream

This short film takes place in a world that is moving way too fast, a world riddled with overwhelming anxiety and doubt regarding our meaning and belonging. Our protagonist struggles to cope with this all too familiar fate, and yearns to have the universe defined to him.

La Sirena

A psychosexual fairy tale about a woman who surrenders to her inner monster to avenge her broken heart.

Painkiller

Street-smart Dominic's armed robbery of a convenience store goes wrong when he crosses paths with hard-working Jay, a taxi driver with nothing left to lose. Mutual contempt soon turns into a kind of understanding, but not without some pain along the way.

The Good Death

In the medical literature, a good death is a death that respects the privacy and sensitivity of the individual, where emotional, spiritual and religious needs and wishes are met, and where there is enough time to say goodbye. Founded in 2007, the Wish Ambulance Foundation continues to work to ensure that terminal patients with limited time can say goodbye to life in a “good” way. Today, the foundation fulfills the last wishes of people of all ages with limited time to live. Frank Halter, a retired policeman who work as a volunteer for the foundation, has been part of this voluntary work for 6 years. The Good Death focuses on the last wishes of Wim Beuving, a terminally ill man with limited time left, and his meeting with Frank Halter, who volunteers to make these wishes come true.

The Last Rung on the Ladder

A man, upon learning of the suicide of his sister, flashes back to a summer when they were kids and he saved her from falling from a dilapidated ladder.

Diaries III - Cora

On a night permeated by longing and sadness, Cora is taken on a mysterious journey, where diving into her pain may offer a chance for renewal.

The Woman in the Room

The titular "Woman in the Room", Clara, is sick. Her older brother has been with her ever since the diagnosis: Terminal cancer. No cure is in sight. Her pain unstoppable... or is it? What will he be willing to do to bring his sister peace. What would you do?

Resurrection

In the wake of a traumatic incident at a funeral, an aging widow is faced with a bizarre, impossible choice.

Pendulum

An intense short movie showing a turbulent marriage. The wife is always smiling. The man gets angry time and again.

Polaroid

Giuseppe, 33, is still struggling to build his life in a small Italian town where he has to hide his homosexuality. With a Polaroid in hand, he decides to leave for Berlin to find Peter, a summer love he has never forgotten. The shock of a cosmopolitan city is nothing compared to the moment he realizes that the German artist has a "normal" family. For him this represents the possibility of 'losing' himself and meeting Marco, who takes him around all night to arrive at dawn to the conviction that love is the only strength to find one's identity. "Polaroid" is one of five short film segments in an omnibus feature titled "A Quintet".

Document 56

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ceausescu. With 48 hours to prepare for the arrival of CIA operatives, the two agents race to determine the hidden agenda of the visit.

Till Mia

Plot unavailable

No Honor Among Thieves

In the heart of a bustling city, two skilled thieves, Connor Mason and John Maverick, are assigned to root out a potential traitor within The Guild of Thieves. As they delve into the secretive world of their fellow criminals, tensions rise and suspicions mount. But their mission takes a dangerous turn when an important heist goes awry, putting their lives on the line. Now, Connor and John must navigate a treacherous landscape of betrayal and deception, racing against time to uncover the truth before they become the next targets.

He Does Not Want Peace

When a man witnesses a profound event, it threatens to destroy his family.

Put Down

John is a socially awkward man in a downward spiral of debt, until a lucky accident propels him into a new career as a black-market pet exterminator. In these difficult times, some families can no longer afford a pet. John has some inventive ways to help them.

Sugar

After a defeating first year of college, a young woman enlists the help of a friend to participate in a baking competition, only to find fulfillment in unexpected ways.

Anything Once

Both Joey and Mike are faced with breaking boundaries that previously limited them. There's a first time for everything.

What Grown-Ups Know

Teenage boy Roy and his ailing mother Elizabeth live an aimless life on the road, shuttling between gas stations, temp jobs and cheap motels. When they end up at a desolate caravan park, fractures begin to appear in Roy's relationship with his mother as he starts to fall head over heels for park manager Maurice.

Delivery Dancer's Sphere

Ernst Mo works for courier service Delivery Dancer. Every day, she transports an endless stream of parcels, following algorithmically generated routes through a labyrinthine Seoul. After she runs into an alternative version of herself, her reality slowly starts to crack – with all the attendant consequences. In her own unique style, artist Ayoung Kim creates a fascinating and pretty disturbing world.

The Trap

Maggie's friends have planned a surprise birthday party (despite it being a month away). During the party, Maggie realizes there's more to it then that.

Aska

Two young sisters take on the dangerous task of feeding their mother's sacred ashes to the Fire Serpent before it brings death to their desolate land.

Broads

The social democrats of the sixties and seventies worked on their grand plan to build a highway network in Germany that every German citizen could reach within five minutes of their home. The little film hangs around between and on the streets of this network - where the country discos, pedestrian zones, shopping centers, hospitals and roads home are behind noise barriers.

The Devil's Instrument

A jazz bassist who surveys a beautiful girl at a gig decides to try to get her home. But the devil is getting into the game too.

Aïssa

Aïssa is a Congolese immigrant in France. She says that she is under eighteen but the authorities consider her an adult. To determine if she can be deported, a doctor must give her a physical examination.

Long Distance

Plot unavailable

Tog

Aspiring model Tom pushes his boundaries on his first shoot, as his vulnerability is tested by professional photographer Eduardo.

The Days that (Never) Were

Three characters are about to have the time of their lives… until a strange phenomenon shows up to interrupt everything.

Monkey-Love, Please Hold

An offbeat dark comedy that follows the life of the reclusive, karaoke loving and heartbroken Ben. But when he receives an unsolicited package from a mysterious delivery man, his stale dreary life is turned upside down, taking him on a wild ride that brings a new love into his life.

I'm Not Afraid

Two guys are attracted to each other. They go to the same school and spend a lot of time together. During a big party, there is a massive debate about genders. Will this change the attitude of the guys?

Laps

On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.

8 Minutes

With the end of the world fast approaching, an aging magician realizes one last feat of magic is required of him.

Jay

Jay, a 13-year-old boy, is fascinated by his toned and athletic older brother. In order to get close to him, Jay feigns an interest in basketball so that his brother will practice with him. Steadily, Jay's fascination develops into an attraction.

Traces Two

Two friends move to Rio de Janeiro and begin to perceive each other better through daily and close coexistence, which shows signs of new possibilities for affection and rapprochement.

Him

Andri, an anxious teenage boy, hides and represses his sexuality in fear of his masculine father's reaction but, on the eve of Andri's first date, he finds a clever way to reveal his secret.

Skate

A frozen stream runs past a town. Bo Young, a girl of about 14, wants to skate; her friend has to study, so she goes by herself. A young man watches her; she falls, he helps her up and asks her name. She tells him, but runs away from him at her first opportunity, returning to her friend's house. Upon reflection, how will she respond to what are probably the first stirrings of adult feelings? 

Carne

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Deep Down

Deep Down redraws a descent into hell of a stripper called America, lost in the very depths of the U.S, taken away by a devastating love-story.

Numero 69

Two friends enter an Emergency Room, seeking help after an incident. They will find themselves living a series of surreal experiences through the eccentric characters that populate the waiting room. But will they get the help they need?

Spacca La Testa

Antonia and Zeno struggle with their marriage during a surreal dinner - while a mysterious Aztec whistle seems to be influencing their actions.

The Elderly Man

A former addict explains his wrongdoings on his deathbed

True

While he's receiving an enigmatic phone call from his girlfriend Francine, Thomas remembers the milestones of their relationship, from the very moment they met in a really strange way. A segment of “Paris, je t'aime” (2006).

Dummy

Using a faceless doll criminal reenacts a brutal crime. But surprisingly he is not the one being judged. There seems to be an odd one out in the investigative group. The film premiered in the Berlinale Short competition programme.