Berlinale Shorts 2025

In the 2025 Berlinale Shorts selection, 20 films from a total of 18 production countries are celebrating their premieres, including 15 world premieres. The program combines classic storytelling with surreal works, features various styles of animation and presents experimental documentary forms.

After Colossus
by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Italy / Indonesia / Netherlands

Anba dlo
by Luiza Calagian, Rosa Caldeira
Cuba / Brazil / Haiti

Because of (U)
by Tohé Commaret
France

Casa chica
by Lau Charles
Mexico

Close to September
by Lucía G. Romero
Spain

Children’s Day
by Giselle Lin
Singapore

How Are You?
by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
France

Citizen-Inmate
by Hesam Eslami
Iran

Living Stones | Atmende Steine
by Jakob Ladányi Jancsó
Hungary

Ordinary Life
by Yoriko Mizushiri
France / Japan

Happy Doom
by Billy Roisz
Austria

Stone of Destiny
by Julie Cerná
Czechia

Extracurricular Activity
by Dean Wei, Xu Yidan
People’s Republic of China

Koki, Ciao
by Quenton Miller
Netherlands

Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
by Lesley Loksi Chan
Canada

Mother’s Child
by Naomi Noir | with Maya Devincenzi Dil, Grace Kimasi, Phaedra Fidessa, James Alexander Hyslop, Eoghan Ruddy
Netherlands

Night Fishing
by Park Chan-wook, Park Chan-kyong |
South Korea

Ceasefire
by Jakob Krese
Germany / Italy / Slovenia

In Retrospect
by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Germany

Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts
by Rein Maychaelson Hatta Rahandy
Indonesia

As long as shotguns remain
by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Their Eyes
by Nicolas Gourault
France

Three Stones for Jean Genet
by Frieder Schlaich
Germany

Through Your Eyes
by Nelson Yeo
Singapore

Two Ships
by Justine Triet
France

Vita Lakamaya
by Akihito Izuhara
Japan