Distribution Watch: Berlinale 2024

Tracking which titles have North American distribution

The Empire (dir. Bruno Dumont)

Last updated: July 06, 2025.

Another year, another Berlinale. I’ll try my best to track what titles in the 2024 lineup have North American distribution, although my efforts will never be 100% perfect. Not every title gets a press release and coverage in the trades when they get acquired, and multiple films will likely have the fate of quietly dropping on some streaming service further down the line (unfortunately quite a few films, especially in the Forum, will probably never get seen outside of the festival circuit).

Titles listed below in bold will have a confirmed distributor in Canada or the United States. The name of the distributor will be listed in brackets and hyperlinked to a source. Sometimes a film might have distribution in one country and not the other, so I’ll make that distinction where necessary. Rep titles, short films, and series won’t be included here.

Again, I try my best with this, so if I’m missing something you can leave a comment or contact me directly and I’ll add anything that’s missing.

Competition

• Another End (dir. Piero Messina)

• Architecton (dir. Victor Kossakovsky) [A24]

• Black Tea (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako) [Cohen Media Group]

• Dahomey (dir. Mati Diop) [MUBI]

• The Devil’s Bath (dirs. Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala) [Shudder]

• A Different Man (dir. Aaron Schimberg) [A24]

• Dying (dir. Matthias Glasner)

• The Empire (dir. Bruno Dumont) [Kino Lorber]

• From Hilde, With Love (dir. Andreas Dresen)

• Gloria! (dir. Margherita Vicario)

• La Cocina (dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios) [Willa]

• Langue Étrangère (dir. Claire Burger)

• My Favourite Cake (dirs. Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha)

• Pepe (dir. Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias) [MUBI for non-theatrical]

• Shambhala (dir. Min Bahadur Bham)

• Small Things Like These (dir. Tim Mielants) [Lionsgate]

• Sons (dir. Gustav Moller)

• Suspended Time (dir. Olivier Assayas) [Axia Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• A Traveler’s Needs (dir. Hong Sang-soo) [Cinema Guild]

• Who Do I Belong To (dir. Meryam Joobeur) [Maison 4:3 for Canada; no US distribution]

Encounters

• Arcadia (dir. Yorgos Zois)

• Cidade; Campo (dir. Juliana Rojas)

• Demba (dir. Mamadou Dia)

• Direct Action (dirs. Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell)

• The Fable (dir. Raam Reddy)

• A Family (dir. Christine Angot)

• Favoriten (dir. Ruth Beckermann)

• The Great Yawn (dir. Aliyar Rasti)

• Hands in the Fire (dir. Margarida Gil)

• Ivo (dir. Eva Trobisch)

• Matt and Mara (dir. Kazik Radwanski) [Cinema Guild for US]

• Sleep With Your Eyes Open (dir. Nele Wohlatz)

• Some Rain Must Fall (dir. Qiu Yang)

• Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing (dir. Travis Wilkerson)

• You Burn Me (dir. Matias Pineiro) [Cinema Guild]

Berlinale Special

• Abiding Nowhere (dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

• At Averroes & Rosa Parks (dir. Nicolas Philibert)

• August My Heaven (dir. Riho Kudo)

• The Box Man (dir. Gakuryu Ishii)

• Chime (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [Roadstead]

• Cuckoo (dir. Tilman Singer) [NEON]

• Eleven Tomorrows: Berlinale Meets Football (dirs. Maximilian Bungarten, Anna-Maria Dutoit, Kilian Armando Friedrich, Indira Geisel, Eva Gemmer, Felix Herrmann, Hannah Jandl, Justina Jürgensen, Hilarija Ločmele, Daniela Magnani-Hüller, Sophie Mühe, Camille Tricaud, Marie Zrenner)

• The Empty Grave (dirs. Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece Mlay)

• exergue - on documenta 14 (dir. Dimitris Athiridis)

• Love Lies Bleeding (dir. Rose Glass) [A24]

• Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (dir. David Hinton) [Cohen Media Group]

• The Roundup: Punishment (dir. Heo Myeong-haeng) [Capelight Pictures]

• Sasquatch Sunset (dirs. David & Nathan Zellner) [Bleecker Street]

• Seven Veils (dir. Atom Egoyan) [Elevation Pictures for Canada; XYZ Films for US]

• Shikun (dir. Amos Gitai)

• Spaceman (dir. Johan Renck) [Netflix]

• The Strangers’ Case (dir. Brandt Andersen)

• Subject: Filmmaking (dirs. Jörg Adolph, Edgar Reitz)

• Treasure (dir. Julia von Heinz) [Bleecker Street]

• Turn in the Wound (dir. Abel Ferrara)

Panorama

• Afterwar (dir. Birgitte Stærmose)

• All Shall Be Well (dir. Ray Yeung) [Strand Releasing]

• Andrea Gets a Divorce (dir. Josef Hader)

• Baldiga - Unlocked Heart (dir. Markus Stein)

• Betânia (dir. Marcelo Botta)

• Between the Temples (dir. Nathan Silver) [Sony Pictures Classics]

• A Bit of a Stranger (dir. Svitlana Lishchynska)

• Brief History of a Family (dir. Lin Jianjie)

• Crossing (dir. Levan Akin) [MUBI]

• Cu Li Never Cries (dir. Lân Phạm Ngọc)

• Diaries from Lebanon (dir. Myriam El Hajj)

• Every You Every Me (dir. Michael Fetter Nathansky)

• Faruk (dir. Aslı Özge)

• I Saw the TV Glow (dir. Jane Schoenbrun) [A24]

• I Saw Three Black Lights (dir. Santiago Lozano Álvarez)

• I’m Not Everything I Want to Be (dir. Klára Tasovská)

• Janet Planet (dir. Annie Baker) [A24]

• Meanwhile on Earth (dir. Jérémy Clapin) [Metrograph Pictures for US; LevelFilm for Canada]

• Memories of a Burning Body (dir. Antonella Sudasassi Furniss)

• My New Friends (dir. André Téchiné)

• My Stolen Planet (dir. Farahnaz Sharifi)

• No Other Land (dirs. Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor) [Self-released]

• The Outrun (dir. Nora Fingscheidt) [Sony Pictures Classics]

• Paradises of Diane (dirs. Carmen Jaquier, Jan Gassmann)

• Rising Up at Night (dir. Nelson Makengo)

• Scorched Earth (dir. Thomas Arslan)

• Sex (dir. Dag Johan Haugerud) [Strand Releasing]

• Teaches of Peaches (dir. Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer)

• The Visitor (dir. Bruce LaBruce) [Circle Collective]

• Which Way Africa? (dir. David-Pierre Fila)

Forum

• The Adamant Girl (dir. Vinothraj PS) [Amazon Prime Video streaming only for US; no Canadian distribution]

• All the Long Nights (dir. Shô Miyake)

• The Cats of Gokogu Shrine (dir. Kazuhiro Soda)

• The Editorial Office (dir. Roman Bondarchuk)

• Exhuma (dir. Jang Jae-hyun) [Well Go USA]

• Henry Fonda for President (dir. Alexander Horwath) [The Film Desk]

• Holy Week (dir. Andrei Cohn)

• The Human Hibernation (dir. Anna Cornudella)

• In the Belly of a Tiger (dir. Siddartha Jatla)

• Intercepted (dir. Oksana Karpovych) [Grasshopper Film]

• The Invisible Zoo (dir. Romuald Karmakar)

• L’homme-vertige: Tales of a City (dir. Malaury Eloi Paisley)

• Maria’s Silence (dir. Dāvis Sīmanis)

• Mother and Daughter, or the Night is Never Complete (dir. Lana Gogoberidze)

• The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder (dir. Inadelso Cossa)

• Oasis (dirs. Tamara Uribe, Felipe Morgado)

• Oasis of Now (dir. Chee Sum Chia)

• Reas (dir. Lola Arias)

• Reproduction (dir. Katharina Pethke)

• Republic (dir. Jin Jiang)

• Resonance Spiral (dirs. Marinho de Pina, Filipa César)

• The Secret Drawer (dir. Costanza Quatriglio)

• Shahid (dir. Narges Kalhor)

• Skin in Spring (dir. Yennifer Uribe Alzate)

• Sleeping with a Tiger (dir. Anja Salomonowitz)

• Traces of Movement before the Ice (dir. René Frölke)

• True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 (dir. Abdenour Zahzah) [The Criterion Channel, streaming only]

• The Undergrowth (dir. Macu Machin)

• Voices of the Silenced (dirs. Park Soo-nam, Park Maeui)

• Well Ordered Nature (dir. Eva C. Heldmann)

• What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov? (dir. Faraz Fesharaki)

• The Wrong Movie (dir. Keren Cytter)

Generation

• Disko Africa: A Malagasy Story (dir. Luck Razanajaona)

• Elbow (dir. Aslı Özarslan)

• Fin (dir. Ryan Machado)

• Fox and Hare Save the Forest (dir. Mascha Halberstad)

• The Great Phuket (dir. Liu Yaonan)

• It’s Okay! (dir. Kim Hye-young)

• Last Swim (dir. Sasha Nathwani)

• The Major Tones (dir. Ingrid Pokropek)

• Maydegol (dir. Sarvnaz Alambeigi)

• My Summer with Irène (dir. Carlo Sironi)

• Reinas (dir. Klaudia Reynicke) [Outsider Pictures]

• Through Rocks and Clouds (dir. Franco Garcia Becerra)

• Who by Fire (dir. Philippe Lesage) [Maison 4:3 for Canada; KimStim for US]

• Winners (dir. Soleen Yusuf)

• Young Hearts (dir. Anthony Schatteman) [Strand Releasing]