# 25th Berlin International Film Festival

The 25th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 27 June – 8 July 1975.
The Golden Bear was awarded to Adoption directed by Márta Mészáros. The retrospective dedicated to Greta Garbo was shown at the festival.

## Jury

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:

### Main Competition

* Sylvia Syms, British actress - Jury President
* Ottokar Runze, West-German filmmaker and producer
* Henry Chapier, French filmmaker and film critic
* Else Goelz, West-German journalist
* Albert J. Johnson, American film critic
* Rostislav Yurenev, Soviet film critic
* João Carlos Martins, Brazilian pianist and conductor
* Sukhdev Sandhu, Indian filmmaker

## Official Sections
### Main Competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Adoption | Örökbefogadás | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
| Ante Up | Il piatto piange | Paolo Nuzzi | Italy |
| A Woman's Decision | Bilans kwartalny | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| Comedie fantastica | Comedie fantastica | Ion Popescu-Gopo | Romania |
| The Common Man | Dupont Lajoie | Yves Boisset | France |
| Far from Home | در غربت | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Iran |
| The First Time on the Grass | La prima volta sull'erba | Gianluigi Calderone | Italy |
| Gangsterfilmen | Gangsterfilmen | Lars G. Thelestam | Sweden |
| The Great House | La casa grande | Francisco Rodríguez Fernández | Spain |
| Ice Age | Eiszeit | Peter Zadek | West Germany |
| Jacob the Liar | Jakob der Lügner | Frank Beyer | East Germany |
| John Glückstadt | John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | West Germany |
| Leave Us Alone | La' os være | Lasse Nielsen and Ernst Johansen | Denmark |
| Lily, aime-moi | Lily, aime-moi | Maurice Dugowson | France |
| Love and Death | Love and Death | Woody Allen | United States |
| One Hundred Days After Childhood | Сто дней после детства | Sergei Solovyov | Soviet Union |
| Out of Season | Out of Season | Alan Bridges | United Kingdom |
| Overlord | Overlord | Stuart Cooper | United Kingdom |
| Posse | Posse | Kirk Douglas | United States |
| Samna | सामना | Jabbar Patel | India |
| Sandakan No. 8 | サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 | Kei Kumai | Japan |
| SSS | SSS | Václav Bedřich | Czechoslovakia |
| Strast | Strast | Aleksandar Ilić | Yugoslavia |
| Who Looks for Gold? | Kdo hledá zlaté dno | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| Zwaarmoedige verhalen voor bij de centrale verwarming | Zwaarmoedige verhalen voor bij de centrale verwarming | Nouchka van Brakel, Ernie Damen and Bas van der Lecq | Netherlands |

### Out of competition

* Portrait of Fidel, directed by Gina Lollobrigida (Italy)
* Salmonico (יהיה טוב סלומוניקו), directed by Alfred Steinhardt (Israel)

## Official Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
* Golden Bear: Adoption by Márta Mészáros
* Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize:
** The Common Man by Yves Boisset
** Overlord by Stuart Cooper
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Sergei Solovyov for One Hundred Days After Childhood
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Kinuyo Tanaka for Sandakan No. 8
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Vlastimil Brodský for Jacob the Liar
* Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Woody Allen for Love and Death

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Award

* Far from Home by Sohrab Shahid-Saless