25th Berlin International Film Festival

The 25th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 27 June – 8 July 1975.^[1] The Golden Bear was awarded to the Hungarian film Adoption directed by Márta Mészáros.^[2] The retrospective dedicated to Greta Garbo was shown at the festival.^[3]

Jury

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:^[4]

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
A Woman's Decision	Bilans kwartalny	Krzysztof Zanussi	Poland
	Comedie fantastica	Ion Popescu-Gopo	Romania
Far from Home	Dar Ghorbat	Sohrab Shahid-Saless	Iran
The Common Man	Dupont Lajoie	Yves Boisset	France
Ice Age	Eiszeit	Peter Zadek	Germany
	Gangsterfilmen	Lars G. Thelestam	Sweden
Ante Up	Il piatto piange	Paolo Nuzzi	Italy
Jacob the Liar	Jakob der Lügner	Frank Beyer	East Germany
	John Glückstadt	Ulf Miehe	Germany
	Kdo hledá zlaté dno	Jiří Menzel	Czechoslovakia
The Great House	La casa grande	Francisco Rodríguez Gordillo	Spain
The First Time on the Grass	La prima volta sull'erba	Gianluigi Calderone	Italy
Leave Us Alone	La' os være	Lasse Nielsen, Ernst Johansen	Denmark
	Lily, aime-moi	Maurice Dugowson	France
Love and Death	Love and Death	Woody Allen	USA
Adoption	Örökbefogadás	Márta Mészáros	Hungary
Out of Season	Out of Season	Alan Bridges	United Kingdom
Overlord	Overlord	Stuart Cooper	United Kingdom
Posse	Posse	Kirk Douglas	USA
	Samna	Jabbar Patel	India
Sandakan No. 8	Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo	Kei Kumai	Japan
	Sto dney posle detstva	Sergei Solovyov	Soviet Union
	Zwaarmoedige verhalen voor bij de centrale verwarming	Nouchka van Brakel, Ernie Damen, Bas van der Lecq	Netherlands

^†	Winner of the main award for best film in its section

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:^[2]