Movies 2024

The films in the running for the 39th TEDDY AWARD in 2025 will be announced here on 04.02.25. Until then, you can find an overview of the title list on our blog.

You can find the films from 2024 and previous years of the TEDDY AWARD in the archive below.

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Al sol, lejos del centro

(english) Towards the Sun, Far from the Center

Chile | Directed by Luciana Merino, Pascal Viveros

Santiago in the shimmering summer heat. High-res images undergo a digital zoom which transforms spaces into surfaces and houses into textures. In between, there are the small gestures of everyday urban life. And two women in search of a place for their love.
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All Shall Be Well

Hong Kong, China | Directed by Ray Yeung

When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.
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Baldiga - Unlocked Heart

(english) Baldiga – Unlocked Heart

Germany | Directed by Markus Stein

Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the artist Jürgen Baldiga who sensitively and authentically captured the West Berlin queer scene of the 1980s and early 1990s with his camera.
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Banale Tage

(english) Banal Days

Germany | Directed by Peter Welz

In 1970s East Berlin, two teenagers rebel against pervasive paternalism. In settling accounts with everyday and cultural life in East Germany, this film farce from the environs of Berlin’s Volksbühne theatre tried out a new cinematic language.
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Betânia

Brazil | Directed by Marcelo Botta

After losing her husband, 65-year-old midwife Betânia is persuaded by her daughters to leave her remote village. She moves near the sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses in northern Brazil and ventures a new beginning.
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Between the Temples

United States | Directed by Nathan Silver

The world of a Jewish cantor in the midst of a crisis of faith is turned completely upside down when his primary school music teacher comes back into his life as his new, later-life Bat Mitzvah student.
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Beurk !

(english) Yuck!

(german) Igitt!

France | Directed by Loïc Espuche

Yuck! Kissing on the mouth is disgusting. But secretly, little Léo really wants to try it...
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Cidade; Campo

Brazil, Germany, France | Directed by Juliana Rojas

Two tales of migration, memories and ghosts. After a disaster floods her land, Joana moves to São Paulo and tries to restart her life. Following the death of her father, Flavia moves to his farm in the country with her wife Mara.
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Crossing

Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, France, Georgia | Directed by Levan Akin

Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
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Cuckoo

Germany, United States | Directed by Tilman Singer

Gretchen travels to the German Alps with her father and stepmother. In the resort town where they are staying, she comes across some dark secrets. She hears strange noises and is plagued by frightening visions of a woman chasing her.
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Cura sana

Spain | Directed by Lucía G. Romero

Spain during the Noche de San Juan festival. Sisters Jessica and Alma are once again on their way to pick up food stamps from the Caritas charity. Although they have experienced violence at home, they both try to break the cycle and treat each other with love.
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Des Teufels Bad

(english) The Devil’s Bath

Austria, Germany | Directed by Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala

Upper Austria, 1750. Agnes, a young married woman, feels like a stranger in her husband’s world. A shocking act seems to be her only way out. A profound and disturbing psychological portrait of a woman, based on historical court records.
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detours while speaking of monsters

Germany, Turkey | Directed by Deniz Şimşek

Here, where even monsters are political, the topography has its own memory. It has the mythological blues. Meanwhile, old gods are upset with us, and I am upset with my father.
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Grandmamauntsistercat

Netherlands, Poland | Directed by Zuza Banasińska

Created from archival materials from communist Poland, the film tells the story of a multispecies matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.
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Huling Palabas

(english) Fin

Philippines | Directed by Ryan Machado

In the summer of 2001, 16-year-old Andoy searches for his long-lost father in the most unlikely of places: on VHS tapes. When two movie-like characters appear in his small hometown, his reality begins to falter.
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I Don't Want To Be Just A Memory

(german) Ich will nicht nur eine Erinnerung sein

Germany | Directed by Sarnt Utamachote

Berlin queer community members mourn the substance abuse-related loss of their friends by sharing memories and rituals. Resembling glow-in-the-dark fungi, they radiate light together as a network of support and care.
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I Saw the TV Glow

United States | Directed by Jane Schoenbrun

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show – a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the TV, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
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Ještě nejsem, kým chci být

(english) I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

Czechia, Slovakia, Austria | Directed by Klára Tasovská

After the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková strives to break free from the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime and embarks on a long journey towards freedom.
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Jing guo

(english) Goodbye First Love

United States | Directed by Shuli Huang

He pays him a visit during his work trip to Europe. They have not seen each other since 2015, back in Beijing. This might be the last time they meet.
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Langue Étrangère

France, Germany, Belgium | Directed by Claire Burger

Fanny, a 17-year-old schoolgirl from France, goes on a language exchange trip to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal Lena who is eager to become politically active. To impress Lena, the shy Fanny invents a different life for herself.
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Love Lies Bleeding

United States, Great Britain | Directed by Rose Glass

Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder heading through town on the way to Las Vegas, falls in love with the reclusive gym manager Lou. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
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Reas

Argentina, Germany, Switzerland | Directed by Lola Arias

Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long term inmates or those newly admitted: women re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison, in trance and balance, voguing and singing. A hybrid musical and charming piece of collective empowerment.
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Sex

Norway | Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud

Two chimney sweeps living in monogamous, heterosexual marriages both end up in situations that challenge their views on sexuality and gender roles.
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Sieger Sein

(english) Winners

Germany | Directed by Soleen Yusef

Mona has fled Syria with her Kurdish family and ends up in a primary school in Berlin-Wedding. Things are tough in the school. Everyone on Mona’s all-girls football team plays against each other. But only “team work makes the dream work”.
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Songs of Love and Hate

Nepal, Belgium | Directed by Saurav Ghimire

The sudden disappearance of the popular host of a relationship advice radio show leaves a vacuum. Listeners are uncertain about the direction their romantic endeavours should take.
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Teaches of Peaches

Germany | Directed by Judy Landkammer, Philipp Fussenegger

Seamlessly weaving together exclusive archival gems with dynamic tour footage, this documentary captures the transformative journey of Canadian Merrill Nisker into the internationally acclaimed cultural powerhouse that is Peaches.
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The Visitor

Great Britain | Directed by Bruce LaBruce

A refugee washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. Arriving at the house of an upper-class family, he seduces each and every family member, depicted in explicit sex scenes. A reimagining of Pasolini’s Teorema.
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Tian bian yi duo yun

(english) The Wayward Cloud

Taiwan, France | Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang

Set during the hot summer nights in Taipei, the film is about the romance between a young Korean woman and a porn actor, and about love, sex and desire. It won the Silver Bear in 2005.
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Tú me abrasas

(english) You Burn Me

(german) Du verbrennst mich

Spain, Argentina | Directed by Matías Piñeiro

Tú me abrasas is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” in which the Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis talk of desire and death.
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Uli

Colombia | Directed by Mariana Gil Ríos

Rafaela accompanies her older sister on a visit to a boy. As the two older ones retreat, Rafa begins to explore the house. She meets queer girl Uli and her pet, and has the opportunity to find freedom in an unfamiliar place.
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Un invincible été

(english) Invincible Summer

Belgium | Directed by Arnaud Dufeys

Sixteen-year-old Clément spends a hot summer evening home alone by the pool. Determined to lose his virginity, he swipes through guys’ profiles on Grindr...
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Un movimiento extraño

(english) An Odd Turn

Argentina | Directed by Francisco Lezama

Buenos Aires, 2019. Lucrecia, who works as a museum security guard, foresees a sharp rise in the dollar’s value with her pendulum and falls in love with the employee of a currency exchange office.
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Young Hearts

(german) Junge Herzen

Belgium, Netherlands | Directed by Anthony Schatteman

Fourteen-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets Alexander, his new neighbour of the same age, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.