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 the Hungarian film 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:- Sylvia Syms, actress - Jury President
- Ottokar Runze, director, screenwriter and producer
- Henry Chapier, director, screenwriter and film critic
- Else Goelz, journalist
- Albert J. Johnson, film critic
- Rostislav Yurenev, film critic
- João Carlos Martins, pianist and conductor
- Sukhdev Sandhu, director
Films in competition
| English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| A Woman's Decision | Bilans kwartalny | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| Comedie fantastica | Ion Popescu-Gopo | Romania | |
| Far from Home | در غربت Dar Ghorbat | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Iran |
| The Common Man | Dupont Lajoie | Yves Boisset | France |
| Ice Age | Eiszeit | Peter Zadek | West 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 | West Germany | |
| Who Looks for Gold? | Kdo hledá zlaté dno | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| The Great House | La casa grande | Francisco Rodríguez Fernández | Spain |
| The First Time on the Grass | La prima volta sull'erba | Gianluigi Calderone | Italy |
| Leave Us Alone | La' os være | Lasse Nielsen and Ernst Johansen | Denmark |
| Lily, aime-moi | Maurice Dugowson | France | |
| Love and Death | Woody Allen | USA | |
| Adoption | Örökbefogadás | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
| Out of Season | Alan Bridges | United Kingdom | |
| Overlord | Stuart Cooper | United Kingdom | |
| Posse | Kirk Douglas | USA | |
| सामना Samna | Jabbar Patel | India | |
| Sandakan No. 8 | サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 Sandakan hachiban shōkan: Bōkyō | Kei Kumai | Japan |
| SSS | Václav Bedřich | Czechoslovakia | |
| Сто дней после детства Sto dney posle detstva | Sergei Solovyov | Soviet Union | |
| Strast | Aleksandar Ilić | Yugoslavia | |
| 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
- יהיה טוב סלומוניקו Yi'ihiyeh Tov Salmonico, directed by Alfred Steinhardt
Key
Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:- Golden Bear: Adoption by Márta Mészáros
- Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize:
- * Dupont Lajoie by Yves Boisset
- * Overlord by Stuart Cooper
- Silver Bear for Best Director: Sergei Solovyov for Sto dney posle detstva
- Silver Bear for Best Actress: Kinuyo Tanaka for Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: Vlastimil Brodský for Jakob der Lügner
- Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Woody Allen for Love and Death
- FIPRESCI Award
- *Far from Home by Sohrab Shahid-Saless