Berlinale 2025 : Selection in Official competition of The Safe House & in Berlinale Special for All I Had Was Nothingness

Les Films du Poisson starts the year with two films selected at the Berlinale : The Safe House directed by Lioner Baier will make its Premiere in the Official Competition, and the new film of Guillaume Ribot, All I Had Was Nothingness, at the Berlinale Special.

The Safe House by Lionel Baier / © Véronique Kolber

Paris, May ‘68: A 9-year-old boy is thrilled to stay a few extra days with his grandparents in their perennial apartment, joined by his two lively uncles— a visual artist and an aspiring intellectual—and his colourful great grandmother from Odessa, while his parents join the historical protests. As the country is turned upside down, the family is forced to confront the past when an illustrious guest seeks shelter in their venerated hideout.

A buoyant comedy exploring the free-spirited dynamics of a family during the famous student protests that swept through France in May ‘68. An eccentric family portrait, adapted from a novel written by one of its members, Christophe Boltanski, nephew of the renowned visual artist Christian Boltanski.

The Safe House World Premiere will take place at the Berlinale on Friday 20th of February at 10:00 PM at the Berlinale Palast.

Repeat screenings at the Berlinale :

21.02.2025          16:00     Zoo Palast 1

22.02.2025          10:00     Uber Eats Music Hall

22.02.2025          19:45     Urania

23.02.2025          16:15     Uber Eats Music Hall

Production: Bande à part Films, Red Lion, Les Films du Poisson

In coproduction with RTS Radio Télévision Suisse and SRG SSR

With the support of OFC, Film Fund Luxembourg, Cinéforom, Loterie Romande, Canal+, Suissimage, Indéfilms 13, CINE+ OCS, Les Films du Losange, Pathé Films AG, mk2 Films, Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Focal, Fondation Suisa

French distribution: Les Films du Losange

International sales: mk2 films

Claude Lanzmann in All I Had Was Nothingness by Guillaume Ribot / © USHMM et YAD VASHEM - Collection SHOAH de Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann spent 12 years creating Shoah (1985), a groundbreaking film that revolutionised the representation of the Holocaust in cinema. Four decades later, filmmaker Guillaume Ribot immerses himself in over 220 hours of unreleased footage from Shoah.

Lanzmann’s quest to capture the full reality of the Holocaust led him to interview victims, witnesses, and perpetrators from all over the world. Overcoming doubt, setbacks, and false leads, he embarked on an unparalleled journey culminating in a landmark masterpiece, now part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

All I Had Was Nothingness World Premiere will take place at the Berlinale on Monday 17th of February at 2:00 PM at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Repeat screenings at the Berlinale :

18.02.2025          16:00     Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg

19.02.2025          21:30     Colosseum 1

22.02.2025          15:30     Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Production: Les Films du Poisson & Les Films Aleph

In coproduction with ARTE France

In association with mk2 Films

With funding from Le Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée 

With the support of La Région Île-de-France in partnership with the CNC, La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, La PROCIREP Société des Producteurs et l’ANGOA, Le Ministère des Armées et des Anciens Combattants, La Fondation Rothschild

With the participation of Histoire TV

Broadcasting: ARTE France, Histoire TV

French distribution: mk2 films

International sales: mk2 films