No other filmmaker embodies the "unpredictability, chaos and beauty" of the German capital quite like the man who is (once again) opening the Berlinale: "It's always reinventing itself."

Read a review of 'The Light,' Tom Tykwer's Berlin Film Festival opener that tests Germany’s white liberal guilt with a bohemian musical fantasy.

From Golden Bear winner "Dreams (Sex Love)" to another movie called "Dreams," here are the best films we saw at 2025 Berlin Film Festival.

Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud’s latest Dreams (Sex Love) has won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list of winners. The film is the third entry in a trilogy from Haugerud. The other films in the trology are Sex and Love, both released in 2024.

Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz star as a German couple in crisis whose dysfunctional family is changed by the arrival of a Syrian housekeeper.

BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin International Film Festival is kicking off on Thursday with the world premiere of Tom Tykwer’s “The Light,” a timely tale of a dysfunctional German family and a Syrian refugee.

After a decade spent exploring the lives “of my grandparents’ generation” in the 1930-set period series Babylon Berlin, Tom Tykwer has returned his focus to modern-day Germany with the cinematic opus The Light, the opening night film of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

The Berlin Film Festival, born out of post-war Germany's desire to engage with the world, opens its 75th edition on Thursday.

The Berlin International Film Festival is kicking off on Thursday with the world premiere of Tom Tykwer’s “The Light,” a timely tale of a dysfunctional German family and a Syrian refugee.