The award ceremony for the 75th Berlin international film festival has kicked off in the German capital, with this year's winners of the Gold and Silver Bears set to be announced shortly. There's no clear favorite among the 19 films in competition at the 2025 Berlinale,

After 75 years, the Berlin Film Festival retains its reputation and the vitality of its programming and operations.

BERLIN — 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.

Fipresci, the international film critics association, has announced its winners for the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival, with Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud's Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) taking the top honor in the Competition section.

Organisers of the Berlin Film Festival hope that politics will not eclipse the movies this time round even as they try to liven up an event that has looked jaded in recent years.

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The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 75th anniversary edition February 13 with the opening-night world premiere screening of The Light, Tom Tykwer’s politically charged film that takes stock of German society in the first quarter of the 21st century.

Filmmakers attending Germany's Berlinale film festival presented Culture Minister Claudia Roth with an open letter on Wednesday calling on political parties to prevent any cooperation with far-right or anti-democratic forces ahead of the election.