Berlin Film Festival To Open With Tom Tykwer Feature ‘The Light’
deadline.comGerman filmmaker Tom Tykwer will open the Berlin Film Festival with his latest feature The Light (Das Licht) The screening will take place on February 13, 2025.
It will be a world premiere and the film will screen out of competition in the Berlinale Palast. Starring in the pic are German actors Lars Eidinger (Dying, About Joan, Babylon Berlin) and Nicolette Krebitz (A Cloud in Our House, A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love).
The film tells the story of the Engels family. Tim (Lars Eidinger), Milena (Nicolette Krebitz), their twins Frieda (Elke Biesendorfer) and Jon (Julius Gause) and Milena’s son Dio (Elyas Eldridge) are a family that lives more side by side than together and nothing holds them together until the housekeeper Farrah (Tala Al-Deen) enters their lives.
The mysterious woman from Syria puts the Engels’ world to an unexpected test and brings to light feelings that have long been hidden.
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