On a snowy Thursday night, the 75th annual Berlin Film Festival launched with some heat — thanks to fiery speeches about politics — as film executives, European buyers and movie stars trekked through the slush to celebrate cinema.

Cinema took over a snowy German capital on Thursday evening as the 2025 Berlin Film Festival officially kicked off.

"The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch. I'm here to name it without hesitation or doubt in my mind," the Oscar winner said.

The Berlin Film Festival is historically the most political of all the major film festivals, and this year is no exception. The 75th edition of the Berlinale unspools amid the turbulent lead-up to Germany’s Feb.

The Berlin film festival kicked off its 75th anniversary event in style Thursday night, with the German and international film industry giving a warm welcome of a very cold and snowy night to new Berlinale director Trica Tuttle.

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.