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.

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

The festival known as the Berlinale this year comes against the backdrop of Germany's parliament elections. For Tykwer, it's the third time he has opened the festival although his most recent success has come in the form of hit TV show “Babylon Berlin.”

At the Berlin International Film Festival, the onscreen mood was downbeat, but the program still held some gems.

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.