By Louise Dixon
The Berlin International Film Festival kicked 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.
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.”
“The Light” infuses drama, political and social commentary, song and dance — and a migration storyline that Tykwer says he didn’t know would be so relevant when he started working on the movie three years ago.
“Now that it aligns with the elections and the elections are riding on the subject so violently, of course, I feel (strongly) that this movie has a really strong position about it,” he told The Associated Press.
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