© Tobis Film Mala Emde
As the daughter of an artist and a theatre scholar, Mala Emde has a close affinity with the performing arts. Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1996, she already appeared in small roles in front of the camera as a teenager and in 2015 in the title role of the docu-drama "Meine Tochter Anne Frank". She then began studying at the Ernst Busch Academy in Berlin, during which time she played leading roles in the tragedy "Wir töten Stella" (2017) and the road movie "303" (2018). The political drama "And Tomorrow the Whole World", starring her, was invited to the Venice Competition in 2020.

© AlamodeFilm He really missed the cinema. With "The Light", Tom Tykwer is now back on the big screen with a mysteriously wild genre mix of thriller, comedy, musical and martial arts, featuring real stars and real newcomers via virtual reality and animation. The film centres on a normally dysfunctional family in Berlin, whose everyday life is literally illuminated by the newly hired housekeeper Farrah from Syria. This cinematic sensation opened this year's 75th Berlin Film Festival very appropriately.

Tom Tykwer
For eight years, from the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2024, writer and director Tom Tykwer was busy writing, directing and collecting awards for the historical crime series "Berlin Babylon". Born in Wuppertal in 1965, Tykwer's great passion has been cinema since childhood. He began his career as a film projectionist in Berlin, where he also co-founded the production company X Filme in 1994. Tykwer's greatest successes as a director include "Run Lola Run" (1998), "Perfume" (2006), "Cloud Atlas" (2012) and "A Hologram for the King" (2016) with Tom Hanks.

apple tv + With mercilessly adolescent and self-deprecating jokes in comedies such as "Superbad" (2007) and "Pineapple Express" (2008), writer, director, actor and producer Seth Rogen has made a name for himself worldwide. The jokes in "This is the End" (2013) and his serialised comic adaptation "Preacher" (2016-19) are much blacker in tone. In this respect, the ten-part TV series "The Studio" gives a good idea of where the journey is heading: expertise mixed with self-irony, gallows humour and a great deal of love for the Hollywood film business. He is joined by Brian Cranston, Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron and Olivia Wild, among others, in guest roles.

© Sokpop Collective Mowing the lawn, trimming hedges, watering flowers - at first glance, it all seems quite simple. On closer inspection, however, "Grunn" develops from a friendly home gardening simulator into a bizarre psychological thriller with an obligatorily skewed reality. Tools disappear, villagers behave strangely and after sunset the unease increases many times over. There would be plenty of reasons to smile about "Grunn" if it weren't all so terribly creepy.