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

Tilda Swinton will take a break from acting for "the rest of the year," she revealed at the Berlin Film Festival.

As Tilda Swinton accepted her Golden Bear Lifetime Achievement Award at the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, the Oscar-winning actress called out the ongoing political extremism and inhumanity that is taking place around the world.

"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.

As she accepted her lifetime achievement award at the festival's opening night, Swinton did not mince words about the current state of the world.

Tilda Swinton got political as she accepted Berlin Film Festival's honorary Golden Bear, saying 'the inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch.'

Tilda Swinton spoke about her decision to attend Berlin Film Festival despite calls for a boycott over the war in Gaza, saying it was "more useful to our causes" for her to show up. On Thursday night,

"Holding Liat," about a hostage's family, wins best documentary, while Tilda Swinton denounces "state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder" from the stage.

Tilda Swinton certainly knows her way around Berlin. And in 2009, she served as president of its international jury. Answering questions from her fans that year at a public talk at Berlinale Talents, she confessed: “For me, acting is dressing up and playing.

British actor Tilda Swinton, known for her often eccentric and quirky roles in both independent and blockbuster films, said on Friday that she decided "in a personal moment" to attend the Berlin Film Festival despite boycott calls over the war in Gaza.

The Oscar-winning Scottish screen legend discussed her remarkable 40-year career and offered advice to aspiring artists after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival.