Impressions from the UFA Film Nights 2025

Film patron Inka Friedrich and Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann

Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann, Wolfram Weimer, Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Sascha Schwingel, CEO of UFA, Thomas Coesfeld, Member of the Bertelsmann Executive Board and CEO of BMG

Rolf Hellermann, Sascha Schwingel, Thomas Rabe, Wolfram Weimer, Inka Friedrich, Thomas Coesfeld

Sascha Schwingel, CEO of UFA, Inka Friedrich, patron of the UFA Film Nights 2025 and Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann

Inka Friedrich, patron of the UFA Film Nights 2025

Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann and Sarah Wedl-Wilson, Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion

Marion Ackermann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Thomas Rabe

Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe, Christiane von Wahlert, Chairwoman of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, and Karin Schlautmann, Head of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications

Thomas Coesfeld, Anne Le Pape and Dominik Asam, Member of the Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA

Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann und Wolfram Weimer, Minister of State for Culture and the Media

Thomas Rabe at the UFA Film Nights 2025 reception on the roof terrace of the Bertelsmann representative office Unter den Linden 1

Sascha Schwingel welcomed the guests to the 15th UFA Film Nights

Karin Schlautmann, Head of Bertelsmann Corporate Communications

Gero Dimter, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Sarah Wedl-Wilson, Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion and Thomas Coesfeld, Member of the Bertelsmann Executive Board and CEO of BMG

Helen Müller, Head of Cultural Affairs and Corporate History at Bertelsmann, Hermann Parzinger, former President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Sarah Wedl-Wilson, Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion

Ute Biernat, CEO of UFA Show & Factual and Friedrich Küppersbusch, journalist and author

Actress Ina Paule Klink and director Roland Suso Richter

Actress Florence Kasumba

Actor Jürgen Prochnow with his wife Verena

Actor Hans-Werner Meyer

Actor Johann von Bülow with Katrin Kersten-von Bülow

Actor Samir Salim with Joulina Wahry

PC Nackt and Friedemann Beyer, curator of the UFA Film Nights

Jan Kittmann, Iris Mareike Steen, Olivia Marei and Ulrike Frank, from GZSZ

Joulina Wahry, Samir Salim, Yves Guillaume, Jonathan Westphal

Actress Caroline Frier

Hermann Parzinger and producer Wolf Bauer

Around 300 guests attended the opening reception of the UFA Film Nights 2025

Bertelsmann Representative Office Berlin, Unter den Linden 1

Actress Inka Friedrich, patron of the UFA Film Nights 2025, introduced the opening film, „VARIETÉ” by Ewald André Dupont from 1925

Around a thousand silent film fans came to the Colonnade Courtyard on Berlin's Museum Island

The Opening film “VARIETÉ” by Ewald André Dupont from 1925