Berlin this year, at least the first leg of the film festival in March, will be online only, with everyone — critics, reporters and the international film industry — watching the lineup of the 2021 Berlinale from home on their laptops.
Everyone, that is, except for this year's competition jury. Thanks to the efforts of Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, an old-school cinephile who believes you can't judge a movie from its online stream, the members of this year's jury will watch the 2021 competition as it was intended: on the big screen.
The festival will fly five of the six jurors — Israeli director Nadav Lapid (Synonyms), Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie (Touch Me Not), Italian director Gianfranco Rosi (Notturno), Bosnian.
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