“I Hope He’ll Educate Himself”: Berlin Jury Presser Is Charged Affair With Talk Of Germany’s Far-Right, Russia-Ukraine & One Member’s Views On Putin
deadline.comThe build-up to the 74th Berlin Film Festival (Feb 15 – Feb 25) has been highly politicised and the international jury press conference this morning was no different.
Lupita Nyong’o presides over the International Competition jury whose members include American actor and filmmakerBrady Corbet, Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, German director Christian Petzold, Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra, Italian actress Jasmine Trinca, and Ukrainian novelist and poet Oksana Zabuzhko.
This wasn’t like most jury press conferences, however, with members drawn into multiple — occasionally testy — discussions about their own political stances on events in Ukraine, Gaza and Germany.
Russia’s war in Ukraine was a central topic with multiple journalists asking Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra about a 2018 interview in which he supposedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin.
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