The Berlinale Film Festival, which has a reputation as the most politicized among European film festivals, wants to retain this status, Director of the Berlin Film Festival Mariette Rissenbeek said in a comment to Ukrinform..
According to her, such a politicized status of the festival is explained, among other things, by the fact that it takes place in the large European capital, Berlin, while Venetian and Cannes in small resort towns.
“There are a lot of people in Berlin who are concerned about politics and want to watch films about important topics.. The festival and the city are closely connected. So we want to be political and we need the political,” she said..
Risenbik noted that the film festival does not boycott Russian filmmakers as such, but did not want to have people among the participants or guests or films related to the Russian government are financed at their expense.. Therefore, the organizing committee of the Berlinale considered all applications from Russia, carefully checked them, but refused everyone who made anti-Ukrainian applications..
Thus, only the film of the director from Chechnya Malika Musayeva (she lives in Germany) and the work of Vitaly Mansky were admitted to the festival.. And the tape "
At the same time, commenting on Ukrainian cinema at the festival, Ryssenbeek called it very diverse and added that she would like to see feature films at the film festival, in addition to documentaries.
“My message to filmmakers is: be brave and tell the stories you want, go your own way, keep doing what you are doing.. I want to tell the audience:
be interested in what is happening in the world around you, let the cinema teach you, show perspectives that you may not have seen before, learn from the cinema what you did not know before,” she addressed the Ukrainian film artists and.
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