Protests, demonstrations and public shows of solidarity have outshone the films at the 2023 Berlinale.
Activists of the environmental group “Last Generation” protested inaction on the climate catastrophe by gluing themselves to the ground near the red carpet on the opening night of the Berlinale.She Came to Me
starring Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei and Peter Dinklage, instead turned into a celebration of the courage of the people of Ukraine and a condemnation of Russia’s war of aggression against them. The main event was a live video address from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who stated plainly that art and cinema cannot be outside politics. “Culture chooses a side when it decides to speak out against evil,” Zelensky said, “and it takes a side when it remains silent and in fact helps the evil.
Berlin has always been the most political of the big festivals. In 2006, the festival flew in Rhuhel Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul, the subjects of Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ competition film, two British Muslims who were captured by American forces in Afghanistan in 2001 and spent years imprisoned, without charge, in the notorious U.S. military base.
Filmmakers and activists know the Berlinale Palast is a welcoming platform for their calls for action and against injustice. Berlinale jury president
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