Progressive continental auteurs aren’t ready to give up on America just yet. But their governments are less inclined to pick a fight with the President-elect.
In December 2016, shortly after Donald Trump was elected president for the first time, the European Film Awards kicked off with an. Polish director Agnieszka Holland, sitting behind the desk at a mocked-up Oval Office and flanked by machine gun-toting guards, played POTUS.
“If you compare it to the rest of the world, Europe is still a place where democracy, human rights and freedom of speech are highly valued, and there’s an awareness that they are something to be defended,” says current EFA CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol, who predicts the talent at year’s European Film Awards — set for Dec. 7 in Lucerne, Switzerland — will again raise their voices against Trump and the far right.
With many fearing Trump’s victory will have a chilling effect on the production and release of left-leaning films — “We’ve been trying to find an American buyer” for, says Marking, “and after the election, it feels very unlikely” — there’s hope that Europe will become a haven for progressive cinema., starring Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as his ’80s-era Svengali mentor, Roy Cohn, relied on Danish and Irish backing and Ali Abbasi, a Danish-Iranian director, to get made. (U.S.
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