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“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
Jury members were drawn into multiple -- occasionally testy -- discussions about their own political stances on global events.
Ukrainian novelist and poet Oksana Zabuzhko, who stood slightly apart from her fellow jurors at the photo call, was asked how she feels sharing a platform with a “Putin admirer”, to which she replied: “I was very intrigued by Albert’s answer. Nyong’o was asked for her take on the festival’s controversial opening ceremony invitation to far-right party AfD, which was later rescinded after industry outcry: “I’m a foreigner here. The festival opens tonight with the Cillian Murphy movie Small Things Like These while the Competition includes La Cocina, starring Rooney Mara, French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop’s Dahomey, Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs starring Isabelle Huppert, Black Tea by Abderrahmane Sissako, the new Piero Messina film with Gael Garcia Bernal and Nazi resistance drama From Hilde, With Love with Liv Lisa Fries.
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