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Berlin Film Festival Kicks Off During Bitterly Cold Snowstorm With Fiery Speeches as Tilda Swinton Mocks Trump’s Plans for ‘Riviera Property’
The Berlin Film Festival launched with some heat -- thanks to fiery speeches -- as film execs, buyers and movie stars trekked through the snow.
The prestigious festival in Germany kicked off with Tom Tykwer’s drama “The Light,” starring Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz as a dysfunctional married couple whose lives change with the hiring of a housekeeper (played by Tala Al-Deen). Swinton lauded the festival as “a borderless realm and with no policy of exclusion, persecution or deportation.” She added that the “great independent state of cinema” is “innately inclusive — immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of riviera property,” apparently referring to Trump’s suggestion that Gaza could be made into a resort destination. Indeed, as the European branch of the Academy has grown, Chalamet’s last-minute trip to Berlin represents how nominees are banking frequent flier miles to court international voters in the final days of Oscar campaigning.
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