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Berlinale Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian Talks Final Selection : “I Have A Positive Feeling, Not One Of Melancholy. I’m Not Sad.”
Berlinale Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian announced his final Competition and Encounters line-ups on Monday ahead of bowing out of the festival alongside Managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek at t…
News of Chatrian’s ousting by the German Culture Minister Claudia Roth back in September prompted anger in some quarters of Europe’s indie film biz. DEADLINE: Isn’t it a risk to play a first film like Maryam Joobeur’s ‘ Who Do I Belong To’[about a Tunisian mother coming to terms with the return home of her ISIS fighter son with a pregnant young wife] alongside works by established filmmakers such as Bruno Dumont and Olivier Assayas. CHATRIAN: Treasure is, but the others are not but as I said before the number of films premiering in the fall festivals, in the Venice line-up to mention the most obvious one, is different from Berlin, and this comes from the strategies of the streamers and the studios lately.
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