Berlin – Between February 13 and 23 Berlin develops its International Film Festival, in a key city in the history of the seventh art. German filmmakers taught how to move the camera.
This year the Berlinale celebrates its 75th edition, cultivating the same political vocation with which it was born during the Cold War, although now there have been causes and players. The Berlinale was a reference of filmed cinema in the satellite countries of Soviet Union until its implosion, supporting critical filmmakers of communism. In the 1990s he reorganized geographically, moving to Potsdamer Platz, the center remembered in the Berlin of the Pre-War.
He had his eyes attentive to the cinematographies of the three Chinese, Iran and Latin America. He did it with a stable and consistent administration – only three directors between 1951 and the Pandemia of 2020 – and the economic support of the city and the “Land”, or provincial, of Brandenburg. In 1978 he opened the European Film Market, and in recent decades he launched a series of economic and professional collaboration initiatives, such as the World Film Fund, the Talents Campus and the Co -productions market, with a generous policy of subsidies and promotions.
This year, after a brief two -way management, with an artistic director and another administrative, it has returned to the original structure. The new director is Tice Tuttlea northern criticism with a lot of experience programming festivals such as London, attractive to the general public, critics and other professionals in the field. Changes were also made in the organization: some sections have disappeared, replaced by others, as perspectives, dedicated to raw operas. We saw “The devil smokes (and keeps the heads of the burns burned in the same box” – So the title long), a Mexican costumbrista drama that turns, with great naturalness, to the magical realism, culminating with a surprising final image.
The Berlinale Special seeks to select works that like the general public – “Cinema is an industry that sometimes disguises art”as the novelist wrote without irony André Malraux When he was Minister of Culture of Charles de Gaulle. The festival opened with the last feature film of Tom Tykwer, “Das Licht (Light)”, which allegorically shows a tired Europe to those who redeem with immigrants from the Middle East. It was the opening film of the Berlinale Special.
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Also there was included “A Complete Unknown”about Bob Dylan In the sixties, starring Timothée Chalamet, who on the red carpet of Berlinale Palast, and snowing, summer dress with a shirt, t -shirt and pink pants, delighted his Berliners ‘fans’.
In Berlinale Special, the premiere of “Mickey 17” was also included, from the Korean Bong Joon Hofor Warner Bros. that science fiction lovers “Grunge” and Anti-Trumpist will appreciate in equal parts. He develops a story of protagonists duplicated by a machine and his rebellion against a ridiculous tyrannue.
The challenges and dilemmas facing a festival of this caliber are still standing: how to drive with budget cuts, attracting Hollywood stars (which are the ones that really count) and in an inhospitable time of the year. Cannes and Venice take place at the beginning and end of summer, in spectacular geographies of the Mediterranean.
Like last year, the conflict unleashed by the invasion of a terrorist semi-state to Israel in October 2023 directly affects the festival. They are not only pro-palestinian manifestations in surrounding areas, but the organization of parallel film events, with panels and projections, to keep the torch of this political cause alive. To complicate the panorama, on Sunday 23 there are federal elections for the Bundestag (Parliament), which had to anticipate root of the collapse of the ruling coalition last year. As forecast, the CDU Central-Right alliance will win the elections, with the AFD, which represents the populism of the extreme right, reaching second place.
Returning to the political profile of the Berlinale, it is interested in noticing that the most aforementioned figure, and denied, at the jury’s press conference was the brand new US president. The cannon against Donald Trump He started them Todd Haynesthe American director of “Far from Heaven”, “Carol” and “i’m not there”where six actors, including CATE Blanchettinterpret aspects of Bob Dylan. Tilda Swintonthe versatile British actress – recently seen in the last work of Pedro Almodóvar, her first in English, “The Room Nextdoor” – He received an honorary gold bear for his career. In 1987 he presented here “Friendship’s Death”directed by the critic and cinema theoretical Peter Wollenwhere it stars to an alien who by mistake lands in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
In his speech, he explained that, disregarding that the Berlinale was boycotting, used the festival platform to solidarity with the Palestinian cause, denouncing Israeli violence and US support; There were no proper names but it was clear who referred. He recalled that cinema is “innately inclusive, and real estate to the occupation and colonization efforts, and real estate development of Rivieras.” It was very applauded by the public invited to the opening of the festival.
Our compatriot the director Rodrigo Moreno He is one of the seven jury members of the official competition. In 2006 he presented his opera Prima “El Custodio”, and “A mysterious world” in 2011.
Among the 19 films in competition there is an Argentine-Spanish co-production, “the message”, directed by Iván Fund. It presents tomorrow, with good expectations.
Source: Ambito
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