Berlin film festival finally underway
After months of uncertainty about whether it could take place during the coronavirus pandemic, the Berlinale film festival finally opened to the greater public on Wednesday, June 9.
Festival heads Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian opened the 71st Berlinale on Berlin’s Museum Island in the evening with an open-air event.
Everybody had been waiting for this moment, said Berlin’s Culture Minister Monika Grutters.
The event showed that “a new start for culture is also possible under pandemic conditions.
“We have missed this. We will enjoy it, possibly as never before,” Ms Gruetters said.
The opening film was “The Mauritanian” where U.S. actor Jodie Foster played a lawyer helping a long-time inmate at Guantanamo prison after the September 11, terror attacks.
The Berlinale film festival is one of the world’s major film festivals, along with Cannes and Venice.
This year, it was split into two separate events due to the pandemic: a digital industry meeting held in March, and films for the public that was to be shown outdoors from Wednesday until June 20.
Mr Chatrian said it was difficult to say whether the pandemic would have a lasting impact on the film industry.
Due to the coronavirus, cinemas had to close for months on end and film shootings were complicated in many places.
(dpa/NAN)
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