The build-up to the 74th Berlin Film Festival (Feb 15 – Feb 25) has been highly politicised and the international jury press conference this morning was no different. Lupita Nyong’o presides over the International Competition jury whose members include American actor and filmmaker Brady Corbet, Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, German director Christian Petzold, Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra, Italian actress Jasmine Trinca, and Ukrainian novelist and poet Oksana Zabuzhko. This wasn’t like most jury press conferences, however, with jury members drawn into multiple — occasionally testy — discussions about their own political stances on events in Ukraine, Gaza and Germany....
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