The war in Gaza was a prominent issue in the opening ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival 2024. Cillian Murphy returns to the great trauma of Ireland to present a film about coots.
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry on a family Holocaust journey. The opening film title this year went to "Small Things Like These", a modest historical film based on a novel by Claire Keegan that was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The festival even adopted the initiative of a pair of local activists - a German of Israeli origin and a Palestinian-German - who operate an intimate and small space that invites passers-by to talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.