Special envoy to Berlin
Two rooms, two atmospheres.
On Thursday, the Berlinale Palast hosts the opening ceremony of the 73rd Berlinale, which runs until February 26.
The exercise is now sadly commonplace.
As he did at the Cannes Film Festival and at the Venice Film Festival, Volodymyr Zelensky speaks through a screen.
“Cinema,
he says,
can inspire and influence people who can change the world, says the Ukrainian president sitting behind his desk.
Culture and cinema cannot be outside of politics, when it comes to a policy of aggression, mass crimes, murders, terror (...) a policy of total war like the is that of Russia
.
Zelensky's intervention is followed by serious and moved festival-goers, among whom are the president of the jury Kristen Stewart or Sean Penn.
The American actor and director, invited to go on stage, will present
Superpower
on Saturday , the documentary he made in Ukraine…
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