Special envoy to Berlin
The Berlinale cultivates its difference.
Unlike Cannes and Venice, the opening ceremony of the Berlin International Film Festival does not resemble a parade of tuxedos and evening dresses.
Come as you Are.
We enter the Berlinale Palast, the large hall on Potsdamer Platz, like a fast food restaurant.
Thursday February 15, gray parkas and muses mingle on the red carpet.
A festival aimed at both professionals and the public (300,000 tickets sold each year), the Berlinale is not a bunker.
The event claims to be open to the world and open to as many people as possible.
Carlo Chatrian, its artistic director, made an effort.
He wears a bow tie and a tight smile.
He is directing his last Berlinale.
Arriving from the Locarno Festival and appointed in 2019 for a five-year mandate in tandem with general director Mariette Rissenbeek, he was not reappointed by the German Minister of Culture, the environmentalist…
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