"The conference brought together festival director Tricia Tuttle and the seven people who will be selecting the winners of the Golden and Silver Bears: Jury president Wim Wenders, director of acclaimed films including "Wings of Desire" and the Oscar-nominated "Perfect Days," and his fellow jurors Nepalese director Min Bahadur; South Korean actor Bae Doona; Indian director, producer and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur; US director, screenwriter and producer Reinaldo Marcus Green; Japanese director, screenwriter and producer HIKARI and Polish producer Ewa Puszczynska."
"Referring to one of the jurors' previous comments on how cinema had the power to change the world, and noting that the festival does not happen in a vacuum, Jung reminded that "the Berlinale as an institution has famously shown solidarity with people in Iran and Ukraine, but never with Palestine, even today." He went on to ask: "In light of the German government's support of the genocide in Gaza and its role as the main funder of the Berlinale,"
The Berlin International Film Festival faced a political controversy hours before its February 12 opening film "No Good Men" as the international jury was introduced at a morning press conference. Festival director Tricia Tuttle and seven international jurors were present, including jury president Wim Wenders and jurors Min Bahadur, Bae Doona, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Reinaldo Marcus Green, HIKARI, and Ewa Puszczynska. A livestream of the press conference was interrupted when political journalist Tilo Jung asked about the Berlinale's and the German government's stance on Gaza and the festival's history of solidarity. Jung referenced selective solidarity and a claim of German government support for genocide in Gaza before the livestream was cut.
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