Berlin Film Festival requires peace in Ukraine

By IANS

LOS ANGELES: The Berlin Film Festival has known as for peace over the scenario in Ukraine, which is at the moment in a state of navy battle after Russian forces launched operation on Thursday morning.

“We — festival workers, artists, filmmakers — think fondly of our friends in Ukraine and we are by their side in a call for peace,” the pageant mentioned in a press release.

“One week ago, the Berlin International Film Festival was celebrating a complicated yet successful edition. Filmmakers, artists and journalists from all over the world gathered in Berlin to enjoy a collective and joyful experience. The feeling of being together again, with no distinctions of nationality, religion, or culture, transported us in a way that film festivals can accomplish,” the assertion added.

“While these memories remain fresh, other images have broken into our lives, bringing a darker perspective. The world is on a verge of a huge crisis. As a showcase of the free world, the Berlinale has always put at its centre the notion of freedom and the will to bridge East and West.”

The assertion identified that the pageant has, by way of its historical past, showcased movies regarding Ukrainian historical past and tradition.

This included the 2022 choice, Maryna El Gorbach’s ‘Klondike’, set within the Donetsk area of jap Ukraine, the place preventing is going down on the close by Russian-Ukrainian border in 2014.

The pageant additionally confirmed ‘Terykony’ by Taras Tomenko, Oleg Sentsov’s “Numbers” in 2020, the movies of Kira Muratova and the early quick movies of Myroslav Slaboshpytsky.

“Films cannot change the society and the course of history, but they can help in changing the minds of people. Films are telling us that the world is already in a too precarious condition to add even more suffering and destruction,” the assertion concluded.