The Girl and the Spider (2021)
All week long, Carlo Chatrian, the artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival, has been rolling out the lineup of the seventy-first edition, one section after another, leading up to yesterday’s unveiling of the main competition. From March 1 through 5, dozens of features and shorts will stream to the juries, industry professionals, and accredited press, and then, hopefully, the general public will have the opportunity to see them from June 9 through 20.
Someone had the brilliant idea of inviting six past winners of the festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear, to serve on this year’s competition jury. Mohammad Rasoulof (