25/02/2023 - BERLINALE 2023: The festival has also announced the winners of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, alongside the recipients of the other parallel awards decided on by independent juries
Berlinale, long a champion of Iran's embattled directors, features several documentaries from country this year, including pair of movies exposing brutal jail conditions
The Berlin film festival, long a champion of Iran's embattled independent directors, is spotlighting its citizens' fight for basic rights with a series of screenings, events and a red-carpet protest.French-Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani, who is serving on the jury for the top prizes with president Kristen Stewart, said as the festival kicked off Thursday that cinema was a crucial fuel for the freedom movement."In a country like Iran that is a dictatorship, art is not only an intellectual or philosophical thing, it's essential, it's like oxygen," she said.
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