{"id":58262,"date":"2018-02-07T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=58262"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T10:54:04","slug":"metoo-to-the-fore-at-this-years-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/metoo-to-the-fore-at-this-years-berlin-film-festival.html","title":{"rendered":"MeToo to the fore at this year&#8217;s Berlin film festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">MeToo to the fore at this year&#8217;s Berlin film festival<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">This year\u2019s Berlin film festival will tackle sexual assault, discrimination and abuse with a panel discussion, a seminar and a safe counseling corner for guests, the festival\u2019s director said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The focus reflects the mission of the festival, whose 68th edition opens on Feb. 15, to screen films that address urgent social and political issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">It reflects a debate on sexual harassment driven by what is known as the #MeToo movement on social media. Dozens of powerful men in the film industry, politics, entertainment and business have been fired or resigned in the face of allegations they abused their power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cWe think that cultural events like this, but not just cultural events, are the platform for discussing this (topic) and we are in the middle of this discussion,\u201d said Dieter Kosslick, director of the \u201cBerlinale\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">At the counseling corner guests can speak or report their experiences with discrimination or sexual abuse, Kosslick said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">He said there would be no dress code at the festival in an echo of the decision of many actresses at the Global Globes awards ceremony last month to wear black in solidarity with Hollywood\u2019s victims of harassment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cI can only urge every woman to come dressed as she wants,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve never had a dress code at the Berlinale &#8230; I would never turn a woman away for wearing flat shoes or a man for wearing heels.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Gender, ethnicity, local affiliation, age, disability, sexual identity, and religious diversity will be the other main topics highlight in this year\u2019s program, with invited talents from more than 80 countries showcasing their work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Migration and refugees, which were the festival\u2019s main theme in 2016, when the festival coincided with the peak of Europe\u2019s migrant crisis, are still present in this year edition but the topic would be broached from a new angle, the director said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cIt\u2019s much more that you now look at what refugees are doing after they arrived in our Europe. 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