Wim Wenders Speaks Out at Berlin Film Festival Awards Ceremony: ‘Cinema Is More Resistant to Oblivion Than the Internet’

Before commencing the presentation of the Competition prizes, Berlin Film Festival jury president Wim Wenders began proceedings with a prepared statement, responding to the controversy that has blighted the festival since its opening-day press conference last week, in which he contentiously declared filmmakers to be “the counterweight of politics, we are the opposite of politics.” […]

By Guy Lodge