Kirsten Stewart seemed assured as she attended her first press convention as jury president of the 2023 Berlin International Festival.
However, the ‘Spencer’ star confessed that she was nervous of the duty forward, reported Hollywood Reporter.
She mentioned, “Full transparency, I’m kind of shaking. I feel, not buckling under [the weight], but I can’t wait who we all ahead at the end of this experience. I’m just ready to be changed by all the films and by all the people around us.”
Stewart mentioned it wasn’t her choice to come back to Berlin. “I was shocked they called me,” she mentioned. “[But] it is an enormous opportunity to highlight beautiful things at time when that is hard to hold.”
Fellow Berlinale juror, actress Golshifteh Farahani, mentioned, a lot political upheaval on the planet, together with mass demonstrations in her house nation of Iran, she felt significantly privileged to have the ability to attend the pageant this 12 months.
“With Ukraine, Iran, with the earthquake [in Turkey and Syria], it feels like the whole world is disintegrating,” she mentioned. “We are all in a moment of transition, especially now with Iran. And in a country, like Iran, which is a dictatorship, art is not only an intellectual or philosophical thing, it’s essential. It’s like oxygen…With everything that is happening in Iran again, to back in Berlin I’m happy that we can gather together and celebrate cinema, celebrate freedom, even though there is the world seems to be collapsing from everywhere.”
Stewart, Farahani and the opposite Berlinale jurors together with Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, Spanish director Carla Simon, Hong Kong director Johnnie To, German director Valeska Grisebach, and U.S. casting director and producer Francine Maisler will decide the 20 movies in Berlin’s official competitors part and, on February 25, hand out the coveted Gold and Silver Bear trophies to the winners.
Asked about what she was searching for in a possible prize winner, Stewart mentioned she was searching for one thing that “in a positive way is confrontational and political. I think it’s very important for us to deprogram and be fully open to newness,” she mentioned. “I think that the diversity and the breadth of perspectives [among this year’s competition films] is going to is going to provide us with some new material that might be challenging and strange to adapt to [but] if we all if we all can’t agree [on a film] that’s probably because it’s pretty good.”
There aren’t any apparent frontrunners going into the 73rd Berlinale. The 19 movies chosen by the crew led by inventive director Carlo Chatrian are heavy on arthouse and worldwide cinema, with a powerful concentrate on motion pictures with a powerful, political message.
Source: www.thehindu.com