At the Berlin festival, Golshifteh Farahani criticized the “dictatorship” government

Asked about what she was looking for in a potential prize winner, Stewart said she was looking for something 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 said. “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.”

February 17, 2023 | 4:32 am