A Berlin International Film Festival venue at the Potsdamer
Platz Arkaden in Germany Photo: Li JingjingGT
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environment around the globe, has weighed heavily on the shoulders of some film
industry veterans. Fortunately, the ongoing Berlin International Film Festival
(Berlinale) has offered a way for them to speak out by focusing on diversity.
LGBT obstacles
Lucy Mukerjee-Brown came to the Berlinale in search of good LGBT (lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender) films to bring back to the US. Mukerjee-Brown is
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promoting LGBT equality by protecting, sharing and creating stories about this
group on screen.
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obstacles.
"We get our funding through three ways: from national art organizations,
sponsors and wealthy individuals. All of these three sources of money are
getting smaller this year," Mukerjee-Brown told the Global Times on Wednesday.
With this funding, her organization arranges three film festivals in the US
every year, as well as supports young LGBT people to achieve their filmmaking
dreams.
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'We are really sorry. We have a smaller budget this year. We don't know what's
gonna happen in the new administration, so we can't promise you the same amount
as we promised last year,'" Mukerjee-Brown said.
Figuring out how to carry out the same activities with less funding has posed
a major challenge for Outfest.
Mukerjee-Brown said she feels "it is more necessary" than ever for
organizations like hers to exist and work in the face of potential threats to
LGBT groups from the Trump administration.
By Wednesday, seven days into the 10-day festival, she had seen 12 films on
LGBT subjects and pitched nearly half of them for their upcoming film festival
in LA in July. And there are still plenty more films left for her to watch.
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ideal place for her to pitch qualified films.
Changing trends
The Berlinale's Panorama section has been a major program at the Berlinale
since the 1970s. Dedicated to finding new films and new directions for art house
films, it has had a reputation for being a great home to LGBT films since the
1980s.
Among the films for Panorama this year, family dramas have played a big role.
Wieland Speck, the curator of the Panorama section, talked about a trend he
observed this year during a talk at the Goethe Institute in Berlin on Tuesday.
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but the family looks different," he said.
Dysfunctional families were the topic of family dramas in the past, but now
families are seen "more positively, however in a very complicated and very
diverse way."
For example, Japanese film Close-Knit portrays a family in which the mother
is transsexual and the daughter is actually the husband's niece.
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films have focused on this year.
"It appears to me that in 2017, many films are focusing on remembering or the
act of remembrance," Speck said. For example, US film Bones of Contention
uncovers a hidden story in Spain after the lost bones of late Spanish writer
Federico Garc¨ªa Lorca are found.
After curating Panorama for almost 30 years, Speck said he believes "films
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International appeal
The first major European festival of the year, Berlinale attracts filmmakers
from all around the globe.
Cl¨¢udio Marques, director and head of the festival Panorama Intern Coisa de
Cinema in Brazil, is fascinated by the variety of films that Berlinale provides.
"[The] Generation [section] is so wonderful!" Marques told the Global Times.
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most films, but crucially important for the young.
Generation is a section that Berlinale has devoted to children and young
people since 1978.
The number and variety of films being shown at Panorama and Generation are
much more appealing to him than the Competition section, which normally draws
the brighter spotlight since films in this last section are competing for the
Golden and Silver Bears.
Marques said that compared to other major film festivals, the public as well
as filmmakers are able to really watch films of all kinds at Berlinale.
Also impressed is Le Nguyen, an independent filmmaker from Vietnam. He said
that he had a hard time believing how strong the public's passion for films is.
He told the Global Times that "people are lining up like they do for
blockbusters" at the night screening of films selected for the Berlinale Shorts
section.
He added that almost no viewers watch short films in cinemas in Vietnam.
This is Le's first Berlinale and first time in Europe. So far he has
continued jumping from theater to theater to watch as many films as possible.
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