A great read that really gets at why I as a general news/political reporter have always seen big value in covering film festivals like the Berlinale and Cannes. The stories we tell ourselves, telling us who we are.
Reposted from Linda Mannheim
“We can head for the great independent state of cinema and rest there in an unlimited realm, innately inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover,” Tilda Swinton said in her acceptance speech.

I wrote about the Berlinale for @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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