Nine days into the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard and a band of New Wave insurgents brought the Croisette to a halt, shuttering the world’s most glamorous movie showcase in solidarity with student protests sweeping France. Nearly six decades on, the question hanging over this year’s edition is whether geopolitics — from Gaza to Iran — could again hijack the narrative, or whether Cannes will once more prove it can absorb the shock without losing control.
This year’s Berlin Film Festival provides a cautionary tale. Fierce debate over the war in Gaza ignited a political firestorm that nearly cost
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