Wim Wenders has clarified his much-discussed statement about filmmakers’ role in politics that kicked off a firestorm at Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.
Wenders was at the center of a heated debate at the Berlinale in February after the celebrated German filmmaker, who served as jury president, said during the opening press conference that filmmakers “should stay out of politics.”
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“We have to stay out of politics because if we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics,” Wenders said at the time. “But we are the counterweight
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