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deadline.comHello and welcome back to your weekly International Insider. Berlin’s back and with most of our team in the German capital, it’s Jesse Whittock here bringing you the latest from the worlds of TV and film. Berlin Sensation “I’m kind of shaking”: Straight over to Zac Ntim with this dispatch from the first night of Germany’s top film fest: Kristen Stewart, Sean Penn and Anne Hathaway were among the big names present as the 73rd Berlin Film Festival opened Thursday evening.
This year is the festival’s full-blown return since the pandemic and the festivities began early Thursday morning as the festival jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, was presented to the press. “In full transparency, I’m kind of shaking,” Stewart said when asked about her jury duties at the opening presser.
She was joined by fellow jurors Golshifteh Farahani, Valeska Grisebach, Radu Jude, Francine Maisler, Carla Simón and Johnnie To.
The evening’s opening film was American filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s latest, She Came to Me, starring Peter Dinklage, Hathaway and Marisa Tomei, all of whom walked the festival’s red carpet. Sticky situation: Proceedings were briefly paused, however, when a pair of climate change activists appeared to glue themselves to the carpet in front of the Berlin Palast.
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