The celebrated director calls on EU institutions to support European cinema and stresses the importance of a wider circulation of films outside the country of their origin. Film, he says, is always political.
European filmmakers launch a manifesto stressing the importance of voting in the upcoming European elections. This manifesto is signed by 500 personalities from the cinema world, including Jacques Audiard, Julie Bertuccelli, Susanne Bier, Costa-Gavra...
EFA Chairwoman Agnieszka Holland and Deputy Chairman Mike Downey address the difficult political situation of artists who are being censored and locked away. Singling out the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov who has been sentenced to 20 years in priso...