The 73rd Berlin film festival will award the groundbreaking director-producer the event’s highest honour, the Golden Bear, in February.
Big-name filmmakers and stars are awaited in Berlin for one of Europe's largest film festivals, as Germany posts more than 150,000 new Covid-19 cases per day.
Only six of 18 competition films are directed by women, yet according to Delphyne Besse from the pro-parity "50/50 for 2020" collective, Berlin is the film festival "which does the most" to ensure female representation.
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