{"id":32517,"date":"2026-03-04T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/32517\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:57:08","slug":"berlinale-boss-to-accept-antisemitism-code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/32517\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlinale Boss to Accept “Antisemitism Code of Conduct”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBeleaguered Berlinale<\/a> boss Tricia Tuttle<\/a> is staying on as head <\/a>of the Berlin Film Festival but will be required to submit to new conditions, including a \u201ccode of conduct\u201d with an \u201cantisemitism taboo,\u201d according to reports in the German media.<\/p>\n

\n\tConservative German tabloid Bild, which has led the charge to get Tuttle fired, is reporting that the German Culture Ministry could not agree on terms for a separation deal with Tuttle, who has three years left on her five-year contract with the festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tInstead, writes Bild, citing unnamed government sources, Tuttle will remain Berlinale director but has agreed to accept a new advisory board and a code of conduct that all festival participants will be required to sign off on. The code, according to Bild, will include \u201ca taboo against antisemitism that applies to all participants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTuttle has been under fire<\/a> since the Berlinale awards ceremony on Feb.21, when a number of filmmakers made pro-Palestinian statements from the stage. Syrian-Palestinian director Abdallah Al-Khatib, winner of the top prize in the Perspectives section for Chronicles From the Siege, used his speech<\/a> to take aim at the German government, accusing them of \u201cbeing partners in the genocide in Gaza by Israel.\u201d In response, German Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider walked out of the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\n\tTuttle has also been criticized in the German right-wing media for a premiere photo taken with the Chronicles From the Siege crew on Feb. 15, which shows her standing next to film-makers wearing keffiyehs and holding Palestinian flags. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with German newspaper Rheinischen Post on Monday, German Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer used terms like \u201chate speech\u201d, \u201cactivist attacks,\u201d and \u201cIsrael hate\u201d to describe events at the Berlinale this year, stressing the importance of a new code of conduct to prevent them in the future. The German government is the main financial backer of the Berlinale, responsible for around 40 percent of its budget. <\/p>\n

\n\tNone of this \u2014\u00a0 Al-Khatib\u2019s statements, the keffiyehs or the flags \u2014 is against the law in Germany. How a new Berlinale code of conduct will be made compatible with Germany\u2019s free speech laws remains an open question. Bild reports that the German Culture Ministry also wants Tuttle to \u201cattract more Hollywood [stars] to Berlin.\u201d How enforcing political censorship will achieve that goal is also unclear.<\/p>\n

\n\tCalls for reform of the Berlinale had come primarily from the ranks of the conservative CDU party, which heads Germany\u2019s ruling coalition. Speaking to Bild last week, CDU parliamentarian Ellen Demuth, who sits on the parliamentary committee on culture and media, said \u201cGermany\u2019s most important film festival needs a fundamental overhaul\u201d and that discussions \u201cmust ultimately lead to the replacement of Tricia Tuttle as director of the Berlinale.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Sven Lehmann, a member of the Green Party and chairman of the culture and media committee, said he was \u201cabsolutely delighted that Tricia Tuttle wants to stay\u201d as head of the festival. \u201cEspecially in light of the campaign waged against her last week, this demonstrates her remarkable strength and deep commitment to the Berlinale and the art of film,\u201d said Lehmann in a statement on his official website on Tuesday. \u201cMinister of State for Culture Weimer has lost a great deal of trust through his actions in recent days. It is now up to him to restore this trust \u2013 both with Tricia Tuttle and the Berlinale team, and with the German and international<\/a> cultural scene,\u201d he continued. \u201cI expect the Federal Government and the Berlinale to develop a viable plan for the future of the Berlinale, including how to deal with polarizing political statements. The Berlinale should remain a place of free culture and exchange, not a place of intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn response to calls for her dismissal, hundreds of actors, directors<\/a>, and film industry professionals, including Sean Baker, Tilda Swinton, Vicky Krieps, and Wim Wenders, have come out in support of Tuttle. On Tuesday, 32 global film festival bosses, including Cannes\u2019 Thierry Fr\u00e9maux, Sundance\u2018s Eugene Hernandez, and TIFF\u2019s Cameron Bailey, published an open letter \u201cin support of Tricia Tuttle\u2019s wish to continue as Berlinale Festival Director.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter has reached out to the Berlinale for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beleaguered Berlinale boss Tricia Tuttle is staying on as head of the Berlin Film Festival but will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,760,761,190,762,12073,4653],"class_list":["post-32517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-2026","tag-berlinale","tag-germany","tag-international","tag-israel-gaza-conflict","tag-tricia-tuttle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116170316059885867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}