{"id":32769,"date":"2026-03-04T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/32769\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:31:07","slug":"berlinale-confirms-tricia-tuttle-to-stay-on-as-festival-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/32769\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlinale Confirms Tricia Tuttle to Stay on as Festival Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTricia Tuttle<\/a> will remain the director of the Berlin International<\/a> Film Festival, the Berlinale<\/a> confirmed, following a supervisory board meeting on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, the festival said the board confirmed \u201cthe importance of the independence of our work,\u201d refuting claims that had been circulating in the German media <\/a>that a condition of Tuttle\u2019s continued employment would require the Berlinale and its guests signing off on a new \u201ccode of conduct\u201d that would include specific measures to counter \u201cantisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe claims were circulated by conservative German tabloid\u00a0Bild, ahead of today\u2019s supervisory board meeting. The Berlinale said the supervisory board gave \u201crecommendations rather than conditions related to Tuttle\u2019s continued employment. Their consideration and any implementation now rests with the Berlinale, and we will review them.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBild has led the charge to get Tuttle\u00a0fired<\/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\u00a0Chronicles From the Siege,\u00a0used his speech<\/a>\u00a0to 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. Bild also unearthed a premiere photo from Feb. 15 showing Tuttle posing with the\u00a0Chronicles From the Siege\u00a0crew, with several of the filmmakers wearing keffiyehs and holding Palestinian flags.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere has been a groundswell of support for Tuttle from cinema professionals across Europe and beyond. Some 2,500 film professionals, including Sean Baker, Nancy Spielberg, Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho, and Tilda Swinton, have signed an open letter backing her to stay in the job. On Tuesday, 32 global film festival directors, including Cannes head Thierry Fr\u00e9maux, Toronto Film Festival CEO Cameron Bailey, San Sebastian director Jos\u00e9 Luis Rebordinos, Rotterdam head Vanja Kaludjercic, and Locarno director Giona A. Nazzaro, signed an open letter<\/a> saying they \u201cstand in support of Tricia Tuttle\u2019s wish to continue as Berlinale Festival Director in full trust and with institutional independence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tricia Tuttle will remain the director of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale confirmed, following a supervisory…\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-32769","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\/116171865283760681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769","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=32769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769\/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=32769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}