{"id":86052,"date":"2026-09-06T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/86052\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:03:08","slug":"wim-wenders-revisits-berlin-film-festival-comments-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/86052\/","title":{"rendered":"Wim Wenders Revisits Berlin Film Festival Comments About Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWim Wenders<\/a> has returned to the comments that caused such a commotion at the Berlin<\/a> Film Festival earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking at the Venice<\/a> Film Festival press conference today for new movie From inside out \u2013 The architecture of Peter Zumthor, the veteran German filmmaker was asked about his comment suggesting that filmmakers should stay out of politics. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI could repeat the same thing I said then. I could be more explicit,\u201d said Wenders today. \u201cWhat I said then is that filmmakers, we are the opposite of politicians. We have empathy. Politics works without empathy. That\u2019s all I said.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201dWe have a very different thing,\u201d Wenders responded to the Guardian\u2019s question at the presser. \u201dWe are not working with the mindset of politicians. We are working with the mindset of empathetic people, and we are into changing things.\u00a0Politics are into confirming what is, and that\u2019s what I said, and it was quoted as \u2018we have to stay out of politics\u2019, which was clearly not what I said because it\u2019s not what I said now, and I said the same thing then.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued: \u201dThe frame of filmmakers is a different mindset than the mindset of politicians, and we should not work with their mindset. We work with a different set of rules. I say that again, and I hope you\u2019re not misquoting me, and saying \u2018we have to stay out of politics\u2019 because we do the opposite. We are the antidote.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Berlin, the filmmaker had said at the film\u2019s jury press conference: \u201cWe have to stay out of politics because if we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics. But we are the counterweight of politics, we are the opposite of politics. We have to do the work of people, not the work of politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe comments unleashed a media storm at the highly political event, taking place against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Gaza, and led to the festival having to issue multiple statements about the highly charged press conferences that followed. Author Arundhati Roy even pulled out of the festival in protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wim Wenders has returned to the comments that caused such a commotion at the Berlin Film Festival earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,59224,325],"class_list":["post-86052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-venice","tag-wim-wenders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}