Berlin Film Festival Ignores US to Focus on the Past and Future of Europe Culture; Including This Year’s Film Contenders

Both Europe and the United States withdraw from each other politically, but people of who are fond of motion pictures in Europe have learned to cut back on Hollywood fare; because of US productions were absent this year's Berlin film festival this Thursday.

Years ago, Berlin, Germany was occupied with star-studded contenders such as Wes Anderson's "The Grand Hotel Budapest" and Coen brother's "Hail, Caesar!" This 2017, the world's biggest film festival with huge audience participation will be welcomed with the world premiere of a biological movie by the rookie Etienne Comar's "Django Reinhardt," which features the life of a French jazz guitarist and the French persecution during Nazis occupied Paris.

At the same time, according to The Guardian, the family drama "The Dinner" by Oren Moverman which stars Steve Coogan, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and Rebecca Hall. It is the only US film production to be present for the competition in which 18 films contend for the top prize, Berlin Film Festival's The Golden Bear.

There are seven members of the jury in this Berlin Film Festival to be led by the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven in which he was recognized for Basic Instinct and Showgirls by winning for the comedy-drama "Elle." The list of the jury also includes US actor Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olafur Eliasson a Berlin-based artist along with Mexican actor and director Diego Luna, which can be seen in "Star Wars: Rogue One."

The new film "Pokot" from Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland was originated on the novel "Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead" by Olga Tokarczuk who has recently received death threats for questioning Poland's record of tolerance towards its Jewish citizens. Meanwhile, the Berlin Film Festival will also feature "The Trial" by Askold Kurov, an investigation into the political show trial of a Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, as reported by Deadline.

Biological movies of European artist were also at the Berlin Film Festival including the life of Django Reinhardt and a documentary film about a German artist Joseph Beuys "Final Portrait," which features a tale of a sculpture Alberto Giacometti, stars Geoffrey Rush. Also, "The Young Karl Marx" by Haitian activist and director Raoul Peck which focuses on the friendship between Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx is also to be the one contender of the competition.

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