The film director reflects on how ‘Trump Presidentnce will affect the cinema’ in Berlerale

The effect of Trump’s presidency In the “integrity and point of view” of filmmakers it is a question “that hangs on all American filmmakers,” said a director for a long time on Thursday.

President of the Jury of the Berlin International Film Festival Todd Haynes warned journalists During a press conference that people are in a “state of particular crisis in the United States, but also worldwide”, since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term.

“I think that everyone I know in the United States and his friends abroad are witnessing this flood of actions in the first three weeks of the Trump administration with tremendous concern, shock,” said Haynes.

“I think it has been part of the strategy, is to create a feeling of destabilization and shock among people so that the way we proceed to merge different forms of resistance are still in process and are still resolved among the Democrats,” he continued.

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Haynes insisted that even the people who voted for Trump will probably be “quickly disappointed” for their inability to provide “economic stability.” However, I was more concerned about how this would affect the “financial ones that are willing to take risks and willing to support strong voices.”

“How the return of Trump’s presidency will affect cinema is a real question about all American filmmakers,” said Haynes. “And it is a question that extends beyond the world of cinema: how you keep your own integrity and point of view and talk about the problems around us … that remains to be seen.”

The member of the jury and film critic Amy Nicholson also spoke against “people trying to divide” at the same press conference.

“I just want to say in my country, I think the Americans listen to all the time we are a divided country,” said Nicholson. “I feel that some people in my country agree to just want My country realizes that they must unite (against) those who try to divide us in the United States. “

Although Haynes openly criticized Trump at the Berlin International Film Festival, other similar festivals have been less politicians than in the past.

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Earl this month, the Sundance Film Festival was remarkably absent anti-trump protests In contrast to the beginning of Trump’s first mandate in 2017.

Although the points of sale as Variety said that this was due to the publicists who demanded that journalists stay away from politics, Christian Toto, host of the podcast “Hollywood in toto,” he said Fox News Digital which was probably due to Hollywood’s diminishing influence.

“It blames several factors for the weak resistance sequel. The industry is in trouble thanks to the consequences of pandemic, the 2023 industry and, more recently, the devastating fires of the angels. The actors realize that Being openly political does not help your result in such.

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