The Booker Prize-winning author said Wenders' comments, that filmmakers "have to stay out of politics," were "jaw-dropping" ...

Berlinale head says artists should not be pushed into soundbites after author quit over president’s remarks that film-makers should ‘stay out of politics’ ...

Jury chair Wim Wenders said filmmakers ‘have to stay out of politics’ when asked about German support for Israel’s war.

Statements made by members of the 2026 Berlinale’s jury at the event’s opening press conference last week have sparked controversy.

The push back from Berlinale jury head Wim Wenders when it came to answering questions about politics sparked no shortage of ...

Jury president Wim Wenders’ comments that cinema should remain a non-political “counterweight” to politics has triggered ...

Screenwriter Arundhati Roy will not be attending the Berlin Film Festival this year after Jury president Wim Wenders suggested he and his fellow filmmakers should "stay out of politics." Roy was set ...

Roy said in a statement sent to AFP that she was ‘shocked and disgusted’ by responses from Wenders and other jury members to a question about the Palestinian territory at a press conference around las ...

Indian author Arundhati Roy announced she is withdrawing from the Berlin International Film Festival after jury president Wim Wenders said cinema ...

Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy said Friday she was withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival over jury president ...

History will judge’ those in the film industry who do not speak out against the Gaza war, the Booker Prize winner says.

BERLIN: Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy said on Friday she was withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival over jury president Wim Wenders’s comments that he wanted to “stay out of politics” ...