Berlinale Chief Tricia Tuttle on Championing Indie Movies While Navigating the Festival’s Political Storm: ‘We’re Like a Lightning Rod for Controversy’

Two days after Rupert Grint’s candid and possibly sarcastic declaration — “Obviously, I’m against [fascism]” — reverberated across Potsdamer Platz and became a meme, Berlin Film Festival chief Tricia Tuttle is still cracking up.

Midway through her second edition at the helm of the Berlinale, the combative festival director wastes no time addressing the political storm that flared on opening day and quickly threatened to eclipse the films themselves. 

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“We’re like a lightning rod for political controversy,” she says in an interview with Variety. “That’s very tiring. It’s just really hard — and so important — to make sure that the

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