Berlin 2006: Teddy Award Retrospective

Wieland Speck, director of the Panorama sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival:
"To show a film from Iran about a transsexual, as we did three years ago, was a sensation. We had to take enormous precautionary measures, because this continues to be a highly political issue.
"But it’s by no means just the Islamic countries. In our neighbouring Poland a man was recently elected president [Lech Kaczynski of the far right "Law and Justice" party] who has been spreading so much hatred towards gays and lesbians, that a lot of people have been hurt, also physically. At the moment in Poland, gays and lesbians are being attacked by neo-Nazis and the police are doing nothing about it. This shows that we are [...]

by Andre Soares | February 3, 2006   
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