"Award-winning director Shahrbanoo Sadat's third feature is set on the eve of the 2021 Taliban offensive and tells the story of a TV newsroom camerawoman who is discouraged by the lack of interesting potential romantic partners in her country's deeply patriarchal society. Combining political urgency and romantic comedy, the film embodies two of the Berlinale's distinctive facets: It is historically the most political of the three major European film fests, alongside Cannes and Venice,"
"Last year's Berlinale set an all-time ticket sales record, with 336,000 tickets sold to the public. As festival director Tricia Tuttle tells DW, even though Berlin is "not afraid of championing and backing very political films films that might create difficult talking points," the more than 200 works in the program feature a diversity of genres from horror to romantic comedies to experimental works."
The Berlinale opens its February 12-22 program with No Good Men, an Afghan drama by Shahrbanoo Sadat set on the eve of the 2021 Taliban offensive. The film follows a TV newsroom camerawoman navigating romantic prospects within a deeply patriarchal society while blending political urgency with romantic comedy. The festival balances historically political programming with crowd-pleasing selections and recorded a record 336,000 public ticket sales last year. Festival director Tricia Tuttle emphasizes that every kind of cinema can reflect cultural and social issues and that the program aims to support a struggling movie industry by drawing wider audiences. The opening film appears in the Berlinale Special non-competitive section, and French actress Isabelle Huppert is confirmed to play a lead role in that segment.
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