"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, yet it's also a crowd-pleaser one of the world's largest audience film festivals."
"Tuttle feels that "every kind of cinema is political in some ways even if it's a more intimate and personal lens through which you see cultural and social issues in the world." Still, she emphasizes that the event also aims to support a struggling movie industry by attracting a wider audience to the theaters, which is why many films in the program "are just escapist pleasures as well.""
The Berlin International Film Festival runs February 12–22 and opens with the Afghan drama No Good Men by Shahrbanoo Sadat. The film is set on the eve of the 2021 Taliban offensive and follows a TV newsroom camerawoman frustrated by the lack of interesting romantic partners in a deeply patriarchal society, blending political urgency with romantic comedy. Berlin occupies a distinct place among major European festivals for its political emphasis while also drawing large public audiences; last year 336,000 tickets were sold. The program of more than 200 works spans genres from horror to romantic comedy to experimental films and includes Berlinale Special premieres that add red-carpet glamour, with Isabelle Huppert confirmed to appear.
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