The decision by Berlin film festival to make its acting awards gender neutral is a “logical move” and a statement about gender equality in the film industry, according to the director of one of the most talked about movies at the Venice film festival.
Kornél Mundruczó, the director of Pieces of a Woman, was the third film-maker to approve of the move in Venice this week after Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett also backed the decision.
“Someone said, ‘Albert Einstein made some very racist comments’; the other person said, ‘Well, there goes the theory of relativity’.”
I felt a duty to every mother to try and represent it on screen as true to life and raw.”