Kosslick, whose 18 year tenure at the Berlinale spanned 2001 to 2019, is festival director of Green Visions Potsdam and has put together a line-up of 18 films addressing issues such as climate protection, sustainability, fast fashion, agriculture and nutrition. The programme, which Kosslick has selected in collaboration with curator Karen Arikian, opens this evening with the German premieres of French documentary filmmaker Jean-Albert Lièvre’s and UK director Mahalia Belo’s survival thriller , starring Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch. Universal Pictures International will also be releasing Belo’s film in German cinemas parallel to its presentation at Green Visions.
The following days will also see the German premiere of Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo’s documentary , with the film’s producer Eric Schlosser attending the screening and participating in a discussion with the actor/documentary filmmaker Hannes Jaenicke, farmer Karsten Dudziak, and Katharina Helming from the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research. The festival’s line-up includes Canadian filmmaker Blake McWilliam’s About “seaweed nerd” and adventurer Frances Ward; UK-based director Becky Hutner’s portrait of the fashion designer Amy Powney in ; as well as screenings of Franco Garcia Becerra’s Peruvian-Chilean drama and Mascha Halberstad’s animated feature , screened in cooperation with Filmfest München which has selected the film for its CineKindl competition. The fes.
