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PREVIEW-Berlin Film Fest Opens With Clooney - And Eye On Refugees

PREVIEW-Berlin Film Fest Opens With Clooney - And Eye On Refugees

by The Daily Eye Team February 11 2016, 3:41 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 27 secs

George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when "Hail, Caesar!" opens the annual Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned showcase hopes to attract refugees as well as film fans this year.
The festival that began in 1951 when Germany - and Europe - was recovering from a war that had uprooted millions of people is making an extra effort to welcome the latest wave of refugees who have fled war in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.

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