'Full transparency, I'm kind of shaking,' the 'Twilight' and 'Spencer' star said at the Berlinale opening press conference, but noted she and her seven-member jury would try to 'deprogram and to be fully open to newness' in judging this year's competition films.
Stewart said it wasn’t her decision to come to Berlin. “I was shocked they called me,” she said. “[But] it is an enormous opportunity to highlight beautiful things at time when that is hard to hold.”
“With Ukraine, Iran, with the earthquake [in Turkey and Syria], it feels like the whole world is disintegrating,” she said. “We are all in a moment of transition, especially now with Iran. And in a country, like Iran, that is a dictatorship, art is not only an intellectual or philosophical thing, it’s essential.
Asked about what she was looking for in a potential prize winner, Stewart said she was looking for something that “in a positive way is confrontational and political. I think it’s very important for us to deprogram and be fully open to newness,” she said.
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