{"id":217422,"date":"2026-04-04T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217422"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:48:00","slug":"berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-not-be-expected-to-speak-on-every-political-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217422","title":{"rendered":"Berlinale Issues Statement Following Political Backlash at Festival, Says Artists Should Not Be \u2018Expected to Speak on Every Political Issue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Berlin Film Festival has issued a lengthy statement from head Tricia Tuttle over what it describes as a \u201cmedia storm\u201d that has swept over the festival. The note \u2014\u00a0sent out late on Saturday night \u2014\u00a0comes following criticism faced by multiple attendees over the comments about politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-1236663708\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Berlin Film Festival has issued a lengthy statement from head Tricia Tuttle over what it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82.jpg",1000,667,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82.jpg",1000,667,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82.jpg",1000,667,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82.jpg",1000,667,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217422-berlinale-issues-statement-following-political-backlash-at-festival-says-artists-should-no69d179039bb82-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}