WATCH: Screen caught up with German actress, who starred in Fatih Akin’s Competition film.
Screen sat down at Cannes Film Festival with Diane Kruger to discuss her role in Fatih Akin’s In The Fade, which played in Competition this year and won her the festival’s best actress prize.
She talks about taking on a kind of role she had never been offered before, and the challenge of working in a politically-charged film.
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The Oscar-winning director will also take part in an on-stage discussion.
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“Halyna talked about this festival on set. She said she felt like a western would be perfect for this festival.”
43 creatives include 21 from UK, 13 from US and nine from India.
Best rough cut was awarded to Do You Love Me, an archive-based movie about Beirut.
Film will have world premiere in Rotterdam’s Harbour strand.
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