Led by jury head M. Night Shyamalan, the jury celebrated returning to cinemas.
Even though the Berlinale has scaled back its activities for 2022 due to the ongoing pandemic and the omicron variant of COVID-19, the fact that — for the first time since 2020 — the festival was being held in a physical form again, with festivalgoers coming together in cinemas once again, was something celebrated by theSpeaking to the press on the first day of the festival before watching the 18 titles competing for the Golden Bear, members of the jury — led by“Cinema, for me, has always been...
“Of course, I enjoy watching films at home, but for a religious man, the church is the most important place to watch movies, and the church is the theater. Like you, I missed going to the movies for two years. But I’m very happy to be here because we’re back to the church, together.” Shyamalan recalled his first cinema experience at the age of 12, having been invited by a friend to see a movie about archaeology. “The logo comes up for Paramount and then the mountains, and it turns into,” he said. “You know, I speak of religion, well when I think of cinema, I was indoctrinated that day. I felt I was seeing something that was so inspired and so fun.”
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