Eat local, film local.
Dieter Kosslick, head of the Berlin Film Festival, tells Screen Daily that despite all the complaining being done, he thinks things are fine in the independent film realm. Never better, in fact: it's in "the best of health": In the past two or three years, there were films with big issues like globalisation or capitalist exploitation of the environment, but now we are going back to local subjects and what is happening on a more personal level. The filmmakers are more concerned with social changes in their immediate surroundings. That's a welcome relief if it spares us more of the likes of "Babel" and its ilk. It's also intriguing on a film-locavore level. Kosslick is speaking from the top of the ivory tower, film-festival-wise -- things like distribution and financial viability aren't his concerns. He's just looking for the best mix of movies. As a couple of angry commenters at...
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