In 2011, jury members posed beside an empty chair marking the place of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was selected for the jury but prevented by Tehran from leaving the country.

Stewart was back in Berlin to promote the gritty 1980s-set Southwestern U.S. crime-romance “Love Lies Bleeding” after serving as jury president at last year’s film festival.

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The Berlinale red carpet on Saturday became a protest platform against Iran’s repressive regime when a group of Iranian filmmakers and talents, joined by jury president Kristen Stewart, chanted ...

At the Berlin Film Festival press conference for her new film “Love Lies Bleeding,” Kristen Stewart said she thinks the era of queer films “being so pointedly only that is done,” adding ...