Variety | 2018Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin: Call for Equality as Scale of Gender Gap in European Film Is Revealed

Directors Barbara Albert and Isabel Coixet pledged to keep up the fight for equality Friday in Berlin as new figures revealed the scale of the gender gap in the European film business.

By Stewart Clarke

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