Trend toward documentaries

Radovan Holub sums up his impressions of the Berlin Film Festival, which concluded this weekend: "The Berlinale has revealed an irreversible trend in current cinema. Documentaries are playing a bigger role. Features and documentaries are coming closer together and sometimes they are hard to tell apart," he writes. "For the sake of its own prestige, a festival like the Berlinale must show films made in Europe or elsewhere that could influence the world of cinema. But this kind of film is hard to find in the festival. … The really interesting films vanished in the sections of the Berlinale that were outside the main competition."

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