Berlin 2020

Philippe Falardeau was still processing the scale of what he was living, Thursday afternoon. The Quebec director’s latest film My Salinger Year was about to officially launch the 70th Berlinale — a.k.a. the Berlin International Film Festival — on Thursday evening. And a lot of fuss was being made.

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Philippe Falardeau was stunned to learn his latest feature, My Salinger Year, had been chosen to open the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival: “I’m just starting to grasp what it means.”