'I take it personally' - Berlinale stars' vent anger over German race killings

Movie's "Berlin Alexanderplatz" director Burhan Qurbani poses for a photo during a TV interview with Reuters ahead of the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 20, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

BERLIN (Reuters) - The racist killings of nine people in a German town cast a shadow over the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, where a minute's silence was held to commemorate the victims, and stars who will feature in the festival spoke out.

Filmmakers, some from Germany's minority communities, expressed their shock over the attacks at the Berlinale, seen as the most political of the major film festivals and traditional champion of arthouse movies and progressive causes.