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Klopp felt he had been set up, but he had no evidence.

The suggestion came from him, so naturally, the final communication with Qin Keqing and the judging panel was handed over to him.

Xu Jinglei was extremely fortunate.

The two films that won the main competition at the Berlin Film Festival, "Oldboy" and "Fox," are both co-productions in name, but their funding came from Hong Kong, so no Chinese delegation went to Berlin.

If China Film Group leads the group to Berlin, visas and other documents will be easy to obtain, and individuals will not need to provide various supporting documents. As long as personal information is submitted, China Film Group will take care of everything.

Without China Film Group taking the lead, it's become quite troublesome for individuals to travel abroad these days.

If Xu Jinglei hadn't started preparing her visa application more than a month in advance, how could she have made it in time when the time came?

Even so, it was thanks to the help of her homeroom teacher, Yu Feihong, that she was able to obtain her visa in time for the Berlin Film Festival.

As far as she knew, several of the main actors in "Fire Fox," Gong Hanlin, Tu Men, and Li Qinqin, did not receive their visas in time and were unable to go to Berlin with director Wu Ziniu.

On February 9, the day before the opening of the Berlin Film Festival, Xu Jinglei arrived in Berlin with Ren Dahua, Lü Liangwei, and Lin Guobin.

They had communicated with Qin Keqing beforehand, and Qin Keqing told them to check in at the Berlin Ruilakosa Hotel.

This official Berlin Film Festival partner hotel is a four-star hotel, located next to the core event area of ​​the film festival and only one kilometer away from the Berlin Film Palace, making it the most efficient choice for getting to the film festival red carpet.

During the three major European film festivals, the Venice Film Festival does not provide free accommodation. Regardless of whether it is a film in the main competition section or a film in another section, and regardless of whether it is a film director or other personnel, everyone is treated equally and must pay for their own hotel accommodation.

Cannes and Berlin are somewhat different.

Both the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival provide a certain number of free hotel rooms for films competing in the main competition during this period, but they do not arrange accommodation for all accompanying personnel of the film.

The Berlin Film Festival's guest management department will provide a certain number of free hotel rooms for invited films in the main competition, giving priority to ensuring the accommodation needs of the film's director.

The film festival does not cover the travel expenses of all accompanying personnel, but only covers the director's accommodation. Other personnel are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.

The same rule applies to Cannes.

Therefore, when Xu Jinglei, Ren Dahua, Lü Liangwei and Lin Guobin checked in, they had already prepared their passports, and the crew members who came with them had also prepared cash.

However, after the receptionist entered their information, they returned the cash to them.

"What do you mean?"

Since none of the group understood German, Ren Dahua turned to the translator and asked, "Is it because we don't have enough cash?"

No.

The translator said, "She said your names have already been used to reserve rooms, and you don't need to pay again."

The four were somewhat confused.

When participating in a film festival, actors generally don't need to pay for their own accommodation. The production team will cover the actors' basic food and lodging during the film festival, unless the production team is too poor to even afford accommodation.

Or a big star might complain that the hotel booked by the film crew isn't up to par and pay out of their own pocket to stay in a better hotel.

There was no issue with insufficient budget for "Old Boys".

Qin Keqing had already recouped his costs and made a huge profit.

None of them would complain about the hotel's level being too low; the Berlin Rella Kosa Hotel was already considered to be of a very high standard.

"Ask who paid the bill."

Ren Dahua said to the translator.

The production team had prepared the funds, but they couldn't spend them. They definitely needed to know who had prepaid the money, otherwise, when Qin Keqing asked, they couldn't just say they didn't know who paid, could they?

This money was definitely not prepaid by Qin Keqing, otherwise he would have explained it to the others.

After asking the front desk, the translator said, "The front desk said these rooms were booked by the film festival organizers."

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Ren Dahua and the others had never attended the three major European film festivals, but Lin Guobin had attended twice in a row, so he was quite familiar with them.

He whispered to the group with a hint of surprise, "This time is a little different. The Berlin Film Festival only provides free accommodation for directors, but this time they've provided free accommodation for everyone in our crew. Either the festival officials made a mistake, or..."

Lin Guobin didn't say what the other one was.

But apart from Xu Jinglei, none of them were naive, and they naturally understood what Lin Guobin meant.

Rumor has it that during the three major European film festivals, rooms are reserved for all the main creators of several key films.

Of course, this is just a rumor, and no production team would come forward to say that they received special treatment.

The three exchanged glances, and the same thought crossed their minds: Could it be that "Old Boys" is going to win a big award?

Xu Jinglei stood quietly to the side, watching the three of them talk in Cantonese, not knowing what they were whispering about.

Qin Keqing has been quite busy these past few days.

He never expected that Moritz, as the president of the Berlin Film Festival, would take time out of his day to take him along, either introducing him to some senior directors attending the festival, important figures from the festival's official staff, or members of the jury.

The first two points are acceptable, but the last one... isn't it said that during the film festival, participating directors are not allowed to contact the judges privately?

Oh, Qin Keqing suddenly remembered that the film festival hadn't started yet, so it wasn't against the rules!

Yeah, that's perfectly normal... my ass!

Qin Keqing felt as if an "elder" had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Moritz privately asked him to call him "uncle," which was bad enough, but when introducing him to others, he directly said that Qin Keqing was his friend's child. Is that normal?

This is not normal at all.

Even the term "sworn brotherhood" shouldn't be used like this, right?

Qin Keqing suspected that some kind of "compensation" mechanism had been triggered. Was Moritz dissatisfied with his own child?

Moreover, Moritz said this when introducing himself to other directors, important officials, or certain judges on the jury. Wasn't he afraid that people would say he was "favoring others"?

Okay, actually I'm not afraid at all.

Putting aside the fact that they are all of different skin color, the accusation of "nepotism" cannot be pinned on Moritz. The people he introduced to Qin Keqing should all be Moritz's "own people." How could these people say that Moritz is "favoring others"?

Even as the film festival was about to open, Moritz was still introducing Qin Keqing to his network of contacts.

Qin Keqing suddenly realized that becoming Moritz's nephew or niece wasn't so bad after all.

Now, whenever he sees Moritz in private, he calls him "Uncle" with ease.

On February 10th, the 44th Berlin International Film Festival officially kicked off, and the opening film of this year's festival, which has attracted much attention, is a Chinese-language film called "Old Boys".