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Slow Food Movement Meets Fine Dining in Fest's Culinary Cinema Section (Berlin)

BERLIN -- Dieter Kosslick certainly has his pet peeves -- and most of them are not easily linked to the world of cinema. Which doesn't stop the Berlinale director, in his own true fashion, from connecting them -- be it toy-bears that are fashioned in Germany instead of China, the (yet unrealized) idea of recycling festival bags by only giving visitors a new front-plate every year, or creating Culinary Cinema, a special program that combines films with a first-class dining experience afterward.