George and Amal Clooney meet Merkel to discuss refugees

As Europe endures the largest refugee influx since World War II, with 1.1 million asylum seekers arriving in Germany a year ago, the theme of migration will dominate the festival.

She suggested its members could help Turkey’s refugee effort beyond the three billion euros ($3.3 billion) already committed by the EU.

“It’s also very hard to just make a subject film”.

Clooney said he will meet with Merkel on Friday to ask “what messages and what things we can do and the things that we can help with”.

“The United States needs to do more, as we know”, Clooney said.

“One of the main tasks of the coming days is to avert the German-Turkish pact”, Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, is said to have told a recent party meeting.

“I spend a lot of time working on these things, and it’s an odd thing to have someone stand up and say, ‘What do you do?’ That’s fine, knock yourself out”, The Hollywood Reporter quoted an irritated Clooney saying. “We are in Berlin, a very specific city in history, it has to be much more acceptable in Germany to have refugees because we have a bad history”. Despite her country’s generosity, Merkel has come under intense scrutiny at home and overseas for her policies about migrants. The refugee situation has been a hot topic during the festival, according to several reports.

Clooney said that Germany has taken in one million refugees and that its “amazing policy” serves as a “beacon” for the rest of Europe.

“He is absolutely right to raise his voice and use his popularity to influence opinion on this”, Schweiger told The Hollywood Reporter.

“I’m done. I’m over it. Sexiest man still alive”.

Berlin’s biggest refugee camp is at the former Templhof airport. The Berlinale will also be providing free tickets to charities to allow volunteers who would like to to accompany a refugee to select screenings during the festival.

There are more than a dozen films in the festival programme which focus on people fleeing from war and oppression.

Even if Clooney himself has been active in humanitarian crises around the world, he acknowledged at the Hail, Caesar! press conference that the film industry has been too slow to react.

“I’ve played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures”.