“Culture and cinema are under attack,” was the warning from mk2 Chairman Nathanaël Karmitz during a timely Zurich Summit panel on the topic of how the culture and entertainment sectors can navigate political interference and social media vitriol.

Karmitz, a leading cinema owner and film financier in France, told delegates that the company had recently organized talks devoted to its movies but that social media abuse had made it a lot harder to continue with the events: “Now we have far right Twitter accounts that systematically attack everything about movies and French movies,” he said. “There are polemics around the events we have organized for movies.”

Karmitz touted France as a country where a company like mk2 can represent a diverse range of filmmakers, including current films by I

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