When the political controversy that broke out at the Berlinale in 1970 literally shut down the Competition, the resulting fallout brought to the surface a lot of internal conflict about the identity of the Berlinale itself. The solution was to create a new program, a counter event to the Competition which would be, as founding director Ulrich Gregor put it, “a catch-all for everything dangerous, subversive, or in any way unruly”