India, Feb. 21 -- Director Wim Wenders sat alone at the head of a massive mahogany table a floor above the cinema in Delhi that was showing his new documentary, Anselm, on German artist Anselm Kiefer who warns the world through his works about the perils of forgetting the past, especially fascism. Speaking quietly in halting English, the celebrated German filmmaker was relaxed on the last leg of his long India tour, explaining the impending elections in Germany on February 23, the current political divide between Europe and the US over the Russia-Ukraine war, disinformation and digital information and story selling as opposed to storytelling. (Also read: Wim Wenders charms Kolkata with screening of the restored version of Paris, Texas)

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