The account relates his version of events around an incident that took place on February 21.

Film school director Ben Gibson has released a statement addressing his departure from Berlin’s German Film and Television Academy (Dffb).

The account – which he released on March 10 – relates his version of events surrounding an incident that took place on February 21 during the Berlinale and has resulted in what he has described as his “separation” from the Dffb, “amicably by mutual agreement”.

Gibson states that both he and the school had agreed not to make any comment about the incident before a meeting with the...