we go both beloved but much of the unique designs of the city's subway stations. and we meet a photographer whose pictures of birds show flights as you've never seen before. we begin in san francisco where the largest festival of german language film outside europe is currently taking place for seven days but beyond shows feature films and documentaries from germany austria and switzerland it started back in one thousand nine hundred sixty it's now in its twenty third year and it's become an absolute must for movie fans interested in european cinema. from the at the center of the hippie movement to the gateway to silicon valley in san francisco the old world meets the new high tech meets tradition it's a multicultural metropolis with residents who come from all around the world

a good place for a festival outside mainstream hollywood i come to is just the rules and so about two thousand and eight. every year we get to see different films that we would never ever ever see. and this man is the guest of honor at berlin and beyond to be animated winner of the festival spotlight award he's no hollywood hero rather a character actor who's been cut status in germany with quirky roles thank you so much later gentleman the automator. in his recent hit twenty five kilometers per hour he costars with lars iding as brothers who realize it teenage dream together traveling across germany on their mopeds on the way they bridge the years of this strange bent and conflict.

with. your kids who are easy rider at a snail's pace which i. hear in america most people won't watch a film in a foreign language with subtitles which is too bad because i do think that our movie tells a universal story about missed chances in life and about living in and enjoying the moment the strong. moment i wouldn't say this is a purely german story but you do get to know about germany through it among them for trying. snuffling. these made in germany rarely find their way into american movie theaters u.s. audiences tend to prefer historical topics such as the third reich or the former east germany. was the festival director so full on soar and wants to offer his audience more. we don't want to lower the stereotypes of

rule they try to bring together and mixture of grade seven that are a survey of the movement to be the cinematic landscapes of dr of the country in the film cloud whispers a debut for its director mixes comedy and drama. and. the serious topic of dimentia told with a light and poetic touch. is neither good nor evil. it. director casting poto wanted to get away from typically german intellectualizing because we could break out so much more from formulaic predictable storytelling and be more experimental and dare to try different things what one female does often.

i'm joined by my colleague margaret kruger i want to go to see that twenty five. first of all why does german film promoting in america well last year only eighteen german films made it into american cinema that's not many and not many people went to see them either having great success as far as and they also have something in common they are all based on stories from german history and this is the same this year at the berlin and beyond film festival for example we have some phones for you three days in cuba about the german actress roni snyder. with her. before her tragic death and there we have. another fit in. this photo it's the story of a songwriter and coming in germany who also had

a double life and worked as an informant for that is german secret police. the silent revolution also a piece from east germany but it takes place in the one hundred fifty s. and it's about. the communist system and all those. are based on true stories. and these are the topics america really interested in when it comes to german films they stand for german cinema. more than any other i think and i noticed. on the website lot of the films that are children's films why is five yeah absolutely this seems to be very special in germany as well. and i'm not talking about the success of those films it's more about how they are produced hollywood's disney or picks so for example they are

very famous for the animation films but. movies where all the leading roles are by children are all young people teenagers are really rare to find and this is something. which is different in germany and that we have an example as well one of the films shown at the festival is mountain miracle in an unexpected friendship it's about a girl who runs away from a special they make in the alps where they are trying to your house mom we're going to have to leave it there actually mark where they both sound is it very interesting about children and thank you michael thank you michael. we're going underground literally to the subway here about so what is artistic or cultural about the ground railway system well having often stood there by itself waiting for a train i've come to know to some of the great architecture of unusual design of some of the stations here. the constant such task

a subway station in the district of immersed or features pop art inspired architecture it's a stop on the you seven line which runs through what was west berlin built while the city was divided it was meant to show the rest of west germany and the world what west berlin was capable of doing. also in the u. seven richard wagner plot is done up in bright yellow and dark blue tie like the scenes from wagner's operas and information about them on the wall. there's dragon slayers it fried and the ride of the val carries. that is what is special about this station is that its architecture is entertainment the architect are commuters could educate themselves while waiting for the train they could have something to look at and maybe even more in something like. this i know who was the architect who designed most of west berlin subway

stations forty eight of them between one thousand nine hundred sixty six and one thousand nine hundred six putting his stamp on the city one magnificent example is that house with an architecture somewhere between art deco and a cathedral. during the years of division some west berlin subway lines cross through east berlin the trains travelled slowly and without stopping through the really empty stations. to the park station on the u. five line the sober and straightforward it's the only underground station that east germany ever built due to the high costs involved. once the berlin had more money which is obvious and stations like polish town strasser on the use seven it's lavish tiling a field of flowers under the moon and stars a world of wonder below berlin. off in the other direction opposite the sky spanish photographer cherry bow as being an avid bird watcher since childhood

and by photographing the changing formation of flocks of birds using a really fast shutter speed he reveals the hidden beauty of birds in flight. images that resemble a tornado taken over the letter valley in catalonia. a flock of airborne volunteers that live south of the peyronie's. they were captured by spanish photographer charlie. merely for. the fascinating look in the dark it's really beautiful when you go there for them if they're now they're gathering to go into a circular motion that are meant. to capture that notion tell you that has to take dozens of exposures per second.

plane to thin their fair i wasn't trying to take just ordinary pictures of voters who've all seen before you know i wanted to show another side of nature's beauty a beauty that's created by patterns of movement so. the results of his work resemble calligraphic artworks that were trained in flight. these patents are made back home rings taking off. this is the flight path of the herring gull. and this the motion of full mass and patents in iceland. the former fashion photographer lives in barcelona he has devoted eight years to his photo project titled only tell graffiti from the greek words for birds and for writing. his photographs the world mind.

is that there were four of these patterns of always being invisible to us. perception is limited to the moment somebody what we see here is a few seconds compressed into a single image as if you could see those seconds as a single moment. but you say windows that's not possible except with this technology the former speaker. to create one image he meticulously cases hundreds of photos on top of one another they shot in rapid succession following the principle of the krona photograph the process developed in the mid nineteenth century to study motion sequences. in official beds can hardly be identified in charge of those images. look at the good that is going what's important is the pattern of the motion. so people see a d.n.a. strand a wire a computer graphics and that's what interests me. what do people see when they few

an image like this for the first time. with out of high speed photography condenses time and makes the invisible visible. birds must have such good radar always wondered how those shoot flocks never bump into each other those days but they don't do that anyway that's your nature lesson for today i hope you enjoyed it more on the website at v.w. dot com slash but for now. the flaming.

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