hi there and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture in today's show we've got a special focus on the upcoming venice be a knowledge a treasure trove of contemporary arts so let's have a quick look at what's in the pipeline. opening up to the public on saturday for the fifty eighth time this year's venice biennale it is intended not to send messages but rather to raise questions. and british the rama says the edmund deval is also at the be an island and brings his remarkable library of exile and his passion for porcelain to venice. but first we had to southern germany where the dock fest munich kicked off on wednesday and that's an international film festival devoted entirely to documentaries and one hundred fifty nine films for over fifty countries it's also one of the biggest of its kind

in europe well a big theme this year is the tenuous relationship we have with our planet and so we've picked out a few highlights. while in the raven tells the story of a small town dealing with the promise of industrial boom and the need to protect the environment. people make a decision on where it is that they have no spiritual connection to no aggression whatsoever east a community. these fields. for us humans in time we don't like to have. to tankers only pushed will be coming. what can you do. push exposes the massive financial players who turn affordable housing markets into

tradeable commodities the documentary focuses on the work of human rights lawyer lanny farha. that must've been a time when somehow you know if you had to come to the city you had a job in the city you could live in. enough to eat healthy turkey actually just taking wealth. if you're somebody like they had a backstop. you know i've heard off on the big advantages. no regulation of deregulation. there's a loss of crime out there because nobody was looking. now we all can. and . thrilling high seas adventure when conservationists go off to one of the world's most notorious poaching vessels chasing the thanda. this is a bob barker you are fishing illegally. possible character. some

harrowing images there and my colleague melissa holroyd has joined me in the studio welcome melissa you've come to talk to us about chasing thunder first of all that looks like a real cliffhanger but what exactly is going on it's a terribly exciting film it's a real eco thriller if we're allowed to call it that it's directed by mark benjamin and mock eleven it's making its german debut at the munich documentary festival the crew are on the lookout for six poaching vessels and they come across the most notorious of the poaching vessels the fonda they have been illegally who have been illegally fishing for more than a decade the poachers of course cause untold damage in the oceans around the world the film ends in spectacular fashion and i think i'm allowed to say this because it's in the trailer when it's working out and yes without spoiling with the captain

sinking his own ship unbelievable stuff that we saw there not the sea shepherds are the ones doing the chasing and some say that they've got a bit of an infamous reputation they do well they have their origins in green paste and then they went their separate ways from greenpeace because they thought that greenpeace for a little bit too soft little bit too easy on their tactics so that really tells us something about how what sort of groups they are ok. and you were going to tell me about the communication i think on the oh yeah i mean one one of the ways the documentary builds tension is that it focuses on the communication between the two captains of the two sea shepherd vessels. and between the captain of the fund so it really helps in between those and that's also where a lot of the human lies in the documentary because this banish speaking captain is just so extraneous ahead of us maverick. it's more than

a maverick really to forget forget that you're actually watching a documentary film now let's let's have a quick look at you brought us the second example push because this problem of portable housing is a problem that we're definitely seeing everywhere yeah affordable housing is a global problem cities around the world are all having the same problem and push examines that it's ultimately a very depressing situation. is she stands as a beacon of hope in this story she said a straight talking and tireless figure for the past three years she's been the u.n. special reportorial on adequate housing needy and yeah that's right yes she's it's directed by award winning swedish director frederick get and who has also done a lot of work on global medicine in justice he made but nona's and box versus cause they both went down very well get and follows for over a year on the one hand the film exposes this desperate situation but on the other

hand it's a really terrific call to action see if we can get just quickly to the third one which speaks to my heart because the will of the raven was of course made in canada was yeah the film is set on canada's rough west coast it's an observational documentary you really get a sense of this observational documentary in terms of how the documentary ends up playing out it chronicles the profound relationship between the first nation peoples relationship between the environment and especially with whales and how they cope then when the big investors come to town the whale and the raven of course that made by german director i believe yeah made by me. this is her second feature length length film it's visually spectacular as in the picture is also behind the camera and the shots are just. absolutely incredible unbelievably great visuals and very provocative stuff the doc fest on until may nineteenth was alright thank you very much for bringing us those insights. well speaking of provocative on

saturday the fifty eighth venice be a knowledge kicks off and this year organizers say the event will feature works that address a war in turmoil and that artists have been specifically encouraged to raise a lot of questions he's a prick of. the fifty eighth edition of the venice be in our lives called may you live in interesting times that's intended more as a message to visitors than as an all encompassing motto for the spectacular art festival featuring works from ninety nations much of it displayed in competing national privilege it's. one of the works on display is a machine presented by chinese artist soon young and panu tries in vain to clean up a red liquid. artist's live in the same world we did the read this do they respond to things but there are new themes in this being now so yes i think art. this social but in

a different way than. tourism or history through apology. and approach is how we experience the over. the work that has attracted most attention though is this ship wrecked it was transported to venice by sea the fishing vessel sank off the libyan coast in two thousand and fifteen with more than one thousand refugees on board few survived the. swiss artist christophe blowhole has installed for the duration of the be an island in a prominent position in venice harbor. the job of artists is to raise questions about things and to raise questions about how we look at things about the categories we used to order our world. and then move the workers up to us to. develop

a message. once again there's plenty food for thought at the finish buno. also making an appearance at this year's be analogous britain's edmund de vos world famous ceramicist and a bestselling author and it's perhaps only fitting that he'll have two exhibitions in venice one expanding on his exploration of literature and exile on the other featuring his trademark porcelain vessels a material the virtues of which he simply can't extol enough as we learned on a visit to his studio. porcelain has shaped edmund evolves life it started when he made his first pots at the age of just fine of his fascination for the white earth continues to grow half a century later. who wouldn't adore. both. worships porcelain as the. perfect material not only because it's

a deceptively pure substance solid yet translucent hard and fragile but also because it was a desirable commodity and traveled the globe connecting people you have to start each day looking for opportunities to rebuild empathy. you know and my job to my my job which is why i come to work you know is to make things which are i hope beautiful and builds connections between things we've lost and things that we can build that's that's why that's why i get up in the morning with. visitors to developers in london studio are invited to touch the limoges train that the artist has worked with for twenty five years. it's not just about the vessels but also about the spaces between and around them. like behind me i mean if you

see see a group of. vessels or which of course are just empty spaces all they are. in a line that sounds for me it's like work. so i'm making poetry. divans other great passion is reading and writing books. in the hare with amber eyes he told the story of his jewish family his grandparents fled from the nazis to england now deval considers britain's push to leave the e.u. to be nationalistic and disgrace. for two thousand years you know we have depended from we've depended on people moving across borders writing in different languages bringing with them cultures which aren't native to to to what we experience and then. we enjoy these and reinvigorates us

for the venice b. unama has created a monument to the world's exiles deval has placed his library of exiles in venice is form a jewish ghetto two thousand books written by exons on display in a reading room coated in porcelain it pays tribute to those who culturally enriched the new huns including. and it's intended also to be a place of reflection and exchange so you need to bring up the time with you know if you're heading to venice will be an olive oil run until november so we'll have lots more from venice in the coming weeks and months and of course on the website but that our time is coming to an end all the best for us here in berlin.

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