and history. welcome to arts and culture now the red carpet isn't rolled out just yet but the anticipation is growing for the 70th berlin international film festival hundreds of movies from around the world are set to screen at the bally nala next month but only 18 of them are eligible to win the coveted golden bear award and the festival's new leadership has finally revealed which ones. 70 years of the barely know it's a story with big stars and big films. the story continues with the new festival director duo carlo shot play on artistic director and money at least in the executive director in charge of business. the 1st look at the films in competition when there's a strong focus on art and film drama hidden away is about a painter. and in siberia director abel ferrara

sends his actor friend willem dafoe on a voyage of self discovery into his own subconscious was the belly nala has created a new section for experimental films. we want to change it to be that i think we change again we create a new section we decide not to continue with the other 2. but. i mean every festival is sort of ration i always say festival itself as the award fest party. but no better not a party is complete without glamour and oscar winning star time actor roberto binney will be in town for the premier of a live action remake of pinocchio. good. morning and this i. did it is the christian. 8 british actress helen mirren will receive the honorary golden bear for a lifetime achievement barely not a guess and enjoy her performances in films like the long good friday and the queen

on the big screen. or another oscar winner is president of the jury british actor jeremy irons whose most recent incarnation is as an aging superhero in the h.b.o. d.c. comics series a watchman. over the rejuvenating belly nala teen instinct the festival diverse they say they have an obligation to directors from all over the world and to the stories they want to tell the filmmakers are very hard to do a reality they present with. but also. do we always have to keep in mind that scene is a celebration for me of the human being with his greatness and. downside. but the animation film onward gets along nicely without any human being and the disney production examining the problems of teenage elves is berlin's biggest nod to the mainstream issue. all right i've got d.w.

film critic scott roxboro here with me now scott i want to talk to you about the movies in just a 2nd but 1st i want to hear what's your take on jeremy irons as this year's jury president yeah kind of interesting i mean you know great actor and whatever but i mean this is a new bellino a new director is that you know making this big new star and they pick a 70 something a white guy president the new face of i mean i mean can can as spike lee as the press. this year cate blanchett will be the president of the jury and invent us but i don't want to prejudge it you know we'll get much chance we'll see how he does but the visuals don't look the great ok so you're saying good actor no spike lee what about the movies that because belly nala is this big festival it's actually the biggest public festival in the world but usually it's more art house than hollywood how's it looking this year yes similar the vast majority of films will be in the art house category only got one really big hollywood film and that's what we just saw on board the picture animation movie and it looks like

a lot of fun i mean it's 2 teenage elves who try to conjure up their their dead father for a day but they don't have a magic quite down and they only manage to get the bottom half. yes a q a big you know adventure road movie type thing so the majority of maybe if you have to have the looks it looks a lot of fun looks like i don't know a lot of the rings meets weekend at bernie's be very serious political festival so film like this is a great relief for a few few laughs along the way ok so it is a serious festival it is political let's get political for a 2nd in the past years there's been a lot of talk about gender parity at this festival having 50 percent female 50 percent male directors how are they coming through better than they have but still not great i mean in the competition we've got 6 of 18 competition those are direct by women so there it is an oscar is like a 3rd of the oscars definitely if you look at like the quality the films of females are actually that they look actually very very good there's one film that looks really really interesting it's coming straight from sundance to berlin it's called

never rarely sometimes always it's by allies american independent director a very serious film as well it's about 2 teenagers from rural pennsylvania who traveled to new york in order to get an abortion it's getting phenomenal reviews out of sundance and it looks like it could really be one of the big hits a finisher's villain all of that looks like a very serious film what about the weird stuff there. berlin is also the place where you're always going go see a movie and be like w.t.f. what is that what if i just seen it one of the movies for the weirdos of this year's badly not ok there could be quite a few probably but the one that really caught my eye that i just have to see just what base the idea is called tao it's from a experimental film from a russian director and what she did this director is basically she did a real life truman show she took 400 people put them in a complex in ukraine for 3 years they lived there 247 she shot them 247 and they

are living in this complex as if they were in the soviet union the old soviet union 3 years she shoots them she's put she's patched together this footage kind of together in some bizarre way i have no idea what this almost can be like but it's going to be like anything else you going to see this year probably any other year and that's what you go to the bell and all of the ok well i certainly hope that those people got paid for their efforts the festival starts in 3 weeks we'll be talking to them scott roxboro thanks so much for coming on the show. and speaking of innovative the artist pablo picasso spent his aides decade long career breaking rules and inventing new techniques and styles and why he's best known for his canvases he also worked in sculpture prints and ceramics now an exhibition at london's royal academy of arts focuses on his works on paper. casso paper was the perfect tool to explore ideas and endless possibilities. include this large format coersion women after 20 which was completed by the artist

in 1938. paper with the material that he. needed to create something immediately he strikes me as the type of artist the rest he always needed to be creating something and paper with the media and the format the material that he was able to transform into and i think. another highlight studies the artist attempted for his find oil painting. so much more than just prints he made a cut and pasted paper a form of black that he invented with. paper. photographic techniques and collaboration with various artists so it's a much more people anticipate. the castro flourished as

a print. you know reading from 162 shows his 2nd wife jacqueline roque picture so. london's royal academy which. was one of the great male artists of the 20th century but no one says about way today we all know that museum walls in history books are dominated by the achievements of men so how to correct that imbalance well a new guessing game there just that based on the popular board game guess who this new version is called. author j.k. rowling artist frida kahlo and tennis serena williams. in the game. they share the board with 25 other women. these include famous and not so well known figures from the past to the present. polish designers.

came up with the idea. with the help of a small team she began developing the game in 28 teen after a workshop in warsaw. the basic idea is so inspire little girls and show them that they can do anything they want with real stories of rare women from all the time. it's a game for 2 players they ask questions in turn and try to guess which woman their opponent test shows you the 1st player to guess correctly wins you ask questions about everything about any information that's going to find on the bar so about their accomplishments about their life about where they come from about anything that you can see there you cannot ask about their looks so there is something it's forbidden. that rule was important for zosia as a mother she has found that even her young daughter is often judged solely by her

appearance. i was on the playground with her and i was like what's going on here because i can see other boys playing and the other like. to chat with months and months i like look how he's quick how his he's making this and make things and i think what's up with is that we are talking more about him and so both. on girls we are only about david. she considered the biographies of around $400.00 women while designing the game she one of the final choice to include a variety of cultures era. and occupations. a woman from her native poland made it into the game nobel prize winner maria curie better known as marie curie cherry presents. problems. the difficulty that women can have in science for me so i think that it's important to know her story in order to see

that you can overcome those obstacles. who she is available in 6 different languages including english german and spanish. the board is made of birchwood but a cheaper cardboard one is also available. the designer hopes to make her game available to as many children as possible and not just girls. i think that it's important for boys as well to see women as well because if they don't see them as equal if the boys don't see girls as equal in the competition then every bar. believes that the more strong female role models girls have the more they'll try to emulate them who she is her way of showing girls they can achieve anything.

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