story. 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 ballet 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 a reason bake executive director in charge of business. the 1st look at the films and competition we've been there's a strong focus on art and film a time 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 i do too. but. i mean every festival is that abrasion i always say festivities south as the ward fest party. but no better not a party is complete without glamour and oscar winning star time actor roberto dineen will be in town for the premier of a live action remake of pinocchio. foundering and this i. did it is the christian. british actress helen mirren will receive the honorary golden bear from lifetime achievement bellino the guests can enjoy her performances in films like the long

good friday and the queen on the big screen. another oscar winner is president of the jury british jeremy irons whose most recent incarnation is as an aging superhero in the h.b.o. d.c. comics series watchman. rejuvenating. to keep the festival diverse they say they have an obligation to directors from all over the world and to the stories they want to tell very honest to the reality they present with. but also. we always have to keep in mind it's consideration for me of the human being with greatness and. downside. but the animation film onward gets along nicely without any human being and the disney part all right i've got d. w. film critic scott roxburgh 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 belly nala new directors that you know making this big new star and they pick you know 70 something a white guy president the new face i mean i mean can can as spike lee as a present this year cate blanchett will be the president of the jury and in venice but i don't want to prejudge it you know we'll give him a chance we'll see how he does but the visuals don't. so you're saying good actor no spike lee what about the movies that because belly nonna 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 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 teenage elves who try to conjure up their their dead father for a day but they don't have the magic light down and they only manage to get the

bottom half. yes a q a big you know adventure road movie type thing it's almost ready and maybe if you have to pass it looks it looks a lot of fun looks like i don't know a lot of the rings meets weekend the intensity very serious political festival so to 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 30 percent oscars look at that are the oscars definitely if you look at like the quality the films from female directors that they look actually very very good there's one film that looks really really interesting it's coming straight from sundance it's called never rarely sometimes always it's by allies of american independent directors a very serious film as well as opposed to teenagers from rural pennsylvania who

traveled to new york in order to get an abortion it's getting phenomenal reviews of sundance and it looks like it could really be one of the big hits from this year's delano kind of that looks like a very serious film what about the weird stuff because berlin is also the place where you're always going go see a movie and be like w.t.f. what is what if i just seen it what are the movies for the weirdos at this year's badly not ok they're going to be quite a few. probably but the one that really caught my eye that i just have to see just a piece of the idea is called dow 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 live 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 packaged together this footage kind of together in some bizarre way i really have no idea what this film is going to be

like but it's going to be unlike 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 rocks for it 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 while 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 of food endless possibilities . include much cologne women after 20 lent which was completed by the artist in 1938. paper with the material that he tent he went at that he needed to create something

immediately he strikes me as the type of artist the rest he always needed to be creating something paco 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 copy. paste a paper form of black that he invented with. paper sculpture photographic techniques and collaboration with various artists so it's a much more people anticipate. the castro flourished as a print. reading from 162 shows his 2nd wife jacqueline roll picture so. london's royal academy.

is one of the great male artists of the 20th century but no one says about ways to do that we all know that museum walls and history books are dominated by the achievements of men so how to correct balance well a new guessing game to do 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 are cozier squishy rock came up with the idea. with the help of a small team she began developing the game in 28 teen after workshop in warsaw.

the basic idea was so inspire little girls and show them that they can do anything they want with real stories over women from all the times. it's a game for 2 players to ask questions in turn and try to guess which woman their opponent has chosen 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 far better than. that role was important for zosia as a mother she has found that even her young daughter is often judge 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 his making this and making and i what's up with is that we are talking more about him and so both. on girls we are only about david looks. she considered the biographies of around $400.00 women while designing the game she wanted the final choice to include a variety of cultures air. and occupations. a woman from her native poland made it into the game nobel prize winner maria curie better known as marie curie chairperson. problems. the difficult. and having 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 boys don't see girls as equal. in the competition and never have our. believes that the more strong female role models girls have the more they'll try to emulate them she is her way of showing girls they can achieve anything. through all the future. frida kahlo is out there now for more news from the world of arts and culture you can find us on the web that d.w.i. dot com slash culture or you can look for w culture on facebook and twitter. and all the crew here in berlin thanks for

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