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 least in the executive director in charge of business. a 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 evil farah

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 that abrasion 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 binny will be in town for the premier of a live action remake of pinocchio. good. morning and this i. did it is the christian. british actress helen mirren will receive the honorary golden bear for lifetime achievement bellino the guests can 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 watchman. rejuvenating. the festival diverse they say they have an obligation to directors from all over the world and to the stories they want to tell if the makers are very honest to the reality they present with. but also. we always have to keep in mind it's seen as a sort of bridge consideration for me of the human being with greatness and is. a downside. but the animation film onward gets along nicely without any human being to do the disney production examining the problems of teenage elves. because nod to the mainstream issue. all right i've got d. w.

film critic scott rock spirit 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 as jerry presby the new face of i mean i mean i can count as spike lee as a. 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 give him a chance we'll see how he does but the visuals don't look great ok so you're saying good actor no spike lee what about the movies that because the belly knowledge 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 trying to gauge elves who try to conjure up their their dead father for a day but they don't have the magic quite down and they only managed to get the bottom half so yes a q a big you know adventure road movie type thing similarity and maybe if you have parents it looks it looks a lot of fun looks like i don't know a lot of the rings meets weekend at bernie's be a very serious political festival so so much this was a great relief for a few few last 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 to 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 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 finishers delanoe care about looks like a very serious film what about the weird stuff. berlin is also the place where you're always going go see a movie and be like w.t.f. what is that what have i just seen are it what are the movies for the weirdos at 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 they say the idea is called dow from there was 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 the pony for 7 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 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 that 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 lent which was completed by the artist in

1938. paper with the material that he turned to when 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 and paper with the media and the format for the material that he was able to transform into anything. another highlight studies the artist attempted for his famed oil painting . so much more than just print. cut and pasted paper a form of black that he invented with. paper sculpture photographic techniques and collaboration with various artists so it's so much more than people anticipate. because so flourished as

a print. reading from 162 shows his 2nd wife jacqueline roque picasso. to london's royal academy. was one of the great male artists of the 20th century but no one says about wade through that 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 it's based on the popular board who this new version is called. author j.k. rowling artist frida kahlo and tennis serina 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 of

iraq came up with the idea. with the help of a small team she began developing the game in 28 teen her workshop in warsaw. the basic idea is so inspire little girls and show them that they can do anything they want with real star is a very 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 has chosen the 1st player to guess correctly when 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 are something it's forbidden. that rule 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 like how his his making this and make things 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 era. and occupations. a woman from her native poland made it into the game nobel prize winner maria curie better known as marie curie cherie present. problems. the difficult path that a woman 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 the heroes as well because if they don't see them as equal if 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. and here's to all the future. columns out there but also more news from the world of arts and culture you can

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