on a very warm welcome to news from the well. let's have a look at what's coming up today. a brazilian drug free who suffered homophobia in brazil but found a new home in germany. and the biggest ever exhibition in germany of impressionist paintings by claude monet at the barbary museum in pottstown. bots we begin the bird in film festival which is said to be the largest public film festival in the world with over $400.00 movies to choose from this year today we're going to have a look at new films which feature of this great city as a backdrop nearly 30 years after reunification is still undergoing great change

this of course fascinates filmmakers because the city has so many different sides to it. dark. colored. minimalist disreputable. lens many facets make it an exciting place for directors to shoot and set their film. one of the most famous squares in what was once east berlin has led to the name for this title but when alexander climbs in this film the undocumented refugee francis stretched into the drug dealing scene at the city's hudson hyde apart which arrived as a shooting location. 100 could bonnie's modern adaptation of i fled to dean's classic novel shows the dark underbelly of the german capital. proposed to put it. yes he did i don't see. the film coolly takes place in the multicultural

neighborhood of course found it's a coming of age story screening in the belly knowledges generation 14 plus section and it makes the city's colorful beating heart come alive. me to toward. trott of that ilk you never hear that switzerland is no place for the cancer stricken actor so that he and his sister are drawn back to it used to be west berlin to the legendary shall be matthew the lead roles are played by nina haas and lars idea whose careers are closely intertwined with berlin stages that makes my little sister a kind of homecoming for these german actors. and if i'm going wednesday this. isn't koat so i kind of reached up. with

this thing that's how the love affair between industrial diver customs and city historian and dina starts. and maybe it's mistaken. and i'm just. saying. you know it's urban history of both and underwater not many people know that swamps were drained so berlin could be built. for his film about a life or death love director christiane petzold shows a city that is constantly reinventing itself and erasing the traces of its past in the process. these films offer a journey through berlin and its many aspects with old and new legends. it's kind of funny to recognize all those places in the films there as i'm sure all barely know david live its does as well david no doubt living if you've seen the

film crews wondering about what do you think makes this city attractive for filmmakers. well robin i think on the one hand berlin is an exciting place to set a film because what city in the world has seen as much change in as much history in the past 100 years from the roaring twenty's when berlin was the wildest place in europe to the nazi era when it was hitler's capital to the cold war with the berlin wall and then after the fall of the wall to become a creative hub for artists from around the world the best nightlife in the world so i think there's a lot to play with there for directors and in terms of making a movie here you've got bob is big studio is the oldest film studio of its size in the world the biggest in europe it's been around since 1912 and germany is also a country that puts hundreds of millions of euros of public funding into films

every year so that obviously also makes it an attractive place for filmmakers to come from germany and around the world. that so films i know you've seen it tell us about pro fool go the end screwed up which looks pretty intense. right intense is the word very much an art house movie from argentina the story is about a voiceover actor named him as who at the very beginning of the movie experiences a trauma except that we're not really sure if she really does experience that trauma because from there on out it's really unclear if she's dreaming having nightmares if she's awake and the whole movie according to the director natalia is about undoing the ok border and really questioning what's more important being awake or dreams and that's have a look at the short clip. if

it. while i'm none the wiser but we always like to see the stalls at the other david colas jordi town for most of his new film where he's playing a but alcoholic. not just any burnt out yes that's true he's playing w. eugene smith who was a real life war photographer life magazine photographer basically the inventor of the editorial photo spread and this is a true life story of how smith went to japan to the town of minamata to document

the ravaging effects of mercury poisoning it's a true story of course. journalists at the press conference with johnny depp were trying to draw parallels between the troubled life of smith and johnny depp's own troubles in the past years accusations against him by his ex-wife amber heard that he beat her that he used drugs and alcohol johnny depp didn't go for any of any of those parallels he just stuck to the script very very quickly just on the movie about the naive august 20th century. way. hidden away as it seems like it sort of falls for the main actor. right elio jet amano is not a household name in the rest of the world but in italy he is a huge star he's one can at venice best actor the biggest the biggest awards in italy and this is a very psychological portrait about an artist that the director says was an outcast in the that fed into his mental illness but at the same time drove him in his

artistic pursuits and it's meant to be a movie about diversity and expect and accepting people who are different ok david as always great to talk to cosimo films. it's carnival todd here in germany i'm actually in brazil too and someone who's appeared in both carnivals is the brazilian drag artist cut green looked at me born and brought up as he suffered from racism and homophobia in his country and found a 2nd and happier here in germany she talked to us about the difficulties she has faced in life. the legendary carnival in rio here the team left to be right on the float of the legendary man give us sam a school the 1st drag queen to be given that honor it was nothing short of a sensation. but for drag queens dressing up and wearing make up isn't just for

carnival for kathleen who goes by the name andre went out of drag it's part of a job she loves it takes under 45 minutes to transform into the alter ego of kathleen think gaining the necessary self-confidence was a long and difficult path kathleen leclair he recalls her childhood in brazil. i was a young man who was black and poor because him and i really had to fight to be able to continue. was you really have to have the balls and be a real man to keep going like that it really wasn't easy and it's still not easy to this day. it's hard it's hard. but andre found understanding and support with his grandmother who partially raised him in 1905 he visited germany the weekend make up in his suitcase and ended up staying after being offered

a job as a performer. kathleen now works as a hostess at a restaurant in cologne taking reservations and showing guests to their tables. but. the reactions she gets vary from enthusiastic to be will there's 2 insulting the drag queen says she enjoys shocking people in a positive way. the same things as they became the children of the best in the common or when they come they say mama is that a mile or a woman and the mother tries to shush them but then i say no i see them children deserve. so she tells children that she's kind of like a circus clown but with a whip instead of a red nose. kathleen sees herself as an artist and she wants to be an ambassador for tolerance and love. is how to know i have just one word for

society because they respect that's all i want what. a life that's colorful multifaceted and diverse and not just during carnival but every day that's cut in the clear these greatest wish. the bahraini museum in pots. in 3 years ago and is one of the most stunning additions to the cultural landscape in the 21st century believe me it's wonderful and now it's hosting the largest ever exhibition here in germany of paintings by the great impressionist claude monet. waterloo bridge in the london fog. the dozers palace in venice seen through the mist this monet exhibition is also about the places that the painter visited and was inspired by and then of course there are the landscapes. my kind in you can accompany him on a very special journey he lets you see how in the age of photography when

everything could be documented as he presented us with his image of nature i'm not sure it's a realistic image but one that's also very abstract the abstract one room of the exhibition is devoted to money's water lilies he created some 250 paintings with this material in the late 19th century he had a water garden installed at his house observed any got to him the garden was the fulfilment of his work dreamed of being able to combine outdoor painting with the comforts of a studio and he created his own paradise in which he painted every day live the exhibition comprises 110 works by many starting with his 1st he was 16 years old when he created it and still influenced by realism the retrospective covers his artistic development ending with his last known painting the show runs until june 1st at parts times museum barberini. i just called white to say that i do

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