earth a home worth saving googling geno's tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global ideas be embodied in series of global 3 goals and on d w and online. i think we are pretty much aware of that or did they mean it is not going very well and it is a maniac spent. time and is in the air as been in the house the international film festival 11 days of countless movies on guessable moment sounds emotions with those new faces and they

missed out on. one of the highlights of contemporary version of the classic look alexanderplatz. when i look at you i see. strong probably tired of 2nd hand doing nothing there are going to be a long day a decent life and understanding is. you notice that as we go as records you do use up more from life than just the bad and the pain is off but it brought the whole chill going through. frances from west africa is just one of many. after a long and traumatic journey as refugees he's arrived in berlin. he hopes to start a new life here a respectable one but instead he falls to the clutches of ryan hold a crook who is the deaf. incarnate. i'm.

glad i'm going to clear up. this sometimes. tough. frances aims to stay legal even in the toughest of circumstances when the fleeced when you fly when you leave your home and you don't just lose that place to his profit and you lose your language your self assurance your family your sense of security. and for me that's human dignity which the comic industry of which we gave birth on could bonnie is himself the son of political refugees from afghanistan. despite his best intentions francisco's astray reinhold forces him to take part in a break and 9. to seek the shining my dad. happy. showed me.

block francis struggles stumbles falls down and keeps on fighting he tries to retain his goodness and about world the film is a 3 hour long trip from hell through a mad a messed up city. much of the action also takes place a house and haida a berlin park known for its drug scene in which some refugees act as dealers like francis. directed by hunter bonnie wanted to give a face to individuals like him to tell these outsider stories. and have a few but i had this feeling if i just fished out the story of one of these drug dealers in the policy it wouldn't get much attention in germany it would just fade away. so quick bonnie turn to an old story a novel barely alexander pass by our food duplin a german literary classic from 1929. it

was 1st film just 2 years later as in the book the protagonist is called franz b. of a cult not francis just released from jail franz wants to work and lead a normal life the film is a portrait of its time. half century later legendary director reiner vanna passed finda turn bellina alexander potts into a t.v. series once again where lynn was betrayed as a behemoth that devoured people. now beyond could bonnie has brought you the same story into the 21st century his tale of an undocumented immigrant is a surreal nightmare a downward journey into an unforgiving parallel universe no one for the good in hans' we want to tell a story about characters demand for realization you know to understand we have they are placed in the society i say so should believe in the microcosmos.

and this really is a place but i feel that to have space to talk you can have a voice here. francis falls in love with a call girl named but their relationship is doomed and he even she can't help fascists who is torn between 2 worlds. it's. not just i. think you. cats this point projects that are close to your heart that are a cut above other films and this is absolutely one of mine and that was hat's the employer and that same. films like this can encourage people to thing or look at things differently saying. their hand khubani brings a fresh perspective to a classic tale which focuses on people from the fringes. subsociety exposes both

the dark side of the song and the city. migration one of the major topics in. the 70 s. . the girl an international film festival has a history like no other. in 1950 not long after the end of world war 2 there reconstruction of berlin have begun but what the city lacked was a profile for international recognition and culture so the us occupying forces had the idea to hold the film festival in west berlin as a window on the free world. launched in the summer of 1951 it was a success right from the start and 5 years later the burning early had become an a list festival on par with can and. the festival enjoyed a heyday and the newly built zoo palace cinema became the heart of the film

festival for 3 decades. in 1961 east berlin or has attended for the last time later that year the berlin wall was built. and stayed in place for almost 3 decades in 1990 the berlin was also held in the eastern part of the city for the 1st time. from then on it was a festival for all of berlin. in the year 2000 new festival the news opened at potsdamer platz in the city center in its 70th anniversary year of the festival's past came back to haunted. its 1st director alfred bauer was revealed to be a high ranking nazi in the film directorate set up by ghosts of the festival's organizers have said that bowers role will be investigated by an independent group of historians but the pearl in iowa is experienced in dealing with the past. the

president's after all it is a political festival. what lies behind singapore's gleaming facades the dreams and nightmares of around 1000000 migrant workers they make up about a 6th of the population and although they greatly contribute to the economy in asia's richest nation they remain almost invisible on the edge of society. it's like living in separate worlds i think this documentary i want to assure when i still. work. just schumann's like us they have family they have hopes and dreams so there's a war empathy for migrant workers director leave been spent 6 months in the separate world of the migrant workers before making the film following their lives and also observing one ngo which helps people to deal with problems problems such

as loneliness debt abuse exploitation in a world where turbo capitalism disregards human rights. became a legal maybe you should focus on it and put together with nothing to. do with. the camera is always steady and respectful and the filmmaker approached his protagonists with caution. at 1st i did interviews but in the process i want to make it feel like a point. like a dream i want to turn describe the emotion. of the mind when experience. one of the film's protagonists. after a work accident that almost cost him his life and for which is employer showed no interest in the ngo brings him back home to bangladesh and emotion. journey for

everybody and the beginning of a friendship making to feel we only saw in the. group chat and recently she she bought for carlos and for me cause after us it's a very cute. hallucinatory card apocalyptic a nightmare pinky was a member of a corrupt religious sect both in the film and in real life now he is on the run. just as he got a job by. bill in the city with a significant loss of the fire. commissioner doing a speech as you put

a criminal. in this bleak film collage camillo wrist strap overthe next on the violence unleashed by a religious sect a common phenomenon both in colombia and throughout latin america. and no one to call for this is a huge amount of profiteers who say that the law should be 1st in the 1st last and when they tell people that they are the last they were given the means to be the 1st it's like a reproduction of power systems than the average a tree to be 1st it's about government and society and how it's organized mended a society. colombia has a long history of violence for those on the bottom rung of society like drug addict pinky violence sometimes seems like the only option. the film was like a therapy session for the real life pinky yeah tell me they got. the cinema commode life differently you can escape reality and say the. on

a different truck you do need the film changed pinky and really if you need a bougie it would really be a hoot now he's going back to his home town and almost doesn't do drugs anymore because you know i'm just working. a script out the door with you. know to conduct those is neither a documentary nor 6 and but a painful visionary allegory of a dysfunctional society. down tonight in tehran iranians are celebrating the longest and darkest night of the year on the 21st of december. nerium state is about to be sealed on t.v. . sentenced to death for murdering her husband she has one last chance of being pardoned. which would achieve i hope this year to be sure this is a whole year yet it is has really is with sort of didn't wish to receive

a call about medical research in the show watched by millions mariam is confronted with the daughter of the man she murdered will she forgive her in a country where the principle of an eye for an eye is widespread almost the main thing is forgive herself and be able to put yourself in the shoes of somebody else hear the theme of the frame of course it's the media it's. 10 men from late to reality even if it's in dream or for a good thing unbelievable as it seems shows like this really exist in iran so the director just took it to the extreme. it's just we don't know. what was on i just wanna buy your coverage on your almost half of ashley doing either to get through the show madi says if you try god not michelle mahrer problem i thought much. of a lot of what it's represents hearing our society sound out today because it's combining. the tradition of modern. in one piece of this

t.v. show. the film is also a portrait of iranian women paying tribute to their strengths. the film successfully shows how women from different social classes backgrounds families and education are all very active in one way or the other. the film is scheduled to be released in iran soon maybe with the berlin ali behind it it will succeed the festival is the political force questions that concern us all the ben another asks them persistently. but both. hyrule lost everything including her parents and brother in the 2011 tsunami. and now she is living with this in the hospital. in utter despair

a route travels across japan. in the lead actress serino mottola is just 21 years old when the monster wave hit she was 10 and in her final year of primary school she herself didn't lose anyone close to her but she remembers the disaster. has been with us and we're probably among the youngest who really experienced the disaster. we have images of it in our minds. the children from my school who were 2 or 3 years younger at the time can probably hardly remember it. could they were just too small. in the. behind the facade of normality a collective trauma festers the film tells a story from the perspective of individuals. project are not the heroes the film also has a political dimension the tsunami and the nuclear accident at fukushima are yesterday's

news in japan. and then when the media but stopped reporting on the disaster and its effects especially now with the olympic games coming up i get the feeling that japanese society as a whole would just rather forget all these problems. that you and you took on and. how ru is picked up by more rio he worked in the fukushima nuclear plant and lost his wife and child in 2011 how can we cope with grief and loss there's no question that confront us all not only in japan but you know just her journey takes her from deep depression back into life. was invited to dine with a kurdish family their daughter is the same age as her and they become friends. the kurdish family are not actors the film is

a semi documentary. a scene developed on its own without the director's assistance . in putting some money so. i really just chatted with everybody the whole time i heard or when the cyclone and the with the girl in particular i got along very well we were like real friends and i was actually a little sad when the meeting was over. and the scope of this. shooting for the movie was completed in just 3 weeks it was the 1st time the director and lead actress had worked together. serena mottola had already acted in a number of films she's also a successful model. director not a hero sue i knew right away the sensitive young woman was right for the lead and the challenging shoot. there was no script we improvised. so i tried to adjust to the various locations in the situations. how does the place

smell what people will i meet. what kind of things are there. that i had to feel my way into the scenes over and over. and i think. it's a low key deeply moving film with an optimistic ending toru has seen her own home once more then by chance she meets a young man. he tells her about the phone of the wind people use it to speak to the dead such a telephone booth actually exists tens of thousands of japanese comfort in it after the tsunami. i. think. the film had its european from near in berlin and then it was party time.

at the late night he's always the times of power it's always just be. done out in. berlin now and it stars in 1954 the glamorous and beautiful gino lola brigida made a splash in berlin and alongside her a young sophia loren 2 goddesses of italian cinema. stars love berlin and the city love them back. since 1902 the berlin dollar has honored cinemas greatest stars with a modulus and retrospective. including gregory peck. shirley maclaine. and jack lemmon. in

1903 billy wilder received an honorary golden bear at the age of 86 there were standing ovations for the man who fled berlin in 1933 to escape the nazis and became a famous hollywood director. in the ninety's early was growing into his role as the german capital it's film festival attracted international stars the biggest names in the business graced its red carpet. in 2008 the festival's opening film was shine a light martin scorsese's tour a documentary about the rolling stones the 4 band members came to berlin for the premiere. over the last 70 years fashion and hairstyles have come and gone but one thing never changes the enthusiasm of the public and the photographers. what's making the festival headlines this year.

the 2020 festival also has its stars johnny depp sigourney weaver i'm william defoe . and the queen of the silver screen helen mirren this year's festival pays special tribute to her a superstar at age 74. range is nothing short of vast the shrewd empress. of a tired assassin. of an older clip girl. helen mirren brings real character to all her roles i'm not a movie star i'm an actress she was human it's necessary to save your breath the characters are often feisty and fight for self-assertion i make my own choices and i don't need your permission. such female characters were long under represented in movies what's the chagrin of the feminist helen mirren the change in the last 510

years has been remarkable and very very exciting to me i wish i was 25 if. i'm a bit cross that is taking this long. stereotypes of always being in the bottom ation to helen mirren. in the gangster movie the long good friday she made sure her role as the sexy but it was rewritten she saw the original has been easier. and not stupid. i told you what i told him everything every day out on the set. written the scene you know written my character said right away that's how the whole of the scene where she takes them out didn't and she's the one who's driving it and i was just a pain in the ass for the poor director. she started her career on the stage in the 1960 s. as the den youngest member of the royal shakespeare company. i wanted to be

a great stage actress we didn't get to the cinema also i wasn't really aware of the incredible up form that is film. she found fame as a tough detective chief inspector in london who battles preconceived ideas in a man's world as well as her own weaknesses what always makes a character interesting and. brings he what in sin is not strength it's vulnerability and weakness you know it's a great roles are to do with all nobility and weakness. in peter greenaway is the cook the thief his wife and her lover helen mirren doesn't appear weak she plays the gangsters wife a sophisticated ice cold goddess of revenge. a feminist act in art house cinema.

but you can also play quick tempered characters. thank you thank god. here she is the wife of russian writer leo tolstoy. these days at the age of 74 she can afford to be picky about the roles she accepts i literally go straight to the last page is my character on the last page if it's a good sign. then i could write the script from the beginning or the prime minister for your scene today so i took this role so for. our was arguably of the queen and stephen frears 2006 film of the same name for the. company has been changed him after the death of princess diana and the royal family remain silent the british are outraged and the monarchy is plunged into crisis i come from a republican family you know we don't believe in our stuff for c.n.n.

and in royal families but i have to say in researching the queen to play her as a personage i came to respect had very very deeply her absolute adherence to the role to the job. of the conflicting feelings of the queen portrayed by helen mirren and. it was a place that was flat. out told. me. not to follow much. helen mirren won an oscar for the robe and though she's one of the honorary berlin bearer for a lifetime achievement. that was the 70 s. the one and it's a national film festival. around the world and 11 fighting

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