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a very good dose of oscar season is upon us the time when hollywood usually pumps out its best movie in the hope of winning some awards for what is oscar season in the year 2020 even mean with cinemas, either closed or on the brink that's coming up on arts and culture at the european union. youth orchestra gets its dues for decades of international music making. and later on. ever innovative, chilly gonzales gives hip hop a little twist. come to arts and culture. critics are starting to weigh in on contenders for next year's oscars. and a year when hollywood held back most of its major productions, are there any front runners amid the flurry of online releases? away?

i don't even have a scrap. so i'm going to put that question now to my colleague adrian kennedy. a dream, this is usually the time of year when people are starting to place bets, what might be getting an oscar? what might not be? can we even start doing that in the year 2020, where it's much more difficult movie journalists would not be movie journalists if they want, willing to speculate stuff, and there are a few, no brainers. one of them is one night in miami. as we will see, see in the trailer, this is a film that focuses on a meeting between 4 black figures,, malcolm x., the revolutionary boxer mohammed, ali, american football player, jim brown and soul singer, sam cooke the movie based on a play by can power. this is supplied by real life events to take place the movie

suggestions the night that changed the world with malcolm x. galvanising december 17th, just over the use of their right . this woman is called a struggle because we are fighting this thing about civil rights that they give a black people what they really want to say, because it was about work. so i could go ask around on it. what do you think? that's why and it's directed by regina king who already has an acting oscar, and she could become the 1st black woman to get a best director. oscar nomination. what else is hard? a dream? another contender is no match for, and this is 3rd feature and it stars frances mcdormand as

a woman who in the recession following the 2008 financial collapse, leaves her small town home and becomes a band dwelling they know met in the u.s. . it also features real life and what is it one the top prices at both venice and toronto. it could bring mcdormand best actress. oscar, he enigmatic doesn't give too much online release on december 4th. ok, so we've seen some earlier. i asked her contenders there. what about the new movies that are just going online now? i mean, any buzz there? well, one of the happiest sees this is the 1st coming, chris speed in the love story. it features kristen stewart's and mackenzie davis as abby ad hoc. the couple and done their fee as abby's a friend, and we can take

a look at that. i think you would have a perfect relationship. my person and i really want everyone to know. i want to marry her and yes, very sexually attracted to her. the series here, i suppose. but it's a good, a very, very nice film for the coming. difficult holiday season. and it could be up for a golden globe because they have a comedy musical category. in terms of the film doesn't have a happy ending, what has been released so viewers can find out for himself how it isn't coming out so much. so many artists and institutions have worked tirelessly this year to keep culture alive. and the european cultural brand award recognizes this year,

our youth orchestra, a state of the art norwegian library, and a ukrainian center for urban history to name a few. let's see who won top prize. an elegy for a cultural scene under threat in an empty hall with no audience or applause. the 15th cultural brand award took place in a tough year for the sector. but a covert safe ceremony was held nonetheless, to honor exceptional cultural providers and investors live strain from the nickel izod in pottstown. we want to make it clear, the culture is still there. still, it hasn't gone silent on them. and culture can still unite people across borders. and build bridges over the winner of the main award. cultural brand of the year is the european union youth orchestra, the cultural brain and 2020. and the orica goes to the

european union, you with orchestra only 2 representatives of the orchestra were allowed to receive the award in person violinist money in class and clarinetist thompson, founded in 1976. the e.u. y.-o. is one of the oldest international youth orchestras in the world. it's played more than $1000.00 concerts under the baton of the world's leading conductors. always playing it as a 1st the last time they gave ever sing it every moment. it's 100 percent and above at every single, but it's also very challenging for a conductor. they will never forgive you if you are not giving this 100 percent. the orchestra is made up of europe's best young musicians each year 160 new members are chosen from thousands of hopefuls from all e.u. member states. candidates are between 16 and 26 years old and are chosen by a jury in their home country. for

talented students. he's just inspirational. moves all of us to tears, places in a world that is very troubled. kids hope the orchestra has experienced both highs and lows in its 4 and a half decade history. but the sense of community among the members has remained strong. the y. o. is like a family, which is one reason why the coronavirus pandemic is hard for the musicians who can't perform or even rehearse together, winning the 2020 ward for best european cultural brand, is not just a highlight. but also yet another milestone in the orchestras, long line of successes saw great. i mean, we are always putting so much heart and effort into every single project. everything that they rethink the rehearsal and so it feels amazing. i mean, and that's where the people behind the management and the board. everyone is

working all year. not just the products. so yes, it's a great we enjoy the evening because these kind of evenings this year are cup white dress. so we try to enjoy them. this weekend so it seems 2020 had at least one pleasant surprise in store for the european union us orchestra. staying with music for now and one of the most innovative, versatile, and sometimes just plain silly composers around is the canadian air. popper and classical pianist, chilly gonzales. we met up with him at a studio here in germany. chile gonzales in his trademark robe and slippers playing one of his piano compositions. the artist's quirky breaks with conventions, set him apart. while he does respect, classical music genres potential for stuffy news is really not his style.

ready i i, i, his performances are provocative, crowd surfing at an orchestra concert, inconceivable until he just did. thank all these rules and all these things that limit your kind of spontaneous reaction to what might be happening. it's profoundly unsexy. it is against all the notion of what i think music should be, which should have a strong contrast and emotions under a giant umbrella of fun. and who can respect someone who doesn't want to have fun? i can't and gonzalez has

fun experimenting with different genres. classical jazz, rock you name, and surprisingly classical music is where he finds the most freedom more so than in pop, or he let me just quickly play a reference to rap song, let's say, still great by dr. dre. the classical musician would find this to be far too flat. i believe a classical musician would say you're missing opportunities to put expression into the music, their version of still dre might be something like this. says

that the great composers of the past, such as mozart or beethoven, loved to improvise and entertain, just like he does. that's why he says, we shouldn't treat their works as holy or beyond critique. i think the idea of taste in classical music is really problematic because these profits, these old dead white men have really been sort of, you know, projected in to a kind of pantheon of untouchable genius. you can't even decide for yourself if you really like them or not. really, gonzalez takes what's often seen as a stiff and old fashioned john round deconstructs it, and fills it with new life. is an unconventional approach. passion for music.

you can watch a whole half hour with gonzalez on their you tube channel d.w. classical music. he also talks about his new christmas album, even though he says he doesn't like christmas. and i'll leave you now with one of the world's top art fairs that almost didn't happen. art basel, hong kong, normally future is around $250.00 galleries this year because of the pandemic. it's just 22 year of the art works that made it take care of. you don't need to keep it there. you better. go for the over. that's in home

the 4th time for the most recently that we can about the bottom of the valley that the last dragon was word has called the 3 year deal. we booked on ghetto to parliament. he was despite coming from a poor family. the pop star wants to become president. challenges or god doesn't want to be a story, bobbie. why? stuart's december 10th on the double dooney. mccuaig is a doctor from the democratic republic of congo. and a nobel peace prize laureate he travels the world campaigning for

a cause for her to move to the we consider the cause for which we are fighting to end the rape and sexual violence against women during the war. a noble cause the vocal know. unfortunately, the change has been slow in coming, but peter land, the women, the rape victims expect a lot from our advocacy. you know, to people who are you with him in a fight for peace. the 61 year old in his hand of the german institute for medical mission schneider has been supporting danny mccuaig in the d. r. c. and in germany for years in berlin he said, it's not only mine, it's your nobel prizes. well, what are you doing to change things? and this challenge is also our cause. we don't just want to applaud him and say,

great man, we want to support him and make sure that we're doing what we can to help him in the fight for peace and comfort. but how can she help turn him in his fight against sexual violence? and for peace in the democratic republic of congo. but there's one that said, yes, that the optimal. i don't to macveagh, it impressed me right from the start with those physicians by that. and what unites us is this common vision that the situation is disadvantaged and neglected. people must be improved, that they have the same rights and that their dignity must be restored, as you know, voted. they don't have to still be up most of the low. why are you clapping? we're happy to see you. you're happy. are you feeling?

all right. you know, your name is the niece bonnie. dr. mcgregor operated on denise bonnano a few days earlier. the 30 year own was brutally raped by militias with a tree branch. usually only victims with the most serious injuries are brought to pansy hospital. many arrive with a severely damaged pelvic region, and often they are incontinent each month about $150.00, new right victims aren't mantid, considered a distress to their family and village community. the women here have often being cast out the stories where they are very isolated will shrivel. sure. most of the time they arrive completely alone. it was awful,

but it is rare that their husbands or family members accompany them. the 3rd more, even though some come from very far away of her clutches. the woman i talked to back there comes from nonbeing. there were almost 500 people were killed there before the election. so this is your 1st, 300. but even when they come from far away, often 2000 kilometers or more, they are all alone without family there, but for now, i do mommy is 27 years old and is from a village called el gato. several months ago, she too was kidnapped by militias. she was raped and jags, now she is expecting a child that. 'd 'd was at the panzi hospital while meenie has found not only medical care, but also a community of women in similar positions was denied

was, was going to earlier, was there. yeah. i forgot to introduce you to our friends who was there here to film us. my day is through but i'm a social worker asked him one year in canada has been caring for victims of sexual violence for many years. at panzi hospital, women receive both free treatment and psychological care. i. many of the women and children here are severely traumatized. i was including mommy

was, i love it to put them through. it's a catastrophe. we thought the rapes would stop at some point, but no, they go on and on every day, even now today. yesterday, new women arrived again. i live here in the villages. there are many militias who continue to lives, rape, kill for love for it. many of them have fewer. i see you now fully live that you want to give them as under 60, some women here do not want to go back because they are scared of being raped again . 6 when they need so good. i think this child is some of being brutally raped by one others by 2 by 3 or even by several men. and it doesn't depend on the age. they even rape 5 year olds, 10 year olds, 20 year olds, and even 18 year olds. they design this into, i meant to cut through

a very common one, meaning experienced face horror, herself armed perpetrators, right. tough for several days. one is the father of the child. she is carrying he must always take care of yourself. and if your baby can you feel it moving and your husband should believe me after i was taken away. i i don't know. i haven't heard from her since. when did he already know that you were pregnant? i only noticed later, they dragged me into the phone as to how low i cried so much. i was beaten and raped again and again, less so than other women who were they helped me to escape. that's how i got hurt. and that the baby in your belly may 1 day go to school and have an

education and then it can take care of his and he will pay for the school. it'll be all right without a further mommy will give path at panzi hospital. but will she be able to accept and love her child? the democratic republic of congo shan states north eastern border with you candor, bro, wonder and burundi. the region has rich deposits of gold, tungsten and coal. some materials which high tech companies from industrialized countries need to manufacture their products. the mines are often controlled by armed groups who terrorize the inhabitants of nearby villages

or certain knowledge. and i have very clear was that that, but not it is not all. these are also in the democratic republic of congo. german physician is a lush niger works with rosemont data. they want to improve health care in the conflict torn region. but the situation in the province is difficult. in recent months, hundreds of thousands of people have fled from armed groups, are loot, rape, and kill. and then there is a bolo. the virus has been haunting the northeast of the democratic republic of congo for over a year, and thousands have already died. shari is a village near banja, the capital of a tory province 20000 refugees arrived in just a few weeks. gisela schneider has come to survey the situation. julie help says here is local representative of rosemont bare hands, the nonprofit organization,

most sarkar. but there are too many refugees in a small village to manage adequately fast food for the infrastructure is completely overburdened with primary care of the refugees. because our care is doing their best to help, but they're not a big humanitarian organization with a lot of experience. they're just trying to help people here the best way they know how a church has been converted into an emergency shelter. over 300 fugitives are staying here. the air smells of urine and cold sweat. there is a lack of everything. this is, it's unbelievable. i've only briefly spoken to a few of them, but pretty much all have colds. they have coughs, which will turn into pneumonia, or in some cases, it gets cold here at night and they don't have anything to cover themselves with us

. plus, they're malnourished. not to mention hygiene issues. if diarrhea spreads here, this whole group could be in danger. and then of course, there were the ebola area. that is a huge risk just to operate when the refugees 1st arrived, the death rate was very high. after 5 days we already had 10 dead since we started providing them with medical care, we have been able to reduce the death rate significantly. we treat pregnant women and children under 5 1st because they are the most vulnerable. and everyone here. everyone needs urgent medical attention. the key at this is that i was the refugees last all the way out. and i have witnessed terrible atrocities including the mother of this young girl,

24 year old mata us here to the city. well, it was like, you know, they ran towards the villages with machetes and weapons in their hands. they had baloch lovers over their heads. so now that i know that then they started to set fire to the hearts and cut off the heads of the people shot. so i grabbed my children and ran for my life that i knew that i think i see that while i lost my parents in one of the 1st was that i was very young when my father and mother were killed about the beauty of a few years ago i lost 2 of my children in the war as well. that now i have fled to do not know where my husband is. why i am all alone with my children and cherie. i want a loan shattered. oh, i was this if i had to fight, i think this is where we sleep. i don't have another option. everything i had even

my mattress was burned with my house. when it rains, the water runs right down here, past me and my children are monsters. daughter in bisa is 3 years old, uni is 7. mata only had kasama leaves to feed her children. she was due to give birth to her 3rd child in a few weeks. it was ontario where she could give pass safely, and how she would be able to support 3 children on her around nobel laureate their name mcquade, has made it his mission to inform the world about the atrocities happening in the democratic republic of congo. this conflict has already cost more than 6000000 people, their lives, get. 4000000 congolese are currently homeless. they are internally displaced. and only a week ago we learned that over 300000, people had to flee. they have lost their homes and are out on the streets.

then there are the hundreds of thousands of women who are raped in the panzi hospital alone. we have treated more than 50000 women to date through this gun. me, all of them are victims of sexual violence. and among them are older women as well as babies. the baby dinny mcquade, his work has cost him some of his freedom. panzi hospital is guarded to around the clock. by u.n. sanctions the nobel peace prize winner cannot leave the hospital without security forces. a few years ago, he barely survived an assassination attempt,

and he received death threats again in 2020. he's a role model for young doctors and a hero to his patients. it is for them that he puts his own life at risk. you will be operated here. you do not have to pay anything. i think i've told you. but don't worry here. you want be asked for money. steal dooney mcquay guy is the son of a preacher. he says his faith helps him bad the suffering that surrounds him. he

operates almost every day, donations enabled him to purchase modern equipment. today the university hospital is considered a center of excellence for treating right victims of the need for usually room to head up. the 1st woman i am operating on comes from wiley collie. she has already had 3 surgeries wasn't a horse. this will be the 4th to look at school. the horse from kid was should be. so she is very traumatized. she was brutally raped version. her vagina was completely destroyed. and inside she had a very serious infection that her vision to the resurrection. we are cleaning everything and we'll give her antibiotics and hopefully she will get better. and we just go home and read a little for every time i operates, it gives me a bit of relief. so it allows me to feel that i can make

a small contribution to reduce the suffering of people to the teeth. but unfortunately, i believe that as long as there is impunity here, this will continue to this is because for 20 years it has been the same people committing these atrocities. and they feel as if they can go on like this without facing any consequences for their actions. is wonderful to move so quickly to wrestle the circles i think it was, was, was, was, was, was, was, how are you doing? where do these children come from from all over with these are often somehow false and he will also see this in his documents. their father's, a soldier,

his own militias, the children don't know them. they are alone and some who live with their grandparents. in bangkok, how are your children? and what are your names? doctors who wants to move the company was i was thinking i was under their feet. i was there was it the women and children travelled for 2 days to visit danny mccuaig soon from religious children. from viewing these women, or

a delegation from which i treated here in 2005, souvenir of what they have come to see me together with these children who were born after their mothers were raped. they were abandoned by their mothers, by their fathers. was i when libya for example, there is he is the leader of the right key militia. cudi is still there. he's in the forest outside the village of superior. one group comes after the next. they rape and pillage. reporter the women found into an association and took in $200.00 all funds if you want to become a doctor and you read it

christian electrician. wow. and you be like you just will be like me. i was writing a letter. i was insured to him and tell me is that why you're sitting next to me? you'll be like me. that means you'll become a nobel peace prize winner. so i'm glad we will work together for peace. we will listen to your voice. thank you. i say it's fair to me, share the world. there were others. yes. and here was yes. yes. yes.

yes, please. yes. yes. was their fair share. thank you. that's very kind of you. thank you so much less secure, says on form, but demoted in these children did not ask to be born may said, but they were killing his friend into a society that rejects and stigmatizes them and society without pity. so it's to protect when children are treated this way from a very young age, they become traumatized is awful and have overloaded memories. sue shelter. 1 may need is getting psychological treatment. perhaps she can overcome the trauma,

in spite of her haunting memories and accept and love her child. that's the i want to love the child. but i know our village community. so i still feel that as a woman who was raped, i cannot return to my village. my husband has left me, he will never forgive me and he will never accept the child is dead. in panzi hospital, one meaning also learns to weave and so baskets. this training is an important part of the holistic treatment as to money or encana and the other social workers want to help the women become independent so that they can support themselves, find a better job in that place. and there, in that way, perhaps more money could take care of her child without other financial assistance than the hope that i can feed us by selling baskets of money might be enough. the

medicine to know and even for school. no. but how can one mean a return to her village when militias continue to live nearby? how is she supposed to overcome her fear when the perpetrators have no prosecution to fear? this is bukavu the capital of south kivu province. during the almost 25 years of war and conflict, its population has grown to almost a 1000000. the german physician gisela schneider, is on her way back to it, tory province in the northeast. georgia, you has been particularly plagued by conflict and ebola is it was in the end we could actually see choosing not to go to countries where many organizations work, but we try to go where others don't go, or where few stay for a longer time to send out where in the it to every region, including in bunia, it means so much to people there when you come and stay. when they say no one else

comes and says that isis has called the fight was rather like that. ongoing conflicts make it very difficult to effectively cut tail on life threatening virus or most of us as i can feel fine, get away using this elbow grating because there is a bowler in this region that has been 12 cases here, which is quite a lot. so there should be no hand to hand contact and no exchange of bodies at the right. they started this elbow grating and everybody thinks it's great. it's a good way to greet someone when you can't shake hands. so it's great. i was was there was the together with rose mama bear on these english. i don't want to establish a health insurance system in this region.

i thank god that i met the people from there. my child was gravely ill and i had lost hope that he could get there. so when my 50 then i found out about the health insurance. i became a member and they helped my child. she was i am happy and grateful to music i ever was. i, dr. mcgregor doe to mcgregor, has shown what it means to really kaffir women to build something that helps women to live independently to bone. i think he's a great role model and he does this with many women who've experienced violence. since i want to get find out that i'm having little machine, you're a must see for ladies and gentlemen, rape is being used massively as a weapon of war. this deadly weapon destroys the body twee,

destroys the spirit destroys the community and even destroys the church. all the reports of the united nations, about the plundering of raw materials from the democratic republic of congo, and about the serious human rights violations. especially the well known mapping report. all of these reports have not lead to consequences. so has the source tree to the jury province is rich in oil and mineral resources. hunger for these results is fuels a national and international fight here. where tribal conflicts are manipulated for economic interests. on the road from bonior to mahogany,

refugee tents can be seen intermittently. the displaced are victims of perfidious political interests in which neighboring countries such as rwanda and uganda also have stakes. there are congolese policeman and u.n. soldiers stationed here to provide security in the region. but the area covers thousands of square kilometers and launch bombs on virtually inaccessible. only those who have weapons have power their families who have not or cannot leave after live in fear every day. congolese police officers escorted us during the film shoot. but those invalid years are defenseless and exposed.

many have had to abandon their fields and are now dependent on humanitarian aid. their houses were often burned down, and family members killed. we drove to a village that was recently had attacked by armed groups to hang . eleanor was the air act. it is located directly on the main road from bosnia to uganda. there is no state off already here. most people have fled. only a few have remained when i thin the sea feel a now boone,

they catch him lease at night in the mountains. it was on the tuesday in guinea beacon about by steam. we were in civilian clothes and armed. others were wearing soccer jerseys, line no claim. they were providing security. we want to then they stopped cars and drivers and passengers from their seats with them. and i was there, i saw it. and you're terribly afraid. if we hear even one shot, we start running for our lives and the end. eternity, providence borders you manda, and is twice the size of belgium. many refugees live in the forests without any

protection or medical care. many die, others make it to the capital of the province. where there are camps with tents, water, food, medicine, and most importantly, protection u.n. soldiers stationed in bosnia there are over 16000 people in this camp alone. most are women and children and they have made temporary homes for themselves. but some have been here for over a year and a half in october 29 teams.