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sold about movies today in arts and culture parts of the bird in the film festival is going ahead next week and also coming up. 12 year old german actress saying she's up for a golden globe award for the film she stars in with some lesser known acts of cool . the merlin has been split into this year for obvious reasons it's the world's biggest public film festival so that hopefully that part will take place in june the competition on the business side of things is mostly taking place online all next week from the 1st 5th of march with the jury determining the winners of the baz without an audience.

gets a 1st in the history of the belly nala festival directors carlo shots leon and matty attkisson beak alone in the cinema for now only buyers distributors and press can see their film selection for this year coming from iran comes the directorial debut of mario she also acts in the film playing a woman whose husband is executed after a miscarriage of justice. it's just. a way to. solve a battle that is what a potent kind of an alcohol sort of. thing to do. it's an indictment of a merciless system and i want you for the groups of those who don't forget to even voice. but also a chamber piece dealing with timeless questions of guilt and justice.

there's also some strong political sentiment from bella roofs. issues. for the. director of the uk say pal yon followed the protests that erupted after the presidential election courage is his 1st full length documentary film which shows the bravery of protestors using very limited means to fight for change in bellerose . i was. french lebanese film memory box shows the importance of remembering for contemporary history alex lives in montreal one day she discovers a diary and old tape recordings of her mother. didn't. even used to. write my story so you can imagine.

alex makes her own picture tracing her mother's turbulent youth in the lebanese civil war her dreams as well as traumas come to life once again. german cinema is in the competition with no less than 4 films including an adaptation of novel 5 young the movie is set into march was berlin in 1931 want. to deny it was a crazy and melancholy time trip takes us to the weimar republic we encounter a menasha 12 and dissect a society take a. look. there's also some big star power the mauritanian is

a political thriller about an alleged accomplice to the $911.00 terrorist attacks. held without charge or trial at guantanamo it's a true story starring jodie foster. i'm not just a fan of women defending the wall. the festival organizers hope that in june they'll be able to roll out the red carpet and welcome fans and stars once again just like last year and hold a hearing before. and joining me now from our studios in ball is all film gurus scott ross for a scott good to see you so. is happening online at least we've seen some of the political movies that will be screening but what do you most looking forward to. yeah i mean berlin for me is always a great chance to see the best new german films and as we just heard we've got 4

german films in competition the one i'm most excited to see i have to say is a science fiction movie it's called i'm your man by maria hsia and it stars dan stevens of downton abbey fame i'm here he plays a german speaking love robot who has been specifically programmed to fulfill every need and desire of of intelligent cynical but still quite romantic german scientist so it looks like a bit like a pygmalion tale but it's told from the female perspective is really interesting corrector she just won an emmy for directing the netflix series an orthodox so i'm really interested to see what she's going to do with this story dan stevens as a love robot but it's got to say i believe that film not many films this year was made under extremely difficult. conditions now always seeing an impact of the pandemic in the selection of the festival. well in

a way yeah i mean there are no films that are specifically about the krona pandemic but looking at this year selection i've seen a lot of very sort of intimate personal stories stories about trying to connect like there's a korean film introduction by saying sue and this is a story of a korean student living in berlin and and her long distance relationship with with her boyfriend and it's a very sort of small intimate story and of course those type of stories are much easier to tell or because of kroner restrictions of course you can't tell big stories of the castle it makes sense that these movies are coming out now but i think i see a connection at least between them and i don't know the longing that i think we all feel and have felt under lockdown the sort of desire for connection with with with other people it's interesting thanks to the director he had a film premier in berlin last year that still hasn't hit cinemas now he's got a new one coming out in the festival but of course we still don't know when cinemas are going to reopen so it's very true to point the plans to

hold a physical festival with red carpets and of course the public in june do you think this is going to happen. well i hope so i talk to the festival directors this week and they're still optimistic they can hold some sort of physical festival even if it's just an open air festival and i just really hope that people be able to travel by june because if we're going to have a real sort of berlin festival with a berlin red carpet it be a real shame if the big stars from hollywood couldn't be there to walk down. the red carpet. stomach plots this summer we'll keep our fingers crossed scots are just always great to work with always a mind of interesting information many subjects for the last time thanks for being with us. thanks so much robin thanks so much and all the best for your retirement thank you. now one actress not is heather not sang

she's already won the german film award and now she's nominated for golden globe for the movie news of the world playing on was it the great man himself tom hanks she'll find out on sunday if she wins the gold. what's most extraordinary about all this is she's just 12 years old. i find it really not saying it's right if ya i don't been shouted at and on my meds they're having me trying to get it. in the western news of the world helena plays the orphan johana lay on balco who has been raised by a group of kiowa native americans one day she meets captain jefferson kyle kidd played by tom hanks. you understand english the german schoolgirl didn't encounter the american star until shooting had already started. as mobs at all for the 1st time i met him i was in the makeup trailer getting fixed up for the shoot we were actually supposed to meet later on he just came in and i wasn't prepared at all and

he said hello i'm tom hanks and it was so overwhelming overwhelming. to have heard. good. that we had 6 weeks to prepare a new mexico before the shoot began and then we had another 3 weeks training in the kiowa language an hour and a half every day after school it was really important to me to learn exactly how it worked that they think more in a circle while we think in a straight line and to learn about their culture did include tool you can certainly afford one skill helena didn't have to learn was how to ride a horse she's been doing that since the age of 4 on that score she was even quite a bit ahead of her screen partner but she did learn a great deal from tom hanks almost stood up to a good guy he gave me advice like always be punctual know your lines and be nice to

everyone and you should always help your screen partner in the last scene for example where we both end up crying he cried during every take just so i'd be able to i thought it was amazing he was able to do that every time he was muzzled by. elena already has an impressive acting career behind her she 1st stood in front of a camera at age 5 she landed her 1st lead role in a feature. film at age 9 early on she tackled some extremely challenging parts. anyhow and made a splash with system crasher impressing audiences with her bra energy she played 9 year old ben a severely traumatized out of control girl. the drama one critical acclaim in more than 40 awards. and the german film award for best actress went to hell i'm not saying.

helena spent a total of 3 months in the united states to shoot news of the world during that time she became good friends with tom hanks. so what does the future now hold. elements how my ambition is to please myself and the audience just make great movies and maybe have some impact on society with topics like in system crasher plus i'd like to have a star on the walk of fame but i think most important is to keep my feet on the ground and have a really clear idea of what i want to do. the next milestone in helena career could be a golden globe award on february 28th. would just like to say goodbye for the very last time. 25 years presenting shows here. it's time for me to sign off and i want to take this opportunity to thank all the lovely wonderful people here you. see what i do possible all the

people behind the scenes to whom i will be eternally grateful for all their hard work and professionalism so thank you to them from the bottom of my heart also thank you for watching it will be a bit pointless if you. are the great so i'm here. leave you with this final thought. it's if you've enjoyed it half as much as i have and i've enjoyed it twice as much as you all the best cheerio and a very final goodbye. happiness

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yes yes i'm thinking of all those millions of people down there. many of our dearest for have hearing loss. here you us is a problem the science can provide solutions. here i am a peer they don't know i exist but i'm working on a sense that. we are thinking always about care and the work we are doing automatically helps some of these people. if i work and contribute to solving that problem to me personally it's extremely important.

our sense of hearing enables us to experience the world around us through sound it also allows us to single out and focus on a particular sound even amid the cacophony of every day noise. sometimes we choose to shout out that every day noise. and sometimes we hear it whether we want to are not. our ears are the gateway to an extraordinary sense the sense of hearing. before they began building cities humans were closely connected to their natural surroundings our sense of hearing is like a radar that helps us explore our environment even when our bodies are at rest this radar picks up even the slightest sounds and localizes the direction they're coming

from. humans process information with their ears better and much faster than they do with their eyes. the ability to localize where each sound comes from plays an especially important role for people who are visually impaired and o.e.m. . my sense of hearing is what allows me to explore my surroundings it keeps me safe and hopes me connect with people with saluki being able to hear is wonderful and sometimes quite emotional especially when i hear certain sounds or listen to music. or in music. reports since i can't see that i experience everything that others experience with their eyes or through my ears or so costume you would do more with. his sense of hearing plays

a crucial role in helping d.j. rush navigate every day life even in paris loud and bustling city his ears let him scope his surroundings. real o.c. said the magic secure mr meticulous it's almost magical. my sense of hearing ensures that i'm safe on the streets of soundwave spread in a predictable pattern and can tell me for example if there is an obstacle to my right to a car to my left or a person who's coming up behind my hearing is an excellent tool that affords me autonomy it's like a miracle worker being able to hear lets me live my life if you know. the ability to identify the location or origin of any detected sound gives people who are visually impaired cues that help them orient themselves and avoid obstacles . they are more i can hear water behind me it sounds

like it's coming out of a tap someone is right behind me behind my right shoulder or what. i feel like there's a wall or building nearby come. and get groceries go is something else closer by to my right. of all done is all false there is i can hear children playing clapping their hands there behind me. he said there are grown ups here too and from a woman to my right with the child. i gave her a lot of the one is upset version dollars also the look where there's something odd happening above me like a storm brewing gravel harsha sounds directly above me does reach me as well it's also so i don't know what that is. masochist ammonia. has detected something that isn't even emitting sound the sound operator's boom

microphone directly above him and untrained ear would never have noticed it. at relatively short distances we can detect the direction a sound is coming from with an accuracy of about 2 degrees to do that our brain calculates the difference in time it takes the sound to reach each ear and factors in fluctuations in volume and frequency caused by the shapes of our head and outer ear the kana or oracle. sound waves enter the outer ear and travel through a narrow passage way the auditory can now this leads to the ear drum. hear the sound waves are picked up as vibrations and passed on to 3 tiny bones in the middle ear the 1st is the hammer which carries the vibrations on to the and us which in turn passes them to the stirrup. together these 3

ossicles convert the vibrations from the ear drum into amplified pressure waves that they pass forward to the inner ear or coakley or this is the spiral shaped cavity in the bony labyrinth. the motion of the bones causes the. fluid and membrane inside the coakley to move along the entire length of its spiral shape depending on the frequency and volume of the incoming sound this causes the hair cells in certain areas of the coakley to bend. the bent terror cells then generate a nerve impulse the stimuli are transmitted to the brain and interpreted as sound. researchers are learning more and more about how we hear it all but that it's of

what's once a shelter i've been researching how hearing works for about 20 years i wish and every single day i'm still astonished by how little we know remission of this and wondering if you can toss sand by how fantastic what we do know is our ears are highly sophisticated in terms of sensitivity and temporal position in the simplest . quantum so in a fun side you really don't encounter that anywhere else in our nervous system if was a student and then the topic of of my told the birds me through the middle east and doctors and researchers at a number of institutes in getting and are focusing on various aspects of hearing me and there's many different reading we did of course and of their sponsor where their findings are used to help develop new medical applications and charities here on campus certainly for the field where you basically check with a sense into the field.

but so far research has not found a way to make music fully accessible to people with hearing impairments even though they can learn to understand speech. at the inner ear lab at the university medical center in gutting and researchers are true. out a new approach they're working on an implant that digitally converts sound into light and transmits the impulses directly into the coils of the cochlea this should allow for a high quality perception of language sounds and even music. by botanists fighting or. there are 2 conditions for being able to hear with like 1st we need to be able to install light switches and these nerve cells in the kettle and then we have to insert a chain of like sources into the coke to stimulate these light sensitive nerve stuff in there from just a 1000000. a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing can

already use a coakley or implant or c.i. then wires directly stimulate the auditory nerve with electrical impulses. these signals generated by the implant are sent by way of the auditory nerve to the brain which recognizes the signals as sound. these days fitting a c.i. is a straightforward procedure how well they work varies from person to person and if the stephanie cuts money explains why is. unfair might often became hard of hearing when i was about 3 years old or and of eventually hearing aids weren't enough for this there anymore when i was pretty much deaf at least in one ear and talk so i decided to get an implant even though i never wanted one before and often she'd know police would have. stephanie cuts man uses a hearing aid in one ear and

a coakley or implant in the other with the consent is there a difference. as. just us moral it really does is amplify the harry ability i still have left on this side any sound i hear is artificially generated technician i would never ever. brains could mesh what we hear in each together so well i can't tell the difference what i hear is completely normal it's incredible the. expected a computer generated to the sounds of king to be played. i'm quite impressed. this is how a co clear implant sounds the user can recognise speech quite well picking up music works less well. this is how music sounds

as elect to chicago but how come i thought points it's hard these days a cochlear implant can deliver 8 to 10 channels than the implant might in fact offer 20 to 24 channels but only $8.00 to $10.00 are practical for the user not paying for that limits the range of creek once the resolution available it's like playing piano with your 4. close view. as a statements you make sure the coakley like a spiral staircase along spiral staircase with 2000 steps and one of us who can view the need usually we can tell the steps apart but the co clear implant stimulates the nerve cells in a way that activates an entire flight of steps at once as much as you're going to trip up so it's the stimuli generated extend so far into the coakley as fluids it would be akin to trying to play the piano with your fist or your entire for a few to toss you had many keys at once life is easier to spatially confinement

brings us closer to a more natural hearing experience the truth in our stair example it's like skipping fewer steps but there's a finer pitch resolution over. i mean you think illustrates the difference this is how you hands it bastiaan but sounds with an 8 channel c.i. . barely more than a strange with i'm. using light signals to stimulate the inner ear improves intelligibility and allows listeners to enjoy the music in many more facets i am. but before nerve cells can respond to light impulses they have to be genetically

altered to be light sensitive. opto genetics is a relatively new field of research its approach to controlling neurons with light is the basis for l.-e. d. based coakley or implants. high resolution imaging renders the auditory hair cells and their sign absence visible. these hair cells are critical. they collect sound information and relay it to the brain through the honor touring earth. how many we have greatly determines how well we hear. duties affair going to be and getting in quickly to obviates for it why we developed the coloration technique here in getting and that is now used all over the world it allows us to count sign up says and the results are astounding you know there are 80 year olds who have just one sign ups left her and her hair seltsam for when we lose auditory hair

cells will 1st notice a decline in understanding a speech should 1st only later well we noticed poor performance and a hearing test at some point in our hair cells start to deteriorate across the entire frequency range of the coakley that's what we call a dead region. where a sound is no longer being coated dog but god can china could get. the function of hair cells is to convert the mechanical waves they pick up into nerve signals. if only a patchwork of hair cells remain our hearing becomes limited. there are some 20000 hair cells in the inner ear. but only $3600.00 of them are responsible for converting and transmitting most of the signals received they're the ones doing the heavy lifting. but per system noise or noise that is too loud

can damage the hair cells beyond repair this damage is often irreversible. once a hair cell loses its functionality it can't be reactivated. 3600 hair cells is a finite number. if they stop working our inner ear looses the ability to hear. this can happen as a result of acoustic trauma or of gradual hearing loss which affects a growing number of people. could restoring the sign absence between hair cells and nerve cells restore someone's sense of hearing. this is what professor charles mckenna researches at the university of southern california. i've

a feeling that hearing loss is associated with older people or their uncle their grandfather. you know speak up ways i can't hear you there may be a lack of realization that this is a process that can be very young in especially if you're being exposed to very loud . sounds for example devices placed in you are playing music that is too loud. and there's guys in damage and the damage accumulates over time. hearing loss is very gradual it isn't like you wake up the day after a big music concert where the music was extremely loud you say deaf. it is insidious it is taking place very slowly and in perceptively if you will it's a little bit like protecting yourself from the sun you know you have to wear sunscreen but if you don't wear it a particular day you don't get skin cancer the next week it's something that slow

in insidious according to the world health organization over 450000000 people worldwide suffer disabling hearing loss they can no longer hear a clock ticking the figure includes $34000000.00 children and young people a solution to the problem is urgent. charles mckenna and his colleagues are looking for a method to reverse hearing loss caused by non functioning hair cells. almost all adults will experience age related hearing loss the older they get the harder it becomes to detect higher frequencies. young people on the other hand have no problem with that sounds. good anyway it's a real job where you can hear it and i hear it so.

you're better but if. i was 10 or so. the. gradual loss of hearing often goes undiagnosed for some time even though it affects a person's everyday life and their social life. well i can think about for example my own father who past the age of about 60 years started to have noticeable hearing was to use a hearing aid. and. i was really struck by the way he began to feel isolated even within our own family because of difficulties in communication and he started to complain that people don't speak up or in a restaurant where people talking so loud he can talk to my mom i also saw the program and how it gets worse and worse the hearing ability declines and the impact

therefore grows on on the person. it's easy to distinguish the effects of hearing loss in a noisy environment when we converse our brains filter speech out of the surrounding sounds to understand speech the brain needs to detect the higher frequencies that set speech apart from other sounds for young people and people whose hearing is fully intact this is easy. but older people start to lose the ability to hear high pitched sounds and struggle to filter speech out of background noise. all they can hear is a muffled hum conversing becomes increasingly challenging they need people to speak up. children have no problems filtering speech out of a wall of sound. this is

roughly how conversation sounds to someone with age related hearing loss. and this is how it sounds to a child or teenager yet there. yes. there are. more. young people here a wider frequency range children in particular are good at filtering speech out of ambient noise. alarmed by the prospect of hearing loss to students in miami florida have decided to do what they could to prevent it i been music my entire life i did choir and then i was the vocalist for the jazz band at my high school i i realized since i was young 14 that it could affect me at

such a young age and i really had no idea and i was a little worried too as a musician. kelly call hain and ben manley were still at school when they joined a nonprofit organization that raises awareness for hearing loss. in online videos aimed at young people kelly talks about ways they risk damaging their hearing after learning about. the issue about how widespread it is and how it's a global health topic it really changed my behavior i didn't necessarily limit how much i was involved in music and stuff like that i just changed my approach to it and i'm just much more cautious now about how you know how much exposure i'm getting. but few young people are likely to take similar precautions even when they know the risks i mean for a lot of people especially young people feel to

a loud noise is just so it's so big that like it's so fun to put in your headphones or just blast at full volume it's so fun to put your speakers on in your room and pull last a full volume or go to a party and stand right next to speakers and feel the bass in your chair feel the vibrations it's fun and that's why a lot of people do it. people start to realize the tradeoff of short term pleasure versus long term pleasure of yeah if you have a lot of the short term pleasure of loud noises everywhere in your headphones and at parties and events then you're going to miss out on the long term pleasure of just even being able to hear in general later in life. loud music is one of the main causes of hearing loss. but that doesn't stop most of us from enjoying it. we just encourage people to

be more cautious about how bad the sound is and take notice when it is too loud. we want people to grow up knowing that protecting their hearing is important we want to be normal and and cool i have. ear plugs that fit right on my key jane and i bring those everywhere with me and if it's too loud i pop in and really people don't notice that they're in your ear unless they're actually looking for it these are great because they they filter out high frequency sound and allow you to still hear everything so have conversations with people and it just you can hear things better. hearing is the ability to perceive sounds but what it gives us goes far beyond that. this principle combined with his own experience gave the. dheeraj the idea for his business. about children are now dark dining allows people to rediscover their other senses in this setting the sense of hearing

becomes something almost magical you know the guest spend a couple of hours talking to a stranger they can't see it creates an instant bond like our hearing allows us to intimately connect with the people around us you went to a world of emotion of laughter and can picture what your environment and the people around you might look like it's funny when people leave the restaurant and actually see each other then they greet each other as if for the 1st time even though they've just spent the last 2 hours chatting. the guests are greeted by blind waiters who lead them into a dining area that is pitch black out. there they must rely on their hearing to orient themselves and communicate with the other diners should most of us are some of our family. as we film here we too can only rely on our ears and the power of our imaginations. if.

i once only see them this was. only when the guests leave the restaurant they notice a heightened sense of hearing smell and touch. it's as though taking away their ability to see rewired and enhance their other senses. this is the 1st time they can actually see what they ate and to at least not know what i had the feeling that my other senses were more intense partly because the ambient noise was somehow different. from when you enter a dark questran aren't the 1st thing you hear of the other guests confessing that the start of speaking quietly then at the end when you leave everyone is speaking really loudly. the atmosphere is great your senses feel alternate you focus on the person you're speaking to much more i had never really thought about the importance

of hearing. this experience gave us a whole new perspective just very interesting that we noticed things we wouldn't normally notice it was a battle for the. researchers in getting and hope the genetic code clearer implants will help people with hearing impairments distinguish a wider variety of sounds. hues algae proteins to render nerve cells light sensitive. kind hearts. even if you've lost your hair cells you still have the corresponding nerve cells. in for that's where we use a viral vector to position the light switch. along the nerve fibers and then the cell bodies. and then when the light from the coakley or implant hits off it

triggers the light switch and stimulates the nerves. it's just it's often ultimately we bypass the degraded hair cells and their sign ups and activate the nerve cell directly. defect i don't know if it's are. genetically reprogramming cells in the coakley or is a bio chemical process that is still being clinically tested it's not ready for human trials the stall is. as good. that's the great part is it works very well with this we can see that the early days provide an improved resolution. records lists are in experiments with rodents and we recently. show that there was no difference between a hearing with a light and acoustic hearing and soft and medium sound ranges. of the size.

it's just as good which in the next few months we'll be able to quantify this advantage was in. the high up there. at the getting an institute studies of monkeys are helping scientists refine and optimize optical cage one particular species are the closest proxy researchers have to the human brain when it comes to hearing and speech. to the right side so the argument by special often this is an exact line work with marmosets which are very small monkeys that way around 400 grams also there are about the same size as the new her 4 picked animals to experiment with and i feel that auditory research is because they operate with an unusually broad vocal repertoire in a social context and in short they communicate with sounds which is of course very interesting for auditory researchers and scientists.

in one experiment with marmosets a monkey is led to believe that another is calling out the sounds are gradually modified to resemble the quality of a coakley or implant so the researchers can determine at what point they become unintelligible. what's interesting about this experiment is that the same boucle ization sounds are usually used by both animals communicating for 3 or 4 in the wild animals can end up separated from the group when that happens when they're a bit far from the group say forwarding for food on another tree it's going to vocalize with long distance contact calls so called the costs if you know them if you can hear them very clearly the call is answered with a b. call and this form of vocal interaction occurs when the monkeys can't see one another computer so i can take advantage of that and replace one of the monkeys with a computer simulated call then i can modify the call to explore the.