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the hello from berlin time. now for 13 minutes of arts and culture coming up, the woman who calls the shots by germany's multi 1000000000 euro arts budget, culture commissioner, money good talks to us about tackling colonialism, sexism, and the corona virus. i was locked down, lifted, some berlin performers are back on their feet for others. the crisis is far from me. but 1st we're off to the south of france to the can film festival, where a week and a half of glitz and glamour and movie premier is, are wrapping up this saturday. and the film world has its eyes on the prize. i'm talking about the coveted time ducks, so which movies are in the running and which are making a big splash. here are some of our top picks with such an eclectic group of films

in competition. spike lee and his jury have their work cut out for them when deciding who when the sea is palm door. here, some of the front brothers provocative film director. you need to call me back at con and getting plenty of attention to, to tom about his killer, to fix the car. the to tom takes view is on a controversial rise exploring sexuality, gender role. and the need to be loved. my intention in the film is really to make the audience except that's the question of gender. you substitute relevance when you when we're talking about identity, one's identity, one's journey in life, one's choices and all this. i mean, it's really about,

it's being free from every every. let's say i'm a 1st concert like preconceived ideas about what the human should be. the sense of director with anderson, delighted with his latest efforts long delayed by the pandemic. the french dispatch is an episodic tribute to old school journalism, stirring bill murray until the swinton assembled the team with the best patriot journalists of his time, parents rec cremeans robot. right? these were his people just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose. it's also reminder of the dignity of true journalism because that's a real thing. and i think it's possible for people to either have forgotten or not, or pretend they never knew that to know that the journalism and this is, i think, credibly dignified an important cultural endeavor. and we really rely on it. so yeah, it's just a reminder,

i agree with tilda we take is the subject of the night lecture. mr. moses rosenthal, suddenly loudness odyssey the voice of his rowdy generation from the naked felt like a hot air. i want to buy yes and who is with us? yes. in short, the pitcher was a sensation. director pull the movement is known for mixing sex and violence. his latest film been a religion that makes cause in plenty of control the sea. it tells the story of an ad in love with another woman before. and i think to class the dispatcher sheet on that. it's a blessing that chris's. you're exposed. extraordinary. but true for me. what was really important and the movie i think versus dr. i asked

me what was driving me was in fact that it was way through that i was and that i was making a movie debts about events that is shown way has really happens. and this is a real rock opera by layoff correct. with adam, dr. unmarried called, they play a glamorous celebrity couple whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the child. the can competition is back after you without you to the pan demik making the prospect of winning a palm or even more desirable than ever. the answer is to who gets to take home this most prestigious of film process will be revealed on saturday. the, and the anticipation is growing. well,

here in germany, the cultural scene is waiting to see who will lead the country's massive public art sector after elections in september. for more than 7 years. politician monica goods of angle, americas christian democrats has navigated crises and controversies as germany's state minister for culture and the media. one of the biggest controversies being the reconstruction of a power from germany is colonial era. in part to how's artifacts brought to germany during colonialism. that's one issue that came up when we sat down with her they were supposed to be a big fraction at the home the forum. instead, they ignited the heated debates about colonialism and saluted art. the bending bronze is stolen by the british in 1897 from burning city and what is today and i cheerier than so to museums. more than 500 ended up in berlin. artifact stained

with blood german culture commissioner, monica curtis has a clear position a month and that's why on june 15 we launched an online platform where hundreds of the exhibits can be viewed in teacher told. for me, that was a very important 1st step to say see here, and next we negotiated forms of possible restitution moment and we would like to achieve substantial restitution as early as 2022. and once we come in mason. yeah. so homo foreign construction site was a major preoccupation for coaches. over the years, the new building a partial reconstruction of a person palace was highly controversial and settling on a concept for its use took some time. a team of top cross experts was assembled to present the home boat forum as a venue for world culture and exchange in the house of berlin. i'm going to send and we're going to the founding board of directors, including for my head of the british museum, neil mcgregor world star museums, and

a very knowledgable advisor. but once all on we have now made the humble form what it was always meant to be a new type of cultural center, how more than just a museum. it has an interdisciplinary approach and it's 15 for the german cultural landscape is open to the world diverse and a place of critical dialogue. it was better for her when the creative branch, the 2nd largest economic sector in germany, was forced into a complete corona virus. not down for months in the face of protest, she fought for an expanded support program. an extra 2000000000 euros was approved as emergency aid scholarships and bridging payments. for me personally, i felt like i was going through withdrawal and i think many people felt the same way. they missed the stimulation, the opportunity to exchange ideas. it's not just entertainment, it's very important for the critical corrective and society. i'm also important for

democracy by the way. another important topic for us is a quality, despite large numbers of women being active in the cultural sector, dismal situation at the top, 80 percent of theater director, our men film directors, to so high you go, the harder it is to find women in leadership roles could to found a project to support women in management and ministry, 44 percent of senior stuff. all female. why did one thing in particular, which was relatively easy? i had all the committees in the ministry, several 100 and all occupied on a party basis. all of them, in some cases, for example, in film, we had to change the law, but in others, goodwill was enough people to say no, this kind of representation can't go on. when you have a female perspective, for example, in the allocation of funding, female aspirants

a more likely to be rewarded to hunting on the highest. because in the effect of these policies will be seen in the future. monitor goodness has faced a lot of criticism in her time as the culture commissioner, but it hasn't dampened and fuse them for the job. and for culture is there. but i'm very passionate about the issues and except for an election, see no reason to stop it off to her. but a german election is coming up, so she'll just have to wait and see. you can see our full interview with germany's culture. commissioner monica has this weekend on d. w. 's arts 21 program. now one of the biggest hurdles she's faced has of course, been the corona virus, pandemic, artists and creatives lost their jobs, lost their income, as theaters, galleries and clubs were forced to close for months. cortez did push through 2000000000 euros in federal aid for artists salvation for many, but for others, they're still struggling. capturing shoreline is the artistic director of

a small band in theater. she's very happy company has been able to hold performances again since the end of may. theater was receiving funds from an up stimulus program called noise start called to or restart culture, shoot line, and her team worked on the application for weeks. just on the club touch up. when our application was accepted, i thought coverage. i had my now suddenly know what it's like to get real support. first to go into town, clicked ah, charleston, spring and burger and his band fell in 21 street workers busking. the jazz clubs have only just reopened and there are long waiting lists for gigs this way. they can earn a few euros in the meantime. were playing on the streets and try to compensate their losses and earnings we've had. but especially i'm also to keep musical skills

home to finding on the fuel process as always hope and why recover exists in the scene. some theaters and other cultural event organizes are getting a huge boost thanks to the government support package host, because as long as we don't slide down into another look to the federal funds plus our ticket sales, put us in a really good position, goodwill. trust me, on the other hand, many self employed musicians are living hand to mouth me because i've always been cashed in my loft, retirement savings. that's it. but the positives, after all busting can be a good way to promote jazz music. ah, no, we reach a lot of people who wouldn't normally go to a jazz concert and they are surprised to find out that they actually really like it . and you can put photos to swing and beg his band. that's one of the few

positives they would have liked to get more direct financial support from the government. me now from me on the whole crew. thanks for watching that's almost fit for this edition of arts and culture. a lead you now with an impressive new exhibition in japan, set in a forest on the island of que ship a series of light installations by artist group team lab is called a forest where gods live, check it out. me. i

was right in front of them. they gave it then suddenly we agreed to postpone the or olympic games that tokyo with 2020 from of course, during the qualifying ground for sports heroes, downtown during lockdown starts july 19th on d. w. if you know, i mean you may noticing granules white and coach upon with that, what am i concerning? the sort of what am i going to colorado and he said, but i got going on with the funding the i oh,

it is often said that fruits and vegetables used to taste much better and that they were healthier. but were they really the i couldn't meet till the schools in paris is a sounds of knowledge regarding old plant varieties ah, between the old agronomy publications, we find something special. no composition table for fruits and vegetables. it is the list, the fishermen and mineral contents of each and every variety. ah indeed, over the last 60 years, many fruits and vegetables seem to have lost the summit. they need traditional value. so how does the,

ah american biochemist donald davis lectures on the subject the i'm here to tell you about an important problem that many people are not aware of. nutritional declines in foods status works at the university of austin, texas and has analyzed the development of 43 vegetable varieties between 95999. i think that most of these declines are caused by increases in yield. when you go up, there's less nutrients per weight of the food. a lot of agricultural scientists may not know about how big these effects are. this is kind of an embarrassing of

their, they're always wanting to increase yield. if modern breeding was causing increases in flavor and increases in nutrients, i think they would talk about a lot more. victim militia is one of the foods that has lost the loss of nutrients. looking back, it is clear that this has to do with the varieties, as well as the farmers all over the world's shoes, by seats from russia like this. the suppliers, agricultural groups such as syngenta, be a down to sales arguments are based on size, shape, and color. and behind you that's really ation x 14 x one is important. here it means 1st generation

hybrid the breathing of hybrid works is take the challenge, right? he does, for example, has lunch but to pale tomorrow process with another variety whose fruits of beautifully red but much too small. from this cross pollination, a hybrid is creating a plant that contains genes from both the large, pale tomato and the small red one. from as early as the 1920s, scientists around the world have been using this technology, their main goal is to produce an indestructible market. we know about crash for cars. but for me, the only with the help of genetic engineering was this

possible. in 1992, the slavery saver tomato was launched in the usa, one of the trillions most of the community variety split, picking scientists began looking for the eternal tomato. huh. i led them to israel. ah, for more than 70 years, farmers here have managed to grow fruit and vegetables in the middle of the me at the university of jerusalem, we meet one of the creators of the almost immortal tomato human being of which the

79 year old professor emeritus continues to develop perfect hybrid chance this is a burden greenhouse, so each plant is different. and i say, well, this blunder looks stronger than this one, for instance. and definitely more than this one. we look for these differences in order to develop something which is better than the existing material. ah, the researcher and his team worked at the university, but on behalf of private companies, they work is currently funded by the french, the producer level. ah, it's owned by them. i cannot, i cannot give it to anybody else. they get exclusively or too expensive to them. you're the only one that got into the, the green out besides, you know, i'm going to get it to me then i'll creation tomorrow for southern europe is a big one. really. moran are looking to have

a winning. i was in the balkan market, which has a full size around 300 grams. it tomorrow as big as a great not and it should grow horizontally, glove, which is a lower organized. usually the cluster has 3 dimensions of fruit growing every possible direction. people like to do what we call a fish bone class to from pecking point of view. if you have 3 dimensions, very difficult to pick in a box. when you have a 2 dimension, you can put one on top of the other and it's much easier, ah, for the desired hybrid to single variety jones, across the flower of one is made with the pollen of the other. in the way it stuck bohlen, you need to come to the open law. this is what we call out deficient x, and you know what it is. let us just remove

the bras and put the hook over to the bottom. you can see yellow dust any days we come with the fallen and i will make it up for the nation. how many crusting you make for to have one i to make a commission over. probably $400.00 or 100 like $400.00 every year. sometime it's coming on if you can go to a huge and this is how came and i've been a bitch and his team of to thousands of cross pollination created the eternal tomato in the late 19 seventy's. their invention revolutionized the world market where you begin to work on the long shelf life. because because of this waste of 40 percent of the youth before this mutation. oh the limited to 3

days, full days at the most. when we export it to mothers to europe and we expose the lot of the you, we used to flight by l place. because if it has to go by boat, from israel to most save, the mother will be motion. nobody. nobody will touch it. to extend the shelf life the scientist uses in the occasion he discovered by chance the purpose of this model is to disseminate, received from the generation. so the moment the seeds are right, it will fall off the bush bump into the ground, explode, and all these jews will, will run all those far away from the mother. plenty of possible in order to conquer multi italy. we don't want it, it's an desired tray. for human beings, and here we have

a mutation the seemingly can provide the solution for the new hybrids. the israeli research has crossed plans of a classic tomato variety. his phrase rose after 3 days with mutated plans whose genes prevent the fruit from ripening with the result hybrid that decomposes much more slowly after harvesting. ah, yeah, we're going to do is simple experiment on the right at perfect leslie, beautiful hybrid feet. the in a traditional form is tomorrow it is anything but perfect. with yellow spotted, skin and smooth flu. know we just have to wait after 3 days,

both to monitors are still firm and presentable. after one week, the farmer's tomato is unassailable. the black spots indicates the deterioration and the hybrid unchanged, even after 2 weeks the stem has come loose, but that's not the only of the $25.00 days is the hybrid tomato deemed no fit to be solved as it developed movie and loose skin the normal smarter no looks like this. on the supermarket shelf, only the hybrid is able to be displayed for 3 weeks. but eternal youth. this price you can have in

the genes for inhibition and i've been inhibition. k with them. some negative traits are for instance flavor. the taste deteriorates. no less than a tree. in fact, i don't know because we know that never measured only later and ninety's in the early 2, thousands. we started looking into the quality traits. i offered a project like that to many companies. i even gave it a name. i called it a stomach y a with an ac me and i said it would be much healthy at the model. we don't have it in now. supermarket is going to take the industries, they don't care the industry the feed produces. the israeli company has vera, is one of the heavy weights in the seed market era and millions the eternal

tomorrow. the in 2003, his ear was bought out by the multinational. lemme with an annual turnover of several 1000000000 years. following the acquisition of his era, lima became one of the largest c produces in the world. in the middle of the negative desert, the company is experimenting with new hybrid variety. jeroen zeros is the product manager responsible for the worldwide marketing of tomato seats. the yell rosenfeld is the price officer for you the protocol for summit station the charge for $120.00 has 0 varieties grown in

this greenhouse. the i'm going to show you, for example, a tomatoes, if we call it. um, you know, he's a very famous a tomato into a key today. is the green part of the tomato. it's like a moustache. you know, there is a, jamie flores listed. yes, yes. so you see very, very nice, a color very from domain dome is coming from the long shelf life family also. and you mean it has launched as most of the genus inside. what percentage of all your verity but i didn't calculate what i assume today around day 50. 50 long fly has a problem for the long shelf life in the, in there for, for a long time we saw that the was influence to reduce the state of the tomato. and

now we are going back and try to increase that this again of the tomato and urine she, rus once to prove to us that durable tomatoes can also be delicious. taste ok . like a little bit, we said they did not do that. they don't need to have the days because if you had all the voice and assault you don't need me. i tell you, i know what to make to me. this is ok. ok. there is the worse them out within full was the ones. this is ok. what we're looking more and more is it to have a good color and good firmness and a good taste and the, the nutrients intimate or steal. it's a small player in the market for cooking and it is hybrid breeding. the main reason

for the loss of nutrients and tomatoes to meet with me, southern france, their jobs. when is the last traditional seat produces and from flips their job? luke, who does not produce hybrid to monitors. he creates what he calls old varieties . this is how we obtain seats seed stay on the bottom and the skin floats to the tongue was floating to everyone used to know this technique of producing seeds for themselves is eval after psychiatry. farmers knew that the next harvest depended on the seeds notes and they were very careful when producing them for the next one. company, a few 8, the tomatoes yourself. but the seats were always the most important thing most. today no farmer produces them anymore, but the big companies do that from blue,

dying tradition. yes, almost on ortho doctor, i teach the in this greenhouse, there's only cultivates only the old phone varieties. 100 percent nature effectiveness sample, but it seems a bit wild and chaotic because i only have a small area of land to work with it to make the most of the space. i squeezed the tomatoes in close together, only working with soil and without chemical simple you that you no, i don't use any 3rd party products at all in this greenhouse. they grow about 20 different varieties of tomatoes on that. what do they all have in common?

so they know hybrid, you know, cross pollination, but cosmo, i thought, but do these old varieties contain more nutrients than modern hybrids? we decide to analyze them both these really looks tomatoes and here is a similar looking hybrid from the supermarket. news we sent both off on the same day to state laboratory to evaluate the ingredients was 3 weeks later the results are available. in the case of the hybrid tomato, all 5 values they compared a much lower. the hybrid contains 63 percent less calcium, 29 percent less magnesium and 72 percent less bittman c.

the hybrid contains less than half of the anti oxidant like athene. and less than half the health promoting secondary plant compounds of policy knows then the farm is to motion is consistent with the idea that there is a relationship between taste and nutrient content. this is published by professor clay at the university of florida, and he made the observation in his paper that many of the flavor components of tomatoes are derived from human nutrients. when you eat a tomato that has good flavor, that means that it probably also had good amounts of the nutrients that were used to make that flavor. it's a consequence of i bridges nation. it's consistent with all of the other evidence breeders select for you is,

but they're also looking for other economic traits. and in the process of making that change, they also cause a change in the chemistry of the tomato, lima, the parent company of his era is a global player in the seat business. because of paris, the journalist, a lease leasing, meets the vice president for lima, calls international affairs who are part of the management of a globally operating c producer. have you ever analyzed the nutrient content of your tomatoes? don't vote on that. so it depends on the growing conditions, not on the variety of value to as so this problem is not a concern of yours, or shall i didn't say that like the nutritional quality of our products is a very important issue for us. the value didn't come in. i said it was for g at the ice on it. in israel we met professor robina, you know him, we say it's,

you know, he invented a tomato that last 3 weeks and you've been well, yes, you knew that? he explained to us that the longevity gene blocks the ripening process of the proved that affects the development of the nutrients you look monday new female high stand by watch. i've told you post. i think the tomato growers have the greatest influence on the nasa tomato. and the responsibility of dealing with this is then as they have the most significant impact pascagoula, you want to back the f one hybrid have another huge advantage. we'll see it supply as they see it's can only be used. one, me, if you can see from the free of a hybrid to the mixture of genes becomes a game of chance. the next gen ration may produce tiny small or rapidly rushing fruit. this is why farmers have to buy new tomato seats every year in

the profitable market for produces like his era in israel. and the small seats are incredibly expensive. how much is one kilowatt fee? so the sign of so many to these kind of tomato today can reach the $400000.00 euro . what for kilogram will seats. what? 400000 euro or more? yes, you can buy a house with this. i've heard that the to me to do more capital gain of all of the yes, the margin on our margins. we can get incremental. why? because it's expensive, expensive seats as there was also demands. so way. yeah, it's a good business for us if it's not, we don't to hear full 100000 euros for one kilo of these kilo cherry tomato seats.

normal tomatoes cost around $60000.00 euros per kilo. more even than gold when you produced the total today in $22.00 different countries all over the world and the light switch kind of country like israel in thailand, like in a chilling with in spain, in india, in many places. ready seats that are more valuable than gold. ready produced in no age countries with labor costs little ah, and explosive cool is india. ready this version is the reason for the long term. so we'll see an investigation by the does human rights organization a reason they claim that 16 percent of the work is in the business actually going under 14 years of age.

ah, for example, in the indian states have con tucker. the remote villages are among the poorest in the country. the climate and stuff, india is perfect for growing vegetable. every year, 160000 kilos of tomato seats are exported from here. the full global play is in the seed, markets have a presence in india. b a says dupel, bio monsanto. syngenta and lima robbie rush works on behalf of aris in this region and fights against the exploitation of child labor. i took the day before yesterday around

12000000 children in india work under the condition since 2016. it has been forbidden for children under 14 to work now that we observed from a distance and count workers. and i didn't see how big or small they are. randy says that the seats of hybrid tomatoes are mostly collected by children. many children were working, but now the harvest was over. the fields are almost empty. but in a greenhouse, we can see human city with this company works for the multinational corporations, syngenta faced in switzerland about 10 women and girls of pruning. tomorrow. her plans when the smallest of the girls

seize us, another worker signals that she should squat down how lovely you went up to the 5th grade news. i know you don't go to school anymore. no. how old are you? she's 17 and you. i'm 18. why don't you go to school? there are none here. only the primary school. how long have you been working? for 3 years, she started before me. it was in the month that since when do you work? since she left school at 11,

this girl is supposed to be 17. we all find it hard to believe. the intention purchases it sees from around $25000.00 mostly small hold firm is throughout india, wheels. this was multinational how it feels about child labor. ah. the answer sounds good, but it's non specific. syngenta compliance with all the laws. this and gentle fair labor program promotes decent working conditions under poses child labor children cheap labor. but there's another reason why they are so often used in seed production. as the author of the report soiled seeds knows to well the german every been cut as far as an independent research and has

been researching child labor in the hybrid seed production for 15 years. the hybridization activity, is there reading delicate, with request, a lot of the children are preferred or because they can do the pretty to activities that are really fast. and then and also there will be in, we can see 2 children can do the work of 3 or that is the kind of calculation farm house and v d and, and fast to farmers depend on child labor because they are poorly paid by the corporations department struggling it will lead to have a good profit margin the it's the how to have really good

and good mandation to the what good the margin will be ready? nominal or something. there would be a new margin for divide. must not any children are exploited. what is evident in cotton tucker, only women work in the seed, producing tomato feels the farmer tillman explains this to us on his farm. go the daughter, go down to 4 who h included. we have 3 varieties. h. m, close is a subsidiary of lima because the friend c producer has hundreds of farms under contract in the region. she pollinating the plans right now bent 8 hours

a day. the women pluck pollen from the flowers with tweezers beneath the scorching sun. but why are there no men working under the model? that credit is minimal or expensive? we only hire them for cutting and to carry loads. they called $300.00 rupees per day. ok. women work for $200.00 a daily ways of less than 2 years. 50 is illegal, even in india's income at the minimum weight and agriculture is $300.00, says he rupees. around 4 years a day these women only received 60 percent of the legal minimum way.