hollywood but this weekend the focus has been on the leading talents of european cinema detail the use david levitz is on the red carpet for us david what is going on down there. well it's been a really big day for female driven films in particular right now i'm outside the world premiere of a swedish dark comedy called the real estate and this comes on the heels of the square another swedish dark comedy winning at cannes well this one's a little different it's about a very tough middle aged woman who inherits a very rundown apartment building and her determination to be in control of it and edge out her male relatives also some dodgy tenants and she's willing to stop at nothing i have to say that the reception to this movie was very mixed strong woman that's what we want to see and especially the first belly nala after me to this one wasn't very likeable though oh perhaps there was something else that you saw today that premiered that got a better response. a much better response actually the movie that premiered just before this. a daughter of mine it's an italian film about three women strong wo

hint of hollywood but this weekend the focus has been on the leading talents of european cinema david levitz is on the red carpet for us and he joins me now hi there david good to see you so what has been happening today at the festival. a mariano so like you said today it's really about european film but particularly it's about women and women's stories and women that are driving the plots of these films in just a little bit it's going to be the world premiere of the daughter of mine this is the second film by a very promising italian director now to hootie and this is sort of a biblical story really it's about two women two mothers who are fighting over the daughter one of them is the biological mother one of them is the adoptive mother and everything just sort of gets really shaken up when the biological mother played by the wonderful. comes back onto the scene she's an alcoholic she's unpredictable and this movie is also very unpredictable this is of course the first billion dollars since the meat to movement caught on and i don't think that we should underestimate the power of female vo

and reporters at the berlin film festival my colleague sarah hartman and david levitz were down on the red carpet is what they have to say. well right outside of the world premiere of wes anderson's new movie the isle of dogs this is a really fun movie and the red carpet has been really fun as well there was even some drumming sara yeah that's right they had this movie is set in japan so for the red carpet premiere they brought out some traditional japanese drummers and as the director and the voicing cast arrived wes anderson and bill murray jumped up on these drawings and just gave a little impromptu concert it was so cool we tried to get video of it for you but it just it all happened too fast but that's the kind of thing that happens on the regular girl an hour and the crowd out here just went crazy for there's a lot of berliners out tonight hoping to get autographs hoping to get a glimpse of their favorite stars who we have i mean are there a lot of stars so people getting autographs from tilda swinton she's also one of the voices in this movie. django ranson jeff gold bloom very

down of the berlin international film festival fader and david levitz are standing by to tell us a little bit more about today's big film and the red carpet action i tell you guys . so we are here at the screening of the new york in phoenix film don't worry he won't get far on flights which is about an american cartoonist not only a cartoonist a quadriplegic cartoonist it's about his battles with corrosive and with alcoholism some pretty brilliant performances both from joaquin phoenix and from the supporting cast now a little bit earlier we saw joaquin phoenix roll up on the red carpet he was in a slightly better mood than he was at the press conference where he actually turned away from journalist and his new taurus lee media shy so we were we were good after that showing that he perked up a little bit for his red carpet if you're right. and of course walking feel like a big hollywood star and he wasn't the only one showing his face in berlin today right. that's right willem defoe is also here to collect his honorary lifetime achievement award what a career you may know him from such fi

david levitz and melanie bahl are on the red carpet and joining us now for the latest hey there guys so what's serve been getting people talking down there today going to. well we've been practicing our curling skills actually on the red carpet but beyond that is really about female driven movies and we're outside of the world premiere of one of them it's called feed young daughter of mine and inspire a very promising italian director loud. exactly and the movie is really this conflict centered around a young girl who was adopted right off the bat and what makes the movie so what's down there is really strong leads you have a very abusive and logical mother who is struggling with having given up her daughter to have the adoptive mother fearing that she might use her and then in the middle of that you have the young ten year old who was kind of trying to figure out who she is and trying to get a sense of belonging is really moving it was really moving three really strong female performances we can't forget this is the first billion dollars since the me too movement became huge and i t

. ♪ sarah: down at the berlin international for an festival, maia shwayder and david levitz are standingto tell us more about the red carpet action. hello to you guys. maia: we are here at the screening of the new phoenix film. do not worry, he will will not get far on film, which is about an american cartoonist. david: a quadriplegic cartoonist. his battles with alcoholism. a pretty good performance from joaquin phoenix. we saw him walk up on the red carpet. maia: he was in a slightly better mood than he was at the press conference, where he turned away from journalists. he is notoriously media shy. david: we are glad he perked up for the red carpet appearance. sarah: of course joaquin phoenix is a big hollywood star and not the only one showing his face in berlin today. david: that is right. willem dafoe is also here to collect his honorary lifetime achievement award. what a career. maia: you may know him from such films as the spiderman films in the early 2000's are the last temptation of christ. his career spanned many films and types of roles. he is up for an oscar this year. let us

so many amazing films to see down there david levitz my associate are standing by with the very latest for us and we just have to mention to our viewers that the golden bear will be awarded on saturday you guys have been reporting on this all week and you will also be there on saturday so we thank you so much to both of you and we'll be seeing here. sorry more of you in the coming days. and with that the day is nearly done but as ever the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either actually w news my handle is at sarah kelly t.v. and don't forget as always you can use the hash tag the day the conversation continues the day will be back tomorrow i will see his then thanks so much for watching. the. move. on. to call smart. football personally. for you when. he's gone from backyard play when good men to load champions the amazing career of jim homeboy ten. is there anything you haven't accomplished yet. what tang tells old. europe in concert. that's. a band that aims for the harsh leaving a. place from the heart of. the german club rockers silberman on. good cuts. dou

festival is in its final few days ahead of the gold and silver bears being awarded and my colleague david levitz have been going to the movies for us they're the lucky ones and they have been observing what has been going on on the red carpet down there so what's the action today. the world premiere of touch me you know if this is the latest movie by experiments. and this is really a very different look at human sexuality and intimacy that. it's a very intimate look at human intimacy shall we say we should also know that interior is one of only four female directors out of nineteen that have been nominated in the competition section of the festival the other sections are a little bit better with the gender balance is about forty percent female directors she's only want to four in this section and this film is also very female centric like many others in the competition we see a woman older woman who is struggling with intimacy issues we see a disabled man and it really it straddles the line between documentary and drama. terms woman there's a lot of a lot of different narratives here than what w

so many of mazing films to see down there david levitz my educator standing by with the very latest for us and we just have to mention to our viewers that the golden bear will be awarded on saturday you guys have been reporting on this all week and you will also be there on saturday so we thank you so much to both of you and we'll be seeing these are more of you in the coming days. and with that the day is nearly done but as ever the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either active w news my handle is at sarah kelly t.v. and don't forget as always you can use the hash tag the day the conversation continues the day we'll be back tomorrow i will see you then thanks so much for watching. lawyer. culture. hair. superman. superfood stylish style icon. lifestyle during. the move. every move he makes has a global impact. but when has president putin led russia during his. is his strategy. he miscalculated. goosing must end up again. in forty five minutes long believe. i'm not proud of him i will not succeed in dividing us so that i will not succeed in taking the people of

and my colleagues there sarah hartman and david levitz are down at the red carpet they have been tracking all of the action there for us so opening night guys how did it go. it went really well we're expecting actually the stars and the fans to be coming out into the snow anytime now this was a really glamorous opening really surprising actually for an animation film but wes anderson he pulled it off he got together a great cast yes some of them came onto the red carpet we saw greg airwave in this amazing gold dress we sell tilda swinton earlier in the press conference he was making a fool of himself as a reason everyone was. drawn on the red carpet together with wes anderson. and you guys saw the film how was it. this is a really interesting films there i don't know if you're a wes anderson fan you know fans will know his work moonrise kingdom the royal tenenbaums life aquatic he has a very distinctive style and this film is very much a wes anderson style film it's super cute there's a lot of focus on the artistry and the imagery super cute this time it's a little different though it's a

day two coverage of the berlin international film festival and sarah harman david levitz are there for us as always so guys what's happening on the red carpet today . well tell you about the big action tonight the fans were out they were screaming robert robert it wasn't for robert to vote it wasn't for robert redford it was robert pattinson and he and his store in the new film damsel were looking pretty sleek in black that's right yeah this is a western film that premiered actually at sundance the berlin festival showed it today and the star of the film is not only robert johnson but also mia wasa cause you know australian actress and she plays a woman who needs a lot of things but saving isn't one of them my colleague charlotte chelsea and pill caught up with me on the red carpet and asked her what attracted her to the character of penelope here's what she had to say. i just thought it was really clever like that we sort of see this idealized we have this idealized view and perspective of penelope of my character from. the first half of the film and then when we actually meet her she

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ok today is the first day of the vernon film festival and my colleague sarah harmon and david levitzare down at the red carpet in the heart of berlin i welcome you to if you say use saw the dogs which is the opening first it's an animated film isn't it. that's right and it's an animated film it's actually the first animated film to open the berlin film festival in the entire sixty eight year history of the festival in case you're wondering why would they choose an animated film that's kind of a quirky choice this is a quirky director it's wes anderson and the film is set in japan it's about a pack of straw guys who go on the venture it's very very cute i think cute is probably the best word to describe it use the word to describe it's also there's so much detail like all of wes anderson's movies you would have to watch this movie at least ten times to even come close to scratching the surface of perceiving all the detail that they put into every image of it star studded cast and there was a little a little side story at the press conference you had told us went in there you had bill