what is so special about it this time around this time is interesting because usually with european film awards have won big front runner last year jump on twenty at mun swept five awards was very successful this year there's no clear front runner i mean its diversity seems to be the order that a. this time around the end you can really see from some of the films i've actually already won because the awards emmys going on right now i just picked up before coming in here look at who had won the square which nominee for five awards just won for best screenplay it's a really interesting film i saw in cannes it's a satire set in the swedish world it's. really really funny and really really smart it's it's interesting pokes at the pretensions and they have pockets the sort of the liberal elite a lot of the same type of people who are voting today tonight for the european film awards and on the opposite side of the scale you have a film that just won for best animated feature called loving vincent it's a biopic of vincent van gogh the painter but was really really interesting about this film is that

on display tonight because unlike maybe some of the other film awards out there the european film awards are all about diversity you have this incredible range of filmmakers and and film styles across the entire with stephanie not if there's a good overture is now what about do you reckon they're watching tonight yeah definitely i mean as i mentioned the square it's already sweden's contender for the best foreign language film for the oscars i think this gives another push up and maybe even beyond that maybe it could get some nominations outside the foreign language category another person people maybe of noticed from hollywood from tonight was the best actress winner alexander belly she's an actress she was in on body and soul and she plays a autistic woman who somehow finds love in an avatar of all places a very very funny film as well she's incredibly touching in this in a performance and was really a discovery for me i've never seen her in a film before she really blew me away obviously did for the european film academy as well and who knows she might be getting getting a call from h

a dark swedish comedy has scooped the biggest prizes at the european film awards and brand in the square which is a searing satire of contemporary society took five awards in all including the best film and best director for. the winner of the best prize at the airplane film ward's often goes on to win the oscar for best foreign language film. called your correspondents got roxboro is here to tell me more about the awards costs the prizes have been given a tele by the winner yeah the square it's great i mean this was my picks was going to put some money on it because i want it came out in one basically everything best director best actor for clay spawning the danish star the film best screenplay it's a satire set in the the fine art world in sweden and the lead care took place. he is the curator of the museum and the film also has some bigger names dominic west who people know from the wire the british actor and a list of mos american actress have small roles in the film it is a satire about the art world but it really is also got some very serious subjects it talks about it's basically

now on to something for our cinema fans there in europe's answer to the oscars the european film awards the top prize is handed out tonight here in berlin the home to the european film academy they've taken a look at this year's favorites one of them is a dark comedy from sweden which is expected to win big. what are the biggest challenges of square a comedy about the art world and one man's accidential crisis has picked up five nominations a museum curator goes from one strange situation to the next and not completely without blame how often. women say you don't know very well. and have sex with them you know their names. so what's my. director ruben just learn to expose is the hypocrisy and immorality of the upper middle class a social satire a portrait of the present that you won't forget in a hurry after winning the palme d'or the highest prize at the con film festival it now has a good shot at the european film awards. the hunger area and love story on body and soul has been nominated for three awards it's a mythical romance between maria and director two introverts who work togeth

and the dark swedish comedy has scooped the biggest prizes at the european film awards the square is a searing satire of contemporary society it already won the top prize at the cannes film festival and has been nominated for an academy award last night's glittering ceremony here in berlin puts it one step closer to winning that oscar. it can become a bit we could make come a bit to repair that area of the square. swedish comedy vásquez sweeps for a night scooping six prizes including the most prestigious you ward the best film the cast and crew chose to state fair thank you speech and express their joy in a different way to get to know we have to do is to get it right. so as to the countdown happy scream three a one. i. wonder if a square is a light hearted look at the hypocrisy of modern society has sent us over trials and tribulations of christie and for curator of an art museum in stockholm. christian drives an electric car and say's all the right things about poverty and world peace invest film his high minded idea was a put to the test and that's actually. how often rich people

the best film of the european film awards often goes on to win the academy awards and in fact additionholds up direct to rebrand could be picking up another prize the oscar for best foreign language film. some sports news for you now in germany's blunders like a dortmund coach peter bosch is a man in trouble his side went into match day fifteen having picked up just three points in the bundesliga in the last two months the can run that can get a guy fired dortmund have scheduled a news conference for later today boss was hoping a home match against lowly braman could lead to a turnaround but no such luck. don't wonder again far too passive and were punished up to twenty six minutes with maximilian eg a star and giving brave in the lead. it was a superb effort which left dortmund keep a woman becky well they don't one fail to muster a single shot on goal in the first half farms and clip bosses were livid. they finally equalized on fifty seven minutes with pm rick obama and credited with the goal it's a given strike it did get the final touch it makes him the bundesliga record african sc

the best film of the european film awards often goes on to win the academy awards and in fact addition holds up direct to rebrand aslan's could be picking up another prize. for best foreign language film. hopefully coming soon to a theater near you as your news wraps here on d.w. the bundesliga show is up next with all the goals from germany's top flight on saturday including dortmund coach peter boss as desperate effort to break his club out of an awful slump this side we're up against braman in the outcome surprised many that herman will be along next with the highlights and the analysis in just a moment. that's the news i'm sarah harman sits in. your sport t.v. smarter with the d. w. bush want to.

a european film awards a gala event for europe's film industry. and the dark comedy the square will be in the running for an oscar nomination next year to. now let's take a look at what else is happening around europe right now our express features a three ton christmas cake but first a look at some of the german nominees at next month's golden globes. german director. in the fade has been nominated for a golden globe in the best foreign language can't agree the film is about a woman who seeks justice for her kurdish husband and son killed in a neo nazi attack. german film composer hands him a also has a good chance of winning another prize. his school for the war drama duncan is nominated for the best film music award he already has two golden globes. the nativity scene made from sand is now on display in the northern italian town of years alone. it took artist eleven days to create using some one thousand cubic meters of sand. little by little to very nice very beautiful last year there were a lot less sculptures this year there are many more ye

the best film of the european film awards often goes on to win the academy awards and in fact additionholds up direct to rebrand could be picking up another prize the oscar for best foreign language film. well turning now to a bit of sports news the bundesliga club dortmund have fired their coaching hired former cologne coach peter shergold sterger was himself fired from cologne a week ago he's replacing peter beaumont inside head want to bundestag a match in the last eight tries last season strugar helped cologne to a hugely successful season it's all the club rise in the standings to fifth place but this season he was let go as cologne could not find its way out of last place in the league chuggers new contract runs only through the end of this sees. the writing was on the wall and dortmund at half time of saturday's match up as braman peter bhatia side had picked up only three points in the bundesliga in the last two months. don't wonder again far too passive and were pushed up to twenty six minutes with maximilian eg a star and giving brave in the lead. it was a superb effort which

were scary but definitely worth adding to your favorites list and speaking of favorites the european film awards are on saturday december night and the runaway favorite for best film is swedish satire the square what are the biggest challenges . of our museum a very funny feature from director last month and inflates the pretensions of the art world while also holding a mirror up to the rest of society. how often would you say that you take women that you don't know very well and have sex with them and b. and i'm sure. you know that. yeah sure i do yeah you know their names. yeah yeah. always oh yeah yeah so what's my name. where premiered in cannes where it won the palme d'or. our favorite for best european actress this year is polar bear the twenty two year old wunderkind wowed us with her performance as a war widow. from director. so fingers crossed for paula back and the other nominees for the european film awards check out our website will be reporting from the event live here in berlin december ninth and unveiling the winners on our facebook page that's all for this edition of q. know unti

tonight of the stocks we present you the winners of this year's european film awards. talk of the town and new taste sensation arrives in london. and christmas is coming the german town of laotian is a winter wonderland. well let's start off with the european film awards which took place here in berlin over the weekend the german capital hosts europe's onset of the oscars every second year and films from all over the continent competed of the last thirty years of awards ceremonies british and french films have scooped up the most honest but this year the three thousand members of the european film academy cost the votes different way. european comedy two thousand and seventeen. this with thanks. to thanks for the become a bit repetitive here this square thank the un doubted star of the evening with sweden's the square it took home prizes for best european film best actor best screenwriter best director and best comedy. director reuben aslan's work takes a satirical look at the art business. the competition is fierce. if you place an object in a museum for instance if we

the best film of the european film awards often goes on to win the academy awards and in fact traditionholds up direct to reuben could be picking up another prize for the oscar for best foreign language film. since for its news now and been as the club dortmund has fired their coach and hired former cologne coach peter shirwa here places peter bosch whose dortmund side hadn't won a but as they go match in the last eight tries last season stroger helped cologne to a hugely successful season that saw the club rise of the standings to fifth place but just last week he was fired as cologne couldn't find its way out of last place with only. joining us for more on the dortmund coaching changes for its corresponding yannick space diana good to see you all right before i ask about sterger tommy was firing pater bush the right decision based on the results it's hard to argue otherwise i mean they didn't win in the last eight games though knocked out of the champions league and i think the writing was on the wall a few weeks back when they blew a full goal lead against shaka and then the last str

in the european film or is that's what you get you get this incredible range of filmmaking styles techniques of storytelling approaches i'm not you don't really get in any other sort of film awards in worldwide and this time around of course not a single german film nominated for the top honor what about in the other categories have we any chance yeah there's one chance. she's a young actress she's nominated for best actress for her role in a period drama flaunts really incredible actress she's really dickless the young she's twenty two years old but she's already really at the top of her top for game in this film. old clue the director comparing her to. the legendary late legendary german actress but when it comes to the awards i don't know because this category is probably the most competitive she's got a lot of competition big names isabel is also nominated is nominated i don't know i hope that she wins she definitely deserves that but yeah well fingers crossed fingers crossed there are a lot of the european. winners often go on to the oscars is there a possibility that and i will be watching tonight yeah i definitely think so i mean a particular foreign language category you

there's a couple of already awards i think in every free film awards and there is this year the french american actress julie delpy will get the european achievement in world cinema award now she's probably best known for help vomits with athan hawk in richard linklater before trilogy of films that they've done over a number of years and she actually co-wrote two of these films and received two oscar nominations in the screenwriting category she's much more recently written directed and starred in her own movies including one featuring chris rock i mean she really is an all round talent now and the a lifetime achievement award this year which is award every year because the russian director alexander soccer off his film russian art from two thousand and two which we see here is very significant as it was made in wong fake completely edited which has obviously been copied a bit recently is his film files does not the great work by him won the gold mine at the venice film festival in two thousand and eleven you see a bit on here so these two do know they'll get a prize on started out but the others have to bite their nails until the end

for the best film of a european film awards often goes on to win the academy awards and in fact traditionholds up direct aruban ursula and could be picking up another prize the oscar for best foreign language film. well turning now to some sports news the bundesliga has seen another coach sacked with dortmund parting ways with peter bosch the dutchman only took over in the summer at a horrible run in the last two months while boss coming under increasing pressure a loss to braman on saturday was the last straw the club says the new coach moves until next summer but before work cologne coach peter. i will have more on that coming up indeed the bundesliga you can find out what the future holds for dortmund on our sports website dot com forward slash sports i'm sarah harman and the news desk will be back to the top of the hour with more see if. what does a football loving country need to reach its goals. we'll tell you how to german soccer made it back to the top. you know webspace. dot com. football made in germany. using your homeland because of persecution in society. starting from scratc

winning the palme d'or the highest prize at the con film festival it now has a good shot at the european film awards. the hunger area and love story on body and soul has been nominated for three awards it's a mythical romance between maria and director two introverts who work together at a slaughterhouse they slowly realize their soul mates they even have the same dream every night. in the. students in. the film demonstrates the strength of love with poetic often enigmatic images that earned it the golden bear at the berlin film festival. melancholic finish director aki karas makis entry the other side of hope follows the fate of a syrian refugee in helsinki a lonely restaurant owner decides to help him just. my bedroom. no way so walked. for a time the two of them share a common destiny as always cars maki believes in hope in the face of adverse conditions his film has been nominated for two awards. three films that ask big questions all of them would be deserving winners. or reminder of the top stories we're tracking for you here on d.w. the middle east braces for more violence after us class and

including the best film and best director for rubin and the winner of the best film prize of the european film awards often goes on to win the oscar for best foreign language film yet three years ago it was. now an athlete already considered one of japan's best ever baseball players is about to become an angel twenty three year old shohei otani has signed with the los angeles angels the move to major league baseball in the states was expected but still hard for japanese fans to take. so he otani is a two way threat in baseball the twenty three year old can tow fast bots a two hundred miles per hour and he's explosive at the plate and now he's an angel much to the dismay of japanese support us back home. i'm sad he threw really fast pitches and was also great at better. so i'm really unhappy with him as a kind of season fans know a tiny struggled with an ankle injury this season but a year ago he had twenty two home runs and kept hidden said bait with his power for pitching. it's also good that by going out into the world children in japan can see that and have similar aspirations but he never got up

eyed dark swedish comedy wins big at the european film awards we'll bring you all the highlights from europe's answer to the oscars. from sarah harman welcome to the show it's good to have you with us. arab league foreign ministers have demanded that the united states reverse president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital that decision has sparked violent protests not just in israel in the palestinian territories but in other countries as well and loving on security forces a fired tear gas and water cannon the protesters near the u.s. embassy in beirut addressing crouse the head of lebanon's communist party declared the us to be the enemy of palestine and president trump has said he's only recognizing reality despite warnings that the move could jeopardize the middle east peace process. as another dawn breaks on jerusalem more israeli police stand on guard they fear further protests palestinians here in rage by the u.s. decision to recognize this contested city as israel's capital their anger has echoed through the arab world at an emergency meeting in eg

and the we know the winners of those it's like another film awards as well the julie delpy the french american actress she's going to get the european achievement in world cinema award she's possibly best known for her performance with ethan hawke and richard linklater is before trilogy of films that she's made over a period of years what's not so well known is that she co-wrote some of these films and indeed received two oscar nominations in the screenwriting category over the years now she's also more recently written directed and starred in your own movies including one she's done with chris rock she really is an all around town and now the other one is of course a lifetime achievement award and this year it goes to the russian director alexander soccer off his film we see here russia is actually a film made with an edited. throughout the entire film an idea that's been copied in recent years but he was the first one to do it is all the film this one you see here from. another great work by him and it won the gold mine at the venice film festival in two thousand and eleven so these two will both get their awards they know but the

answer to the oscars we'll bring you a sneak peek at the films making a splash at this year's european film awards. i'm sarah harman welcome to the show it's good to have you with us protesters around the world have been condemning us president all trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel as the country and its middle eastern neighbors brace for more violence two people were killed and hundreds of all those injured in classes between palestinian demonstrators and israeli. forces the palestinian health ministry says more than a dozen people were injured after israeli warplanes carried out air strikes in the gaza strip in response to a rocket attack in the territory. let's go live to our correspondent in jerusalem now tanya kramer on the story for us hi tanya the region was braced for violence following trumps statement on jerusalem how has it been. mean as you said there have been demonstrations and protests on the id act of the play and says the ok once thing also in gaza most more tense so there are two people killed there two demonstrations. and seven hundred injured and g

well a dark swedish comedy has scooped the biggest prizes at the european film awards the square is a searing satire of contemporary society it already won the top prize at the cannes film festival and has been nominated for an academy award last night's glittering ceremony here in berlin puts it one step closer to winning that oscar it can become a we could become a bit repetitive here the square. swedish comedy vásquez sweeps the night scooping six prizes including the most prestigious award for best film the cast and crew chose to skate for thank you speech and expressed their joy in a different way to get in we have to do this three get it right. so let's do the countdown happy scream three was. for square is a lighthearted look at the hypocrisy of modern society has sent us on the trials and tribulations of christie and for creates a lot to museum in stockholm. kristin drives an electric car and say's all the right things about poverty and world peace invest film his high minded idea was a put to the test and have sex with them. how how often which t.v. you think women. they you

loving vincent were sold to twenty countries even before it premiered and it recently won the european film award for best animated feature. and it's already been nominated for next year's golden globes awards too so i predict that the more awards to come now we finished the show with a report the fell into the sixth place in popularity this year the key cust yeah if you learn about off on you shame you will be there for hours the illusions of this your make up artist a phenomenal money on a kick up milosevich literally paints her own body and then creates illusions by standing against a black backdrop i've never seen anything quite like it so let's check it out. the illusions are mind boggling. not just because they're nearly perfect but because they're actually a body. on a mineral ship which. has seen her you tube channel get millions of clicks by viewers worldwide. she set up a little studio in her apartment and spread to over fifty kilometers from the serbian capital belgrade. she learnt to draw as a child and taught herself to paint today illusionist videos are her trademark. i live challen

loving vincent were sold to twenty countries even before it premiered and it recently won the european film award for best animated feature. it's also just been nominated for the golden globes so i predict that there be more what's to come in twenty this though is a great platform for a new talent as well it's always good to recognise new skills and that's what i want to do now i want to introduce you to howard lee a british artist whose name is painting illusions of real objects and then forwarding his various by putting them amongst the real thing so that you can tell the difference save you can guess the object from the image now. which of these objects is real and which is a drawing. these internet videos are about everyday objects but not all of them are as real as they look. perfect drawings that a fooling our senses and a few seconds of time lapse video solve the riddle of the optical illusions. the works of british artist howard lee are showing us the limitations of our perception of. what makes a video great is the moment at which it becomes something you didn't expect it to be so whethe

he by the way carries marquees out for a two prize prisoner latest film at the european film awards this week and that's not it that is of course the other thing finland's famous for musically heavy metal bands that more heavy metal bands than anywhere in the world and this. naughty so excuse my mouth but yes this is a bad for the gold lodhi they made history in two thousand and six by being the only hard rock band to win the euro vision song contest with those wonderful mosques their identities is still not known they still wear the mosques so why did musical spectrum and speaking a wide spectrum as i was really surprised to hear that the finns have their own tango they do do which came to finland just before independence which is quite apt and is based on the argentine tango and there's a competition every year with over one hundred thousand participants when you think there's any five million people in the country they're all dancing the tango and tonight by the why should mention they're all going to put their blue lights on the whole country is going to be blue dogs or the very begi

swedish movie the square has won the top prize at the european film awards in berlin. it's a satirical film about a museum curators efforts to gain publicity it's also a favorite for best foreign language film at next year's oscars. this wednesday was perhaps the worst day of all of the schmitz life the folks wagon executive received a seven year prison term the maximum sentence for consumer fraud. he was emotional he apologized he regrets his decisions he said he takes responsibility it's his fault. schmidt was responsible for us environmental matters at feed w from twenty twelve until twenty fifteen the period that folks wagon admits to having.