director sally potter it's called the roads not taken it tells the story of a writer who suffers from early onset dimension is being taken care of by his daughter he's a very much not present in the contemporary world but we can see into his memories and also see alternative realities that he's carved out for himself yes sort of a sliding doors with with with the match if you will it's a very ambitious story from from sally potter who made this film on a complete shoestring budget although we have several settings big stars a couple of continents and it was shot over just 4 days which is kind of amazing ambitious also good word for our 2nd big film today berlin alexanderplatz this is a modern day reworking of the classic german knowledge from the 1920 s. from alpha dublin now do balloons novel broke ground by the way that it told the story very much stream of consciousness broke all the rules novel writing at the time i don't think that this film did the same thing it had definitely some ambitions but it told a grand story over 3 hours of almost biblical proportions and visually stunn

the crowds out tonight was to see sam hyatt and javier bardem here for the world premiere of sally potter's new film the road not taken that's coming up on the day. our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the right to determine the answer to one of the most fundamental questions of life when and how do we die. today germany's highest court handed down a ruling that reverses a ban on assisted suicide the court's decision was based on the german basic law but the issues before the court they have jurisdiction in every country every home every life who determines when your life or my life should end theologians have spent more than a millennium scientists centuries pondering an answer or today here in germany delivering an answer was the job of judges their conclusion clearing the way for assisted suicide brings germany in line with its european neighbors but it was not the ruling that everyone expected the decision by the german constitutional court took many by surprise. the ruling means assisted suicide may soon legally take

sally potter's film makes liers mental world visible goal of taking the viewer inside and sealed off self memories pass by feelings from long gone times come back to life. called. once people kind of illness or perhaps other kinds of mental illness are not always a disability sometimes hidden inside what seems something very tragic might be the capacity for a kind of time travel space travel memory travel or all kinds of interesting states of mind i was worried to get in to a place where i cannot control myself that's the whole thing and i don't know what's going to happen sally was so generous and brave in a lonely nights and i love we need to go where i needed to go. to return something the film also deals with the difficulties families have dealing with a mentally ill loved one was hell fanning plays molly with deep sensitivity showing how her father's state keeps pushing her to her limits. my character is also really about making choices in her life so for me i was kind of always in the middle of something the roads not taken is a moving father daughter tale featuring extraordina

and have your bardem we're here for the world premiere of sally potter's new film the roads not taken i think have you bardem was able to show off his acting prowess of course he's an academy award winner and there were several scenes in there were i was really touched but i think that away a little bit overboard every scene wanted to be a prize winning scene and i think you felt similar that well i thought that the on and none of them really ended up being prize winning scenes i mean in the end this is an hour and a half of javier bardem something around and groaning and fanning looking very sad no i don't think it was an impressive movie at all it's a film about alternatives about roads not taken i don't think there's any alternative road that this film could take that would lead to a golden bear but there was a film we saw you know the like might might work might could have a chance it's berlin alexanderplatz and this of course is a lot of tension of the classic german novel from the 1920 s. this time given a modern twist set in present day berlin and the main character is an afric

star and sally potter's latest movie premiering is really an international film festival we need it stars and great. things are hotting up in the champions league on wednesday night manchester city travel to dread jonathan crane from sports is here to tell us all about it. so manchester city we know they've been banned from next season's tournaments but could they still stick around a bit longer than this one well they said they managed to pull off a $21.00 win in madrid recovering from a gold star on a side this one is competition more times than any other 3rd pretty impressive victory now as you might expect. bracing for the hour mark the 1st go through rife. capsulize a mix up in the mountains of defense but then back to baghdad the al hazy so nice glancing had it from him and then 5 minutes later they completed their comeback coming to bring in that the man of the match really he scored from the penalty spot he was absolutely sick all night and then to make matters worse. says you ramil us was in a straight red card death bringing down his youth when he was still in goal so that's a h

you're watching the news still to come javier bardem and sound a high tech start in sally potter's latest movie premiering at the berlin international film festival to be meted stars made. its world polar bear day a day aimed at reminding people about global warming images of those animals roaming in ever shrinking habitat to become symbolic of the threats of climate change conservationists hope that world polar bear day will encourage people to do . even small things such as turn down their thermostat or take the train instead of the core to help save those majestic animals. they can smell you from a kilometer away run most humans and crush a seal skull with their jaws no doubt about it polar bears like these are seriously scary they're also the best known victims of climate change the one that is not really thought of the polar bears living in the arctic rely on pocket ice with survival they have seals by waiting for them to come up through holes in the ice. if the ice melts and increases and saw use that becomes a very real threat from a puddle of. warm for the i spend. satellite image

red carpet they're here for the world premiere of the road stock take it from british director sally potter we'll have more on that soon. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start with the latest on the corona virus outbreak the virus that emerged in december in the chinese city of. on is now spreading across the globe let's look at what we know more than 81000 and factions have now been registered worldwide 30000 of those patients have since recovered but the world health organization is warning that the world is not prepared for a pandemic as more countries join the list of those affected brazil has reported the 1st confirmed case in latin america and 19 deaths have been reported in iran one of the countries that seen a spike in infections in recent days but so far south korea remains the country with the highest number of infections outside of china the outbreak is centered on the city of daegu but the disease has spread from there to infect almost 1300 people. so screen children will be cooped up in their homes as schools across the country remain closed to combat the

of roads not taken it features big name stars including salma hayek and hubby about him direct sally potter explores the daughter's love for her ailing father our correspondents were at the screening and sent this report. at the belinelli 2 films about women struggling in a male controlled world eliza him in american director has come up with a new film never rarely sometimes always the depicts the story of a 17 year old girl who needs to get an abortion without her parents knowing we see her at the most vulnerable moment in her life but somehow finding the strength to pull through and korean master hang sung sue is here with a woman who ran a subtle tale about a woman who just might be on the edge of a nervous breakdown it shows that there's more to the cinema of south korea than just parasite and finally something a little bit different we have the up and coming italian director duo the dimensions of brothers with their film fava laci or bad tales it's a dark comedy and it tells the story of 3 families in the suburbs of italy the men in the family struggling with their masculinity the you

story let's let's take a look at the competition director sally potter presents the road not taken and lights a once thought about. well fill this was a star studded film we had javier bardem starring as leo he plays a man who is basically not there he's suffering from early onset dimension is being taken care of by his daughter who's played by elle fanning also a well known star and someone high is also costarring with them so it's going to be a big red carpet event tonight the film really goes into his memories and kind of presents the different futures he could have had as a writer as a man as a father as a husband yeah if you can say something about sally paul yes i bought herself a sort of an icon of in the cinema because she manages to make these star studded films on a real shoestring budget this film of those has a bunch of big stars was shot over just 4 days on 2 continents it's almost a miracle it even got made and came to the bell another also in the competition is the film about the taj mahal film off heartening explain this to us. yeah this is sort of i guess you'd call it

it's where she learnt her trade along with sally potter and tilda swinton. again, it's this, using this as a platform as a kind of tribute. to try and think a little bit less about disposable fashion and things we only wear once. was it saoirse ronan who was wearing something she wore at a previous ceremony? it was a new custom made dress but it was using leftover fabric from the dress that she wore to the baftas. so again, that's a different approach that is quite an interesting approach, we are now speaking out saying why can't we use some of the leftover fabric and turn it into something else? and we have to talk about natalie portman. we talked about some of the political speeches. jason and i were talking about that. explain what she has done.|j jason and i were talking about that. explain what she has done. i think it was a very beautiful understatement. very delicate embroidery down the side of the cape. with all of the names of the female directors that were not nominated, there were many this year, that had the possibility to be nominated but they we