Young mimi. And becky prof. Theres a strong emphasis on the female perspective of us and for me the belly not only is pure cinema as. Its a good start. Its a long. Love story. Passed was oral has worked in the potter rama section for eighteen years now she heads it. Movies from all over the world that shake up and alter perspectives thats what it stands for. This year is very female not only because of the strong involvement of women directors and producers who make up almost forty percent of the program but also because women are the focus of most of the films well theyre directed by a man or a woman who will ask what im going to. Stories that get under your skin about exploitation and oppression about long standing up for yourself as in the brazilian documentary vixen trying to. Write about the protagonist is an artist who also sing as. She speaks directly to the camera at certain moments of the movie in radio interviews. The alpha male. From speed guiding us from speed gardens no. Muss ye with. The courageous struggle of a transsexual artist to the lawsuits is to. Call it to market. She comes from a slum area of south paulo and protest against all pervasive mikeys. Meanwhile from a completely different corner of the world chinese director and actress young men making makes her debut with an intimate portrait of a claustrophobic mother daughter relationship. Where. You could. Put. The two of them find security only by attacking each other its the only way they know a totally disturbed parent child relationship. So she spends my film i want to tell something about Chinese Society using very specific moments within a family so tender and hurtful like. It was. A vision. Society between tradition and modality in which the voice of the individual is suppressed on the doorstep of a marriage we. Know what did you know the ability to carry. She thought. In her first full length feature film the young director uses humor to draw attention to the problems in china but issues such as womens rights and gender equality are out of the picture because theres still another struggle going on and young ming means homeland. Does a long way to go in this process especially in china. Helen says. First we have to deal with human rights only then can we talk about gender issues thats much more important to us she shook and that you with. Human rights in film is a key focus of the barely knowledge thats how becky probst sees it the president of the european film market has attended for the last thirty years this year she was honored for her contribution to the festival cinema is expressing the problems that theyre universal to. This years films explore the courage to do whats right here it plays out on the open sea a young doctor spends her holiday alone on the sailing ship until she encounters a migrant boat and hundreds of people depend on her help. As skate continues to occupy the barely knowledge millions of people without a home without identity. Like. Swiss filmmaker marcos and hope for members refugee children in his childhood seventy years ago. In his documentary eldorado he draws worrying parallels to todays crisis. When you come out of the film you are really very knocked down because you realize how big the refugee problem is. The burly nala aims to take a stand denounce injustice and engage with the need to debate. The festival is hosting talks about the sex abuse scandals triggered by the many women who found the courage to speak out. Says its not a moment too soon why did you wait so long because the longer you wait the worse it gets so its good now that they are coming out and that theyre speaking and i hope that. The scenes will be resolved in a. Way. For both parties because id like to work with a man. But she doesnt think much of the demand for a quota for women in the Film Industry she says quality should speak for itself. In film for me has to be goods and there we speak well made that. Women are well represented at this years barely knowledge contributing in a variety of ways to the spectrum of cinema being showcased from Great Entertainment to courageous films addressing burning issues. Of on guard artist very Bower Meister played a key role in the emerging Fluxus Movement of the early sixtys. But she was long over shadowed by male contemporaries such as joseph boyce and numb john pike time to return her her to. Rightful place in history. For mary fallin my sister beauty is a necessity. She loves to set things in motion it keeps her mind sharp. And for her everything is in motion everything flows. Mary power meister believes the universe is too vast to be pinned down. No one told me what art is and what art isnt maybe fleeing from all kinds of schools has made me what i am i learned a little technique but what i really wanted to learn i didnt learn in school ensure. The exhibition in the village sunders invites visitors to enter Mary Baumeister as world she describes the process of recognition and constantly changing perspectives to make this clear she adds optical lenses to many of her words. As one lens flips the statement around one distorts it from right to left above all this alienation effect with the optical lenses relativize is the statements absolute because all statements are not so this is. The one nine hundred sixty s. Was the era of the manifesto young people and to change the world no matter what in cologne the movers and shakers messam balam isis studios to Exchange Ideas and push boundaries. John cage and other flights as artists or revered mary valley but mainly as a who stands. To others but everything i made was considered art back then my materials just needlework girly stuff my sterns oh thats just gluing shelves nothing i did was called art when i was doing it. Certain areas around my still always believed in what she was doing. Yes to be found in small things. Shes fascinated by the beaches of the mediterranean where she collects stones that have been shaped by the water and waves over the centuries and uses them in her works. But when i work with stones i feel im absorbing energy through my hands its really a Young Persons work but i cant get enough of it so i cant just let it be im fascinated with scouring the oceans of this world for lovely stone i shouldnt start in the. In one thousand nine hundred nine balam i still made an experimental film for german television. Stockhausen the man shed fallen in love with in the one nine hundred seventy s. Composed the music. Of bach we were a good team i told him about anarchy which loosened him up a bit and broke down his strict sense of order and he taught me about serial thinking i took a course in serial composition techniques with him and transpose that to all five senses. Are of the forms then. Mary bell meister and stockhausen married and had Children Together who also became artists their sons in on is a musician who likes to push boundaries just like his mother. Has been a constant source of inspiration to him. Word of this wealth of different genres forms colors writings that informations just has to get out. Of eight well yes i was the one octave and now that shes eighty three for her popularity has been going through the roof for two or three years and rightly so so few people i know. Saying that what used to be ridiculed as girlie art is real art and its fascinating this is this is surfacing new. To his self says how creative urge is compulsive. She has a constant need to create order and chaos while at the same time breaking up the order she finds on her travels. She aims to go through life with her eyes open and enter into a dialogue with nature. Its a constant give and take. And for Mary Bell Meister thats a beautiful thing the results are often surprising. Part hike once said you are one of the few of all god offers to totally of all god yet can create an ascetic really pleasing picture and now im in again because up can look nice again. Mary baumeister an artist who was to have a god even for the add on count of. The minister activists guerrilla girls were ahead of their time when they formed in one thousand nine hundred eighty five but times change now theyre embraced by the art world theyve always attacked. Me gorilla girls the target of their activism is the male dominated art world they say theyre not ready to make nice but even if theyre angry theyre funny too. And they sure know how to attract attention. We really. Does that using humor helped even someone who disagree with us to laugh at the situation. The selfproclaimed bad girls use aliases like frida kahlo and care to clothes names of dead Women Artists kahlo and call vets are both original members of the group which has over the years numbered around sixty members. Crazy the kind of activism has inspired other people and they are doing the same thing also to turn these big institutions around or to affect any change any change in fighting discrimination in the world at large as we really are and i think what we were is just do one thing if it works do another if it doesnt work do another well i think we have to change the conscious consciousness about the issue unfortunately there is still a lot of tokenism where an institutional show one woman one artist of color one trans artist and think that the issue is taken care of and there was a great deal of into the quality of our world. On equal pay the excesses of the super rich and the power structures in the art market guerilla girls fight sexism racism corruption and commercialism. We would rather have our poster every college dormitory. Behind the sofa. Believe their love. But whats been motivating them to take the streets again and again for thirty years to address the same injustices stupid question they would say so long as the majority of new portraits in many museums show naked women. Well in the museum or an Art Collection is supposed to document the history of a culture how can it document the. Culture without voice is. History otherwise its not history its just the record. They always wear their monkey masks as theyre all purpose disguises they always appear are not honestly washed. You know in the beginning we did it to protect ourselves because the art world was a small place but actually its been. And its important to many interesting ways that we didnt imagine in the beginning one thing is we could be any we see ourselves as working for all our second the secret of who we might be is delicious people want to know how they think about it its attracted to what were doing even though theyve never found. Much. They havent just declared war on the art world hollywood was in the gorilla girl sites long before me to. Be anatomically correct oscar wife and male little beer belly because the facts speak for themselves the oscars go mainly to white men. But theyve long been in museums themselves their current exhibition and hung over germany deals with some surprising numbers for twenty twelfth the number of exhibitions by women made up just nine percent of the total since then its already up to sixty eight percent for clinton who can we really National Search our souls about this because our favorite place to be is outside protesting inside an institution but there are lots of people inside the situations who are trying to change things and museums are such a great place for people to come and see something that theyve never seen before makes me think about. One hundred percent when. Men and minorities in the next ten years predict the gorilla girls and theyre working on it. Who knew the first person to round the globe in an automobile and store and director of the first german road movie was a woman in the one nine hundred twenty s. Women made Great Strides to burn an alice retrospective looks back at this to mulch was time. I know whole time hes head of the Deutsche Aquino my cheek which boasts some twenty six thousand films in its archives the silent films and talking pictures dating from the days of the vama republic are an impressive part of the collection cinema with something to say. It was a very rich set amount of period one that was particularly successful and influential internationally. It was also a period in which german films gained in importance domestically i can land on a course of a daughter in the cinema produced new images of women sailors on surely even looking for what else a little fun but they never reckoned with a woman like common who wont let anyone get the better of her shes unabashed selfconfident and as we soon discover a criminal. Common performs a new review and works as a smuggler she knows what she wants and gets it one way or another. Just a few years later how women like how would vanish from cinema screens in germany. And the its a very strange love story if you will but its also a real find in terms of gender relations if it is a thing. Thatll. So applies to the devious path starring well known actress pretty good to help him the film tells the story of a rich couple in the midst of a marital crisis even and leaves her husband for a painter and plunges into berlins club scene with all its glitz alcohol and drug use. Later she returns to her house. Considered long lost forever this scintillating societal portrait by famous director g. W. Power cannot be seen at the back you know. But its not just the Film Festival thats reviving the roaring twentys the t. V. Series babylon berlin depicts the period between the two world wars of the time of debauchery and decadence though it also shows the often overlooked poverty and suffering of that era. An exhibition in frankfurt is currently showing the art of the one nine hundred twenty s. And a society in crisis and transition why are we so fascinated with this era why does it feel so relevant to our times. In order that its a period in which the society is dealing with losing the war and hyperinflation and played by selfdoubt. Its looking for certainties but doesnt find them societies on the move always searching because. These films make clear political statements showing fathers and steal from their children and domestic violence. The illegitimate children in children of no importance what amateur actors from berlins lower classes. The tragedy seen on screen was very close to their reality. The film called on audiences not just to stand by but to intervene. These are films which clearly focus on the underprivileged on those forgotten by the more privileged and illegitimate children in particular. Family. Life begins tomorrow is an experimental social drama about a man whos just been let out of prison. In the one nine hundred twenty s. Directors dared to try out new cinematic forms using of all god techniques the film creates an image of life in the tenements of the big city and once again. Plays a major role. Suddenly everything is in motion the stories the camera the montage. This is the father its a phase in which film is exploring its possibilities finding a new cinematic language there are major discoveries in both lighting and the art of storytelling. Its a. New film language and new perspectives. I think you get funnier more of the same weimar cinema revisited makes you want to discover more about the little known films from this fascinating year. Its not quite as prestigious as the one underway in berlin right now but another Film Festival just took place in San Francisco one that celebrates the diversity and dynamism of german language cinema the film screened at the berlin and beyond festival the largest german language Film Festival outside of europe and blockbusters still each year people flock to the castro theater to see the. So grateful but its always good film just a lot of fun i saw you know no no other theaters saw the forty acres film and really loved it in the face and look always looking forward to see a good german film this years Opening Night film was welcome to germany. Because. Its a comedy about a German Family who take in a nigerian refugee from homes in sudan who got in touch to come to. News for us. This is direct for her friends first time in San Francisco he says its a great all know that his film was chosen to open the festival here in california but hes not aiming for a career in hollywood. Im someone who writes his own individual stories and i think that might be a lot tougher to do in hollywood. I also have to write in english which i can do quite well but it wouldnt be as authentic as in german because of. Act on loss i didnt know received a festival spotlight award in acting for his portrayal of a misanthropic holocaust researcher in the bloom of yesterday the Award Winning comedy is a highlight of the berlin and beyond festival. He got to this complex got sort of that its a positive. I think most is for germans to attract International Attention in the Film Industry they have to deliver something really special so from crucify its fun to shoot Christoph Waltz gave an incredible performance an inglorious basterds. It was like someone saying im not performing with you im performing better than you thats for this must be adventure that was also fassbender as attitude towards filmmaking he simply reinvented film on his own terms. German cinema both old and new how. As many devoted fans in San Francisco and thanks to them the twenty second edition of ballin and beyond was a smash hit you over. Next week will be back at the berlin Film Festival joining us there. Until then good bye and on futures to our. New you and. Your own max this weeks highlights. Cares and ideally a column on the greek columns. No Alcohol Health conscious cocktails are trendy. No fast food creations of aspiring subject. W. Enter the conflict zone confronting the powerful lobby challenging those in power asking tough questions demanding honesty. As come fix in terms of ill be meeting with kids players on the ground in the centers of power through the rhetoric holding the populace out of conflict zones. 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Search for unity at the Munich Security Conference the Us National Security advisor claims there is indisputable evidence that moscow interfered in americas election a claim russias foreign minister dismisses as blatter and germanys foreign minister says berlin no longer knows what to make of washingtons policy also on the program with germanys social democrats trying to rally their rank and file ahead of a