A lack of the freedom of the press. Coverage we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans and the humans and see the wife 2 fold who have decided to put their trust in us. My name is jenny paris and i work a d. W. I. Welcome to our thoughts and culture of the 77th Venice Film Festival is underway bashing on despite the covert 900 pandemic and hoping to give some momentum to an industry in danger of being usurped by streaming Services Also coming up in the pipeline. The museum bought a bit any in potsdam welcomes its Permanent Collection of impressionist paintings including the Largest Selection like road one a side of paris. And in our series on german artists and colonialism that. Uses her work to bring from colonial history back to life. Well cinema is the real antidote to this pandemic those are the words of spanish director pandora and as the Venice Film Festival bravely resuscitate the festival circuit one can only hope that hes right suffice it to say the cinephiles in attendance were determined to keep the dream alive. Whether you. President Cate Blanchett spanish directing legend Pedro Almodovar theres no escaping the strict hygiene regime on the 1st night british actress to this winter fired up this socially distance audience even at c. R. Cinema cinema cinema wakanda for. Nothing but love. Cinema is alone i even during a pandemic. Ceremony swinton was honored with a gold mine for her lifes work then he is the 1st of the worlds major Film Festivals to take place in person since looked down. On the 3rd day the most is back in its old swing the themes are once again in the spotlight not the measures required in order to show them. And my colleague scott roxboro joins us live from the lido in venice welcome scott there you are and you know this is so crazy banister in a Global Pandemic so different from what youre used to whats hows it going. Yeah its going surprisingly well here i mean it is odd to be here with a mouse that wear masks in the cinema to have the sort of the smell the scent of disinfectant gel everywhere you go but it actually does still feel like a real Film Festival and i think that has so much to do with the fact that everybody here the stars like Kate Blanchett like Pedro Almodovar like Tilda Swinton but also all the ordinary film fans and film reviewers here are just desperate for venice to succeed they really are desperate for the Film Industry to get going again to get restart again and i think thats really creating a wave of optimism here and here at venice well thats great to hear now weve heard in the piece that its a very political festival this year especially the competition film so whats striking about the lineup for you this time round. Yeah its interesting because usually venice is a very big hollywood festival a lot of big oscar films start here and that hasnt happened this year because so many of those films are being held back by the studios so in their place we see a lot of more interesting european and political very political Strong Political films there was one the premier earlier this week. Which is both a celebrity its a massacre its a bosnian film and this is incredibly powerful it follows a u. N. Translator bosnian Woman Working for the u. N. Peacekeeping group translating between them and and the bosnians there and basically the film is about her struggle to try and desperately save her husband and her 2 sons from being swept up by this serbian military and then as we know be executed its its a very very powerful film i mean i think this will go down probably as the definitive film about the 70 to massacre it really shows how rawson about can be and how cinema can really. Be a testimony to history of very very powerful movie and i think will go far after its premiere here in venice ok scott were running shortly out of time but still early days what other highlights do you see coming up or amongst what youve seen so far. Well one of the big highlights for me was a french film called lovers a completely different not a political movie at all film the wire sort of in the style of a clutch of oil just a film with a lot of sexiness a lot of danger and and crime and some incredible interiors a film to film to escape into and i think thats also something that were seeing a lot of here in venice that im really looking forward to in the coming days and what will we be checking in with you about on monday because we will check in obviously early days still whats coming up next week. Yeah monday i think is one of the big holiday of this festival one night in miami its a directorial debut of oscar winning actress regina king and its set in 1964 and its a civil rights drama about a real life meeting that occurred between Mohammad Ali Malcolm x. The singer sam cooke and jim brown the. N. F. L. Football player or not and civil rights activist im really excited to see this movie its already being seen as an oscar candidate so i think youll be really excited to see it on monday thanks very much to scott lets check in with you again on monday and between now and then happy viewing and stay safe. Well it was a huge win for the city of pottstown when German Software magnate has so plot renovated a Historic Building to how was his Art Collection and a rich one is the museum exhibits works that range from the old masters to contemporary art and this week his long awaited impressionists joined the Permanent Collection making one of the most impressive outside of france. Morning i bought. The impressionists are strongly associated with france but now the barbering museum imports. Can boast its own striking collection of impressionist paintings thanks to a permanent loan by german businessman fossil plattner. Had last night at least a platinum built a museum precisely for this moment he wants to share the paintings 103 of them with the public that was always his wish and its now been accomplished and he fell in love with france as a sailor i as a nature lover because hes always been interested in bodies of water. Shifted midseason pass of flesh and how do you francis and the french impressionists i live next to the same river they wanted to be close to the river to the sea. Thats what fascinated him was another person near. Among the highlights of the planet and a collection are more than 34 morning paintings some of them are now on display for the 1st time i. Wanted to light down my learning is perhaps the painter he succeeded the most in capturing this atmosphere he said that he wanted to paint what was between him and the motif under motif its nice that he really takes you when youre invited to dive into his works. And inside monet many other impressionists not only slowly featured alfred sees lees paintings of snow scenes standout. The impressionists were fascinated by snow because it gave a completely different outlook to landscapes they were familiar with but i think the really interesting thing with these landscapes is this when you see them from far away you think of the color white but the closer you get you actually see the paint with so many different views of things sparkles and vibrates the circle of theater so you really need some time to discover the painting for yourself. With the platen i collect. Now on display the barber reading easy mean potsdam looks like any tool carries in the heart of germany. French companies are has not. Started performing as a child while suffering from leukemia her family moved to europe for her lifesaving treatment and due to language barriers she started to express herself through performance in order to cope with the pain well now shes based in berlin and she says her work is about healing. This quiet german lake beholding secrets secrets of history mysteries that art could uncover. Things were hidden under the sand and makes the nature speak something here needs to happen a process or ritual of remembrance or same goodbye or pass it has to happen artist. Felt that here. The town outside berlin with nazi bunker towers between houses like this one collapsed. Abandoned soviet barracks testified to the cold war. But it was a deeper layer of history that shocked her most a story nearly unknown and seldom told from the 1st world war people died in the camp because of hunger because of the morning germany already believe that people of color when not human during world war one prisoners from french and british colonies were kept here soldiers from africa and asia it was here that germany built its very 1st mosque meant to show it was taking care of the mostly muslim prisoners and they were not actually praying inside of the mosque it was too small for the amount of soldiers that way here which was up to 9000. 00 but actually the soldiers were praying on the fields on the outskirts with guns on the head. A century later found a space is now a camp for asylum seekers. Where the mosque stood it is now a parking lot. Only a tiny marker testifies to its existence. Because it was born in. But she feels a personal connection to this place she came here to understand her own history. I found out so few years ago that my great grandfather had been a german court on your count in north get on which used to be soft come up on the family has never buried his buds. Near the camp or the graves of inmates indian soldiers of the British Empire who died while prisoners here. Or wonders where the other bodies of water. There is not a trace of african soldiers here that are buried beneath. She believes there are traces in this nearby lake. I wanted to come here. And think about an underground. Archaeology of water. Or performance in arcadia how soldiers become mates together with artist i know you see a whole louisa is about remembering and mythologizing those who died. And thank you and enable you to always hear glistens morses of the left into need incentives they have no way i can talk you know every language i can help you to languages to come back here was a way to bury those the voices that were raised and those soldiers that were murdered and make a sort of. Yes. And burial in this water. The work also uses original audio recordings from the colonial prison camp. Believes that some contain the voices of female prisoners whose stories she says historians have ignored. And i dont think that history disappears i think its narratives take power but we have forgotten how to listen. She says its up to the descendants of colonial victims to hear their ancestor stories and bring them back to the surface. And thats all for this week so until next time thanks so much for watching and all the best. In. A cheerful mood as always and yet undeniably different berlin during the pandemic summer visitors are slowly starting to trickle back at praed what kind of an experience are they and are. Our tests for and safe is it to the german capital. W. Im sure that of us as we are. In support of. Whats said. Over. The debris of what. 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