Sitting here doing nothing. To feel long day decent life and understanding as. You must know this weekends as records you use are of more from life than just the bad and the pains of pottage bread dont chill. Francis from west africa is just one of many. After a long and traumatic journey as a refugee hes arrived in berlin. He hopes to start a new life here a respectable one but instead he falls into the clutches of ryan hold a crook who is the devil incarnate. That might clear. Some things but off. Francis aims to stay legal even in the toughest of circumstances given to fleece when. You flee when you leave your home and you dont just lose that place that you lose your language your self assurance your family your sense of security and for me thats Human Dignity which the character must struggle to regain their hand clear bonnie is himself the son of political refugees from afghanistan. Says despite his best intentions franciscos astray reinhold forces him to take part in a break and line. Feed these tanks marked down. Every. Shot. Was. Bad francis struggles stumbles falls down and keeps on fighting he tries to retain his goodness and about world the film is a 3 hour long trip from hell dramatic messed up city. Much of the action also takes place a house and haida a berlin park known for its drug scene in which some refugees act as dealers like francis. Director ben Hunter Bonnie wanted to give a face to individuals like him to tell these outsider stories. Which have a just few but i had this feeling if i just fished out the story of one of these drug dealers is a powerhouse it wouldnt get much attention in germany because it was just fade away. The physic and. So could danny turn to an old story a novel barely alexanderplatz by our food to be in a german literary classic from 1929. It was 1st film just 2 years later as in the book the protagonist is called franz b. Of a culture not francis just released from jail franz wants to work in lead a normal life the film is a portrait of its time. Century later legendary director reiner vanna past and turned Ballin Alexander thoughts into a t. V. Series once again carolyn was betrayed as a behemoth that devoured people which. Now Bianca Bonnie has brought doolin story into the 21st century his tale of an undocumented immigrant is a surreal nightmare a downward journey into an unforgiving parallel universe the hunt for good. We want to tell a story about characters a demand for illustration you know to understand we have they are placed in the society i see associated. Microcosmos. And this really is a place but i feel that you have space to talk you can have a voice here. Francis falls in love with a call girl named. But their relationship is doomed even she cant help fascist who is torn between 2 worlds. Escape paths this point to projects that are close to your heart that are a cut above other films and this is absolutely one of mine and hats see a play act and that same. Films like this can encourage people to think look at things differently saying. And. Their hand could bonnie brings a fresh perspective to a classic tale which focuses on people from the fringes of society exposes both the dark side of the soul and the city im talking about migration one of the major topics and this has been anonyma the 70 s. The girl an International Film festival has a history like no other. In 1915 not long after the end of world war 2 there reconstruction of berlin have begun but what the city lacked was a profile for International Recognition and culture so the us Occupying Forces had the idea to hold the Film Festival in west berlin as a window on the free world. Launched in the summer of 1951 it was a success right from the start 5 years later the burman ali had become an a list festival on par with crime and then. The festival enjoyed a heyday and the newly built zoop Palace Cinema became the heart of the Film Festival for 3 decades. In 1961 east berlin ors attended for the last time later that year the berlin wall was built. And stayed in place for almost 3 decades in 1990 the berlin was also held in the eastern part of the city for the 1st time. From then on it was a festival for all of berlin. In the year 2000 new festival of the news opened at Potsdamer Platz in the city center in its 70th anniversary year of the festivals past came back to haunt it. Its 1st director alfred bal where was revealed to be a high ranking nazi in the film directorate set up by ghosts of the festivals organizers have said that bowers role will be investigated by an independent group of historians but the phone in iowa is experienced in dealing with the past and the present after all it is a political festival. What lies behind singapores gleaming facades the dreams and nightmares of around 1000000 Migrant Workers they make up about a 6th of the population and although they greatly contrib. To the economy and asias richest nation they remain almost invisible on the edge of society. Just like we are living in separate worlds i feel this documentary i went to a show when i still was a Migrant Worker to see that theyre just humans like us they have family they have hopes and dreams so i hope theres some more empathy for Migrant Workers director louis been spent 6 months in the separate world of the Migrant Workers before making the film following their lives and also observing one ngo which helps people to deal with problems problems such as loneliness debt abuse exploitation in a world where turbo capitalism disregards human rights and i. Believe all maybe you should focus on and put together if you. Want to put. The camera is always steady and respectful and the filmmaker approached his protagonists with caution. At 1st i did interviews but its a process i want to make it feel like a point. Like a dream i want to turn describe the emotion. Off the mind when experience. One of the films protagonists is for us after a workout accident that almost cost him his life and for which is employer showed no interest in the ngo brings him back home to bangladesh an emotional journey for everybody and the beginning of a friendship after making the feel we saw in the. Group. And recently she brought for carlos and for me. Because after this its a very cute. A loosen a tory card apocalyptic a nightmare pinkie was a member of a corrupt religious sect both in the film and in real life now he is on the run. Especially by. The looks of it give those who can tell us of the fire. Commissioner do it. As if with a criminal. In this bleak film collage camillo be strapped over to flex on the violence unleashed by a religious act a common phenomenon both in colombia and throughout latin america. And now we want to call this a huge amount of profiteers who say that the law should be 1st on the 1st last and they tell people that they are the last but they will give them the means to be the 1st its like a reproduction of Power Systems in the average of 3 to be 1st its about government and society and how its organized. Society. Colombia has a long history of violence for those on the bottom rung of society like drug addict pinky violence sometimes seems like the only option. The film was like a therapy session for the real life pinkie yeah. They got. The cinema commode life differently it can dissipate reality and set it on a different track you do need the film changed pinky and if you need a movie you would rather you do not always come back to his hometown and almost doesnt do drugs anymore. Not just working. Scripted or the. Conduct those is neither a documentary nor 6 and. A painful visionary allegory of a dysfunctional society. At night in tehran iranians are celebrating the longest and darkest night of the year on the 21st of tartans. Which were going to go through this year to be sure traditionally if. You have a full rejoin youd almost have a should be doing. This if you try get not. A microphone. Outlet or what its for presents you ring our society so how today because its combining. Tradition and why there need to. Be born out of this t. V. Show. The film is also a portrait of iranian women paying tribute to their strengths. The film successfully shows how women from different social classes backgrounds families and education are all very active in one way or the other. The film is scheduled to be released in iran soon maybe with the berlin ali behind it it will succeed the festival is the Political Force questions that concern us all the ben another asks them persistently. But both. Rule lost everything including her parents and brother and the 2011 tsunami. And now she is living with this in the hospital. In utter despair a route travels across japan. A lead actress serino mottola is just 21 years old when the monster wave hit she was 10 and in her final year of Primary School she herself didnt lose anyone close to her but she remembers the disaster. Like this in were probably among the youngest who really experienced the disaster. We have images of it in our minds. The children from my school who were 2 or 3 years younger at the time can probably hardly remember it. Could they were just too small. It would fit in the. Behind the facade of normality a collective trauma festers the film tells a story from the perspective of individuals. For director not a hero the film also has a political dimension to the tsunami and the Nuclear Accident africa are yesterdays news in japan. Not money the media have all but stopped reporting on the disaster and its effects and especially now with the Olympic Games coming up i get the feeling that Japanese Society as a whole would just rather forget all these problems. That you and you took on. Or. How ru is picked up by mario he worked in the Fukushima Nuclear plant and lost his wife and child in 2011. How can we cope with grief and loss theres no questions that confront us all not only in japan but you know just journey takes her from deep depression back into life. Was invited to dine with a kurdish family their daughter is the same age as her room and they become friends the kurdish family are not actors the film is a semi documentary. A scene developed on its own without the directors assistance. In putting this on my phone and so i really just chatted with everybody the whole time i heard of the one the cyclone and the with the girl in particular i got along very well we were like real friends i was actually a little sad when the meeting was over. These. Shooting for the movie was completed in just 3 weeks it was the 1st time the director and lead actors had worked together. Serena mottola had already acted in a number of films shes also a successful model. Director not a hero sue i knew right away the sensitive young woman was right for the lead and the challenging shoot. There was no script we improvised. So i tried to adjust to the various locations in the situations. How does the place smell what people will i meet. What kind of things are there and. I had to feel my way into the scenes over and over. And i think. Its a low key deeply moving film with an optimistic ending through his seeing her ruined home once more then by chance she meets a young man. He tells her about the phone of the wind people use it to speak to the dead such a telephone booth actually exists tens of thousands of japanese comfort in it after the tsunami. I think. The film had its european premier in berlin and then it was part of. The building now that hes always in times of poteen its always just be. This sounds out in. Berlin now and it stars in 1954 the glamorous and beautiful gino lola brigida made a splash in berlin and alongside her a young sophia in the rain to goddesses of italian cinema. Stars love berlin and the city love them back. To someone. You. Might want to see. Since 1902 1000000000 dollar has honored cinemas greatest stars with all modules and retrospective. Including gregory peck. Shirley maclaine. And jack lemmon. In 1903 billy wilder received an honorary golden bear at the age of 86 there were Standing Ovations for the man who fled berlin in 1933 to escape the nazis and became a famous hollywood director. In the ninetys berlin was growing into its role as the german capital its Film Festival attracted International Stars the biggest names in the business graced its red carpet. In 2008 the festivals opening film was shine a light Martin Scorseses tour a documentary about the Rolling Stones before band members came to berlin for the premiere. Over the last 70 years fashion and hairstyles have come and gone but one thing never changes the enthusiasm of the public and the photographers. And whats making the best of all headlines this year. The 2020 festival also has its stars johnny depp Sigourney Weaver im william defoe. And the queen of the Silver Screen helen mirren this years festival pays special tribute to her a superstar at age 74. A range is nothing short of vast the shrewd empress. Never tired assassin. Of an older clip girl. Helen mirren brings real character to all her roles im not a movie star im an actress she was human its necessary to save the characters are often feisty and fight for selfassertion i make my own choices and i dont need your permission. Such female characters were long under represented in movies much to the chagrin of the feminist helen mirren the change in the last 510 years has been remarkable and very very exciting to me i wish i was 25 if. Im a bit cross that its taking this long. Stereotypes of always being an abomination to helen mirren. In the gangster movie the long good friday she made sure her role as the sexy but was rewritten she saw the original as been either. A lot of stupid. I told you did what i told him everything every day i go on the set and i do. Written the scene you know written my character said right away thats how the whole of the scene where she takes him out didnt and shes the one whos driving it and i was just an absolute pain in the ass for the poor director. She started her career on the stage in the 1960 s. As the den youngest member of the Royal Shakespeare company. I wanted to be a great stage actress we didnt get to this and im also i wasnt really aware of the incredible art form that is film. She found fame as a tough detective chief inspector in london who battles preconceived ideas in a mans world as well as her own weaknesses what always makes a character interesting and. Brings the audience in is not strength its vulnerability and weakness you know its a great roles are to do with ability and weakness. And Peter Greenaway is the cook the thief his wife and her lover helen mirren doesnt appear weak she plays the gangsters wife a sophisticated ice cold goddess of revenge. In. A feminist act in art house cinema. But you can also play quick tempered characters. But you think. He or she is the wife of russian writer leo tolstoy. These days at the age of 74 she can afford to be picky about the roles she accepts i literally get straight to the last page is my character on the last page if its a good sign. Then i can write the script from the beginning the Prime Minister for you today so i took this role so for. It was arguably that of the queen and Stephen Frears 2006 film of the same name. Has been changed after the death of Princess Diana and the royal family remain silent the british are outraged and the monarchy is plunged into crisis i come from a republican family you know we dont believe in aristocracy and in royal families but i have to say in researching the queen to play her as a personage i came to respect have very very deeply her absolute. Appearance to the role to the joke. Of the conflicting feelings of the queen portrayed by helen mirren the footage of taste it was full. Of. But. For me. Move you very much. Helen mirren won an oscar for the road and though shes won the onery berlin bear for a lifetime achievement. That was the 70 s. Than in any to national Film Festivals. Around the world in 11 fighting to. Environmental protection. In berlin serial ways to play a restaurant it tastes delicious. Here fine dining and sustainability go hand in hand. Nothing is wasted. And garbage here just yesterday sky gonds romex. Good shape. What effects of Climate Change have on our house for me is you its a very important. Their. Seats in the future want to modernize. Our bodies. In 60 minutes. Listen carefully. To suit your needs to get. Discovered to. Subscribe to the documentary on youtube. Grown men playing an advanced form of attack more about that later on in the show. 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