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09/02/2012 - Germany

Berlin film festival opens with French revolution drama

The Berlin Film Festival kicks off Thursday with the world premiere of "Farewell My Queen", a French-language film about the revolution. Other films include Angelina Jolie's Bosnian war drama “In the Land of Blood and Honey”.

03/02/2012 - CINEMA

Berlin Film Festival competition dips into the past

This year’s selection at the Berlin International Film Festival spans genres and geography, but features a large number of movies that look backward to various periods of history. UK director Mike Leigh (pictured) will serve as jury chair.

21/12/2011 - CULTURE

Perversity and psychoanalysis in 'A Dangerous Method'

In today’s show: sex, spanking and the bitter feud that Jung and Freud took to the grave - we give you a preview of David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method." Then a one man stand-up show that's funny in English and French - is it possible? The comedian Sebastian Marx is in the studio. Also on the programme, does the constant closing down of nightclubs mean Berlin's party scene is under threat?

21/12/2011 - BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL

Hanks, China's Zhang to feature at Berlin film festival

The 62nd annual Berlin film festival revealed its selections Monday, including a 9/11 family drama with Tom Hanks (pictured left) and "The Flowers of War" from Zhang Yimou, on Japan's brutal World War II-era occupation of the Chinese city of Nanking.

25/09/2011 - GERMANY

Kenya’s Makau shatters world marathon record in Berlin

Kenyan runner Patrick Makau shattered the world men’s marathon record by 21 seconds at Sunday’s race in Berlin, clocking two hours three minutes 38 seconds. Former record holder, Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie, did not finish the run due to injury.

24/02/2011 - CULTURE

Tristan Garcia's stunning novel 'Hate: A Romance'

Augustin Trapenard talks about contemporary French literature, with two novels that have just been translated into English. Anne Wiazemsky's "My Berlin Child" and Tristan Garcia's "Hate: A Romance" - a bold, ambitious, and stunning debut novel.

19/02/2011 - CINEMA

Iranian divorce drama takes top honour at Berlin film fest

An Iranian drama by Asghar Farhadi (pictured) won the top Golden Bear prize Saturday at the 61st annual Berlin film festival. "Nader and Simin: A Separation" details a failing marriage while pitting conservative religious values against modernity.

18/02/2011 - CULTURE

The 61st Berlin International Film Festival

It might not have the glamor of Cannes, or the grandeur of Venice but Berlin is the biggest of Europe's main film festivals.It also has the coldest weather, the longest lines and the most obscure movies. In today’s show – a look at some of the highlights at the Berlinale.

11/02/2011 - CINEMA

Oscar-nominated American Western kicks off 61st Berlin festival

The annual Berlin International Film Festival opens Thursday with Joel and Ethan Coen's multiple-Oscar-nominated Western, True Grit, and a tribute to banned Iranian film director Jafar Panahi.

03/02/2011 - CULTURE

Sex Drugs and techno music in Berlin

Today on culture, 18 year old Helene Hegemann talks about her bestselling debut novel "Axolotl Roadkill". This is the story of an adolescent girl's destructive lifestyle. A very contemporary piece that some have said is blatant plagiarism. She believes however she has the right to copy and transform. She explains why…

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