Its time to leave the festival bubble and look back at barely nala two thousand and eighteen the world come to odds twenty one with personal discoveries and fascinating films but first things first lets have a look at the winners of this years trophies the belly nala baz the golden for best. The golden bear for every miss goes to. Touch me not consume the clones fiction and reality the surprise of the evening including for its director jonathan t. D. M. We were not expecting that calcutta film centers on laura who wants to overcome her fear of intimacy. If you if. You. Touch me not has shocked many with its frankness as thought provoking as it is sexually charged and where the heart if. This happens. Touch me not pushes limits in many respects. For best director to west for our National Books its a first animated film ever to open the belly not only in it gangs of dogs exiled to a japanese island fight for their territory a quirky fable about intolerance rancid epic or too warm in banana peels. Pickled in a sardine bones about broken egg shells an old smashed up brought together with maggots all over it ok its worth it if i ever. Get out of here and dont come back. To see the brand for best actor goes to on to new version in the french productions of prayer twenty three year olds by actual case thomas whos trying to kick drug addiction in a religious Halfway House and grappling with face. The risk. That you know i dont get a caucus on this one. You see move on because among. The first to tell the voter driving the first thought is pretty good to rebuild our culture. You cant fuck up or but the most of us because of the. Best after. The. Past and us. Going in from canada why plays with drawn gay woman cheetah when her partner is put in jail she suddenly on her own its a tale of emancipation. When the people you know. They listen to. Where. They were never. In her screen debut bruce plays with captivating vulnerability. I dedicate this award to the fighting women of my country. Oh yes. In the year of the me too Movement Strong women have swept the boards post on and off camera at the family now. Certainly no coincidence. Over the years that has served as a platform for germanys young filmmakers but the festival also gained a reputation as a home for politically and socially engaged filmmakers from all over the world just look at this Years Program migration and refugees are a big issue standing up against corruption and despotism is another one and then there are the big stories of contemporary history stories that once made headlines like the drama of the terrorist hijacking of an airplane which kept the world in suspense and nine hundred seventy six seven days in entebbe. In tempe airport uganda four hijackers take nearly two hundred fifty hostages supported by forces if you can and president. There is little footage of the events surrounding operation in tempe but those who witnessed them vividly recall those seven days in entebbe. When im asked about it i always say it feels like it happened yesterday. It weighs heavily on my heart. I lost seven kilos in seven days it was a real physical trauma. Boy. And now its the subject of a new film with a stellar cast that includes daniel. And rosamund pike. They play two german terrorists. The brazilian director jos a paddy i was partly drawn to the story because it feels so contemporary. It happened in nine hundred seventy six but it says a lot about todays situation which is the assad regime was. We call upon revolutionary movements everywhere to focus the attention of the world on the Palestinian People struggle. But the world looked on in shock as the hijackers demanded the release of Palestinian Militants imprisoned in israel in exchange for the hostages it makes for exciting viewing but fatigue is film isnt just a standard issue thriller. Which is a its really amazing in terms of his capacity for. Telling stories in surprising ways and getting the new also these characters i mean i think he he didnt make any heroes and villains in this piece. We have to work so you can be no negotiations with terrorists you were doing when you got there she would give it back to them we live. The film depicts the dilemma faced by the Israeli Government to negotiate with a terrorist or resort to military action it also shows the inner conflict experienced by one of the german hijackers. On your way to kill or you think its going. To. My aim was to show the humanity behind the facade i wanted to show the doubts of this german terrorist inside the radio. The a number of films have been made about the daring hostage freeing in entebbe but shows they found a new way of recounting their historic events. Hes a familiar face at the Berlin Film Festival in two thousand and eight he was awarded a golden beer for his thriller elite spot. Seven days in entebbe was screened out of competition this year its coming to cinemas this spring. And one is a big news story now in the movies but it is not just about telling the big stories many movies here look at the stories behind the news and headlines they listen to the voices that otherwise go on movies that wont ever be screened at your local cinema. Three films three countries a dark study of present day trying. The turbulent history of cult greats Legendary Hotel yugoslavia. And from cairo an exploration of rockdale for iraq one of the poorest neighborhoods in the egyptian capital and the story of several of its inhabitants. And. I know you have you very much. For that oh oh. That. The traditions can be oppressive but they have advantages to locals use a cooperative Credit Union System to me us to raise money for the needy. Yet it has the i know what. If i have made myself or my skill or have a good mother whom i thought i should have this is what matters. Still lebanese director ream sally did shoot her film over the course of six years in a district its basically a slum but the experience transformed the way she sees the place that people should be really proud of showing the solidarity of these places and to show as well that they resemble everybody else they have their own problems they are genuine they try to support each other and now we reached a point in a world where no one supports it other. Than the luxury Hotel Yugoslavia even served as a film set it opened in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine the building was a modernist emblem of the ideals of socialism and the tito era. In its heyday it hosted politicians royals and foreign v. I. P. s but after the breakup of yugoslavia and the demise of communism the hotel fell into disrepair. The swiss director yeah traces the ups and downs of the Hotels History and revisits his own childhood in the process his mother is serbian and i spent holidays in what was then you can slavia i think one of the. Deepest feeling was some kind of sadness of seeing this. Place that without having any judgment about politics or but to see this place. That was touching me in terms of architecture in terms of its the some kind of values that i could feel in this. Values such as solidarity social equality and Justice Ministry delhi there was a really dont see it as some uproar from you know thats what. I dont. Need. A part of history that many are still coming to terms with. The film an elephant sitting still takes viewers to china its for disaffected protagonists a leading lives of desperation and struggle emerging. From our. Urban misery and suffering mountains of trash piled up on street corners. Neglected old people. But still this is a film that manages to find beauty in the most dismal of situations. Director who both committed suicide last year at just twenty nine this debut film is his legacy fellow filmmakers say its less a critique of todays china than an artistic statement in the past like everybody in the army of the same family. You know and its like everybody together but that stuff we now in modern family situation. In china are compared to. Fifty years ago but i think thats also i was right and. If you want to talk about this stuff in the shore you know if you call it something that wouldnt be the trend of the whole war right now i think its also up in the us. There is no public funding available to filmmakers in china they have to rely on the commitment and generosity of private investors. Bought off people jogging and. You must learn to pushing. This low budget film in china. More and more. Without the support of film enthusiastic many low budget films would never make it to the ballot and that would be a terrible shame often the most interesting entries. With hundreds of films at the festival you have to wonder who watches and chooses them all one of those people is under stroke whos been on the team off curators for the pano homicide of the billion dollar for many years how many films did you and your team watch and how many want up in the Festival Program yes gentiles in the film i get thousands of movies i dont know how many i watched and also our Selection Committee watches hundreds yes we three curators also watched hundreds we ended up with forty seven movies in total but that number wasnt fixed beforehand because active on its going to im sorry if we went out into the world to latin america and asia traveled throughout Europe Africa and india. Everywhere we asked what is occupying movie makers and their protagonists these days. To europe or talk with thats how we found our topics and the powerful movies we wanted to showcase in our part of rama. Because hes a Fitness Instructor that was forty seven movies in total feature films and documentaries we have twenty documentaries which is very important to us and its also just its just what did you discover. What moviemakers occupied with now is the. Decisive resistance to male mckees no one patriarchal power structures. How the Christian Church interferes in our lives. And to binary gender roles and hetero normative values. This is a movie that standing up to the mainstream and the protagonists are very determined. And we see a trans woman who finds in her body her own personal path towards happiness. We see indigenous communities fighting for their cultural identity. But theyre also younger tackiness who as much as they know what they dont want and what they are fighting against dont know what they do want for their lives. But it takes a lot of courage to accept your own insecurities and take them with you on your journey to find yourself through the mainstream the jungle the price is isolation mainstream parents are hardly present but. Theres an entire generation of lost youth this lack of orientation can lead to an up evil that escalates in sex and violence. In. These powerful minority voices and this resistance to the establishment in the mainstream is that something all regions are experiencing or are there some regions going through more turmoil than others caught on board this is. All regions are going through the same thing from where you go to tokyo from south africa to india all across europe you can feel it everywhere. Another important topic for us is rising right wing radicalism in all corners of the world young generations are also joining this totalitarian ideology law society sits by and watches even condones it. And we also take a glimpse into the past that communism or francos fascism. Or people who are victims of his dictatorship. Sat down together and basically organized their resistance around the Kitchen Table until their cases were finally heard at an International Court in argentina for im internets and im going to and im going to go from seeing that you have a lot of documentary films for the political activism to the joys of storytelling suffer from that. Night and its not at all the joy in telling a story developing characters and describing political conditions is actually really strong. You can tell the movie makers are passionate about what they do and eager to find new forms of expression. And escape one of our movies called. Has a beautiful life. It expresses the wish to identify yourself with everything that is different but i find that a very interesting notion to look at yourself and say this is how i am but there are other ways to live too and thats what we wanted to show on our program thats how there are many different ways to live your life and find the courage to be different. Skipped the mood. For that time dress. Three hundred eighty five movies of the valley not its quite a challenge to find your way through that cinematic graphic jungle so what you do is you split up the job for example youre just look at the films about music a job in great demand now here is what we found at the ballet not. Documentaries that explore the process of artistic creativity in performance songwriter about and shirin. Shut up and play the piano about maverick entertainer Chilly Gonzales with a sad song. In the land the good men and mesmerizing black and white story of a dancer in argentina. Musical diversity and narrative diversity songwriter is an intimate port. One of the worlds most successful singer songwriters shot by his cousin Mary Cummings it documents his life off stage out of the spotlight away from the media circus that goes hand in hand with fame and he chose the genesis of the hit single. A portrait of another musician Chilly Gonzales landed director philip k. Dick in his first ever invitation to the Berlin Film Festival his study of the charismatic cologne based canadian performer churches evolution from hip electro rapper to concert pianist from underground bohemian to respectable composer. Constipate. Actually can solace is a master of reinvention in the course of his career hes been variously described as a punk provocateur to or a Performance Artist ever to osho pianist. Good weather so much. So. Hes a brilliant artist with so many talents hes a producer a composer a rapper hes an entertainer. He combines many different forms of artistic endeavor and on the other hand hes also interesting because hes so driven and. Got a turbo charged when i discovered rap so that was the time when i kind of got the key to be proud that i could be superficial and deep at the same time. The documentary takes us for a spin around berlin selectric last seen in the late one nine hundred ninety s. Side ended in the one side of the period in the late ninetys and early two thousand was. Electroclash scene or. It was a cross between punk attitude and electronic music that perfectly suited berlin and the existing scene but it added a new element to the entertainment factor. Here because film is a look at the eclectic career of a musician unlike any other its eminently watchable. Mabo the good man is about passion imported passion as our competitive folk dancers at the heart of this story from argentina. About the spar lives. He lives and breathes his passion but its emotionally and physically demanding. And melancholy film about a fascinating tradition and the feign. Obsessive playful creative the world of music and performance has been center stage at this years Berlin Film Festival. Sixty eight is the lucky number this year for one thing its the festivals sixty eighth edition for another thing the western world recalls the late one nine hundred sixty s. Those years of rest and rebellion. Go. Tell touchstone about Performance Art extraordinary by feminist filmmaker vali export groping allow expanded cinema was about whitening the concept of the screen filmmakers in the one nine hundred sixty s. Challenge conventions. Nights them is their free spirit that he. I think in terms of utility the foundations of how we understand cinema today well late in the late one nine hundred sixty s. I dont envisage. The wave of change crashed over the world in one nine hundred sixty eight sweeping many along with it it was a time of experimentation and innovation of rejecting certainties and questioning high densities. Into a different form in every country it was hugely influential on the question is is it still influential today why did not. A young man who doesnt want to go to work hed rather stay in bed a new voice was making itself heard defiant and recalcitrant. Revolution was in the air nothing would stay the same. Now and. Not in the way films were made was transforming. Dembski tall makers would get together and discuss how they were going to do things differently from those before them they took that cues from the Filmmakers Cooperative in new york and london that gave them the confidence to make and distribute films in their own way. Is the daughter of filmmaker going for nelson. A lyrical film and expressionistic avocation of childhood. Me destroyed cellulite. A flickering crackling study of its actual physical attributes film reduced to its most basic form old ergativity bill gates and venom hollywood deeply radical. They were more like visual artists the heinz knew that before they could tell a story they had to strip narrative to its essence. Resistance and revolt in the streets of berlin a red flag carried a loft by students including holder minds who would later become a terrorist. And a short film making agents of political change are triumphant. Because the couple of the red flag is raised on the balcony of city hall and then he doesnt attempt to change society by putting forward alternatives i dont think it changed the whole of society but it had an effect it played a role it provided impetus of a cause had im tired of. The program one thousand nine hundred sixty eight red flags for everyone showcases aesthetic experiments that are still relevant to this day exciting and empowering and its hard to believe that theyre fifty years old. Or are they. Thats been it twenty one billion dollars special so much more about the festival in kino our film magazine on the w. Dot com slash culture and on facebook see you soon. The but. The but. The be. The below Award Winning film cuts both so controversial the line m. And m. France in this most obese then marion show. The bulk of the charges against the intended use influenced the discussion of jimmys nonsense the in the film and it still obscures the age of the imprints the be sure the bolo for information. Obtained some of the