The wet and eastern areas before the wet and windy weather pushes right across the country as we head through tonight. The mild air gets replaced by colder air as we move through sunday so its going to be a blustery day with showers and feeling chilly but this afternoon those temperatures pretty impressive for the time of year, 11 13d. Adding on the wind, it might not feel that mild, its going to be very windy, gusts of 40 50 mph around irish sea coast, the wet weather transfers to the eastern side of england by the end of the night and here it will be mild but further north and west turning chillier as the clear skies and the showers move in. So it could start quite wet and windy in the south east, sunday morning. That clears away and then it is a blustery day with quite a bit of sunshine around but also lots of showers particularly in the north and west, some heavy with hail and thunder, some winteriness over the high ground in the north and it will feel chillier for high ground in the north and it will feel chillierfor most, high ground in the north and it will feel chillier for most, single figural values in the north and west and just about making double figures across the south east. See you later. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. A man in his 80s has been come the second person in the uk to die after testing positive for coronavirus. Milton keynes hospital is isolating patients and staff who came into contact with him. 21 people have the virus on a cruise ship off san francisco. Around 140 britons are on board. All passengers and crew will be tested for the coronavirus, and those that need to be quarantined will be quarantined. Those that require additional medical attention will receive it. Scotland womens six nations match against france in glasgow has been postponed after at home player contracted the virus. In other news, three hadnt £60 million will be paid by Insurance Companies to clean up the storm from the
damage from storms dennis and keira. Now on bbc news, the berlin internationale Film Festival is a top event on the calendar celebrating the best of world cinema, but how does it compare to venice and cannes . Hello from berlin. Im tom brook, and welcome to this special edition of talking movies, in which we look back at highlights from the berlin Film Festival on the occasion of its 70th anniversary. So, the 70th anniversary of the berlin Film Festival, one of the big three in europe, ranking alongside cannes and venice. 70 years ago, the festival opened with a screening of Alfred Hitchcocks romantic
psychological thriller, rebecca. Since then, it has grown to become one of the biggest public Film Festivals in the world. This year, it screened around 340 features. The festival might take place in a metropolis, but it has an intimate connection with its audiences. It is cherished by its followers. Well, i live here and its nice to see that one of the most important Film Festivals of the world is hosted here in berlin, and theres. Despite the horrible weather in february, theres that nice excitement in berlin, because everybodys, you know, looking forward to this festival. The Opening Night film, my salinger year, starring sigourney weaver, was seen by many as a disappointment, a coming of age story set in new york in the 1990s, in which the ascendant actress Margaret Qualley plays an aspiring poet working at a literary agency, opening fan mailfor the reclusive writerjd salinger. In what way do you hope audiences connect with your film . Well, its hard not to connect
with it because Margaret Qualley is so wonderful, and its a very intimate, ithink, truthful, but very amusing and charming story. The golden bear for best film goes to mohammad rasoulof. The top prize in berlin, the golden bear, went to there is no evil, a film centred on the Death Penalty from iranian film maker mohammad rasoulof, whos been banned from both making movies in iran and leaving the country. The picture getting the runner up award was the american abortion drama never rarely sometimes always. Historically, many of the films shown in berlin have been political. Most of the films that we have are political in the sense they ask the viewer to change his point of view. I think that whenever a film questions your. Your position, becomes political, because then you have to react and to understand better, whats your position towards the other . In that respect, many films here are political. The festivals Opening Night was a little subdued. It took place on the day of the hanau shooting attack
in germany, which had left nine people of foreign heritage dead. But there was nonetheless excitement. The festival is now headed by a new collaborative duo, artistic director Carlo Chatrian and executive director mariette rissenbeek. New to the job, theyve already been challenged by controversies, including revelations that alfred bauer, the festivals first director, was allegedly a high ranking nazi. How disturbed were you by the recent revelations that the founding father of the festival had links to the nazi party . I guess in 45, a lot of people who had important positions in nazi germany carried on having positions. But, of course, i think you might already have read that we will do an. We have commissioned an institute for history to do an expertise on alfred bauer, so that we might better understand what his role has been and how that
might have affected his first years at the berlinale. Without knowing anything, exactly, its quite difficult tojudge this situation. Berlin might be 70 years old and well established, but it still has to struggle to stay relevant in a season where the oscars and a looming cannes Film Festival can steal the limelight. For 70 years it has survived by showing Great International cinema, a tradition it has kept right up to the present day, providing the german capital with a film showcase of which it can be justly proud. When it comes to european cities forming a backdrop to great cinema, paris comes to mind, with whole films devoted to its charms, but berlin has had a powerful presence in some very memorable films, as emma jones reports. The futuristic metropolis from 1927, one of the greatest films ever made,
and at the time, a stunning flop. Inspired by the skyscrapers of new york, perhaps, but fritz lang made it and premiered it in berlin. The citys museum of german film is full of reminders of when the streets of weimar berlin, and its film studios, hosted some of the worlds greatest film makers and rivalled a place called hollywoodland. You have films like fritz langs m, or even metropolis. Shot in the streets of berlin, and showing a Science Fiction city of the future is, of course, influenced by the big metropolis that berlin was in the 1920s already. It was one of the capitals of movie making in the world, not only in germany, i think, one of the most important. The end of world war ii left berlin in ruins and gave rise to an era of so called rubble cinema, such as the murderers are among us
or roberto rossellinis germany, year zero. And then the war would turn into the cold war, and for nearly four decades, berlin was cut in two. The wall may only be a Tourist Attraction these days, but berlins unique history cant help but shape the stories that are crafted here, and neither the city nor its cinema can ever quite escape its past. Its the divided city. I mean, berlin is full of stories and full of. Tension. Berlin is, for me, a city with a lot of tension. But berlins traumatic 20th century history has ended up serving it well in film, with cold war drama the lives of others taking best Foreign Language 0scar in 2007. But as modern times have made the city a global influencer, it has brought a new set of stories. At this years berlinale, there were three films
in competition that were set in contemporary berlin. Undine, part of the modern reworking of the myth of a water nymph, by christian petzold, played by paula beer, has its roots in fear of what wealth and gentrification is doing to the city. Translation berlin, over these past years, has changed rather dramatically, and we used to always think that berlin is a very robust city and that it would be able to defend itself against neoliberalism. But somehow, the city is just about to lose its history and stories, at the same time. Berlin alexanderplatz by Burhan Qurbani updates a 1920 novel to make the hero francis a west african refugee in the city. What it meant for me, and i hope also for alfred doblin, the author of the novel, is that. Berlin is in the centre of germany, and alexanderplatz is in the centre of berlin. And it is also the place in society,
the middle class, the place where we as a Community Work and breathe and have our daily life. While war prevented berlin from fulfilling its early promise as the capital of world cinema, the modern city is a constant reminder of some of storytellings most powerful themes, namely, that division does not endure. One of the more eagerly awaited films in berlin this year was a live action rendering of the story of pinocchio, which, of course, was famously brought to the screen as an animation by walt disney 80 years ago. Before it came to berlin, the film had a run in italian cinemas, where it did good box office. Tristan daley reports. Im at the berlinale because pinocchio will start here, his running. Run around the world. Confident with his retelling of pinocchio, director Matteo Garrone and his cast spoke to reporters on a low key red
carpet at the festival. Garrones take on pinocchio, which features Roberto Benigni as geppetto, attempts to stick closely to the original novel, published in 1883 by italian author carlo collodi. Aside from being in italian, it stays faithful to the old School Lessons and elements of magic in the novel, that are depicted in the movie in a heart warming way at times, and an unsettling way at others. Many speculated how a director whose most recent notable works included subject matters concerning organized crime, drug dealing and macabre fairy tales would adapt a novel known to the world as a childrens story in live action. All my movies have. Are connected to fairy tales, so ive been very lucky in this movie to have actors like roberto and many others, that bring a lot of humanity and lots of. Light to the movie. An acclaimed director and actor himself, Roberto Benigni had some show stealing scenes early on in the film. He made his own version of pinocchio in 2002, in which he played the title character. My idea of geppetto was a character, i told him when we got talking, full of gags. And he said, no, no, i am thinking about another character, a father. This was really a wonderful idea. And to me, i like warm character, serious and sweet. When i am an actor, i really follow the director and this is my way, because when i am the director, i like the actor follow me pinocchio is a classic italian story known all around the world, so its not surprising to learn that Matteo Garrones rendition will likely be followed by other versions in the nearfuture. Guillermo del toro has set in motion plans to co direct a stop motion version of pinocchio, while disneys proposed
production has seen many stops and starts in recent years. But garrone is confident in the unique qualities of his film. Well, first of all, we are italian and that is important. Because its an italian story. Of course, like all the masterpiece of literature in the world, they start from local, you know, we talk about a very poor village in tuscany. And then this story is local. And then became universal. We hope that our version will surprise the audience and will push the audience to rediscover also the classic, you know, of collodi. This is a touching film with a charismatic and earnest performance from federico ielapi, who plays pinocchio. The effectiveness of the picture is bolstered by the beautiful cinematography, Production Design and make up. There was a mix of sentimental
but disquieting storytelling and imagery that was mostly well received at berlin. One of the films making a big impact at the berlin Film Festival, suk suk, came from hong kong, where its director was born and raised. It was one of a clutch of gay love stories shown at the festival. Jad salfiti reports on this Award Winning picture and its reception in berlin. Hes made many otherfilms, but suk suk is ray yeungs First Chinese language movie and deals with the affair of two closeted older gay men. Stories about elderly gay men are very rarely
represented in cinema, or even in general in our society. We dont. When we talk about gay men, we always associate it with the youth culture, someone whos young, buff, in the particular stereotypes, really. But actually, theres all kinds of gay men out there and their stories are not really being told. So i think its important to give them a voice. Stories about asian lgbt people will especially resonate with a growing exiled gay Chinese Community and beyond, many of whom have found a new home here in the german capital. Among them is berlin based film maker and lgbt activist popo fan. Hes very concerned about the representation of asian people in cinema. The Asian Community is very invisible in a lot of and most european and american films. And you dont see very often they represent other images. And secondly, when it was presented, very often, it was showing as very stereotype of the characters. You dont speak good english
and you are asexual. So i want to break those cliches by a small, tiny project. Popo fans latest film presents a more nuanced kind of asian character that we dont often see in western cinema. I shot this short movie called beer beer last year in berlin, featuring an anti romantic story between a chinese person and a german person. They met at midnight after a party and trying to get a beer together, but a mattress suddenly changed everything. In berlin, a lot of people throw away their furniture, such like a mattress or chairs. In my script, they try to carry this mattress together. This film shows for many berlin rather than beijing is blossoming into a hub for asian creators. The Political Climate in china has really become more closed in the last few years ever since the leadership of president xi jinping,
and with the tighter Political Climate, has also meant a more closed creative climate back in china. So as a creative, youre incentivized to try to go somewhere else where you dont have to deal with censorship. Being lgbt is very invisible in china at the moment. Somehow when i. After i moved to germany, i had this observation that being asian in germany, itsjust like being lgbt in china. You are allowed to exist, but youre never being represented on oui screens. That is also my goal, to change this, and i hope the situation will be better. Four years ago, former us first Lady Hillary Clinton was locked in the fury of americas primary election campaigns. But this year, she was here in berlin at the festival on a rather different mission, promoting hillary, a documentary series focused on her life and her career. Emma jones went to meet her. Five states are holding their primaries on march 15th. A politician for the people who so nearly put her face through the Glass Ceiling to become president , or a woman with too much scandal attached to her married name . Hillary Rodham Clinton is now the subject of a four hour documentary series by the kid stays in the picture director nanette burstein. Are we ready . Theres so much to talk about. Who sat down with the former secretary of state for 35 hours of interviews. With the documentary, is it a way of putting your record straight, in some ways, when theres so much noise . I think that what the documentary series does is to provide a comprehensive look at my life, both private and public. Because it does that and its based on fact evidence, it does set the record straight. Theres so much misinformation about me, so many ridiculous stories about me, that to have my life portrayed in a way that i recognise
is quite a good step forward. In documentaries, one persons perspective can be anothers propaganda. As well as focusing on her 2016 campaign, her early activism in the 1960s, there are many awkward questions audiences would want to ask from the issue of e mails to the lewinsky scandal during the clinton presidency. How objective could any interviewer be . You know, was everything on the table for discussion . Everything was on the table for discussion. Its actually interesting what you bring up because secretary clinton is a lightning rod, and, you know, some people will say, oh, you didnt talk about this, or you werent harsh enough. I mean, i knew that no matter what i did, there would be potentially criticism. So i felt that ijust needed to research as much as i could and be as honest as i could to tell, at the end of the day,
what i thought was the real story. Rarely does someone provoke such extreme opinions as Hillary Clinton. To some, shes a role model, to others, a villain. Not even the most intimate series of interviews is likely to change that. Theres scenes in this documentary that i had forgotten. Im fighting for healthcare, and im being burned in effigy. When a woman takes a very public stand in a controversial arena, you just have to be prepared that youre going to be criticised. And if youre not prepared for that, then dont do it. Im very proud of the work that ive done. Stands that ive taken. And i dont have any regrets about that. So its, dont be disliked for the sake of being disliked. If youre going to be disliked, hopefully its because you took a stand for something that engenders a lot of opposition. And this question lingers around the series would Hillary Clinton provoke