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Vinterberg's The Commune:Inspired by experience

The Commune by acclaimed Danish director Thomas Vinterberg is a partly autobiographical dramedy set in a 1970s commune.

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Iranian cinema thrives at Berlinale

Mani Haghighi's film 'A Dragon Arrives' is a detective story set in 1960s Iran infused with counter-culture references and magical realism inspired by Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter.

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Berlinale winners focus on refugee crisis

The Berlinale is not just about glitz and glamour but is also a chance for first time directors to make their mark with Golden Bear awards for short films.

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Migrant documentary 'Fuocoammare' wins Golden Bear in Berlin

As the great and the good of the film industry posed, pouted and paraded on the red carpet in Berlin the refugee crisis cast a grim shadow over proceedings.

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Gianfranco Rosi triumphs at 66th Berlinale

Director Gianfranco Rosi has won the Golden Bear award for the Best Film for his documentary “Fuocoammare” at the 66th Berlinale International Film

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Berlin Film Festival: 'Fire at Sea' about migrant crisis wins Golden Bear

Director Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary “Fuocoammare” or Fire at Sea, about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, has won the coveted Golden Bear

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66th Berlin Film Festival: "Fuocoammare" wins golden bear for best film

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Actor Gerard Depardieu speaks about 'Saint Amour' and Russia

Actor Gerard Depardieu speaks about 'Saint Amour' and Russia

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'Goat' and 'Road to Istanbul' latest Panorama offerings in Berlin

Nick Jonas stars in Goat' about the darker side of US student fraternities, and 'Road to Istanbul' charts the human dimension of parents seeking their daughter, a recruit to Islamic State in Syria.

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Israeli-Palestinian hip-hop takedown 'Junction 48' storms Berlin

The Berlinale's Panorama programme gives us 'Junction 48' focused on a mixed Jewish-Arab crime-ridden ghetto outside Tel Aviv.

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Lifetime achievement award for German cinematographer Micheal Ballhaus

German cinematographer Micheal Ballhaus has received a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale. In the

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Berlin Film Festival pays tribute to shooting stars of the future

Europe’s most talented young actors were invited to tread the red carpet of the Berlin Film Festival. It was part of Shooting Stars, a unique

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Stars come out for 'Genius' in Berlin

The stars shone in Berlin for the premier of 'Genius', a film about publisher Max Perkins and his relationship with author Thomas Wolfe.

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'Crosscurrent' cinematic poetry on the Yangtze River

'Crosscurrent' by Chinese director Yang Chao finally gets the red carpet treatment in Berlin.

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Cartas da Guerra (Letters from War) in battle for Golden Bear

The cast of the Portuguese film Cartas da Guerra (Letters from War), directed by Ivo Ferreira, took to the red carpet for the premiere of the movie

Germany

'Alone in Berlin', a story of resistance to the Nazis, at Berlin Film Festival

Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson play a German couple who start a campaign to resist the Nazis in 'Alone in Berlin' directed by Vincent Pérez and shown at the Berlin Film Festival.

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'Greetings from Fukushima': award-winning drama about broken dreams and broken lives

German film 'Greetings from Fukushima' - a drama about the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster raises questions about loss and the parallels with the current refugee crisis in Europe.

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Art with a purpose: Ai Weiwei brings refugee life jackets to Berlin venue

An inflatable boat hangs down and 14,000 life jackets cover the pillars of a Berlin concert house in an art installation by Chinese dissident Ai

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'24 Weeks' abortion drama is screened in Berlin

'24 Weeks' - a movie for lovers of German cinema at the Berlin film festival, but where are all the other German films in the competition and why so few female film directors?

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Ai Weiwei's refugees reminder during Berlin Film Festival

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s latest installation has seen life jackets left by migrants on Greek beaches being hung from a Berlin concert hall. His

The Berlin International Film Festival, (Berlinale) is an annual film festival held in Berlin. It's one of the world's largest public film festivals in the world.