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Berlin film fest to award prizes as stars return

BERLIN: The Berlin film festival awards its top prizes on Saturday, including the Golden Bear for best picture, after a star-studded run that highlighted freedom struggles in Iran and Ukraine.

Bangkok Post

Bono presents iconic Hollywood director Steven Spielberg with special award at Berlin Film Festival

The U2 frontman honoured Spielberg for his work

Irish Mirror

Superpower review, Berlin Film Festival: Sean Penn’s Zelensky documentary is heartfelt and inspiring

Despite some uneven moments, Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s film about the Ukraine leader has an immediacy and inspirational feel which is rarely found in traditional news reports

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Zelenskiy urges film stars at Berlinale to take sides and support Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged filmmakers to take sides in what he termed a battle between freedom and tyranny, drawing a parallel in his speech opening the Berlin Film Festival between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Berlin Wall.

Reuters

Watch as Hollywood stars walk red carpet at Berlin Film Festival

Watch as Hollywood stars walk the red carpet at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival.

The Independent UK

Argentine documentary about junta trial set for Berlin bow

An Argentine documentary based on hundreds of hours of audiovisual recordings of a seminal 1985 trial of leaders of the country's bloody military junta will make its international debut on Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival.

Reuters

Ukraine, Iran's quests for freedom to dominate Berlin Film Festival

Sean Penn's documentary portrait of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, filmed as Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, will be among headliners at next month's Berlin Film Festival, where a life achievement award will go to Steven Spielberg.

Reuters

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Berlin film festival 2022 roundup – earnestness, joy, and the best film won

At an unusually quiet, Covid-strict festival, it was a good year for the French, and female directors – and we got to see Jean-Luc Godard do his ironing

The Guardian - UK

Movie filmed in FRANCE 24 buildings wins top director prize at Berlin

French filmmaker Claire Denis has won best director at the Berlin Film Festival for a film partly filmed in FRANCE 24's buildings. "Both Sides of the Blade" stars Juliette Binoche as a woman torn between two lovers in pandemic-era Paris. She plays Sara, a journalist who works at FRANCE 24's…

France 24

Two Asian Films Explore Burden of past Violence at Berlin Film Festival

Two southeast Asian films competing at this year's Berlin Film Festival explore what violence does to human beings, one through painful historical narrative and one through fantasy. Indonesian director Kamila Andini's "Nana" shows the impact of years of war on the life of a woman in the Javan town of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Horror Legend Argento, 81, Brings Gory Swan Song to Berlin Film Festival

A period of pandemic-enforced solitude and his actress daughter's enthusiasm led Italian horror legend Dario Argento, 81, to snap open his director's chair after a decade's absence to make one more of his signature gorefests. "Dark Glasses," the director's latest film, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, reprising…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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