Reuters: Gloomy Germans cheer up at Berlin film festival : "Gloomy German films about serial rapists, exorcism, left-wing guerrillas, Nazi villains, Stasi oppression, depressed people and other difficult subjects have often been selected by Berlin Film Festival organisers, giving the world a rather bleak look at the host country."

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The Rolling Stones were on "Abendschau" last night. They were interviewed by Ulli "Gummi" Zelle, the man who gets me through the high times, the low times and the all the times in between. Who did he bribe to get that spot in the front door?! Congratulations, Herr Zelle! Well done!

Check out the video on Abendschaublog to get a taste of german television the way it really is. This is not a comedy program. It's da real shit!

Best episode of "Abendschau" ever!

Monday, 11 am at HAU 1:
Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes: Success Stories in Cinema

Guests: Julie Delpy, Benjamin Gilmour, Julia Jentsch, Ralph Ziman. Moderated by Grahame Weinbren.

From the programme: "The panel ponders the identity of the contemporary cinematic hero, how we relate to him or her, both as filmmakers and as viewers. How the dark anti-hero plays on our consciousness and what we take away from a film that portrays such a character?
The fiction filmmakers, Benjamin Gilmour, whose directorial debut Son of A Lion features in the Berlinale Forum, and Ralph Ziman, whose Jerusalema is part of the Berlinale Panorama, and the actresses Julia Jentsch, winner of the 2005 Silver Bear for Best Actress in Sophie Scholl – The Final Days and Julie Delpy, who has worked in over 30 films, will discuss how one finds a way to live with a character for the one of two years it takes to make a film, when the character is someone who would be impossible to relate to in real life."

There will be a lot of screaming teenagers in Kreuzberg on sunday, believe me! The highly acclaimed Indian Bollywood actor, producer
Shahrukh Khan will be one of the special guests at the HAU 1 on sunday at 11 am to talk about "Love International". Other guests on the panel are Maria Schrader and Kate Henshaw-Nuttall.

From the programme: "Moderated by Dorothee Wenner. In cooperation with Federal Foreign Office and Berlinale Special.
There are few things more pleasurable than seeing a
wonderful love story on the big screen. Although love may be regarded as an eternal affair and a natural humancondition, looking at films from the different parts of the world, one can see clear distinctions arising from very different cultural contexts that shape relationships from the “first sight” till “death tears them apart”. Morale, ethics, family constellations, gender relations, economics, traditions and religion – all these issues result in what the Western world likes to describe as the most private sphere of an individual.
Three super stars from the genre of “love depiction” –
Bollywood’s Shah Rukh Khan, Kate Henshaw-Nuttall of the Nollywood fame and German leading lady and Silver Bear winner Maria Schrader – look at today’s cinema and its purpos as a role model for “real” love stories, as well as a fulfilment of audiences’ desire for escapism and as a reflection of the world
we live in – be it in India, Nigeria, Germany or elsewhere."