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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsBears are the symbol of Berlin, featuring on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. The Golden Bear films are the best films of the Berlin International Film Fest. Here is a chance for cityfolks to view some of the best Golden Bear Films this Sunday at Lenin Balavady at Vazhuthacaud, when Banner Film Society will screen these films at their monthly film fest.The opening film of the fest will be ‘In This World’ directed by Michael Winter Bottom, that won the Golden Bear in 2003. This film, which will be screened at 9.30 am, follows two young Afghan refugees, Jamal Udin Torabi and Enayatullah, as they leave a refugee camp in Pakistan for a better life in London. Since their journey is illegal, it is fraught with danger, and they must use back-channels, bribes and smugglers to achieve their goal.‘Tuya’s Marriage’ (2007), that will be screened at 11.30 am, depicts life in Inner Mongolia, in a region where desertification is making life hard for nomadic herders. It tells the story of Tuya and her husband, who agree to divorce in the hope of finding a husband who will be prepared to look after both of them and their children. The film is 95 minutes long.‘Grbavica’, directed by Jasmila Zbani, is a film about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian troops during the war. The film shows, through the eyes of the main character Esma, her teenage daughter Sara, and others, how everyday life is still being shaped by the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The title of the film refers to a neighbourhood of Sarajevo Esma lives in.At 4.30 pm, ‘Central Station’ (1998), directed by Walter Salles, tells the story of a young boy’s friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. Dora is a former school teacher who is now a bitter old woman. She works at Rio de Janeiro’s Central Station, writing letters for illiterate customers in exchange for some money. She hates her customers and does not mail the letters she writes, putting them in a drawer or even tearing them apart.first published:September 15, 2012, 11:51 ISTlast updated:September 15, 2012, 11:51 IST
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Bears are the symbol of Berlin, featuring on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. The Golden Bear films are the best films of the Berlin International Film Fest. Here is a chance for cityfolks to view some of the best Golden Bear Films this Sunday at Lenin Balavady at Vazhuthacaud, when Banner Film Society will screen these films at their monthly film fest.

The opening film of the fest will be ‘In This World’ directed by Michael Winter Bottom, that won the Golden Bear in 2003. This film, which will be screened at 9.30 am, follows two young Afghan refugees, Jamal Udin Torabi and Enayatullah, as they leave a refugee camp in Pakistan for a better life in London. Since their journey is illegal, it is fraught with danger, and they must use back-channels, bribes and smugglers to achieve their goal.

‘Tuya’s Marriage’ (2007), that will be screened at 11.30 am, depicts life in Inner Mongolia, in a region where desertification is making life hard for nomadic herders. It tells the story of Tuya and her husband, who agree to divorce in the hope of finding a husband who will be prepared to look after both of them and their children. The film is 95 minutes long.

‘Grbavica’, directed by Jasmila Zbani, is a film about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian troops during the war. The film shows, through the eyes of the main character Esma, her teenage daughter Sara, and others, how everyday life is still being shaped by the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The title of the film refers to a neighbourhood of Sarajevo Esma lives in.

At 4.30 pm, ‘Central Station’ (1998), directed by Walter Salles, tells the story of a young boy’s friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. Dora is a former school teacher who is now a bitter old woman. She works at Rio de Janeiro’s Central Station, writing letters for illiterate customers in exchange for some money. She hates her customers and does not mail the letters she writes, putting them in a drawer or even tearing them apart.