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Guy Maddin: "Brand Upon the Brain!" (Forum)
Jacques Rivette: "Don't Touch the Axe" (Competition)
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Zhang Lu: "Desert Dream" (Competition)
Olivier Meyrou "Celebration" (Panorama Dokumente)
Jack Snyder: "300" (Competition out of competition)
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Hal Hartley: "Fay Grim" (Panorama)
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: "The Lark Farm" (Berlinale Special)
Christian Petzold: "Yella" (Competition)
Frederick Wiseman: "State Legislature" (Forum)
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Andre Techine: "The Witnesses" (Competition)
Clint Eastwood: "Letters From Iwo Jima" (Competition out of competition)
Angela Schanelec: "Afternoon" (Forum)
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Rudolphe Marconi: "Lagerfeld Confidentiel" (Panorama)
Robert de Niro: "The Good Shepherd" (Competition)
Stefan Ruzowitzky: "The Counterfeiters" (Competition)
Park Chan-wook: "I'm a Cyborg, but that's OK" (Competition)
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Jeff Garlin: "This Filthy World" (Panorama)
Hong Sangsoo: "Woman on the Beach" (Panorama)
Pascale Ferrran: "Lady Chatterley" (Panorama)
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Steven Soderbergh: "The Good German" (Competition)
Olivier Dahan: "La vie en rose" (Competition)
Breathless: a Berlinale preview
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Charlotte Gainsbourg spent two months in Germany, either blood-spattered in a dark forest or sealed off in a sterile hotel. She talks to Martina Meister about discovering her limits during the filming of "Antichrist" by Danish director Lars von Trier.
The Israeli Defence Forces should be judged by different standards than those used for other armies, says Claude Lanzmann. Fifteen years after the release of "Tsahal", his controversial film about the first Jewish army, the French director talks to Max Dax about the logic of war, the value of Jewish lives and Sharon as shepherd. 
Taking off where Sergei Eisenstein left off, Alexander Kluge has made a nine-and-a-half hour film about Karl Marx and the fairytale of "Kapital". And it's not a minute too long. By Helmut Merker
Emotional chaos in the elderly and the best aesthetic for folds and wrinkles. Birgit Glombitza talks to Andreas Dresen about geriatric love and sex, and his new film "Wolke 9".
Billed as the inspirational story of one of the greatest legends of all times, "The Red Baron" is flying, driving and healing Germany at dizzy cinematic heights. There are just not enough superlatives to do this film justice. By Ekkehard Knörer.
Only one truly original auteur filmmaker made it into this year's Berlinale Competition. With "Night and Day" Korean director Hong Sangsoo proved himself to be one of the great free-thinking talents of contemporary cinema. This aside, emaciated wishy-washy realism prevailed. By Ekkehard Knörer
With the Berlin film festival well underway we pick out some of the highlights. Jose Padilha's "Tropa de Elite" might have all the components of an Egoshooter film but it's far off. Hongkong star Johnnie To's "Sparrow" is a bringer of unadulterated joy. Isabel Coixet's "Elegy" stars a couple of aging Roth rabbits. And P.T. Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" should be enjoyed on an empty stomach.
A frighteningly intense Daniel Day Lewis, musical accompaniment from Martin Scorsese, Madonna and Patti Smith, home-made filmic fumblings from a music video genius, a mere smidgen of German material and plenty of Far Eastern promise. After the Berlinale Film Festival hit rock bottom last year, it seems a sharp upwards turn is on the cards for 2008.
Romania might have only 35 cinemas but it is having a profound effect on the world of film. Christian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days" won the Palme d'Or at Cannes earlier this year and the European Film Prize in Berlin on Saturday. By Jan Schulz-Ojala
A theme running through this year's Netherlands Film Festival is that of men running after deliverance, preferably in the form of young women. There's plenty of tongue in cheek but no changing the facts: the new man, like the old, needs a muse. By Jann Ruyters
German-Turkish director Fatih Akin's "The Edge of Heaven" won the best screen play award at Cannes. Now showing in German cinemas, it is a light, bright film about death, an optimistic requiem full of little utopias. By Katja Nicodemus
Director Romuald Karmakar has made a film which reveals the Islamist mindset. Based on the lessons delivered by Imam
"Yella", the new film by director Christian Petzold, hits the screens in Germany today. He talks to Christiane Peitz about working with actress Nina Hoss, abandoning Hitchcock, and his personal bugbear, the amphibian film. 
A hotel room in Munich, June 1976. Andre Müller looks back on a memorable talk with film and stage director Ingmar Bergman about human destructiveness, the Lord above or lack thereof, and making the world a microscopically better place.
No other obituary of Ingmar Bergman or Michelangelo Antonioni makes it as clear how necessary they were - and how bitterly we will miss them - as The New York Times'. By Arno Widmann