Berlin film festival needs hit after several misses
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Film festivals pride themselves on discovering cinematic gems from around the world that the public would never see otherwise.
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A tragic screen portrait of Edith Piaf  kicks off the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, a fitting  opening to a competition where women, many of them in trouble,  play a central role.
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The two most overtly political movies in competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival won the top prizes, surprising some critics who had questioned their message and methods.
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The Sundance Film Festivalâs opening weekend drew to a close looking more and more like a disappointment, if not an outright dud.
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There Will Be Blood and Happy-Go-Lucky are among the contenders for the Berlin Film Festival's main prize.
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LOS ANGELES  - Benji is back, which is good news for youngsters and pet-loving families. Film lovers perhaps should steer clear, however, as hokey melodrama and sloppy comedy fill the gaps between neat dog tricks.
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Bollywood pelvic thrusts have made their way to Berlin. Films like Kal Ho Na Ho, 'Monsoon Wedding and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham have been dubbed into German and screened in theatres here.
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Sex and the pornography industry takes center stage at next week's Berlin Film Festival after the leading actress in last year's Golden Bear winning film was publicly hounded over her earlier work as a German porn actress.
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When the Rome film festival forgot to invite Sophia Loren for its first edition last year, she was said to be furious at the snub.
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Haile Gebrselassie blew away the field   to win the Berlin marathon on Sunday but the Ethiopian missed   out on a world record as windy conditions and a lack of   assistance took their toll.
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The Venice Film Festival dazzled like never before this year with its string of Hollywood stars and hot arthouse directors, but the festival's new chief may find delays and embarrassing blunders are what people remember.
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Period epic Man to Man opens the Berlin Film Festival to a poor response from an audience of critics.
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TORONTO  - As a generally lackluster sales scene limped to a close at the Toronto International Film Festival, it took a project that hasn't even begun shooting to get one major player to open wide its checkbook.
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Documentaries stole  the show at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend.
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After a weekend marked by too many downbeat dramas and comedies-in-name-only, the Sundance Film Festivalâs flock of film buyers finally began seeing movies they could take to the multiplexes.
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COLOGNE, Germany  - Organizers of the  Berlin International Film Festival and the world's largest  publishing mart, the Frankfurt Book Fair, said Thursday they  will host an industry gathering at next year's festival aimed  at bringing together filmmakers with authors, literary agents  and publishers.
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Berlin's annual film festival opened Thursday with a tribute to the turbulent story of diva Edith Piaf &#151; part of a strong French contingent at this year's event.