Mike Leigh

Chinese director Wong Kar Wai will screen his new martial arts drama at the opening of the 63rd Berlin film festival in February where he will also serve as jury president, organisers said Wednesday.

Award-winning Chinese director Wong Kar Wai will lead the jury of the 63rd Berlin film festival in February, which traditionally highlights Asian cinema, organisers said Tuesday.

The Berlin film festival wrapped up Sunday after handing its Golden Bear top prize to Italian prison docu-drama "Caesar Must Die" in what commentators called a worthy but conservative choice.

The 62nd Berlin film festival wraps up Sunday after awarding its Golden Bear top prize to Italy's veteran directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for their gripping prison docu-drama "Caesar Must Die".

"War Witch", a Canadian film about a child soldier played by a girl who until recently lived on the streets of Kinshasa, broke out as a strong contender at the Berlin film festival Friday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - The Berlin film festival lived up to its reputation as a champion of world cinema in 2012, bringing tragic tales from China, France, the Philippines and beyond to the big screen.

James Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen stars in a true story of intrigue and adultery in the Danish royal court, which premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival on Thursday.

Billy Bob Thornton leads an all-star cast in "Jayne Mansfield's Car," premiering at the Berlin film festival Monday, about the US and British sides of a family of veterans who reunite during the Vietnam War.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Directors from around the world have tried to recreate the drama and trauma of captivity at this year's Berlin film festival, though not all of them found a captive audience.

Diane Kruger opened the 62nd Berlin film festival Thursday with "Farewell My Queen", an erotically and politically charged drama about a lovelorn Marie Antoinette on the eve of the French Revolution.

Diane Kruger stars as Marie Antoinette in "Farewell My Queen", a lush costume drama set on the eve of the French Revolution that is opening the 62nd Berlin film festival on Thursday.

Diane Kruger stars as Marie Antoinette in "Farewell My Queen", a lush costume drama set on the eve of the French Revolution that will open the 62nd Berlin film festival on Thursday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - "Farewell My Queen", recalling the early days of the French Revolution through the eyes of servants at Versailles, has its world premiere on Thursday at the start of the 2012 Berlin film festival.

BERLIN (Reuters) - "Farewell My Queen", recalling the early days of the French Revolution through the eyes of servants at Versailles, has its world premiere on Thursday at the start of the 2012 Berlin film festival.

BERLIN (Reuters) - "Farewell My Queen," a sumptuous costume drama about the beginnings of the French Revolution, opened the Berlin film festival on Thursday and had audiences drawing parallels with the "Arab Spring" uprisings.

A sweeping Chinese epic, "White Deer Plain", will round out the list of 18 films vying for gold at the 62nd Berlin film festival, organisers said Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Experts at a leading British museum should pull out of a European-funded study into tiny particles because one of their partners is an Israeli company that operates in the occupied West Bank, British scientists and public figures said Tuesday.

The Berlin film festival unveiled its first selections Monday including a 9/11 drama starring Tom Hanks and new pictures from China's Zhang Yimou and Filipino art house star Brillante Mendoza.

A critic once said you couldn't step onto a London bus without thinking of a Mike Leigh film, yet the British filmmaker told AFP he never set out to capture the city on celluloid.

British director Mike Leigh will chair the jury of next year's 62nd Berlin film festival, one of Europe's top cinema showcases, organisers said on Friday.