Johansson, Cruz Expected at Berlin Fest

Sunday, January 20, 2008

(01-20) 12:40 PST BERLIN, Germany (AP) —

Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana and Natalie Portman are among the stars expected to attend the Berlin Film Festival next month.

Penelope Cruz and Daniel Day-Lewis, who won a Golden Globe as best dramatic actor, also are expected, festival director Dieter Kosslick told The Associated Press. He said Johansson’s appearance at the Berlin festival would be her first.

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Berlin remembers 1968

By Scott Roxborough

Jan 22, 2008

COLOGNE, Germany — The Berlin International Film Festival will mark the 40th anniversary of the Berlin Vietnam Congress next month with a special lineup of films that trace the U.S. attitude toward the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Congress was an anti-war demonstration organized by the Socialist German Student Assn.

Many view the Congress as the start of worldwide protest against the war.

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Berlinale Talent Campus, Goethe-Institut and FIPRESCI organize at this year’s Berlinale (February 7-17, 2008) again and for the sixth time the “Talent Press”, an initiative within the Berlinale Talent Campus. This workshop allows young critics to attend the festival (with a press badge), and to win experience in writing, on a daily basis, and on one of the biggest film festivals of the world.

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