Dramaturgie im zeitgenössischen Tanz ist ? positiv gemeint ? ein heißes Eisen. Idealerweise sind Dramaturginnen und Dramaturgen während der Erarbeitung eines Stücks die besten Freunde der Choreografen.
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Breathless 8: Dismay at the Arthouse
This year's Berlin Film Festival proved that director Dieter Kosslick is honouring his committment to be political, proportional and popular. Ekkerhard Knörer only regrets that aesthetic criteria got left by the wayside. A summary.
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Jafar Panahi: "Offside" (Competition)
Claude Chabrol: "Comedy of Power - L'Ivresse du Pouvoir" (Competition)
Amir Muhammad: "The Last Communist" (Forum)
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Valeska Grisebach: "Longing" (Competition)
Pang Ho-cheung: "Isabella" (Competition)
Mani Haghighi: "Kargaran mashghool-e karand – Men at Work" (Forum)
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Rafi Pitt: "Zemestan - It's Winter" (Competition)
John Hillcoat: "The Proposition" (Panorama)
Matthew Barney: "Drawing Restraint 9" (Talent Campus)
Michael Winterbottom: "The Road to Guantanamo" (Competition)
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James McTeigue's "V for Vendetta" (Competition)
Matthias Glasner's "The Free Will" (Competition)
Pen-ek Ratanaruang's "Invisible Waves" (Competition)
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Thomas Arslan: "From Far Away" (Forum)
Detlev Buck: "Tough Enough" (Panorama)
Terrence Malick: "The New World" (Competition/ not competing)
Michael Glawogger: "Slumming" (Competition)
Robert Altman: "A Prairie Home Companion" (Competition)
Chen Kaige: "The Promise" (Competition/ not competing)
Stephen Gaghan: "Syriana" (Competition/ not competing)
Oskar Roehler: "Atomised" (Competition)
Michel Gondry: "The Science of Sleep" (Competition)
Jasmila Zbanic: "Grbavica" (Competition)
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Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu: "Close to Home" (Forum)
Pernille Fischer Christensen "En Soap - A Soap" (Competition)
Sono Sion: "Strange Circus" (Forum)
Marc Evans: "Snow Cake" (Competition)
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Awarded a Silver Bear at this year's Berlinale, Christian Petzold's new film "Barbara" is a GDR drama set in the early 1980s. Colourful and romantic beyond any nostalgia for the East, it relates the situation of female doctor caught in the circumstances of having applied for an exit visa. For Petzold, the film is not only a highly personal story of a woman in conflict but a film about what was lost - especially for women - with the fall of the Wall in 1989.
This year's Berlinale Retrospective "The Red Dream Factory" rediscovers the legendary German-Russian Mezhrabpom-Film (1922-1936). It tells of incredible film successes, ideological misunderstandings and astonishing blindness. By Oksana Bulgakova 
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