Germany

Germany’s far-right wants to downplay past, but centre holds

The election poster for Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany's far-right Alternativ für Deutschland party, seemed out of place at a bus stop a hundred metres (yards) from the House of the Wannsee Conference museum, the lakeside mansion where the Nazis plotted the extermination of the Jews. The museum is an integral part of Germany's…Read more Germany’s far-right wants to downplay past, but centre holds

“Das Licht” opens 75th Berlinale with an immigrant puzzler — and tale of the supernatural

With immigrants as a central theme, plus a nod to Jordan Peele's “Get Out”and musical numbers staged on Berlin streets that could come from an ABBA film, German director Tom Tykwer's “Das Licht” (The Light) opened the 75th Berlinale film festival on Thursday with an enigma. Which side of the intensely controversial issue of wholesale…Read more “Das Licht” opens 75th Berlinale with an immigrant puzzler — and tale of the supernatural

Diop’s “Dahomey” about looted African art takes Berlinale gold

Senegalese-French director Mati Diop on the red carpet at Berlinale Senegalese-French director Mati Diop's film “Dahomey” about African treasures looted by French colonial forces and returned to the West African country of Benin after 130 years, won the top Golden Bear prize for best film at the 74th Berlinale festival on Saturday. “We can either…Read more Diop’s “Dahomey” about looted African art takes Berlinale gold