The final part of Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu's "reverse order" trilogy, Bal won the Golden Bear at last year's Berlin Film Festival and centres on a dreamy six-year-old boy called Yusef... more
If you see one seriously good, non-Hollywood film this summer, A Separation should be it. It will leave you involved, moved, reconsidering your own actions and responsibilities... more
This summer's must-see film is a foreign-language thriller called A Separation and, says Nick Roddick, it will make you re-examine everything you thought you knew about Iran... more
From civil rights to apartheid, Harry Belafonte has seen a lot of politics for an entertainer - and, as a new film reveals, he also played a part in bringing Obama's father to America... more
He may be on movie screens around the world alongside Colin Farrell but Romanian actor Dragos Bucur was unable to watch his own film after being turned away from an Odeon in the West End... more
If you can stand its length, this winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Berlin Film Festival - Love Exposure - has some extraordinary things in it... more
Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the Potter series, stars in Cherrybomb, a story of a teenager in Belfast experimenting with sex and drugs.... more
He has sold more than 30million records, filled hundreds of stadia around the world and churned out 25 albums covering every genre from Britpop to African beats.... more
The Other Boleyn Girl may have been panned by critics, but it seems co-stars Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson have discovered other ways of pulling in audiences
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Madonna proved she really is the master of reinvention while on a visit to Berlin this week after she completely transformed her look in less than 24 hours... more
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