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With a jam-packed work schedule, actress Anushka Sen is currently delighting her fans with exciting behind-the-scenes snippets from various sets and cities on social media. On the Valentine’s Day, the ‘Baal Veer’ fame diva, who is currently riding high on both professional and personal fronts, announced that she is on board a new project. However, she did not reveale the details of the project.

Since then, Anushka is treating fans with photos and videos, giving a glimpse into her busy work life.

Now, on Thursday, the ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’ fame took to Instagram, where she enjoys 39.5 million followers and shared a fun reel.

In the video, Anushka is seen grooving to the tunes of ‘Sadqay’ sung by Aashir Wajahat, Nayel and Nehaal Naseem. She is wearing a blue half sleeves crop top, and a matching joggers.

With no-makeup on, Anushka is flaunting her long hair, which is styled in soft curls.

Exclusive: Interview with Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick.

The Berlinale’s greater emphasis on television this year should not be interpreted as the first step towards a German Mip, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.

In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily, Kosslick said: ¨We don’t want to make a Mip TV or Mipcom, that’s as sure as day follows night and anything more would overstretch us.¨

He pointed out that that the Berlinale had had successful screenings of quality TV in the past with such productions as Dominik Graf’s Im Namen des Verbrechens, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.

“We have now been working for the past two years on this programme which is composed of two parts: a series of discussions on new trends at the Efm and two days of drama series integrated into the festival programme and shown at Haus der Berliner [link=tt...

Diplomacy director Volker Schlöndorff with Anne-Katrin Titze at Lincoln Center on Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man: "Actually, I always compared Niels Arestrup to Philip Seymour Hoffman." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the 2014 Telluride Film Festival, Volker Schlöndorff was awarded the Silver Medallion and Diplomacy (Diplomatie), starring Niels Arestrup and André Dussollier was screened, as well as Billy, How Did You Do It? (Billy Wilder, Wie Haben Sie's Gemacht?) and Baal starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In New York, we discussed his adaptations from The Tin Drum by Günter Grass to Cyril Gely's play Diplomatie and dubbing Dustin Hoffman in German with Otto Sander in Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman. Working with Sam Shepard on Voyager, Arestrup's correspondence with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man, Bertrand Tavernier's The French Minister and Ralph Fiennes' Max Frisch desires are explored.

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Main programme includes Birdman, Foxcatcher, The Imitation Game and Rosewater.

The Telluride Film Festival (Aug 29 - Sept 1) has revealed the line-up for its 41st edition, packed with films tipped for awards season.

The festival will include 85 features, short films and revivals representing 28 countries, along with special artist tributes, conversations, panels and education programmes.

The main programme includes Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, which opened the Venice Film Festival to rave reviews yesterday.

The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Homesman, directed by Tommy Lee Jones, and Jon Stewart’s directorial debut Rosewater are all generating awards buzz.

There are also several titles that picked up prizes in Cannes earlier this year including Foxcatcher, which won Bennett Miller best director; Russian drama Leviathan, winner of best screenplay; Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, which saw Timothy Spall win best actor; and jury prize winner Mommy from Xavier Dolan.

The 50 Year Argument (d. Martin Scorsese, [link...

Tucked away in the wine cellar of the legendary Borchardt restaurant, seven very different filmmakers got together to talk shop. The group included two Oscar winners: Michel Gondry, 50, a member of this year’s Berlinale jury who also has the doc Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? in the Panorama Dokumente section; and veteran German director Volker Schlondorff, 74, whose latest, Diplomatie, and his 1970 film, Baal, are both Special Screenings at the fest. They mixed it up with novices Stuart Murdoch, 45, Scottish frontman of indie band Belle & Sebastian, whose debut film, God Help the Girl,

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Hoàng Phi in Nước (2030) by Nghiêm-Minh Nguyễn-Võ

The following titles join the previously announced films screening as part of the Panorama section:

Asabani Nistam! (I'm Not Angry!), (Reza Dormishian), Iran - International Premiere

Blind, (Eskil Vogt), Norway / Netherlands - European Premiere

Difret, (Zeresenay Berhane Mehari), Ethopia - European Premiere

Fieber (Fever), (Elfi Mikesch), Luxembourg / Austria - World Premiere

Güeros, (Alonso Ruízpalacios), Mexico - World Premiere

Highway, (Imtiaz Ali), India - World Premiere

Ieji (Homeland), (Nao Kubota), Japan - World Premiere

In Grazia di Dio (Edoardo Winspeare), Italy - World Premiere

Love Is Strange, (Ira Sachs), USA - International Premiere

Mo Jing (That Demon Within), (Dante Lam), Hong Kong, China - World Premiere

Na kathese ke na kitas (Standing Aside, Watching), (Yorgos Servetas), Greece - European Premiere

Night Flight, (LeeSong Hee-il), Republic of Korea - World Premiere

Nước (2030), (Nghiêm-Minh Nguyễn-Võ), Vietnam - World Premiere

Patardzlebi (Brides), (Tinatin Kajrishvili), Georgia / France

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World premieres include A Long Way down, starring Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul and Pierce Brosnan, and The Two Faces of January, the directorial debut of Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac.

The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has unveiled the 18-strong line-up for its Berlinale Special strand, including nine world premieres.

Stand-outs in the list include the world premiere of A Long Way Down, an adaptation of Nick Hornby’s bestseller about four people who meet on New Year’s Eve and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives. It stars Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Imogen Poots.

Also receiving its world premiere will be con artist thriller The Two Faces of January, the directorial debut of Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Inside Llewyn Davis’ Oscar Isaac.

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The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.

Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.

Complete list of films:

Competition Films

Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.

Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)

Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)

A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)

Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)

Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)

The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)

Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)

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