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Von Trier, Bier, Mikkelsen: Denmark cleans up at European Film Awards 2011
On 4 December the 24th edition of the European film academy’s (EFA) annual film awards gave the top prizes to Melancholia and The King’s Speech, as well as an honorary award for Mads Mikkelsen
berlin, lars von trier, cinema, culture, denmark, film festival
Documentary Italy: love it or leave it in a Fiat 500
When the lease on their flat in Rome was up, film critic Luca Ragazzi convinced television journalist Gustav Hofer to spend a last six months touring their country and understand why they were moving abroad. Little did they know that those were the six months that changed Italy
berlin, documentary, cinema, germany, best of cafebabel.com, italy, culture calendar
Susanne Graf: 'Those who remember the GDR know what it means to be observed constantly'
Berlin’s September elections made her the youngest MP in the parliament at 19, the only woman in her fraction - and a ‘pirate’. We talk data protection, mistakes in politics and why a quota for women in the pirate party wouldn’t make any difference
berlin, germany, brunch, best of cafebabel.com, politics, elections, pirate party
Meeting Mario Monti, interim Italian prime minister
On 13 November the independent candidate, known as the president of Italian university Bocconi, officially succeeded Silvio Berlusconi in the middle of a deep debt crisis. Ave Mario, cries French newspaper Le Monde. Super Mario, scream spoof websites. We meet at a press conference in Berlin
berlin, economical crisis, germany, italy, eurozone, european union, blogs
Poland-Germany exhibition in Berlin: let the neighbours talk
The exhibition ‘Good Neighbours? German Motifs in Polish Contemporary Art/ Polish Motifs In German Contemporary Art’ is showing at the Bethanien art gallery in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district until late October. The works on display reflect the quality of the German-Polish relationship today
berlin, contemporary art, germany, poland, culture, art, stereotype
Sila Sahin, Turkish-German actress and first 'muslim playboy model'
In May 2011 the 25-year-old posed on the cover of German Playboy, becoming the 'first muslim’ to pose nude for a glossy magazine. Her 'act of liberation’, as the tabloids called it, sparked religious outrage and divided the Turkish community from Berlin to Istanbul. Yet was it just a marketing coup, or even a daring act of integration? Interview
berlin, cinema, germany, sex, brunch, discrimination, culture
Summer's here, so travel green for Green Europe on the ground
Going on holiday in this economic climate is impossible for many. But as good old Bertie Einstein said, ‘In a crisis, imagination is more important than knowledge’. cafebabel.com wraps up its second citizen media project of the year, ‘Green Europe on the ground’. The pick of articles from the year encourage you to get on your imaginary bikes through an Italian capital during the day. For the night, you’ll don your telescopes to contemplate the real deal beyond the lights of a Slovenian capital before dancing it all off in a ‘green disco’ in a German capital. We’ll take a serious stop in a Hungarian country to see how the effects of a natural disaster can mobilise people, before taking an organic break in a southern Spanish regional capital. We’ll also have that chat with young Parisians on how they feel about the new political green climate, because environment is essentially inseparable from European politics. Read the ‘best of’ our journalists’ ‘alternative energy’ in a collection of green articles this summer (Image: (cc) annais/ Flickr)
- Read the special edition Summer's here, so travel green for Green Europe on the ground
- Europe's unique light pollution law: dark skies over Slovenia
- Sludge-hit Hungary: Europe’s biggest ecological catastrophe since Chernobyl
- Rome was not built in a day...nor for bikes
- Green dancefloors Berlin: spread the eco-dance germ to Europe
- Organic Seville: too many exports, not enough young workers or local mouths
- Parisian 'eco-geeks': the youngest players in the French presidential elections
Five gay friendly neighbourhoods in Europe
As the spectacular gay prides flourish across Europe, cafebabel.com local teams from Paris, Ljubljana, Berlin, Budapest and Athens blog about the scenes across Europe
berlin, germany, paris, greece, homosexuality, culture, lifestyle
Berliners: foreigners, stop boozing on the cheap in our city!
In the Berlin borough of Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain people are celebrating for all it's worth. More and more tourists are cavorting in the cheap cocktail bars, the parks and in the streets. The locals are fed up and are stirring up opinion. Stag dos, pub crawls, behaving obnoxiously: is Berlin the new Mallorca?
berlin, berlin-kreuzberg, alcohol, tourism, gentrification , lifestyle, travel
Post-communist underground: Budapest 'ruin pubs' threatened with closure
For two decades the Hungarian capital's delapidated yards have become its hottest alternative venues in the form of retro gardens and pubs. That's about to come to an end thanks to a stricter law set in place after a tragic episode at the beginning of 2011 by local right-wing authorities, and dutifully followed by conformist residents
berlin, fidesz, underground, culture calendar, culture, budapest, left-wing
cafebabel.com blogs: 'Nightlife: Paris are you Berlin...still?'
Where are the new places to hang out in Paris? Is it because Paris is realising she is a dead town that she is starting to organise events called Berlin, like at the Gaîté Lyrique between 29 March and 3 April? View from the cafebabel.com Paris blog
berlin, entertainment, paris, culture calendar, culture, nightlife, society
Berlin, a dizzyingly green capital of Europe
Europe’s major female leader is a former environment minister herself. Has Angela Merkel learnt nothing? In 2011, Germany has regional elections in a mighty 7 of its 16 federal states. Showtime is on 27 March in Baden-Wurtemberg, where the German chancellor’s christian democrat party looks set to lose its 58-year rule. A green issue threatens those in power: nuclear-sceptic citizens are fighting the nuclear policy. The politicisation of citizens in Stuttgart reaches the capital, where Berliners vote in their first successful green referendum. The people’s green power is everywhere, from gastronomy and ‘city agriculture’ to nightlife and entertainment. cafebabel.com meets guerilla gardeners, vegans, green clubbers and a token expat Australian who has launched his own environmentally-friendly version of WikiLeaks. As Berlin keeps modernising and turning everything in its sights green - like the famous Berlinale film festival - Europe’s other capitals will have a hard time catching up. Third edition in a 2011 monthly series, ‘Green Europe on the ground’ (Image (cc) Neromonga/ Flickr)
- Read the special edition Berlin, a dizzyingly green capital of Europe
- From Libya via Japan: Germany still opts for nuclear energy
- Berlin citizen power: GreenLeaks, Stuttgart 21 and water privatisation
- Guerrilla gardening Berlin: fighting capitalism
- Green dancefloors Berlin: spread the eco-dance germ to Europe
'Give food a chance': culinary cinema in Berlin
At the 61st Berlin international film festival, the 'culinary cinema' series of events drew attention to the 'relationship between film, culture, cuisine and the environment' for the fifth time. Together with menus from top chefs in the Gropius Mirror restaurant, a mixture of films about nutrition and the environment reinforce the belief of festival director Dieter Kosslick: 'Food brings people together and connects them to their surroundings'
Berlin film festival 2011 winner goes to Iran: Asghar Farhadi's Nader and Simin, a Separation
In 2009 the Iranian director scooped a Silver Bear for best director for About Elly. This year's competition entry 'Jodaeiye Nader az Simin' was a clear frontrunner for the 2011 Golden Bear award, beating twenty-one other films in competition. Review
berlin, berlinale, cinema, festivals, asghar farhadi, culture calendar, culture
Yuriy Gurzhy: 'Achtung! The party is Russian-rock-free'
The legendary 'Russendisko' organiser is a notorious DJ and producer in Berlin. The Ukrainian-born musician co-created the club dance event in 1999 and his band Rotfront in 2003 with fellow Jewish Russian and Hungarian 'emigrantskis'. Time for some tea in Cologne
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Berlin film festival 2011: Coen brothers True Grit opener not true to Coen
After the road movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and the thriller No Country For Old Men (2007) the Coen brothers are back in the deserted vastness of the American landscape. The ten-times Oscar nominated film opened the 61st Berlin film festival on 10 February
berlin, berlinale, cinema, film, festivals, culture calendar, culture
Berlin: Eid al-Adha is our christmas
It's early in the morning. Kreuzberg lays silent in the drizzling rain under the grey sky of Berlin. It is a November day like every other - and special for the more than 4 million muslims in Germany
Older migrants of Europe: forgotten until when?
They came to work and in the end they stayed. Today the migrants of the 1960s are growing old in the cities of western Europe often in isolation and insecurity. Their discretion has turned them into an invisible generation. Portrait of retired immigrants whom everybody wants already buried
berlin, ageing society, germany, paris, association, immigration, discrimination
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