First screening: Saturday 11 February

{mosimage}BERLIN: Italian veterans Paolo and Vittorio Taviani deservedly took home a Golden Bear for Caesar Must Die a powerful depiction of a group of prison inmates’ performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The gritty documentary is a return to the Taviani’s earlier style that originally won them international acclaim after a long string of well-made but lesser works that did not bring the same energy and genius to the screen as this Berlin winner.

{mosimage}BERLIN: The 62 Berlinale awarded its highest honour to a to a documentary by the veteran Italian directing team Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for their docu-drama Caesar Must Die about a group of criminals performing Shakespeare in a prison. Taviani's also picked up the Ecumenical Jury prize.

BERLIN: The 62 Berlinale awarded its highest honour to a to a documentary by the veteran Italian directing team Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for their docu-drama Caesar Must Die about a group of criminals performing Shakespeare in a prison. Taviani's also picked up the Ecumenical Jury prize.

{mosimage}BERLIN: The Lithuanian feature film Restricted Sensation by a Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevicius will take place tonight at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. It is important to note that this is the only Lithuanian film that has made it to Berlinale this year and it will be screened as a part of a "Forum Expanded" programme.

{mosimage}BIARRITZ: The 25 edition of FIPA (23-29 January 2012 www.fipa.tm.fr) celebrated opening the doors of European television to global producers including central and Eastern European partners.

{mosimage}PRAGUE : Czech director Jan Sverak (www.sverak.cz ) is preparing a new project based on the Saul Bellows book Henderson the Rain King together with his long time production partner Eric Abraham of Portobello Pictures.

VENICE: British director Steve McQueen follows his critically acclaimed debut, Hunger, about a man who used his body as a political tool to fight for freedom, with Shame, which examines a man who creates his own prison through his out of control sex life.

VENICE: Roman Polanski’s Carnage is an adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s French stage play, God of Carnage, which was one of the most successful international stage hits of the past decade. Conceived as a four-hander for the stage the story brings together two couples in a Brooklyn apartment after their two sons, aged around 10 or 11, have quarreled on a local playground. The stronger boy armed with a stick has injured the other boy inflicting broken teeth, swollen lips and other bloody gashes.

VENICE: David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is a much more conventional film than his recent work with a mostly straight historical recounting of the intersection of the lives of psychiatrists Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Jung's beautiful young patient Sabina Spielrein. The period pic set is in pre-World War I Zurich and Vienna and boasts a stellar cast with Keira Knightley as the troubled Spielrein, Michael Fassbender as Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Frued. Vincent Cassel puts in a short but vivid appearance as the debauched psychiatrist Otto Gross.

VENICE: Faust is the final installment of Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s tetralogy on the nature of power and it has already succeeded in establishing itself as the most controversial entry in the Venice IFF competition. Critical opinion was sharply divided after the first screening with Sokurov’s work being branded either a masterpiece or utter rubbish. But no one was neutral which is perhaps part of what great art is all about.