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MUSLIMS FEATURED IN BERLINALE WINNER DETAINED ON RETURN TO U.K. Tuesday, February 21 2006 Two British Muslims featured in the movie The Road to Guantánamo, along with four actors who appear in the film, were detained for about an hour last Thursday and questioned by police as they returned to Britain from the Berlin Film Festival, where the movie had received the Silver Bear award for direction. One of the actors, Rizwan Ahmed, claimed in a statement published in today's (Tuesday) Guardian newspaper that he was denied access to (more) POLITICAL FILMS WIN AT BERLINALE Monday, February 20 2006 
The
traditional
affection
juries
at
the
Berlin
Film
Festival
have
shown
to
movies
with
political
themes
was
evident
on
Sunday
as
the
festival's
Golden
Bear
for
best
film
was
awarded
to
the
Bosnian
film
Grbavica,
about
a
12-year-old
girl's
discovery
that
she
was
the
product
of
a
rape
that
occurred
when
her
mother
was
held
in
a
Serbian
prisoner-of-war
camp.
The
low-budget
film
was
the
debut
effort
of
Sarajevo
director
Jasmila
Zbanic.
"I'm
dreaming
that
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The Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday revealed the titles of the 22 movies that will compete for this year's top Golden Bear award. They include Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, and Gregory Nava's Bordertown. The festival opens on Feb. 8 with a screening of Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose about the life of singer Edith Piaf and concludes on Feb. 18. Among films that will be screening out of competition will be Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, Richard Eyre's Notes on a Scandal, and Paul Schrader's The Walker.
