ARTE to free stream "When We Leave" award-winning dramaMarch 4, 2014 - 18:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - In a ground-breaking move, the French-German public broadcaster ARTE will stream a feature film – for free – on its website for viewers from across Europe, The Hollywood Reporter said. In honor of international women's day on March 8, ARTE will provide viewers across the European Union with free online access to When We Leave, the award-winning drama from Austrian director Feo Aladag starring Game of Thrones actress Sibel Kekilli. Kekilli won a best actress German Film Award for her performance in When We Leave as an ethnic Turkish woman in Germany struggling to escape a violent marriage. Her co-star Settar Tanriogen took the best actor nod. Aladag's directorial debut won numerous festival awards, including the best feature and best actress honors at Tribeca, the Label Europa Cinemas prize at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival and a sweep of the 2010 German Film Critics Association Awards. ARTE will put When You Leave up on its website: www.arte.tv for three months starting March 8. Viewers in the EU can select subtitles from any of the EU's 24 official languages to watch the movie. The streaming will be geo-blocked for all countries outside the EU. Aladag's latest, Between Worlds, a drama set in war-torn Afghanistan, debuted in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival last month. Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. Second round of Armenia-Azerbaijan talks set for May 11 The second round of negotiations between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place on May 11. |