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Lifestyle/ Arts & Culture

Film, Postcard: Berlin

Best actress Haru Kuroki (right) shares the spotlight with fellow winners, director Diao Yinan (left) and his Black Coal, Thin Ices tar Liao Fan. Photo: AP

It wasn't just the unusually good weather that dominated this year's Berlin International Film Festival. There was mischief in the air too at the 64th Berlinale which ran from February 6 to 16 - hardly surprising given Lars von Trier was making his first festival appearance since Cannes 2011 where he joked about being a Nazi and was banned by the festival officials.

The Danish director, who brought the extended version of Volume I of his two-part sex odyssey Nymphomaniac, kept to his self-imposed media silence but then he didn't need to speak: attending the photo-call in a black T-shirt that read "persona non grata" said more than enough.