© UPI Germany One needs a green card, the other artificial insemination. Min and Angela quickly come to an agreement: the marriage of convenience should be short and sweet. Min's boyfriend Chris agrees, as does Angela's partner Lee. Only Min's grandmother, who has flown in from South Korea especially for the occasion, insists on a big, traditional celebration. More than 30 years ago, director Ang Lee won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale with his queer comedy "The Wedding Banquet". His colleague Andrew Ahn has now updated the story, doubled it and added more quotable lines.

The Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for the female lead in Martin Scorsese's drama "Killers of the Flower Moon" catapulted Lily Gladstone into Hollywood's starry skies in 2024. Born on a Blackfeet reservation in 1986, the actress with indigenous and European roots has long been a fixture on the American independent film scene. In 2016, director Kelly Reichardt cast her in her episodic film "Certain Women" and the crime comedy "First Cow", and in 2023 she will play the lead role in the indigenous drama "Fancy Dance".

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born in England in 1968 but raised in Australia, Naomi Watts made her first film experiences in the early 90s alongside Nicole Kidman in "Flirting", among others. After David Lynch entrusted her with the lead role in his 2001 psychological thriller "Mulholland Drive", Watts became a specialist for complicated female characters, for example in David Cronenberg's thriller "Eastern Promises", Michael Haneke's psychological drama "Funny Games" (both 2007), as well as under the direction of Alejandro González Iñárritu in "Birdman" (2014) and "21 Grams", for which she was nominated for an Oscar in 2004.

© Capelight Pictures The Palme d'Or in Cannes and five Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress - the 2024 film year was dominated by "Anora". The drama about a young sex worker who falls in love with a Russian oligarch's son, even marries him, but is then forced into divorce by his parents, is not without controversy. Not least because the film was nominated as a comedy at the Golden Globes, for example, despite the tragedy that the title heroine goes through in it. What is undoubtedly great, however, is the ease with which Anora actress Mikey Madison guides us through the sad and funny moments.

The Livecam collection with insights into American falcon nests, African wild cat enclosures, watering holes in savannahs, the skies above polar stations or simply Hawaiian and Californian surfing beaches is just the homepage of explore.org. When philanthropist Charles Annenberg Weingarten founded the website a good five years ago and publicised it via YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, his aim was to bring the animal world closer to people again. Today, explore.org is a community with around half a million followers on YouTube.