The movie, which is in the running for the Golden Bear, the top award at Berlin, couldn't be more timely.
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Carmen in Khayelitsha), which is one of 21 films up for Berlin's top prize, the Golden Bear, is British director Mark Dornford-May's first feature film.
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It has been picking up awards since winning the Golden Bear at its world premiere at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and is one of the front-runners for best foreign language film at the upcoming Academy Awards.
The Golden Bear was one of the earliest and most vocal advocates for golf as an Olympic sport, and in making his bid he shrewdly teamed with Annika Sorenstam, the former longtime women's world No. 1 (and a European to boot, adding international appeal).
The French film, Intimacy, directed by Patrice Chereau won the top Golden Bear award last year and the film's Kerry Fox took the best actress accolade.
The Romanian film Child's Pose has picked up the coveted Golden Bear prize for best film at the 63rd Berlin film festival.
The Good Shepherd, directed by De Niro, is one of the films competing for the festival's Golden Bear prize.
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But in 2005, on the eve of the 134th version of the oldest championship in golf, the limelight has shifted away from nine-time modern major winner Tiger Woods to a much more ancient creature - the great and unique Golden Bear.
Calder says despite all the dissatisfaction, it is important to bear in mind this is the "golden age of flying".
The others in that category are French comedy Untouchable, Danish drama The Hunt, Germany's Barbara and Italian Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die.
He said he's not a sentimental person -- he doesn't get attached to an individual polar bear the way he does to his golden retriever.
The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.
Apollo becomes a tall, youthful soldier with long golden hair, Arnold a lumbering warrior, having the torso of a bear and the majestic head of a lion, and Tom aging tenfold into withered old man, his true age becoming only too apparent.
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