Jude Law Leads Brit Hopes At Berlin Film Festival (SKY NEWS)

Among the contenders for the Golden Bear top film award is Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects, which stars Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Soderbergh has said that Side Effects is to be his last movie, and it tackles the world of prescribed drugs, with Law playing a Manhattan doctor who tries to help a depressed wife by giving her a new superdrug.

Also in contention in Berlin is Prince Avalanche, starring Paul Rudd and the fracking drama Promised Land, which features Matt Damon.

New Dreamworks 3D animation The Croods has also debuted at the festival, with Nicola Cage, Ryan Reynolds and Emma Stone among those providing voices in the prehistoric comedy.

The Berlin prize can raise the profile of low-budget films to a global audience and is an important event in the movie calendar.

Away from the bigger Hollywood films, the impact of Europe-wide austerity measures has provided inspiration for film-makers from countries hardest hit by the financial crisis.

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Jeremy Irons rides the Night Train to Lisbon – in Berlin (STV)

The movie adaptation of the bestselling novel Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier had its world premiere at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival this week.

The movie tells the story of Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons), a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who falls in love with a mysterious Portuguese woman in Bern, Switzerland.

Love stricken, he takes a night train to Lisbon, carrying with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and author, who lived during Portugal's Carnation Revolution, and whose writings explore loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty.

READ MORE: http://entertainment.stv.tv/film/214080-jeremy-irons-rides-the-night-train-to-lisbon-in-berlin/

Ray Stevenson: Photo session for "Jayne Mansfields Car" (Zimbio)

In This Photo: Alexander Rodnyansky, Billy Bob Thornton, John Hurt, Ray Stevenson, Katherine La Nasa (from 3rd L) Actors Ray Stevenson, producer Alexander Rodnyansky, acotr John Hurt, actress Katherine LaNasa and director Billy Bob Thornton attend the "Jayne Mansfield's Car" Photocall during day five of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival at the Grand Hyatt on February 13, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. 

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