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Angelina Jolie to direct film on Afghanistan

Angelina Jolie says it was only natural that her directorial debut should tackle some of the toughest issues facing humanity and after wartime Bosnia, Afghanistan is likely to be her next subject. At the Berlin film festival to present her unflinching drama about rape as a weapon of war,

In the Land of Blood and Honey, the Hollywood icon-cum-humanitarian told AFP her turn behind the camera was aimed at using cinema as a force for reconciliation.

"I've written a lot of journals while travelling over 10 years in the conflicts around the world and being frustrated by the lack of intervention," said the 36-year-old Oscar-winning actress.

"So I went to the region and started to really look at the Bosnian war, but I couldn't really understand or figure it out, and I felt this is my generation this happened to so I should know this. So I gave myself some education."

Jolie, who backs a range of causes as a UN goodwill ambassador, said her research inspired her to start writing a screenplay and her partner Brad Pitt encouraged her to show a rough draft to people from all sides of the brutal 1992-1995 war.

But when it came to making the film, she realised she was the only one with both the objective distance and passionate commitment to do the job.

"And this is how I found myself being a director!" she said.

"I knew that there might have been people who were technically more capable than me, but I knew I really, really cared from the bottom of my heart so therefore I felt I should do it."

She filmed versions of the movie in local languages and English in parallel.

It tells the story of a young Muslim woman and the policeman son of a Bosnian Serb general who had a fling before the conflict broke out.

When they meet again, she has been taken prisoner by a unit of the Bosnian Serb army commanded by her former lover.

As the women around her are gang raped, the officer offers her protection, telling the other soldiers she is his "property". But the upheaval of the relentless war means he is only able to shield her for so long.

Jolie said the most difficult part of filming was asking her actors, almost all of whom come from the former Yugoslavia and had their own bitter memories of the war, to simulate the savagery that tore their country apart.

"It was very hard for everybody, for the actors, the men who had to be the aggressors," said Jolie, who is in the German capital with Pitt and their six children.

"They were fathers, husbands and very sweet men and they didn't want to do that. But they knew also they had to do it on behalf of the women just to show the brutality they suffered."

She said the hardest scene to shoot was one in which elderly women were ordered to undress at gunpoint while soldiers look on and laugh -- an experience recounted to her by a prison camp survivor.

"This is one that you just never want to ask anybody to do and you are asking real older women to do this," she said.

"The whole crew was very uncomfortable but the women were so sweet and so professional. I came to them several times asking, 'Are you really OK, are you sure?'"

She said she hoped Serbs would see the film with open minds when it is screened in wide release this month.

"I went to Auschwitz recently and so many names are Serb names all along the walls because they fought against the Nazis .. and later they were to be the aggressors," she said.

"I think it's important to study (genocides) and to understand them so we will really understand how to stop them."

Bosnia's war between its Croat, Muslim and Serb communities claimed some 100,000 lives. Tens of thousands of people were held in prison camps, where torture and abuse were commonplace. Some 20,000 women were raped, according to the government's estimates.

Asked what's next, Jolie said she would keep her focus on the world's trouble spots.

"I have been working on something that deals with Afghanistan but I haven't shown it yet to anybody," she said.

Angelina Jolie reveals her chat with Obama

Angelina Jolie has said that she discussed her directorial debut with Barack Obama, when she and Brad Pitt met the US president at the White House on January 11.

Escorted into the White House by several security guards, the couple met with Obama during a break from promoting Jolie’s In the
Land of Blood and Honey, and the actress says the movie came up over the course of their one-on-one discussion.

Travelling with Zana Marjanovic, who appears in a lead role in the Bosnian love story, Jolie chatted with Obama “about Sarajevo and our concerns with things going on,” Us magazine quoted Jolie as telling Extra.

Meanwhile, long-time Obama supporter Pitt discussed his work in New Orleans with Vice President Joe Biden.

Although the Tomb Raider actress is tight-lipped on the rest of her meeting details, she did say that her time with Obama was wonderful.

Angelina Jolie as singing nun

A series of home videos have emerged on the Internet which show a pre-teen Angelina Jolie belting out tunes while dressed in bizarre fancy dresses. In one of the videos, posted on celebrity web site snakkle.com, Jolie sings Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York, while wearing a nun’s habit.

She is then seen wearing some giant ears to sing along to Ben E King’s Stand By Me with some of her friends.

The Mr And Mrs Smith actor was also filmed singing along to Purple Rain by Prince, the Daily Mail reported.

The home videos were shot when Jolie attended a friend’s birthday party in 1987.

And while singing may not be her forte, Angelina has recently proved she has more talents than acting alone.

The Mr & Mrs Smith star has just written and directed her first movie, a love story set in the Bosnian war. The film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, has been nominated for a Golden Globe.

Meet Angelina Jolie's look-alike

With plump lips and long brown tresses, Spanish actor Lina Sands has an uncanny resemblance with Agelina Jolie. A video has surfaced online in which one can easily mistake her for the Hollywood hottie.

Jolie double says in the video: "Hi, my name is Lina Sands and I look like Angelina


Jolie." She adds: "I would like to work as an Angelina Jolie look-alike."

The video was filmed last year but has now become popular. It has already accumulated over 799,000 views on YouTube.

With her hair open or tied, she looks like Jolie. She even joked about her hair: 'I've got a lot of hair! I can sell it and be rich.' Sands is 5'8 and says she isn't as old as the Salt star. She has lived in the UK for eight years now.

She begins with her hair styled up and shows of her profile to reveal that she really is her likeness from all angles.

Angelina Jolie starves self for hungry kids

Angelina Jolie has been starving herself to make a statement that poor kids around the world are not getting food to eat.
According to a source, the 36-year-old UN goodwill ambassador, who travels the globe meeting the poor, puts herself on fasts to make statements for the children she
visits.
“She says, ‘If they can’t eat, I can’t eat,’” Us Magazine quoted the source as saying.

“The busy mother of six does different cleanses from around the world. It’s very dramatic, but that’s how she gets."

The Salt star, who is currently promoting her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey has her partner Brad Pitt worrying about her health, a second insider revealed.

“He’s worried about her and has made her see a zillion doctors, but they keep telling her she’s fine,” the source added.

Angelina Jolie ripping her clothes off in a cat fight

Hollywood's most famous rivals, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston, will wrestle it out soon. The two A-listers are the latest victims of a porn parody, which will see the two actresses ripping their clothes off in a cat fight, reported E Online

I have open relationship With Brad;;Angelina Jolie

The Hollywood actress raises six children with Brad. She insists there is no need to be monogamous when you are romancing someone, claiming it isn’t “essential” to a strong relationship.

She told Germany’s Das Neue magazine: “I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship. It's worse to leave your partner and talk badly about him afterwards. Neither Brad nor I have ever claimed that living together means to be chained together. We make sure that we never restrict each other.”

The couple have been dogged by rumours their relationship is on the rocks in recent months. It has been claimed they have been fighting bitterly, with insiders claiming Jolie flares up like a “cobra”.

Rare picture:Angelina Jolie When She Was Only 19 years old!

Angelina Jolie Slept with Mum's lover at Age 16

Angelina Jolie’s new biography by Andrew Morton alleges that the actress slept with her mum’s boyfriend when she was 16.

According to Now mag, Jolie and her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, could not come to terms with each other after the Tomb Raider star confessed to the act.

"Marcheline had a live-in boyfriend whom she was very much in love with, but Ange slept with him when she was 16 and barely out of school," the Sun quoted a source, as saying.

"Her mother found out and ended her relationship with the man.

"When Ange admitted the story to her brother James just a few weeks ago, even he turned on her. She has hardly anyone left in life who likes or trusts her."

Na-ked Angelina Jolie to grace Oklahoma City's street

A life-size naked statue of Angelina Jolie will soon 'grace' the streets of Oklahoma City.

The bronze sculpture, which shows the Hollywood actress breast-feeding, has been created by New York artist Daniel Edwards and will be unveiled in September, Contactmusic reported.

The statue, titled Landmark for Breastfeeding, was inspired by the actress's W magazine cover last year, in which she was photographed by husband Brad Pitt breast-feeding her newborn twins.

Sandy Wilson of Phantom-Financial, the organisation behind the Jolie artwork, said, "We believe the statue sends a beautiful message by promoting the acceptance of public breast-feeding. Mothers should be encouraged to nurture their babies anywhere."

Angelina Jolie’s Designer clothes stolen

Three boxes of clothes designed for Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie, for the promotion of her new movie ‘Salt’, have been stolen.

According to an insider, Jolie’s stylist Jennifer Rade was collecting dresses for her star client, who was scheduled to have a fitting with Rade the next day.

"Every designer who was sending pieces was trying to send their best stuff," the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

"Angelina was just starting the fitting process for pieces to wear when she begins promoting `Salt`, " the source added.

However, Rade didn`t return calls and Jolie’s representatives were also unavailable for comment.