Film festival pushes freedoms in cinema-free Saudi
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - The screen got bigger this year and the luminaries slightly more illustrious.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Eighteen months after the outbreak of Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, filmmakers from both countries have brought movies conveying frustration over the conflict to the Sundance Film Festival.
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Indonesia&#39;s gay film festival faced  violent opposition in its early years.
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - The atmosphere on the King Abdullah campus should be that of a high-quality college anywhere else in the world -- a mood of free thought, equality and easy mingling among independent-minded men and women.
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A new arts festival tries to show why political theater doesn't have to taste like medicine.
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No bombs. No bloodshed. No bin Laden.  Belly dancing is the theme Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch says  can best communicate the Arab world to the West and reconcile  cultural differences.
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STATE DEPARTMENT The State Department is including Saudi Arabia for the first time on its list of countries that could be subject to sanctions for violations of religious freedom.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The Sundance Film Festival  kicked off on Thursday with a political tone struck by founder  Robert Redford, who called independent film a voice of dissent  and encouraged movie-makers to speak their minds.
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When Amin Matalqa made his  first feature film in his native Jordan, he got some local  attention, but when his "Captain Abu Raed" earned a spot at the  Sundance Film Festival, the director saw his ticket into U.S.  movie theaters.
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Saudi Arabia banned tinted car windows on Sunday in a move aimed at preventing militants escaping detection on the kingdom&#39;s roads.
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Imagine attending the world's film  festivals and hobnobbing with fellow cinephiles without moving  from your armchair, and you've got the idea behind a Web site  called Jaman.com.
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&quot;Rendition,&quot; which takes a critical  look at the U.S. practice of detaining suspected terrorists in  foreign jails, brought a dose of torture and political  timeliness to the Toronto International Film Festival on  Friday.
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Despite a campaign urging residents to register before Thursday's deadline, Saudi men &#151; women are barred from voting &#151; have shown little enthusiasm for the first nationwide elections in a kingdom long regarded as autocratic, secretive and resistant to reform.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - If sex sells, as the  advertising saying goes, the independent film world should be  pleased with this year's Sundance Film Festival that features a  slew of movies with explicit sexual themes and scenes.
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Organisers of the Berlin Film Festival say this year's event will celebrate European cinema's robust health.
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âThe Kingdom,â a film about the F.B.I.âs pursuit of Islamic bad guys in Saudi Arabia, may show that buddy bonding and boisterous action can bridge the deepest cultural chasm.
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The Toronto International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday, has been all but overrun with films attacking President Bush or the protracted war in Iraq.