Film on Salvadoran Civil War Opens
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As a child, Oscar Torres fled the civil war in his homeland. Now he has brought his story home as a new film, "Innocent Voices," opened before enthusiastic crowds in the nation's capital.
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It seems the United States isn't the only nation where the campaign season starts early. Fifteen months in advance of El Salvador's March 2009 presidential election, opposition party candidate Mauricio Funes has flown to Washington to woo the region's sizable Salvadoran community.
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Brazilian Cao Hamburger, whose film looks at his country's dark past, is the latest director to describe the brutality of South America's military dictatorships through the eyes of a child.
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The Toronto International Film Festival opened on Thursday with drama "Fugitive Pieces" telling a poetic tale that asks audiences to find hope even when faced with atrocities of war.
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The Toronto International Film Festival  opened on Thursday with drama &quot;Fugitive Pieces&quot; telling a  poetic tale that asks audiences to find hope even when faced  with atrocities of war.
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A new film uses the $45 six-pack of Coke to open another front in the political battle over Iraq, decrying
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Brazilian Cao Hamburger, whose film  looks at his country's dark past, is the latest director to  describe the brutality of South America's military  dictatorships through the eyes of a child.
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Movies about the war in  Iraq and forced child labor in South America have earned top  honors from the International Documentary Association.
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One of Egypt's latest hit films opens with scenes of police brutally beating pro-democracy protesters and ends with angry masses storming a police station where demonstrators are tortured. The audiences cheer.
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A film about a Scottish doctor's time with former dictator Idi Amin makes its world premiere at the Toronto festival.
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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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LOS ANGELES  - Charles Ferguson's documentary "No End in Sight" has more than lived up to its name. A year ago, the political scientist-turned-documentarian was preparing to launch the Iraq-themed film at the Sundance Film Festival.
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A film drama about the killing of maverick Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn directed by the outspoken filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was himself murdered last month was launched on Sunday amid heavy security.
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Film maker Kibaara Kaugi knows he has ventured into uncertain territory with Kenya's first home-grown movie about the Mau Mau, a divisive subject for Kenyans that still occupies an ambiguous place in their history.
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The actor is trying hard to push awareness about the ongoing violence in Sudan's Darfur region.
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LOS ANGELES - One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days...
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Filmmakers using relatively cheap digital technology throw a harsh light on the plight faced by indigenous societies trying to survive the intrusion of a modern world. Jason Silverman reports from New York.