Director in contention with German, Turkish films
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Fatih Akin is riding two  horses as the Oscar race for foreign-language feature rounds  the far bend, heading to the January 22 announcement of Academy  Award nominations.
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An Istanbul clerk finds  his simple, devout life turned upside down when an Islamic  group employs him as its debt collector in a Turkish film which  aims to show how religious devotion can be tainted by  hypocrisy.
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A deep cultural misunderstanding between Western and Muslim societies is fueling radical groups around the world, Turkey's prime minister says.
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Germans struggled to digest a powerful new film about Adolf Hitler that opened in cinemas on Thursday amid a raging debate about whether the dictator can be portrayed as anything less than the world's greatest evil.
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As the first ethnic film to be both a box-office and critical success in Germany, Fatih Akin's "Head-On" signals new acceptance of multiculturalism.
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Hollywood directors risk big budgets and  reputations when they work. Iraqi film makers risk their lives.
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A German film that sparked a scandal  over its star's porn movie past and a Spanish yarn of gay  friends traumatised by childhood sexual abuse head the field in  Saturday's European Film Awards competition.
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A film about forbidden love in Cyprus   has stirred passions on the ethnically partitioned island, with   its showing at the Venice Film Festival this week embroiled in   a row over funding.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he had told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that European Union leaders should avoid &quot;a historic mistake&quot; when they discuss Turkey's membership bid next week.
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Sex and the pornography industry takes center stage at next week's Berlin Film Festival after the leading actress in last year's Golden Bear winning film was publicly hounded over her earlier work as a German porn actress.
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Germany and Turkey are to discuss the case of a German boy jailed in Antalya for alleged molestation.
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The director of a new documentary  on September 11 fears that two upcoming Hollywood  dramatizations of the World Trade Center attacks may eclipse  her project.
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The murder of a controversial Dutch filmmaker has reenergized an uncomfortable debate over Europe&#39;s relationship with its growing Muslim minority.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - His books have sold more copies  than almost any other author in Europe this year and are hotly  debated by housewives and intellectuals alike, but newspapers  are reluctant to publish his work.
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The director of hit movie Amelie is fighting in the French courts to prove his latest film is really French.
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The producers of the new Tom Cruise film about a World War II plot to assassinate Hitler have asked the German authorities for permission to reshoot scenes at the Bendler Block in Berlin, the focus of a dispute this summer, Agence France-Presse reported.
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As Hollywood's labor dispute continues and rancor between the two sides grows,  some are looking to the directors to shout, "Action"