"Turtles can fly" about Iraqi children wins Spanish film festival
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A film about Iraqi children victims of war &quot;Turtles can fly&quot; directed by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi won the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) at the prestigious San Sebastian film festival.
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The war in Iraq is a strong theme at the Sundance Film Festival for the second year running.
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Bob Dylan was awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias arts award, one of the country's most prestigious honors, Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES  - 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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A film about young Colombians swept up in deadly paramilitary battles in a Medellin neighborhood won a grand jury prize for best documentary Saturday at the Miami International Film Festival.
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Oscar winner West Bank Story, a short film directed by Ari Sandel of Los Angeles, was the first the first film ever profiled on MySpace Film.  West Bank Story won the Oscar for best live-action short film Sunday during the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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Movies about violence in Rwanda and North Ireland, vampires in Montreal and a DJ in Spain were among the prize winners yesterday at the close of the 29th Toronto International Film Festival.
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ROME  - The teen comedy "Juno" -- revolving on a pregnant girl who tries to find a couple to adopt her baby -- won the top prize at the second RomaCinemaFest on Saturday.
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AlgeriaÂs official Oscar submission for best foreign language film is a damn good war movie.
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MADRID, Spain : Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum and memorial, won a prestigious Spanish humanitarian award Wednesday for its work in promoting tolerance through the remembrance of the Nazi genocide. via International Herald Tribune
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Alberto Iglesias, who composed the soundtracks for a number of films by Pedro AlmodÃ³var, has won Spainâs 2007 National Film Award.
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The Clint Eastwood film âLetters From Iwo Jima,â about the lives and deaths of Japanese soldiers in the battle for Iwo Jima in World War II, was named best foreign film at the 31st Japan Academy Awards ceremony on Friday in Tokyo, Variety reported. Joji Matsuokaâs âTokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad,â about a mother-son relationship, took the prizes for best film, best director, best actress (Kiki Kirin as the dying mother), best supporting actor (Kaoru Kobayashi as the absent father) and best screenplay (Masuo Suzuki). Hidetaka Yoshioka, who won the best actor prize in 2006 for his performance as a struggling novelist in âAlways,â won again for reprising the role in the nostalgic drama âAlways 2.â.
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The nominees for best foreign-language film are politically charged and artistically successful.
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Movie critics have shouted "no, no" as a top prize was announced at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain.
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MADRID : The Spanish and French governments hailed a &quot;historic&quot; victory against armed Basque separatist group ETA following the weekend arrest in France of ETA&#39;s political leader and 16 associates.
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An Iranian-Iraqi film set in the run-up  to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and starring an amateur cast  of war-scarred children won the top "Golden Shell" award at  Spain's prestigious San Sebastian film festival Saturday.
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Israeli writer Amos Oz is awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias prize for literature.