Turkish film wins Sarajevo film festival award
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A Turkish film about fear overwhelming a true believer when he is caught up in religious corruption has been chosen as the best movie at the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia -- The sweltering Youth Theater was so tightly packed that stairways were seized for seats. On stage, director Aldin Arnautovic introduced his short documentary "Fantasy," about a local group of war veterans using hypnosis to overcome post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Cristian Mungiu, the first Romanian to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, says his country's recent movie output helped him win the award.
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A harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Ethan and Joel Coen, and Wong Kar-wai to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday.
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"Under the Bombs," a movie about interfaith love during the 2006 war in Lebanon, was named best film in Dubai's awards for Arab cinema, in a year when films about conflict abounded.
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MONTREAL  - Israeli director Eran  Riklis' "The Syrian Bride," about a Druze family divided by the  Israeli-Syrian border, won the top prize at the 28th Montreal  World Film Festival Monday.
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Movies about the war in Iraq take pride of place in this year's London Film Festival line-up.
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"Under the Bombs," a movie about  interfaith love during the 2006 war in Lebanon, was named best  film in Dubai's awards for Arab cinema, in a year when films  about conflict abounded.
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A Kazakh-financed film has been  nominated for best foreign film at this year's Oscars, a  welcome creative boost to this central Asian country that was  so heavily lampooned by the hit "Borat" movie.
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Arts & entertainment: A disturbing tale of illegal abortion in communist-era Romania has won the Cannes film festival's top prize.
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Chinese entry "Tuya's Marriage", about a woman who must survive on the Mongolian steppe, won the Berlin film festival's top honor, the Golden Bear, on Saturday.
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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 ...
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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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The films have been shortlisted for the prestigious awards.
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PARIS Turkey won an important endorsement Thursday in its bid to join the European Union as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a report praising Ankara for recent economic strides.
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Iranian movie Beautiful City scoops the main prize at the International Film Festival of India.
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"Hotel Rwanda" and "Omagh" won the top awards at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday as audiences embraced movies inspired by the real life horrors of genocide and civil conflict.