Israeli films win at Montreal, Venice
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Three Israeli films won prizes at two recent international film festivals, the Montreal World Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival.
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Russian film The Return wins the BBC Four World Cinema Award, presented at a ceremony in London.
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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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"The Lives of Others", a drama about a secret policeman in Communist East Germany, won the top prize at the European Film Awards on Saturday held in Poland's capital.
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman will promote their films, Collateral and Birth, at the 61st Venice International Film Festival. Mira Nair's Vanity Fair will also be screened.
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"Mad Detective," by Hong Kong directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, is this year's surprise entry at the Venice Film Festival.
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"Emotional Arithmetic," a drama about three Holocaust survivors who reunite after 40 years apart, will be the closing film at this year's Toronto 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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Taiwan was flushed with pride on Sunday  as favorite son and world famous director Ang Lee took Venice  film festival&#39;s top award for his steamy thriller &quot;Lust,  Caution,&quot; just two years after winning with &quot;Brokeback  Mountain.&quot;
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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.
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âTo Die in Jerusalem,â a film about the families of a Palestinian suicide bomber, will appear on HBO and at the Paley Center for Mediaâs documentary festival.
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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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French is one of the common languages spoken around the sparkling blue pool at the David Intercontinental in Tel Aviv, along the sandy beaches of Netanya and Eilat and the hotel lobbies of Jerusalem this summer.
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Two movies about the Iraq war and its impact on Americans back home are among 22 competition entries at the Venice Film Festival this year, lending political weight to a cinema showcase laden with Hollywood productions.
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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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"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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JERUSALEM, Israel -- A wave of excitement swept through Israel on Wednesday as windsurfer Gal Fridman won the Jewish State&#39;s first ever Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s Mistral event in Athens.