"Kite Runner" makers hope to bridge world cultures
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In a year in which most films dealing with conflicting world cultures have failed to excite moviegoers, the makers of "The Kite Runner" hope to win audiences by bridging the divide of race and ethnicity.
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Indian and Western artistes collaborate with each other.
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One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days. A third offers sympathy to a nation wounded on Sept. 11, but includes foreign filmmakers' points of view.
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A film portrayal of the complex story of Palestinian suicide bombers airs at the Berlin Film Festival.
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The International arm of Studio 18 is aggressively pushing the forthcoming Shahid - Kareena starrer Jab We Met into new international markets and territories.
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A 12-year-old Afghan boy starring in the upcoming film "The Kite Runner" fears he and his family could be ostracized or even attacked because of a rape scene that he says he reluctantly acted in &#151; a sequence the family wants cut.
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For thousands of Muslims who flocked to movie theaters, the American premiere of the animated feature "Muhammad: The Last Prophet," was a landmark cultural event.
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Pakistanis, once portrayed in Indian  movies as extremists and terrorist sponsors, are morphing into  Bollywood heroes.
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TORONTO  - A documentary about Islam and homosexuality is vying for attention at the Toronto International Film Festival, where high-profile movies set in the Middle East are already making a splash.
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A new film about a meeting between two mothers over the deaths of their daughters in Jerusalem, a New York play set in the West Bank and a ceramic art exhibit are each being hailed for getting Israelis and Palestinians to talk to each other.
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Earthbound adventurers outfitted with special kites and harnesses are using wind power to reach some of the most remote spots on the planet.
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Games with a political and social agenda have provided a novel take on world events.
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Entrepreneur Kamela Sediqi teaches Afghans around the country the skills they need to start ventures.
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The Toronto International  Film Festival got off to a multi-cultural start Thursday night  with the premiere of "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen," a drama  about Canada's Inuit people being stripped of their traditions  by Christianity.
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A group of ambitious businessmen has created an international contest to reward groups that have demonstrated achievements in arts and humanitarian service.
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The recent rhetoric from the Middle East - hopeful and constructive from both sides of the divide - provides a glimmer of hope that Palestinians and Israelis may agree on new and peaceful borders in the coming new year.
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Bahman Ghobadi, the international face of Kurdish cinema, works in countries that are less than accommodating.