Iraq war films among favorites at festival
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Two very different movies about the Iraq  war are among the favorites for awards at this year&#39;s Venice  film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually  high number of male leads have stood out.
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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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For some reason, themes  revolving around the Iraq War seem to be defying the best  efforts of serious-minded filmmakers. Such is the case with  this debut feature effort from Bryan Gunnar Cole.
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Top directors used the Venice Film   Festival on Friday to excoriate the Bush administration, the   war in Iraq and Hollywood itself, and presented three starkly   different movies to express their views.
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DEAUVILLE, France  - The competition   section at the 32nd Deauville Festival of American Cinema got   under way here Monday with a pair of well-received movies   offering very different views of childhood.
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Director Brian De Palma has impressed critics at the Venice Film Festival with his graphic new film on the Iraq war called Redacted.
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Two movies that offer searing explorations of the effect of Iraq on the minds of American servicemen shine in Venice
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Home-grown films will bring a foreign  feel to this year&#39;s Toronto International Film Festival, as  Canadian entries include a Russian mob thriller set in London,  a look into the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and a search for  heavy-metal music in Iraq.
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Behind concrete blast walls and battling a flickering power supply, Baghdad's international film festival opened in a hotel on Wednesday in another sign of how improved security is bringing life back to the city.
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Patricia FoulkrodÂs documentary about the war in Iraq stands out as an especially pointed indictment of the American militaryÂs treatment of its own people on and off the battlefield.
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Music comes to the movies at the Berlin  Film Festival this year, with the Rolling Stones and Madonna  expected on the red carpet and a heavy metal band from Baghdad  banging heads on the big screen.
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The Toronto International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday, has been all but overrun with films attacking President Bush or the protracted war in Iraq.
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Arts & entertainment: In pictures: From operatic vampires to demented Flemish cabaret, 10 highlights of this year's festivals.
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Movies from Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh will rub shoulders at this year's Berlin film festival with productions from Israel and China, as well as a strong contingent from France, organizers said Tuesday.
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The first feature film festival, held in past one-and-a-half decades has turned out to be a big draw in Indian Kashmir.
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Like the modern-day  equivalent of 18th century pamphleteers, documentary filmmakers  have plunged into the center of the national debates over such  issues as health care (&quot;Sicko&quot;) and the environment (&quot;An  Inconvenient Truth&quot;). But nowhere have the debates been more  passionate than in the rash of documentaries about the Iraq  War.
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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.