Iraq War Film Scoops Spanish Festival Prize
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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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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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A Baghdad correspondent assesses four recent films about the war.
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Filmmaking is still largely a man's domain, if the offerings of the San Sebastian film festival in Spanish and similar events are anything to go by.
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Films about euthanasia, abortion and  the hardships of immigrant life bagged the top prizes at the  17th European Film Awards on Saturday.
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Spain would make full efforts to help push the Iraqi election held on schedule, although the country keeps "very concerned" about the current situation in Iraq, a senior Spanish official said Monday in El ...
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Chinese film director Xu Jinglei shows her &#39;Silver Shell&#39; award for the Best Director during the closing ceremony of the San Sebastian&#39;s International Film Festival late September 25, 2004.
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Heather Raffo's impassioned theatrical documentary gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women.
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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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As a movie-obsessed teenager,  Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona snuck into a film festival  masquerading as a journalist to catch the eye of award-winning  Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
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"The Sea Inside," a true story of a quadriplegic's battle for the right to die, scooped 14 of Spain's top film awards early on Monday, a month ahead of the Oscars where it is nominated for best foreign language film.
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands &#151; "Baghdad Blogger," a movie by a well-known Web log writer who calls himself Salam Pax, reveals Iraqi resentment over the U.S. occupation &#151; and joy at Saddam Hussein's removal.
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A film directed by the man behind the popular Baghdad Blogger is showing at the Rotterdam Festival.
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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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An Iraq war tale has taken top honors at a Spanish film festival. The film, titled "Turtles Can Fly," is about Iraqi villagers desperate for a satellite dish as they await the U-S invasion.
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Raul Guerra Garrido, known for novels set in Spain's Basque region, has won one of the country's most prestigious literary prizes, the Culture Ministry said Monday.
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The Deauville Film Festival awarded its top prize on Sunday to "Maria Full of Grace," a documentary-like tale of the travails of a teenage drug runner from Colombia.