"I Am David" Film Puts Human Face on Refugee Crisis
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Opening in the U.S. today, the movie I Am David depicts a Bulgarian refugee's struggle in post-World War II Europe. The film is being used by the UN to highlight the plight of current-day refugees.
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A film about a Scottish doctor's time with former dictator Idi Amin makes its world premiere at the Toronto festival.
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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The picture in Darfur is one of distress, denial and disappointment. Distress of people whose lives and livelihood have been destroyed, denial of responsibility by the Sudanese government and disappointment
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As a Palestinian whose father was a refugee in Lebanon from 1948 and whose family continues to live under Israeli military occupation, many around the world expect me and other
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An enthralling documentary follows the Afghan politician Malalai Joya through the final months of campaigning for her countryâs National Assembly in 2005.
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The Toronto International Film Festival opened on Thursday with drama "Fugitive Pieces" telling a poetic tale that asks audiences to find hope even when faced with atrocities of war.
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Fundamental issues of ethnic and religious identity and the agony of exile are at the heart of âLive and Become.â
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A new Taiwanese film competing at the  Venice Film Festival explores poverty and alienation among  foreign workers in Malaysia who were left jobless and homeless  by the late 1990s Asian economic crisis.
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Israel's Six Day War offered American Jews a refuge from the social traumas of the 1960s. How the conflict reshaped the community.
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Ziad H. Hamzeh's documentary is important as a record of a disturbing incident that occured when 1,100 immigrants from Somalia settled in Maine.
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Al-Madinah Theater was supposed to show art films this summer. Instead it has become a home to scores of refugees, and a cultural oasis where their children can act, draw and watch movies.
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In the documentary âDarfur Now,â progress inches along on several fronts.
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Director James Cameron announces a documentary that he believes will shake the underpinnings of Christianity
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Forget about dancing genies, buxom harem girls and dashing heroes in mythical Arab lands bent on saving ravishing princesses. In this animated movie, the issue is one of divine love, devotion and a struggle for God.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - 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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With âBeaufort,â the Israeli director Joseph Cedar has made a movie about the futility of war.