Saudi Filmmaker Lacks Visa for Festival
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A rare Saudi Arabian feature film will make its American debut at a film festival in Manhattan tomorrow night, but its director will miss the premiere.
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Sudan appears to be balking at  granting a visa to the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan, Andrew  Natsios, and is restricting the movement of all U.S. officials  to Khartoum, the State Department said on Friday.
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TONY EASTLEY: The Federal Government has confirmed reports that one of al-Qaeda&#39;s most senior leaders obtained a tourist visa to come to Australia just one month before the September 11 attacks.
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LONDON - Saudis opposed to the royal family will try again to stage illegal street protests on Friday, a day after blanket security precautions foiled attempts to gather in Riyadh and Jeddah, a London-based dissident said.
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Canada has denied a visa to South African anti-apartheid leader Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who was to be the keynote speaker at a fund-raising gala in Toronto on Tuesday, because of her criminal record.
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An Al-Jazeera journalist already appealing one jail sentence was arrested again Monday while filming a documentary, allegedly without a proper license, her lawyer and police said.
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When Amin Matalqa made his  first feature film in his native Jordan, he got some local  attention, but when his "Captain Abu Raed" earned a spot at the  Sundance Film Festival, the director saw his ticket into U.S.  movie theaters.
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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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Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars  descended on Dubai on Sunday for the start of a film festival  that sees itself as a cultural bridge between the West and the  Arab world.
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CANNES, France  - It is the world's greatest film festival and everybody in movies wants to be there. But that doesn't mean they all have fun at Cannes.
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Salman could not appear before the Court due to his busy schedule of film shootings.
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LOS ANGELES  - It's damned tough for   even big-name filmmakers to get a movie made these days.
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Saudi authorities have detained a popular blogger for violating the kingdom's laws, a senior Interior Ministry official said Tuesday. It was the first known arrest of a Saudi online critic.
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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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It is the world&#39;s greatest film  festival and everybody in movies wants to be there. But that  doesn&#39;t mean they all have fun at Cannes.
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LONDON  - The director of a feature-length documentary about the fatal radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy -- set to screen this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, as a late addition to the lineup -- denied on Wednesday that news of its Official Selection status had been delayed for political reasons.
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RIYADH  - Anti-regime demonstrations called for by a dissident Islamist group were thwarted as Saudi security forces deployed en masse in Riyadh and Jeddah, detaining 14 people and making it difficult to gauge the group&#39;s popularity.