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'Capharnaüm' wins the North Sea Port Audience Award
You have decided: 'Capharnaüm', the Lebanese Oscar submission by director Nadine Labaki, wins the North Sea Port Audience Award. After eleven festival days, ...

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Explore Zone Jury awards 'Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot'
The youth jury awarded the Explore Zone Award to Philip Grönings drama 'Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot' for "his audacity, absurdism and unusual ...

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'Cold War' by Paweł Pawlikowski and 'High Life' by Claire Denis victorious at 45th Film Fest Gent
'Cold War' by Oscar winner Paweł Pawlikowski ('Ida' and 'The Summer of Love') received the Grand Prix for Best Film at the closing night of Film Fest Gent. The ...

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Young Critic NJ Nuñez on 'The Favourite'
Slaps precede sweet talk and lovers’ tussles are primal and sexually charged in Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘The Favourite’ (2018). Sex and power prove to be ...

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Jóhann Jóhannsson wins posthumous World Soundtack Award for Best Film Composer
The annual World Soundtrack Awards have been given out during the 45th edition of Film Fest Gent in Belgium tonight. The winners of the 18th WSAwards include ...

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Young Critic Ruairí McCann on 'The Wild Pear Tree'
Out of the several literary giants that director Nuri Bilge Ceylan namechecks in the end credits of ‘The Wild Pear Tree’, Dostoevsky seems to have the ...
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