Sixteen pics chase IDFA prize
Fest dwells on man's relationship with nature
Event opens with Thai film 'Moment in June'
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Marrakech festival sets eclectic slate
Moroccan, British cinema highlight Nov. event
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Smith to Edinburgh
Producer to head festival
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Tokyo Filmex unveils vast lineup
Festival to bow on Nov. 22 - 30
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'Tulpan' takes Reykjavik's Puffin
Pic also named Discovery of the Year
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The winner, announced Dec. 1, takes home Euros 12,500 ($17,700).
Competition includes fest's opening film "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience." Richard Robbins' doc is built around letters, poems, essays and diary fragments of American soldiers serving in Iraq.
Other U.S. competitors are Ted Braun's "Darfur Now" and Werner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World," a Discovery Channel production about people working in Antarctica.
Mankind's relationship with nature is a strong theme. Swiss helmer Felix Tissi looks at why people go to live in deserts in "Desert Who Is the Man?," while survivors of a plane crash in the Andes feature in "Stranded" by Uruguay's Gonzalo Arijon.
Chinese-Canadian Yung Chang takes a cruise in "Up the Yangtze!," looking at the impact of the flooding caused by the Three Gorges Dam.
In "Night," Lawrence Johnston examines Australia after dark from every angle.
Fest welcomes more than 300 docus in 20 sections. The 57 competition films, including short and medium docus, are all European premieres.
Iranian helmer Maziar Bahari is guest of honor, presenting a retrospective and his top 10 films.
When Abu Dhabi officials decided to launch their Middle East Intl. Film Festival last year, the focus was all about the finance.
Asian film financing is in a fog. For all its recent marching around, it is difficult to tell whether it is moving forwards, backwards or simply around in circles.
Although it's celebrating its 35th anniversary, the Ghent Intl. Film Festival wasn't always known as a unique and exotic showcase for film composers.
A perfectly realized, painterly portrayal of a widow's life, "A Light in the Fog" is a singularly assured feature film bow that is as understated as the best of Iranian cinema.
Queen of Brazil
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Heart of Time
