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François Chalais Award

18Apr By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1997 Awards, All Movie Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, François Chalais Award

1997 Cannes Film Festival – François Chalais Award Winner and Nominees

1997 Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Award WinnerThe Perfect CircleAdemir KenovicAn alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The ...Amazon
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18Apr By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1998 Awards, All Movie Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, François Chalais Award

1998 Cannes Film Festival – François Chalais Award Winner and Nominees

1998 Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Award WinnerWest BeirutZiad DoueiriIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: ...Amazon
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18Apr By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1999 Awards, All Movie Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, François Chalais Award

1999 Cannes Film Festival – François Chalais Award Winner and Nominees

1999 Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Award WinnerThe OtherYoussef ChahineEgyptian director Youssef Chahine exposes the links between power and fanaticism and denounces intolerance in this bitter portrait of the Egyptian business world, where unconditional drive ...Amazon
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18Apr By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
2000 Awards, All Movie Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, François Chalais Award

2000 Cannes Film Festival – François Chalais Award Winner and Nominees

2000 Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Award WinnerKippurAmos GitaiThe film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. ...Amazon
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18Apr By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
2001 Awards, All Movie Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, François Chalais Award

2001 Cannes Film Festival – François Chalais Award Winner and Nominees

2001 Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Award WinnerMade in the USASólveig AnspachThe history of the execution of Odell Barnes in Texas, on March 1, 2000. The movie, based on testimonies of family, friends and lawyers, aims at demonstrating that O. Barnes did not receive...Amazon
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18Apr By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
2002 Awards, All Movie Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, François Chalais Award

2002 Cannes Film Festival – François Chalais Award Winner and Nominees

2002 Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Award WinnerMarooned in IraqBahman GhobadiDuring the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the ...Amazon
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18Apr By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
2003 Awards, All Movie Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, François Chalais Award

2003 Cannes Film Festival – François Chalais Award Winner and Nominees

2003 Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Award WinnerS21: The Khmer Rouge Killing MachineRithy PanhA unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards.Amazon
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