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...Fonda and Viggo Mortensen were all for a boycott. Politics aside (which it never is at a film festival), the protesters ignored Israel's recent emergence as a vital national cinema - and that many of the country's prize-winning films, from The Band's Visit to Waltz with Bashir, take a complex humanist approach to Arab-Israeli relations. That is certainly the case with Samuel Maoz's Lebanon, which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and was one of Toronto's unarguable hits. (See TIME's Photos: Waltz With Bashir, and Other Animated Films For Adults...
...Like Bashir director Ari Folman, Maoz served in the 1982 Israeli-Lebanon war; his film is a survivor's haunted memory of that conflict. Except for the opening and closing shots of a field of sunflowers, the entire film takes place in an Israeli tank holding four very nervous soldiers. The only view to the streets outside is through the gunsight aimed at insurgents and civilians. Which ones to shoot at? Which ones to save? Imprisoning the audience with the soldiers may be a gimmick, but it's an inspired one: the viewer wants both to stay inside - shielding them...
...affected," says former special adviser Owen. The star guests at the Sept. 1 celebration in Tripoli to mark the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Gaddafi to power were two of the world's most controversial leaders: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Sudan's Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Western leaders were notable by their absence. (Read "Lockerbie Bomber's Release Casts a Shadow Over Gaddafi Celebration...
...follow the details in a country like Sudan.' OMAR HASSAN AL-BASHIR, the nation's President, saying the country's size prevents him from being able to keep tabs on everything. Bashir, who was indicted by the International Criminal Court in March, has thus far eluded prosecution...
Read: "The Case Against Omar al-Bashir...