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American musician stars in top film at African film festival
A French-Senegalese director’s film about a man who knows he will die at the end of the day took the top prize Saturday at Africa’s largest film festival, Fespaco in Burkina Faso. “Aujourd’hui” (Today) by director Alain Gomis follows Satche, played by American hip hop musician and slam poet Saul…
French-speaking existentialist cat sweeps feline film festival
The moody reflections of an existentialist French-speaking feline has taken top honors at an al fresco festival in Minnesota dedicated to cat videos from around the world. More than 10,000 people filled a field outside the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis after sunset Thursday for its inaugural Cat Video Festival, thought to be…
Internet cats can haz film festival
Fans of Surprised Kitten and Keyboard Cat will get to commiserate off-line this August with their own film festival, the Los Angeles Times reports. The first Internet Cat Video Film Festival will take place in Minneapolis, Minn. Aug. 30, in what organizer Katie Czarniecki Hill said is a social experiment.…
Two Cuban actors to seek U.S. asylum
Two Cuban cast members of an award-winning film who disappeared en route to New York for a film festival have emerged in Miami and will apply for political asylum in the United States. “In Cuba, we were talking about it, to stay,” actor Javier Nunez Florian told the Miami-based, Spanish-language channel America TeVe in an interview that aired late Friday, appearing alongside…
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