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(IFFR).The award is the result of years of collaboration between IFFR and VPRO
An audience jury composed of five film lovers determines which film they think deserves to be shown in movie theaters across the Netherlands
village bordering Iran and Afghanistan, where complicated entanglements occur when an exiled Iranian teacher finds himself helping a refugee
Afghan family fleeing the Taliban.The winners of the Dutch festival were announced on Friday
the terrorist organization Boko Haram has led strikes against the villages and people of the Far North Region of Cameroon
Today, this constant threat of violence has woven itself into daily existence.In her profoundly affecting debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou
follows a group of children as they carve out their own worlds amid the dangers of armed conflict
Her classmate, Ibrahim, and his older brother, Mohamad, struggle with balancing their boyhood energy and a traumatic past that strays them
from their eight and 11-year-old innocence.Raingou, a native of the Far North Region herself, approaches her young subjects with a delicate
and unobtrusive observance, allowing them to dictate the reality of their surroundings through their own words, movements and perspectives
The result is a distinct and profound study of the contrasts of a war zone: hope and despair, innocence and terrorism, the present and
future, western influence and traditional culture.As the children prepare for school, gunshots ring out in the distance
In the schoolyard, amidst soccer games and jump rope, military servicemen patrol the edges of the frame
