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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Lemon Tree</title>
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		<title>David di Donatello 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Stanton]]></category>
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2009 David di Donatello Awards
2009 David di Donatello Award nominations: April 9, 2009
2009 David di Donatello Award winners: May 8, 2009
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Matteo Garrone&#8217;s Gomorrah (top photo); Toni Servillo in Il Divo (lower photo)
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Best Film /  miglior film
Il divo
produced by Andrea Occhipinti, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Maurizio Coppolecchia
  directed by Paolo Sorrentino
 Ex
produced by Fulvio Lucisano, Federica Lucisano
  directed by Fausto Brizzi
* Gomorra
produced by Domenico Procacci
  directed by Matteo Garrone
Si può fare
produced by Angelo Rizzoli
  directed by Giulio Manfredonia
Tutta la vita davanti
  produced by Motorino Amaranto &#8211; Medusa
  directed by Paolo Virzì
Best Film from the European Union /  miglior film dell&#8217;Unione Europea
  Entre les murs, by Laurent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEMON TREE: Q&amp;A with Eran Riklis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ali Suliman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doron Tavory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eran Riklis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiam Abbass]]></category>
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Based on actual events, Eran Riklis&#8216; Lemon Tree (no connection to Sandy Tolan&#8217;s novel The Lemon Tree), which opens today in the Los Angeles area, chronicles a Palestinian widow&#8217;s fight to prevent the Israeli army from razing  her lemon grove. The problem is that all those lemon trees are  located right next door to the brand new house &#8212; actually, &#34;fortress&#34; would be a better description &#8212; of the Israeli minister of defense. Security agents have deemed the grove a potential hide-out for terrorists, who could then fire rockets right onto the minister&#8217;s dining table.
Sounds like a political film? Well, sure. Lemon Tree is definitely political. (The real-life case was that of defense minister Shaul Mofaz and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEMON TREE: Q&amp;A with Eran Riklis Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ali Suliman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eran Riklis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiam Abbass]]></category>
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LEMON TREE: Q&#038;A with Eran Riklis Part I
Along those lines, the men in charge in Lemon Tree don&#8217;t come  across in a very positive light. A bossy male security agent demands  the destruction of the lemon grove. A bossy Palestinian man threatens  Salma because of her relationship with her lawyer. The defense minister  is obsessed with his career and may be having an affair with an  assistant. The Palestinian lawyer himself seems to be as interested in  advancing his career as in helping Salma, even though he actually cares  for her.
The two women, however, are both admirable characters. Was  that a conscious decision, to make the women &#8220;stronger&#8221; &#8212; in their  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/los-angeles-jewish-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angie Dickinson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cass Warner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cathy Randall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Reynolds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eran Riklis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sherman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jump]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lainie Kazan]]></category>
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The 4th Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, which runs April 23-30, will kick off with a screening of Joshua Sinclair&#8217;s Jump, starring Ben Silverstone (of the coming-of-age gay drama Get Real) and Patrick Swayze. 
Jump will screen  on Thursday,  April 23, at 8:00 pm at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Based on a real story, the film (co-written by Sinclair and Ryan James) follows the  biased murder trial of the young Jew and future celebrity portrait photographer  Philippe Halsman (Silverstone), who was accused of murdering his father in  late 1920s Austria. Swayze plays the young man&#8217;s Jewish attorney.
Also in the Jump cast: Martine McCutcheon, and veterans Stefanie Powers, Richard Johnson,  and Sybil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia-Pacific Screen Awards 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/asia-pacific-screen-awards-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[63 Years On]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eran Riklis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hiam Abbass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lemon Tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuri Bilge Ceylan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reza Naji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suha Arraf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Prisoner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tulpan]]></category>
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2008 Asia-Pacific Screen Awards
 2008 Asia-Pacific Film Festival: Nov. 2008
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Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy, and written by Dvortsevoy and Gennadi Ostrovsky, Tulpan is set in the steppes of Kazakhstan, where a young man hopes to find himself a wife and settle down as a sheepherder. Times, however, have changed.
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Best Feature Film
  Tulpan
Best Animated Feature Film
  Waltz with Bashir
Best Documentary
  Ggeutnaji Anhmeun Jeon Jaeng (63 Years On)
Jury Grand Prize
  Hongse Kangbaiyin (The Red Awn) and The Prisoner
Achievement in Directing
Nuri Bilge Ceylan &#8211; Three Monkeys
Best Performance by an Actress
Hiam Abbass &#8211; Lemon Tree 
Best Performance by an Actor
  Reza Naji &#8211; The Song of Sparrows 
Best Screenplay
Eran Riklis and Suha Arraf &#8211; Lemon Tree 
Achievement in Cinematography
Lee Mogae [...]]]></description>
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