Dutch Film on Radicalism Wins Prize
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Dutch Film on Radicalism Wins Prize
2 hours, 13 minutes ago
By The Associated Press
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch film "Stand Van De Maan," which
addresses increasing Islamic radicalism in Indonesia, won the top
prize at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.
The festival is billed as the world's largest documentary festival,
with more than 200 films shown over two weeks in Amsterdam theaters.
"Stand Van De Maan (Shape of the Moon)," directed by Leonard Retel
Helmrich, recorded the story of an Indonesian Christian woman who
leaves Jakarta for the countryside to avoid growing unemployment and
increasingly fundamentalist Islamic sentiment in the city.
Also on Friday, a new youth film prize went to "Nabila," about a young
Muslim woman in Sweden who faces conflicts over her burgeoning career
as a rapper.
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"Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death
of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor
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Agamemnon
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