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| | Different Worlds Invade the Twin Cities; The 22nd Minneapolis & St. Paul Film Festival |
 | | Other celebrated films of the like included the Swedish-Finnish feature, "Elina: As I Wasn't There" and the mid-fest gala screening of "Presence," a documentary about the great Swedish photographer, Georg Oddner, as directed by the great Swedish filmmaker, Jan Troell, who was present himself for the screening. |
 | | On the other side of the world, both geographically and cinematically, "Alexei and the Spring" moves subtly through Budische, Belarus, a town abandoned by all of its non-elder residents, sparing the thirty-something young man Alexei, after the nearby Chernobyl nuclear disaster. |
 | | Unlike other overly narrated documentaries of people who are much exoticized in Western culture, "Asshak" lets the Tuareg themselves, the desert landscapes and skies, and the camels do the talking. |
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