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	Children of Heaven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.
		This particular film, for example, is a story of a brother and sister and their adventures over a pair of shoes.
		Homerun, a 2003 Singaporean film by Jack Neo, is an adaptation of Children of Heaven.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Children_of_Heaven (426 words)

	Trailers
		Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist.
		The newest film by Jia Zhangke (called “the world's greatest filmmaker under 40” by The Village Voice) is set in a Beijing theme park where lavish shows are performed amid scaled-down replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, St. Mark’s Square, the Pyramids and even the Twin Towers.
		Bruce Weber's newest film is a stunning look at the affection, loyalty, and unconditional love displayed by Weber's family of gorgeous golden retrievers, including "True", which the filmmaker sees as a metaphor for peace and hope in the world.
	www.zeitgeistfilms.com /trailers.php (461 words)

	Georgia Museum of Art \| Calendar \| Films
		Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, this contemplative film is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death tha becomes a remarkably rich celebration of human dignity and resilience.
		The first film in the Apu trilogy tells the story of Apu as a boy, living with his parents, older sister and ancient aunt in the ancestral village to which his father, a preist, has returned despite the misgivings of Apu's practical mother.
		This landmark film is one of the masterpieces of Germany's Weimar cinema and thrust into the spotlight the unrestrained Marlene Dietrich.
	www.uga.edu /gamuseum/calendar/films.html (262 words)

	Academy - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Academy
		The first academy (in the present-day sense of a recognized society established for the promotion of one or more of the arts and sciences) was the Museum of Alexandria, founded by Ptolemy Soter in the 3rd century
		Charlemagne, at the suggestion of Alcuin, established a school or institute resembling an academy in 796 at St Martin's, Tours.
		To this end, they procured a royal patent for erecting an academy of projectors in Lagado; and the humour prevailed so strongly among the people, that there is not a town of any consequence in the kingdom without such an academy.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /academy (381 words)

	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film is a yearly US award for the best non-English film released in the period October - September in the country of origin.
		The 78th Academy Awards, in general honoring the best in film for 2005, but in this category regarding release in the country of origin in the period October 2004 - September 2005, were held on 5 March 2006.
		Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (release at the country of origin October 2004 - September 2005, ceremony 2006).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film (6505 words)

	Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
		Kyrgyzstan has entered a film this year for the first time and two countries, Lebanon and Morocco, have entered a film for the first time in 20 years.
		Films submitted for Best Foreign Language Film Award consideration may also qualify for Academy Awards in most other categories provided they meet the requirements governing those categories.
		Films not selected to represent countries in the foreign language category can qualify for Oscars in all other narrative feature categories with a seven-day run in any Los Angeles County theater during 1997.
	members.aol.com /reedyb/oscar/categories/foreign.htm (199 words)

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		He studied on Film University in Prague in section of documentary film and finished in 1988.
		His last film "Akumulator 1 (1994)" was the most expensive Czech film of all times and also the most visited film in czech cinemas in 1994.
		In Kolya [an Academy Award-winning tale about the relationship between an aging Czech cellist and a five-year-old Russian boy left behind by his mother on her flight to the West] I was trying to solve my problem of marrying very young, having children shortly [thereafter] and losing freedom.
	www.homestead.com /czechmoviehouse/JAN_SVERAK_INFO_PAGE.html (1028 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language picture, “Beyond Silence” was directed by Caroline Link, who won the award in 2002 for her film “Nowhere in Africa.” 1996.
		Kotov, a military hero of the Revolution, and his family are spending a happy and peaceful summer at a rural retreat when his wife’s former lover suddenly reappears, irrevocably altering the loving relationship between Kotov and his wife as secrets, both new and old, come to light, and deep-seated jealousy bubbles to the surface.
		The film is driven by the tension between May's resentment at what she perceives as her mother's neglect, and her gradual understanding of the political imperatives by which her mother is compelled.
	www.bemidjistate.edu /openborders/ob_videos.htm (2262 words)

	Oscar Nominations Open Rich Opportunities for Foreign Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Films like "Twin Sisters" may make their international debuts at Cannes, Venice or Berlin, but the imprimatur of the Oscars, industry experts say, can make the difference between a box-office also-ran in Brussels or Bangkok and a worldwide hit.
		For instance, Bavaria Film International thought it had a certain Academy Award nominee with "Goodbye, Lenin," the story of an East Berlin teenager's effort to preserve a cozy Communist existence for his ill mother after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		But the film was passed over for a nomination as best foreign language film by the academy two weeks ago in favor of "Twin Sisters"; "Evil," from Sweden; "The Barbarian Invasions," a Canadian film; the Czech "Zelary"; and "The Twilight Samurai," from Japan.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/02/09/movies/oscars/09film.html?ex=1391749200&en=27a99c1911f47083&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (947 words)

	BBC News \| FILM \| Amelie leads record Oscars chase
		Next year's Oscar for best foreign language film will be contested by a record 51 countries.
		Each country can submit one film, and the 51 entrants will be whittled down to five that will be nominated for the award.
		The Academy Award winners will be announced at the most prestigious ceremony of the film industry's year, in Los Angeles, on 24 March.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/1665966.stm (350 words)

	Strong field of foreign language films vie for Oscar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The film tells a beautiful tale of an aristocratic man's quest to figure out which of his granddaughters is his rightful heir.
		Miramax Films recently acquired the movie for U.S. distribution and it won't be played in theaters until after the March 21 awards show.
		The 5,500 Academy members all have an opportunity to serve on the foreign-language film screening committee, which must watch all the entries and ultimately pick the nominees.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/movies/0319foreign.asp?format=print (1038 words)

	Foreign Language Film Award Nominees Symposium \| 76th Academy Awards \| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		The participants in the Foreign Language Film Award Symposium, held in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on February 28.
		From what began as a small and intimate gathering of film directors representing their nominated films in the foreign language film category, this annual forum has turned into an SRO event that is as entertaining as it it informative.
		Each year the Academy invites the five directors to appear live on-stage, accompanied by clips from their nominated foreign language films.
	www.oscars.org /76academyawards/flfs (212 words)

	Five Oscar Nominees: Foreign, Not Alien - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Terry Pheto and Presley Chweneyagae in the director Gavin Hood's "Tsotsi,"; the South African nominee for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
		Early in the South African film "Tsotsi," a member of a street gang stabs a stranger in a crowded subway, in a scene whose chilling vision of urban crime might resonate in New York, Los Angeles or any other city in the world.
		Just as last year's foreign film winner, "The Sea Inside" (from Spain), and the best picture winner, "Million Dollar Baby," both dealt with euthanasia, this year's films are simply embracing common issues that are volatile around the world.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/02/17/movies/redcarpet/17fore.html?ex=1297832400&en=d3536c536dc6b29b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1514 words)

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		His debut movie "Obecna skola (1991)" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
		Film serves it to you on a plate, there is little room for imagination.
		By making a film, I show people this is what's happening in my head when I read this book.
	www.homestead.com /czechmoviehouse/JANSVERAKINFOPAGE.html (1029 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Mongolia's Submission for Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Award)
		Two film students endure nature’s miracles and the windstorms of the Gobi desert to film a drama-documentary that studies the interaction between Mongolian nomad shepherds and their “weeping” camel.
		The film is Davaa and Falorni’s collaborative graduate student thesis project at Munich Film Academy, inspired by the early work of Robert J. Flaherty in films like Nanook of the North (1922) and Man of Aran (1934).
		Beatrix Weasle of Menemsha Films comments about the affects of being nominated for an Oscar for Mongolian films and filmmakers: “To receive an entry in the section of Best Foreign Language Film is a strong advantage for foreign language films for all international markets.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6909 (1187 words)

	De Sica, Vittorio - MSN Encarta
		In 1940 he began to direct films as well as act, and his films were a radical departure from the glamorous settings, characters, and story lines that were popular before World War II.
		Subsequent films with Zavattini included the satirical fantasy Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan, 1951) and Umberto D. (1952), a devastating portrait of a lonely old man in postwar Rome; both films explore the plight of the poor and dispossessed.
		Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1970; Academy Award for best foreign-language film) and Una breve vacanza (A Brief Vacation, 1973) reflect his return to serious themes.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554373/De_Sica_Vittorio.html (350 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Indonesia's Submission for Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Award)
		She did not formally study film, rather she was self-taught.
		Sekar is not only a filmmaker but she is also an accomplished songwriter (which may be why she incorporates music into her film) as well as a painter and an author of a children’s book.
		Under the oppressive Suharto regime, the film industry faced tough censorship laws and as a result very few local films made it to the theaters.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6757 (531 words)

	Lutheran heroine, Sophie Scholl, subject of Academy Award nominee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The film is based on the true story of a woman who was executed in 1943 Germany for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.
		The film was released by Zeitgeist Films and is in German with English subtitles.
		Scholl is described in several accounts of her life as a devout Lutheran who joined the Hitler Youth, but her Christian faith caused her to question policies of the Nazi Regime.
	www.elca.org /ScriptLib/CO/ELCA_News/encBlogPrnt.asp?Blog=40 (128 words)

	Maui Film Festival - FirstLight 2004
		This thriller, Hungary's submission for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is the tale of the strange, dangerous, quirky and comical characters that inhabit the world of Budapest's subways.
		Nominated for a European Film Award for Best Picture, this drama is an extraordinary portrait of a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family, but who also has a secret life helping women induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies.
		Award™, Stella Award™, Navigator Award™, Cosmic Comedy Club™, Stargazing and Salsa™, OMmmmMovies™, The Lotus™, CosmicCafeandCinema™, FirstLight™: Academy Screenings on Maui™, Kauai Film Festival™, and FirstLight™: Academy Screenings on Kauai™ are the intellectual property of Barry Rivers and are licensed for use by the Maui Film Festival, Inc.
	www.mauifilmfestival.com /firstlight/dec_28.htm (289 words)

	An interview with director Gorris
		The last time I spoke with Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris, it was Oscar night two years ago, and she had just received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
		Prior to that, we had met to talk at great length about her nominated film, "Antonia's Line," which is a masterpiece chronicling four generations in the family of an indomitable Dutch woman.
		Dalloway's dissatisfaction with her life is that sometimes she wonders whether she's made the wrong choice, and at the end of the film or the end of the book, she doesn't wonder about that anymore.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V133/N27/05-interview.27d.html (773 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: Sri Lanka's Submission for Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Award)
		Eighty-four year old Lester James Peries is internationally recognized as one of the world’s greatest film directors and considered the father of Sri Lankan cinema.
		This was attributed to the over-production of poor quality films and the restrictive policies of the NFC (National Film Corporation).
		Furthermore, the NFC’s monopoly was put to a stop with the liberalization of the film industry in January 2000.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6754 (583 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Home premiere for Almodovar film
		The film, which finished production in October, is due to be released in Spain on 17 March and begin screening in the US on 23 June.
		Last year, the 54-year-old quit the Spanish Film Academy in a row of voting procedures and how Spain's candidate for the Oscars was chosen.
		His last film Bad Education failed to win anything at Spain's Goya Awards, while The Sea Inside - which went on to win the Oscar for best foreign language film - scooped 14 awards.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4797058.stm (272 words)

	Academy Award-winning foreign-language film 'Tsotsi' is timeless North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Having won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, "Tsotsi" brings Athol Fugard's novel about the mean streets of 1950s South Africa into modern times, updating the story to offer an insightful glimpse of post-apartheid life, from its most violently severe to its most culturally vibrant.
		In "Tsotsi-Taal," the street language of Soweto used in the film, "Tsotsi" is a generic term for thug or gangster.
		All of this action is packed into the movie's opening moments, the remainder of the film slowly revealing the humanity Tsotsi has hidden from the world and even from himself.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2006/03/23/entertainment/movies/9_38_293_22_06.txt (879 words)

	Zeitgeist Films \| Non Theatrical Featured Releases
		Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya.
		An unforgettable film about love, passion and the triumph of the human spirit.
		In the darkest days of World War II a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women: Lilly (aka “Aimée”), a married woman and an exemplar of Nazi motherhood, and Felice (aka “Jaguar”), a member of the Jewish underground.
	www.zeitgeistfilms.com /nontheatrical/featured.php (153 words)

	RelishNow \| Film Briefs
		This film is rated R. • Nowhere in Africa (Feb. 21): A German-Jewish family flees the Nazis and emigrates to Kenya, where an entirely new adventure awaits them.
		The film, which is not rated, is in Arabic and German with English subtitles.
		The film is rated R. • Amores Perros (April 18): This 2000 drama marked the feature debut of director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's and earned an Academy Award nomination as best foreign-language film.
	www.journalnow.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137833697768&path=!entertainment!movies!&s=1037645508976 (814 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Arts Tribune
		She received the Camera D’or (for the best first feature) and the Prix du Publique (for most popular entry) at the Cannes Film Festival.
		This two-hour film revolving around the hilarious and humane events that beset a Punjab wedding in New Delhi and message that the idea was to make a film about a Punjabi family and show the emotion, ribaldry and love of music and dance, so essential to Punjabi culture.
		That the film could adapt so easily for TV was a tribute to the naturalness which Ashok Kumar brought to every role he played.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011214/art-trib.htm (1764 words)

	UCLA International Institute :: Asia at the Oscars: 2004 Foreign Language Film Candidates
		A record entry of 55 foreign films has been submitted for consideration at this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a fifth of them from Asia.
		Each country around the world is allowed to select one film for nomination consideration under certain rules regarding the film’s commercial release in theaters, consistency in the released and nominated version and so forth.
		Voting is restricted to the Academy members who attend all 50+ screenings of each foreign film submitted.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6815 (490 words)

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