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Unknown woman no more SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain - Chinese director Xu Jinglei on Saturday took the Best Director prize at the 52nd San Sebastian Film Festival for her touching movie, Letters From An Unknown Woman.  RED LETTER DAY: Chinese director-actress Xu Jinglei took home the Best Director prize at the 52nd San Sebastian Film Festival. The movie, based on a novel by Austrian author Stefan Zweig, was among three entries that were made by female directors. Xu also stars in the movie opposite veteran actor Jiang Wen. Letter is her second film as director after the acclaimed My Father And I. Iran's Bahman Ghobadi won the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) award for Turtles Can fly, about Iraqi children struggling to survive in a refugee camp. It is the first-ever film made about Iraqi Kurdish children. Danish beauty Connie Nielsen was crowned Best Actress for her role in Brothers, about the effects of war on a family whose father is sent to Afghanistan. Her co-star Ulrich Thomsen was named Best Actor. The Best Screenplay accolade was for Omagh, Irishman Pete Travis' film about an attack carried out in Northern Ireland in 1998. -- AFP ¡¡ |
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