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Iranian drama ‘A Tale of Shemroon’ scoops top prize At Marrakech – Deadline

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Iranian director Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi’s feature directorial debut A Tale Of Shemroon won the top Étoile d’Or—the Festival Grand Prize – at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday. The feature, which was among 14 first and second films competing in the festival’s main competition, world premiered in the San Sebastian’s New Directors section earlier this … Read more

Shehan Karunatilaka scoops Booker Prize for genre-busting second novel

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The Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his genre-defying second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Set in 1990 amid the violence and chaos of the Sri Lankan civil war, the novel follows Maali Almeida — a war photographer, gambler, gay man and self-described “slut” — as he … Read more