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    Silver Lion for "Women Without Men"  Sep 17, 2009
    MUNICH, Germany, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Women Without Men, the first feature film by photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat, has won the Silver Lion for best director at the Venice Film Festival. The film, which is based on Shahrnush Parsipur's novel of the same name, also received two other awards the same week - the UNICEF film prize and Italy's Premio Mimmo Rotella. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    * Samuel Maoz comes top at Venice  Sep 14, 2009
    Iranian video artist Shirin Neshat for Women Without Men ... Iranian filmmaker and photographer Shirin Neshat snared the Silver Lion for best director for her feature debut with Zanan Bedoone Mardan (Women Without Men). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)

    'Lebanon' by Israeli Samuel Maoz wins Golden Lion in Venice  Sep 13, 2009
    " Ford's film about a gay professor mourning the death of his partner is an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's landmark 1964 novel. "A Single Man," a first film for former Gucci designer Ford, 48, offers a moving snapshot of life as a homosexual more than four decades ago. Iranian photographer and visual artist Shirin Neshat won the Silver Lion for best director for "Women Without Men. " Her directorial debut dissects Iranian society at the time of the 1953 CIA-backed coup that overturned the... (Channelnewsasia.com)




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