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It's dangerous to generalize about an event as vast and sprawling, and with such disparate elements, as the European Union Film Festival , although the temptation to do just that is well nigh irresistible.

When Jacques Audiard began his ambitious project about an illiterate young French thug's rite of passage, he wanted to name it after Bob Dylan's song Gotta Serve Somebody .

The 40th International Film Festival of India opens Monday in Goa with Chinese historical epic "Wheat" by director He Ping and closes December 3 with Pedro Almodovar's dark love story "Broken Embraces." Sir Ben Kingsley is expected to be the guest of honor at the opening ceremony with chief guest, veteran actress Waheeda Rehman.

And the Oscar for Most Prolific Composer of 2009 goes to: Alexandre Desplat. The Paris-born composer has written music for nine films over the past 12 months, six of which are potentially eligible in this year's round of awards-giving and two of which are presumably major contenders for next year's honors.

In the early 1960s, Clouzot, a manip ulative control-freak, decided to go all new wave with a hallucinatory psychological thriller, L'Enfer , starring Romy Schneider, below.

Jessica Hausner's "Lourdes" and Urszula Antoniak's "Nothing Personal," two rewardingly thoughtful works by budding femme auteurs, took the top Golden and Silver Giraldillo at a lively 6th Seville European Film Festival.

From left, French actors Adel Bencherif, Leila Bekhti and Niels Arestrup, director Jacques Audiard and actors Tahar Rahim, Hichem Yacoubi and Reda Kateb, pose during a photo call for the film A Prophet during the 62nd Cannes film festival in May.

The EFAs are only 20 years old, a novice awards organization really, but their prizes offer up a rich variety of films, languages and genres.

Los Angeles 'Slumdog Millionaire' has not yet finished its victorious run at award ceremonies as the Mumbai-based potboiler has picked up five nods at the 2009 European Film Awards.

Home : Features : Movies : 'A Prophet' Leads European Film Awards In Nominations 'A Prophet' Leads European Film Awards In Nominations 9-Nov-2009 Written by: Justin Key Six nominations for the French film.

Jacques Audiard's acclaimed prison drama shortlisted for six awards, including best film, best director and best actor for newcomer Tahar Rahim Prison break a newcomer Tahar Rahim is shortlisted for the best actor award for his performance in jail saga Un ProphA te The signs all point to Un ProphA te at next month's European film awards.

Jacques Audiard's prison thriller "A Prophet" leads the nominations for this year's European Film Awards -Europe's equivalent of the Oscars - with six mentions.

The 38th French film festival "French Cinepanorama" will be held from Nov. 27 to Dec.

MEL Gibson and Bruce Davey have sold their Britain-based international sales and distribution company, Icon.

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French prison drama A Prophet has won the first-ever best film prize at the London Film Festival.

Israeli Yoav Shamir won the Grierson prize for documentary for "Defamation" [ hashmatza ], a look at anti-Semitism around the world, at the London Film Festival Wednesday evening.

UN PROPHETE is a wonderfully written and brilliantly directed French epic and thanks to a blistering performance by newcomer Tahar Rahim, its 150 minute length will fly by making it certainly one of the best films of the year.

Hard-hitting French prison drama "A Prophet" won the first-ever best film prize at the London Film Festival on Wednesday.

French prison drama "A Prophet" won the inaugural best picture award at the London film festival Wednesday, going one better than in Cannes where it was runner-up to Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon." Jacques Audiard directed the gritty thriller about Malik, a young man who is sentenced to six years in prison and must use his ingenuity to survive ...