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New York's Largest Film Festival Showcased Films From 41 Countries


05 May 2008
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The festival featured the documentary "Kassim the Dream" a portrait of boxing champion Kassim Ouma, who struggles with his horrific past as a kidnapped child soldier in Uganda
New York City's largest film event, the Tribeca Film Festival, is screening 120 films this year in theaters around downtown Manhattan. The 12-day festival [which ran through May 4] was created to revive the economy in lower Manhattan after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, and to provide a showcase for films from abroad that might otherwise go unseen in the U.S.  VOA's Carolyn Weaver reports.

 

 

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