Saudi Arabia — a country without cinemas — holds film festival
                   
iht.com     May 21, 2008            

It was a far cry from the glamour of Cannes' film festival: No celebrities strutting their stuff; an all-male audience quenching its thirst with coffee and juice rather than champagne; and if any women spectators showed up, well, no one knew. They came in through a back entrance into a separate... [read full story]                    


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