Film festival picks Western Sahara film as winner
Norway's biggest film festival picked yesterday the film 'Sons of the Clouds' as the best film.
Published 23 October 2012
The Spanish movie 'Sons of the Clouds' was last night awarded the Bergen International Film Festival's (BIFF), Checkpoint award.
Find more at the BIFF's webpages (in Norwegian).
Asria Taleb Mohamed, refugee from Western Sahara, took the stage to represent the issue at the award ceremony in Bergen Cinema.
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