The fest will feature retrospectives of films by Bernardo Bertolucci and Costa Gavras, as well as a program devoted to Dutch cinema.

Based on the novel by Nicolai Lilin, the film is set in the ghetto of Soviet Russia and follows 2 boys who are members of a gang of exiled Siberians.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is loathed in parts of Europe for her insisting on painful austerity measures in Greece, Spain and Italy.

China says Li Keqiang choice of India for his first trip abroad shows the importance Beijing attaches to improving relations with New Delhi.

The government last week said it had barred the Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia from holding its annual congress in Kairouan.

The European Union said it would closely watch developments affecting non-governmental organizations in Russia.

Egyptian police was enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula.

Opposition groups say militants from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement are fighting alongside government forces.

The film is telling of the relationship between a troubled native American vet and his equally idiosyncratic therapist.