New York's Largest Film Festival Showcased Films From 41 Countries
Updating Time:2008-6-5 17:07:54
By Carolyn Weaver
New York
05 May 2008
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.

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
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