Niagara Falls is playing host to a new film festival, this one putting a spotlight on the struggles people are facing around the world. The first year DareDevil Film Festival will take place from ...

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The growing obsession over the film festival standing ovation and the reaction to it from the stars has — for some — become a source of ridicule. Was it 12 or 13 minutes long? Did anyone famous cry?

That is the demand of the BBC, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters, in a short film intended to demonstrate the importance of giving foreign media access to the war zone. Israel ...