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Another Golden Lion option at Venice this year, there are obvious comparisons between this debut and such recent examples as Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir, the difference is this first time filmmaker actually remembers the war.

Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...

Completing the five noms, there's Florin Serban's Berlin Film Festival-winning If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Film Movement) along with Germany's Feo Aladag's When We Leave (Olive Films) and overwhelming 2009 Locarno winning favorite in Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal (Olive Films).

As of today, their top three consists of the Golden Lion winning film from Samuel Maoz (Lebanon), the Palme d'or winning Michael Haneke's White Ribbon and Cannes' Grand Prize winning Jacques Audiard's A Prophet.

Award season is among us on both sides of the Atlantic. Today the European Film Academy handed out their annual awards in Tallinn, Estonia and the big winner of the evening was Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer, claiming six awards, including Best Picture. Lebanon Israeli's Golden Lion winner of 2009, collected a pair: the award for European discovery, handed out to first time directors ("it's an honor being discovered when you're close to 50", said 48 year old director Samuel Maoz upon receiving the award), and the award for Best Cinematography, handed to Giora Bejach, for his extraordinary work, shooting an (almost) entire film from the POV of a tank.