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A stirring film about war vets tackling a Himayalan peak, a tale of dogged environmental stewardship unfolding in extremely cold climes, a about mustangs in the West. These were some of the themes of the movies named “best” during Sunday’s closing night at the 8th International Film Festival. The are….

Best “Call 2 Action” feature (and winner, too, of the People’s Choice Award): “High Ground,” about U.S. war vets braving a 20,000 feet and facing the wounds, physical and emotional, of the war.
Best Action Film: “Chasing Ice.” ’s -victorious portrait of and his project of tracking the retreat of North American glaciers.
Best Short Documentary: “Incident in New Baghdad.” The Oscar-nominated short offers a profile of former soldier , whose sense of the war and mission was changed irrevocably by a July 2007 event made infamous in video of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack released by in 2010.
Best Feature Film: “Monsieur Lazhar.” Despite an aggravating problem common to subtitled films (the white type on light background issue), this Oscar-nominated film about an Algerian refugee who becomes a substitute teacher in a traumatized Montreal elementary school class resonated.
Best Short: “A finger two dots then me.” Poet ’s stirring performance of his titular poem gets luminous treatment by the Holechek Brothers.
Best Documentary: “Wild Horse, Wild Ride” follows a few of the equine and human beneficiaries of a program that puts 100 rounded-up mustangs with 100 trainers, who then compete in the annual Extreme Mustang Makeover Challenge.


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