Czech film "A Little Piece of Heaven" by Peter Nikolaev and James Longley's "Iraq in Fragments" took the 30th Cleveland International Film Festival's Eastern European Film Competition and the Documentary Film Competition prizes respectively over the weekend. The fest took place in Cleveland March 16 - 26. Also taking accolades were Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar's doc "A Lion in the House" (special jury award), and Ian Inaba's "American Blackout" (The Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film Competition). Radu Mihaileanu's "Live and Become" won the audience award. indieWIRE will publish an extended winners and festival article later this week. ...
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