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World Service,16 Oct 2012,18 mins

Eran Riklis on his film Zaytoun

The Strand

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Anna McNamee. Zaytoun Film Director Eran Riklis discusses his film Zaytoun, the story of an Israeli Pilot who crashes in Lebanon during the 1982 war, and then must enlist the help of a Palestinian boy to return home. Rosy Future for Tunisian Artists? As their group show opens in Berlin, artists who experienced or were directly involved in Tunisia's January 2011 revolution reflect on the subsequent development of public space art and the reasons why - good and bad. Iranian Computer Games Siavash is a computer game inspired by a Persian epic poem. Hossein Sharif explains why ambitious Iranian games such as this struggle to make an impact on their home market. Photo: © EitanRiklis

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