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NZ's Night Shift misses Cannes award
New Zealand filmmaker Zia Mandviwalla's Night Shift has missed out on the Short Film Palme d'Or.
Night Shift, about an airport cleaner trying to make it through another long shift, was one of 10 finalists nominated for short film prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
The short film prize went to Turkish director Rezan Yesilbas for Silent, about a woman who wants to visit her husband in prison in 1984 but can't speak another language than Kurdish which was banned at that time.
Austrian director Michael Haneke won the festival's top prize for his feature film about love and death, Amour.The world in pictures
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