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I thought it would be interesting to look at the films by the nationality of the directors, to see what the demographics are like this year. I was surprised to find that there are more American-born directors than French, and that the Latin American contingent was so large. While the selection includes films by Turkish and Israeli directors, there aren't any African-directed films in the features category.





Folman and Ceylan constitute the Middle Eastern category; I wasn't sure how to classify them. Atom Egoyan I put down as Canadian, where he was educated and where Adoration was shot, but he was born in Egypt.