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Strasbourg, France: Sri Lankan director Lalith Rathnayake's "Riverstone", about one man's mountain road trip to his kangaroo court execution, won the top prize Tuesday at France's Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema. The feature, one of nine fiction films...

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