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Cinema Eye Honors has named 10 short documentaries that will compete for their top prize and fully 30% of them screened at this past April's Nashville Film Festival.

Dustin Guy Defa's wonderfully disturbing Family Nightmare, Afarin Eghbal's animated documentary Abuelas, and NaFF winner for Best Documentary Short, Matt Lenski's Meaning of Robots - a documentary about an elderly man's quest to make a robot ...

While not 100% official, yet, it appears that 66 nations will compete for Best Foreign Language Film at 2013 Academy Awards.

Included in that list are three four (see below) films from the 2012 Nashville Film Festival:

France submitted The Intouchables, which won the Southwest Airlines Audience Award for Best Narrative. Slovenia submitted A Trip which won the Best New Director prize. And Thailand submitted Headshot, which was featured ...

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This weekend, you've got two great films to catch here in Nashville (probably available in most major cities). Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me is a funny, touching, awkward, modest little gem. If you're a fan of Birbiglia, it's a must. If you have no idea who he is, you should still check it out. It's a great story about a young comedian finding his footing in life, even while struggling with a relationship that's become more obligatory than passionate and REM ...

NaFF 2012 Southwest Airlines Audience Award Winner for Best Narrative The Intouchables is the official selection of France for the upcoming Academy Awards! With Slovenia's recent selection of A Trip, that's two (and counting, hopefully) films being submitted to the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film. (Read the full story