Sentence examples for foreign festival from inspiring English sources

But despite suspicion of the motives of foreign festival juries, the sheer popularity of A Separation meant the authorities had little choice but to put Farhadi's film forward for the Oscars.

But in spite of this, I have long experienced niggling guilt over my failure to try being a music tourist in my own country, a feeling that grows each time I return from covering an exotic foreign festival.

There have been 67 Edinburgh Festivals, but this year's represents a first and a last: the arts jamboree has never before overlapped with a Commonwealth Games in the rival city of Glasgow, and if Scotland votes yes to independence next month Edinburgh will cease to be part of the UK cultural scene and become a "foreign" festival like the one in Avignon.

They are trying to get the world's attention through what Khadija Hamdi, their culture minister, calls a "cultural war" with Morocco.The Sahrawi capacity for patience becomes clear when the buses pull up at 2am seven hours late and refugee hosts, some with weary-looking children, greet around 200 foreign festival-goers, take them to their tents (known as haimas) and serve them dinner.

The foreign festivals are now as heavily promoted in the UK as domestic ones.

Art-house films from Latin America which make a splash at foreign festivals like San Sebastian don't always succeed at home.

Films exploring the grim realities of Chinese life (sometimes funded by foreign countries) have won accolades at foreign festivals in the past decade.

Clubbing in Hvar, Croatia; foreign festivals; hitching using car-share and lift-share apps and websites (BlaBlaCar.com, festivalBUDI.com, etc).

Unlike some foreign festivals, which are run by Brits, the Greeks seem to be doing it their way.

His influence on German opera and ballet was at its height during his period in Wuppertal, and his work at numerous foreign festivals ensured his international reputation.

An ancillary accusation was that he was too western a director, making films about the Indian poor for middle-class audiences at foreign festivals.