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'Traffic' banned

"Traffic," the Oscar award winning film by Steven Soderbergh has been banned for public screening in Sri Lanka by the Interim Committee of the Public Performance Board. "Traffic" which stars Michael Douglas and Catherene Zeta Jones won four Academy awards including the award for best direction.

Meanwhile, it is also learnt that the same committee had banned four Dutch films which were scheduled to be screened at the Annual Netherlands Film Festival from July 2.

An Executive Committee member of the Sri Lanka Film Critics and Journalists Forum, which is co-organising the film festival said this was a very peculiar act seen nowhere in the world as films to be screened at a festival are not subjected to a ban.

The member cited that after the banning of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander in 1988, this was the first time a film listed for a festival was banned.

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