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Egypt's veteran film star Omar Sharif (R) shares a light moment with Izzat Abu Auf (R), the president of the Cairo International Film Festival, and fellow Egyptian film star Hussein Fahmi during the Egyptian capital's 30th film festival closing ceremony, 08 December 2006. The Chinese film "Fang Xiang Zhi Lu" (THE ROAD), a politically astute tale of a young girl working on a rural bus line in 1970s China and her struggle to find true love and redemption, directed by Zhang Jiaru, won the best film Golden Pyramid award. AFP PHOTO/AMRO MARAGHI (Photo by AMRO MARAGHI / AFP) (Photo by AMRO MARAGHI/AFP via Getty Images)