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Feature: Funny or controversial, documentary films garner attention at Toronto festival

by Huang Xiaoyun, Xinhua writer Yang Shilong

TORONTO, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Some of them are really funny, some are deadly controversial, but the effect is the same -- documentary films have garnered unprecedented attention at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

"The Topp Twins", a film about New Zealand's finest lesbian country-and-western singers, on Saturday took the People's Choice Awards for documentary film. And the first runner-up was " Capitalism: a Love Story," the most recent piece of the controversial yet well-recognized Michael Moore from the United States.

It was the first time ...

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