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The Canadian film Seven Times Lucky was honored at the sixth annual Method Fest Independent Film Festival Awards, with director Gary Yates' film earning best feature and best screenplay awards. Beautiful Kid was recognized with a best actor award for Dan Brennan, and best actress honors went to Deborah Kara Unger for Emile. Wiktor Grodecki was named best feature director for Insatiability. Special awards also were presented to Chazz Palminteri, Dennis Hopper and Martha Coolidge at Friday's awards dinner at the Castaway Restaurant in Burbank.

LONDON -- The Berlin International Film Festival on Friday disclosed a partial list of films to be screened in its arthouse Panorama section in February, including four titles from the United States and three from Germany. American features named were "How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass" by Mario Van Peebles, "A Letter to True" by Bruce Weber, "Anonymous" by Todd Verow, and "The Graffiti Artist" by James Bolton. German films in the lineup will include "Was Nutzt die Liebe in Gedanken" (Love In Thoughts) by Achim von Borries, "The Stratosphere Girl" by M.X. Oberg, and "The Raspberry Reich" by Bruce LaBruce. Also from Europe will be Denmark's "2 Ryk og en Aflevering" (Kick 'n' Rush) by Aage Rais-Nordentoft, Holland's "Shouf Shouf Habibi!" by Albert Ter Heerdt, and Poland-Czech Republic co-production "Nienasycenie" (Insatiability) by Wiktor Grodecki.