FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, Lana Wachowski, left, and Andy Wachowski, center, co-writers and co-directors of "Cloud Atlas," look on as Chinese actress and cast member Zhou Xun, right, speaks during a press conference held ahead of the movie's China premiere in Beijing, China. Nearly 40 minutes has been chopped from China’s version of the soon-to-be-released Hollywood film “Cloud Atlas,” deleting both gay and straight love scenes to satisfy local censors despite a movie-going public that increasingly chafes at censorship. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, Lana Wachowski, left, and Andy Wachowski, center, co-writers and co-directors of "Cloud Atlas," look on as Chinese actress and cast member Zhou Xun, right, speaks during a press conference held ahead of the movie's China premiere in Beijing, China. Nearly 40 minutes has been chopped from China’s version of the soon-to-be-released Hollywood film “Cloud Atlas,” deleting both gay and straight love scenes to satisfy local censors despite a movie-going public that increasingly chafes at censorship. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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In this Jan. 16, 2013 photo, moviegoers and journalists watch the latest James Bond 007 movie "Skyfall" during the movie's premiere ceremony at a cinema in Beijing, China. China’s version of the 007 movie deleted a bloody scene showing a French hitman slaying a Chinese security guard and changed the subtitles of Bond’s conversation with a young woman to expunge any mention of prostitution. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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A sculpture of an adult female bison worked from a large piece of mammoth tusk dates at least 21,000 years old, discovered at Zaraysk, Osetr Valley, Russia, is seen on display in an exhibition 'Ice Age Art : arrival of the modern mind' at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The exhibition present masterpieces create from the last Ice Age between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, drawn from across Europe, by artists with modern minds and presented alongside modern works to illustrate the fundamental human desire to communicate and make art as a way of understanding ourselves and our place in the world. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Visitors look at sculptures of pregnant women on display in an exhibition 'Ice Age Art : arrival of the modern mind' at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The exhibition present masterpieces create from the last Ice Age between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, drawn from across Europe, by artists with modern minds and presented alongside modern works to illustrate the fundamental human desire to communicate and make art as a way of understanding ourselves and our place in the world. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A visitor looks at a small figure of a woman sculptured from mammoth ivory around 23,000 year ago, discovered at Lespugue cave, Haute-Garonne, France, on display in an exhibition 'Ice Age Art : arrival of the modern mind' at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The exhibition present masterpieces create from the last Ice Age between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, drawn from across Europe, by artists with modern minds and presented alongside modern works to illustrate the fundamental human desire to communicate and make art as a way of understanding ourselves and our place in the world. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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An oldest known portrait of a woman, left, a miniature sculptured from mammoth ivory dates at least 27,000 old, and a sketched human face engraved on a flake of mammoth ivory, both discovered at Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic are seen on display in an exhibition 'Ice Age Art : arrival of the modern mind' at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The sculpture The exhibition present masterpieces create from the last Ice Age between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, drawn from across Europe, by artists with modern minds and presented alongside modern works to illustrate the fundamental human desire to communicate and make art as a way of understanding ourselves and our place in the world. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A visitor looks at a small male figure sculptured from a large mammoth tusk dates around 27,000 years ago, discovered at Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic next to a skeleton of a man, on display in an exhibition 'Ice Age Art : arrival of the modern mind' at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The exhibition present masterpieces create from the last Ice Age between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, drawn from across Europe, by artists with modern minds and presented alongside modern works to illustrate the fundamental human desire to communicate and make art as a way of understanding ourselves and our place in the world. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Backdropped by a reflection of Henri Matisse's 1950 painting 'Grand nu', a sculpture of nude created in baked clay dates from between 31,000 and 27,000 years ago, discovered at Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic is seen on display in an exhibition 'Ice Age Art : arrival of the modern mind' at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The sculpture The exhibition present masterpieces create from the last Ice Age between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, drawn from across Europe, by artists with modern minds and presented alongside modern works to illustrate the fundamental human desire to communicate and make art as a way of understanding ourselves and our place in the world. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A mammoth ivory sculpture depicts a man with a lion's head, discovered at Stadel Cave, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, dates to around 40,000 years ago is seen on display in an exhibition 'Ice Age Art : arrival of the modern mind' at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The exhibition present masterpieces create from the last Ice Age between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, drawn from across Europe, by artists with modern minds and presented alongside modern works to illustrate the fundamental human desire to communicate and make art as a way of understanding ourselves and our place in the world. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Director: Film on Egypt's Jews cleared for showing
CAIRO (
AP) — The director of a documentary on Egypt's Jewish community says authorities have lifted a ban on showing the film in local cinemas.
Amir Ramses said Wednesday on his Twitter account that the film will be screened in movie theaters starting March 27.
The "Jews of Egypt" follows the lives of the Egyptian Jewish community in the 20th century until they left in large numbers under duress in the 1950s. It was screened in Egypt last year in a private film festival after it was approved by censorship, a regular procedure in Egypt.
Last week, the movie's producer, Haytham el-Khamissy, said he heard from the chief censor that a security agency he did not name asked to view the film before granting it a license to be shown in theaters.
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