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2006 Cannes film awards favour war stories
Stories of combat and colonialism took centre stage at this year's Cannes Film Festival, sweeping the top awards at the expense of less militant fare.
U.K. director Ken Loach (pictured below) was recognised for his film ``The Wind That Shakes the Barley,'' a violent account of the Irish struggle for independence from British rule in the 1920s, which won the main Palme d'Or award. The runner-up Grand Prix went to Bruno Dumont's ``Flandres'' (``Flanders'') about a young man's enlistment in a......
