Lindsay Lohan fails to keep her date with Toronto Film Festival

Lindsay Lohan had been scheduled to appear at the Toronto Film Festival but there was a sudden change in plans – some attributed it to her criminal record. She was to appear at nightclub Set to promote her upcoming psychological thriller “Inconceivable.”
However, an organizer of the event informed that the appearance was canceled almost at the last minute because “the timing did not work out for everyone to get to Toronto.” That is the official reason given.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 12 September 2015.

There was speculation that Lindsay Lohan cannot enter Canada because of her past skirmishes with the law. Canada is pretty strict about that and, it is not easy to get in if anyone has any type of record.
Another reason doing the rounds is that she refused to travel to Toronto unless she was flown first class from Europe, and the movie budget was not in a position to accommodate the request.
Anyway, in 2007 she had pleaded guilty to drunk driving and misdemeanor cocaine use. Lohan has also had issues violating her probation. As per provisions of Canada laws – if anyone has been convicted of driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs, the individual would probably be found criminally inadmissible in Canada.
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"Labyrinth of Lies" by debutante filmmaker Giulio Ricciarelli to be Germany’s entry for the Foreign Language film at Oscars

Debutante filmmaker Giulio Ricciarelli’s feature “Labyrinth of Lies” will be Germany’s entry for the Foreign Language film at Oscar. The movie, distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics, is about a young public prosecutor, Johann Radmann, who sets out in the 1950s to expose the full story behind the mass killings at Auschwitz.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 27 August 2015.

Alexander Fehling would be in the role of Radmann – he won the Bavarian Film Award for best actor for this role. The decision to send this film was taken by an independent nine-member jury appointed by German Films, and the jury has described the film as a “precisely researched” drama that is both “gripping and touching”.
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