Reuters - At this year's Toronto International Film Festival, the war movies are all wearing camouflage.

Film News: 'Baader,' 'Wave,' 'Blossoms' on shortlist -- Uli Edel's terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof Complex," Dennis Gansel's box office hit "The Wave" and Doris Doerrie's "Cherry Blossoms" have made the short list to compete as Germany's candidate for the foreign-language film Oscar.

Film Festivals: Distributor takes U.S. rights -- Strand Releasing has grabbed U.S. rights to one of the best-received pics on the fest circuit, Terence Davies' "Of Time and the City."

Bill Nighy returns in the role of Viktor, the lead vampire of the Underworld movie series, in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Nighy, a vampire fan, never dreamed he'd be...

Sept. 7-8 The world as seen through the eyes of a precocious 9-year-old named Eugenia (Lucia Snieg, below) coping with her drug-addicted, pregnant mother (Vera Fogwill, who also directs). This 2005 feature from Argentina is character rich, unexpectedly funny, and a powerful statement about redefining family. Sun 1 p.m., Mon 7 p.m. $5. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline. ...

Film News: Academy selects 44 films for awards -- France and the U.K. are leading the European Film Academy's initial selection for potential nominations for this year's European Film Awards.

The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City Board of Directors approved $10,500 in new ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Award funding for nine projects by local artists. Grants in the Inspiration category support projects that will have significant impact on an artists' career, cultivate creativity and contribute to the artistic vibrancy of Kansas City.

Word of mouth about Danny Boyle's newest film Slumdog Millionaire has been good to say the least following its screening at Telluride. Fox Searchlight is taking advantage of the good buzz prior to its world premiere at Toronto by releasing this new clip.

Film Festivals: 'Hurt Locker' focuses on Iraq bomb squad -- The Iraq war dominated the day at the venice film Festival, where the world preem of Kathryn Bigelow's high-adrenalin bomb squad actioner "The Hurt Locker" gave the Lido a jolt and proposed itself as the Iraq pic that might break through to American auds.

Film News: Australian pic stars Frances O'Connor -- U.K. sales shingle Bankside Films has boarded Oz pic "Blessed," Ana Kokkinos' contemporary urban drama about the misadventures of six children over a 48 hour period.