Israel’s Hanna Laslo took the best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival. “I want to share this prize with my mom, who is a Holocaust survivor,” Laslo, 52, said in accepting the honor Saturday night for her role in “Free Zone,” an Israeli road movie about Jewish-Arab coexistence. “Also, to the victims on the Arab and Palestinian side,” adding, “It’s time we sit and try to solve the problem.”
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