Environmental international film festival opens in Brazil

An international film festival featuring movies with ecological themes opened in Cidade De Goias, Brazil with a projection of an Oscar-winning US documentary about a Japanese slaughter of dolphins.

The Cove, which came out last year, is a tense investigation exposing the illicit killing of dolphins to sell their flesh as "whale meat", prized in Japanese restaurants.

The picture leads a list of 28 movies from a dozen countries to be shown at the festival, considered the biggest of its type in Latin America. Subjects range from global warming to industrial pollution to endangered species.

The winner will receive a prize of $132,000 (€110,484), the organisers said.