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At Genoa's Voci Nell'Ombra Festival, actors receive awards for dubbing famous stars in Italian. Also, California's canine mayor and why diplomacy can work better in a sauna.

We bring you the film awards ceremony with a difference. The actors at the Voci Nell'Ombra Festival in Genoa receive awards for their performance dubbing famous stars in Italian. Also, meet Max, the four-legged Mayor of a Californian town and why diplomacy can work better in a sauna.

Presenter: Valerie Sanderson.
Music composer: Iona Hampson

(Photo: Roberto Chevalier receives his award. Credit: Marco Dragonetti/Voci Nell'Ombra Festival)

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