Monty Python's Life of Brian that the council had not seen the film, and had based their opinion on what they had been told by the Nationwide Festival of Light, a grouping with an evangelical Christian base, of which they knew nothing. Some bans continued into the 21st century. In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival. In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year-old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth had finally been lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones
A Brand New Life (2009 film) A Brand New Life (2009 film) A Brand New Life () is a 2009 film. The film is the debut feature of the director Ounie Lecomte, who directed and wrote this film. Loosely based on Lecomte's own experience, "A Brand New Life" is set in Seoul in 1975, and is about a girl who is left in a Catholic orphanage by her father, and her struggle to adjust to her new life. "A Brand New Life" was released in South Korea on October 29, 2009. The film grossed over US$167,776, and was well received by critics. It won several awards