Borat flies the flag for Kazakhstan

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has been one of the unqualified popular successes…

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has been one of the unqualified popular successes of the festival, despite a projection problem that caused its midnight world premiere to be postponed for a night.

The evening began in style - well, what passes for Borat style - as star Sacha Baron Cohen arrived in an ox-cart pulled by women dressed as peasants. When the technical hitch happened, Cohen took to the stage and ad-libbed to appease the masses.

Lending support was the equally publicity-shy Michael Moore, in Toronto to show early footage of his US health system documentary, Sicko. Why was Moore up so late? "I never go to bed," he told a Toronto paper. "You can't sleep these days if you're an American."