When an old woman, Nusret, played by veteran French actress Tsilla Chelton, disappears in a small Black Sea town, her estranged children travel from their homes in Istanbul to find her. The journey and process of finding Nusret unleash... more
The Oscar®-nominated young people's film The Secret of Kells is set against the Norse eighth century and concerns the creation of that foremost illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells. Twelve-year-old Brendan (Evan McGuire) is caught... more
The intense friendship, and later bitter feud, between François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard is told through archival interviews with most of the main characters involved with the French New Wave movement as well as an amazing collecti... more
Although times are tough, the female workers of a provincial toy factory are given new smocks to assure them of their company's stability. When they show up the next day, they're shocked to find the factory empty, its machinery and man... more
"Here" is the less glamorous streets of New York City, and "there" is battle-scarred Belgrade, Serbia. And to director Lungulov’s camera, the two can often look the same. The issue of where one's home truly is lies at the heart of this... more
Tilda Swinton delivers another in a memorable string of fiercely independent-minded performances as Emma, the transplanted Russian wife of a newly anointed Italian textile magnate (Pippo Delbono). Emma throws a birthday dinner for her ... more
A gentle parable of redemption, this Finnish drama is about a minister and the paroled murderess who can't see what he's done for her. Expecting to serve a life sentence, sullen Leila is unexpectedly released and offered a position at ... more
The Other Irene is an odd event in the current landscape of Romanian cinema. Although paying tribute to the aesthetics of the Romanian New Wave, director Gruzsniczki also embraces thriller genre conventions, delivering a distilled susp... more
Calling Skeletons a surrealistic dark comedy barely captures the many charms of writer/director Nick Whitfield's debut feature. Itinerant exorcists Bennett and Davis (Andrew Buckley and Ed Gaughan) are a modern-day Laurel and Hardy mar... more
This charming romantic comedy was Switzerland's top-grossing film of the year. In a Swiss village straight out of a chocolate ad, Rahel Hubli (Marie Leuenberger) works as a civil registrar performing marriages. Although her own marriag... more
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, No One Knows About Persian Cats was co-scripted by Iranian-American
journalist Roxana Saberi, who was imprisoned in Iran last year. A CBGBs T-shirt, a Joy Div... more
Haiti has a castle high atop a mountain outside Port-au-Prince. It is a remnant of colonial power and debauchery hiding in the mists. It is from this height that the president rules. Styling himself an imperial monarch, he rattles para... more
In an impoverished trailer park on the outskirts of Rome, a small band of social outcasts eke out an existence in the dreary Italian winter. Circus performers Patty (Patrizia Gerardi) and Walter (Walter Saabel) wait patiently for the s... more
This brisk ensemble-cast thriller begins as if somebody just kicked over a rock and all the underworld characters in picturesque Barcelona went scurrying. Amid the thieves, hookers, and crooked cops, it's hard to tell the good guys fro... more
After her husband's sudden death, Claire has an intriguing idea: The almost-septuagenarian will reunite "The Sisters of Love," her pop vocal trio of 50 years ago. The other two singers agree, easygoing Magda embracing the plan more qui... more
Seven months into her second marriage in contemporary Cairo, smart and sexy Sun TV presenter Hebba Younes is grappling with a crisis: husband Karim, deputy editor of a popular newspaper, is under some pressure from higher-ups to persua... more
When an old woman, Nusret, played by veteran French actress Tsilla Chelton, disappears in a small Black Sea town, her estranged children travel from their homes in Istanbul to find her. The journey and process of finding Nusret unleash... 
The Oscar®-nominated young people's film The Secret of Kells is set against the Norse eighth century and concerns the creation of that foremost illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells. Twelve-year-old Brendan (Evan McGuire) is caught... 
The intense friendship, and later bitter feud, between François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard is told through archival interviews with most of the main characters involved with the French New Wave movement as well as an amazing collecti... 
Although times are tough, the female workers of a provincial toy factory are given new smocks to assure them of their company's stability. When they show up the next day, they're shocked to find the factory empty, its machinery and man... 
"Here" is the less glamorous streets of New York City, and "there" is battle-scarred Belgrade, Serbia. And to director Lungulov’s camera, the two can often look the same. The issue of where one's home truly is lies at the heart of this... 
Tilda Swinton delivers another in a memorable string of fiercely independent-minded performances as Emma, the transplanted Russian wife of a newly anointed Italian textile magnate (Pippo Delbono). Emma throws a birthday dinner for her ... 
A gentle parable of redemption, this Finnish drama is about a minister and the paroled murderess who can't see what he's done for her. Expecting to serve a life sentence, sullen Leila is unexpectedly released and offered a position at ... 
The Other Irene is an odd event in the current landscape of Romanian cinema. Although paying tribute to the aesthetics of the Romanian New Wave, director Gruzsniczki also embraces thriller genre conventions, delivering a distilled susp... 
Calling Skeletons a surrealistic dark comedy barely captures the many charms of writer/director Nick Whitfield's debut feature. Itinerant exorcists Bennett and Davis (Andrew Buckley and Ed Gaughan) are a modern-day Laurel and Hardy mar... 
This charming romantic comedy was Switzerland's top-grossing film of the year. In a Swiss village straight out of a chocolate ad, Rahel Hubli (Marie Leuenberger) works as a civil registrar performing marriages. Although her own marriag... 
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, No One Knows About Persian Cats was co-scripted by Iranian-American
journalist Roxana Saberi, who was imprisoned in Iran last year. A CBGBs T-shirt, a Joy Div... 
Haiti has a castle high atop a mountain outside Port-au-Prince. It is a remnant of colonial power and debauchery hiding in the mists. It is from this height that the president rules. Styling himself an imperial monarch, he rattles para... 
In an impoverished trailer park on the outskirts of Rome, a small band of social outcasts eke out an existence in the dreary Italian winter. Circus performers Patty (Patrizia Gerardi) and Walter (Walter Saabel) wait patiently for the s... 
This brisk ensemble-cast thriller begins as if somebody just kicked over a rock and all the underworld characters in picturesque Barcelona went scurrying. Amid the thieves, hookers, and crooked cops, it's hard to tell the good guys fro... 
After her husband's sudden death, Claire has an intriguing idea: The almost-septuagenarian will reunite "The Sisters of Love," her pop vocal trio of 50 years ago. The other two singers agree, easygoing Magda embracing the plan more qui... 
Seven months into her second marriage in contemporary Cairo, smart and sexy Sun TV presenter Hebba Younes is grappling with a crisis: husband Karim, deputy editor of a popular newspaper, is under some pressure from higher-ups to persua...