Films
The 1960’s Spaghetti Westerns celebrated the classic American Western genre with flattering mimicry—whether through dubbed Eastwood pictures or recreations using Italian actors. Director Pannone recalls…
MORE ›Pierre Bergé, partner of Yves Saint Laurent, makes the fateful decision to auction the couple’s extensive art collection. A wistful look at the treasured pieces that shaped their world.
MORE ›“That dog domesticated me,” says ex-con Pedro Cajias. In this powerful and poetic film, in which Cajias delivers a fragmented monologue as if he were…
MORE ›A few dreamlike glimpses into the life of a young girl who is on her way to meet a beloved friend, and for whom nothing exists but the here and now.
MORE ›A sudden explosion in a police training barrack uncovers a secret archive housing thousands of records amassed by the Guatemalan police and army from the 1930s through the end of the civil war in 1996.
MORE ›This work of science fiction unspools the mysterious story of a man haunted by an image from his childhood. Composed of black-and-white still photographs, La Jetée presents a dystopian future where scientists conduct time-travel experiments on prisoners.
MORE ›A Mayan boy faces the impending loss of the freedom of his childhood as family pressures and economic realities close in.
MORE ›In the rainforests of southern Mexico, a Mayan boy faces the impending loss of his childhood freedoms as family pressures and economic realities close in. Festival Year: 2016
MORE ›In the Barba Azul Cabaret in Mexico City, “La Mami” reigns as the benevolent, calm center of the legendary nightclub. Night after night, she presides over the hard-working female dancers and hostesses in their communal haven—the bathroom—often silent but always watchful. Gradually, a beautiful friendship develops between La Mami and a new, hopeful hire.
MORE ›This program duplicates the very first show of films by the Lumière brothers, at the birth of cinema. (Before it was just another item on…
MORE ›Reminiscent of La Buena Vista Social Club, but even more sensuous. Here the rhythm of a country—a place—is refracted through the sights and sounds of…
MORE ›The music plays, the rhythms are electrifying, the bodies move, all drawn into the dance hall, La Tropical. This is where the working class Cubans…
MORE ›Jean-Pierre Aumont plays a young man, who at the instigation of a scientific journalist, meets Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Jean Rostand and…
MORE ›Israeli filmmaker Yotam Feldman points a chilling lens at his country’s defense industry, the fourth largest arms exporter in the world.
MORE ›Duah, a beautiful Druze Arab girl from Jerusalem, is already a finalist for the local “Lady of the Arabs” beauty pageant for Israeli-Arab women when…
MORE ›Tony Kaye, best known for his dramatic feature American History X, has spent the last fifteen years working on what will likely become the definitive…
MORE ›What begins as an unsentimental representation of a domestic worker by her privileged feminist employer soon becomes a double portrait of enormous emotional and political…
MORE ›A profound, honest, and revealing depiction of the life and times of an indomitable Mississippi Delta matriarch and the extended family she loves and cares…
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