A mysterious artist appears in different districts of Minsk.He spreads his canvas and begins to paint. He creates puzzling geometric figures, rectangles and squares… Step by step we get to know the artist better. He is Zahar Cudin, one of the most promising Belarusian painters. What is the mystery behind the rectangles and squares he’s […]
Visiline Jepkesho from Kenya is a marathon runner. Her biggest dream is to win races and use the prize money to buy a house for her husband, Abraham, and 3-year-old son, Izmail, and to secure them a life out of poverty. The film follows Visiline through four critical years where she struggles to find her […]
Agnès Varda, the amiable “grandmother of the French New Wave,” is as dazzling as ever in this, her swan song. Seated on a theater stage, she talks about her life and career and uses scenes from her rich body of work to shed light on her artistic vision and ideas. In addition to her films, Varda […]
Murder, drug addiction, hijacking cars, running away from home: these are just a few of the crimes that the girls from the rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquents in Tehran have committed. For seven years, director Mehrdad Oskouei sought permission from the Iranian authorities to allow him to film an imprisoned population, otherwise hidden from the […]
“I’m not afraid of death, I’m afraid of life”, hushes a child in an Iranian youth detention centre to director Mehrdad Oskouei, known for his amazing ability to build a trusting bond with the young detainees. Without being intrusive, the camera follows the boys’ lives closely, bringing out details in a tender manner. There are […]
WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED tells the incredible and mostly true story of five unfinished feature films from the Communist era in Afghanistan (1978-1991) – when films were weapons, filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of constantly shifting political regimes merged with the stories told onscreen. It is also a story about a tight-knit group of […]
A surprising, compulsively watchable documentary that raises unsettling questions about human nature and contemporary Iranian society, Nose Iranian Style is about Iran leading the world in the number of nose jobs per year, currently estimated at 60,000-70,000. Exploring the psychology of young people in particular and their obsession with getting rid of their “big noses,” […]
Nearly every Indian city has packs of stray dogs who scour the landscape for scraps and head pats. And nearly every Indian city has kindly spirits who regularly feed these animals, tend to their injuries, give them names and a sense of belonging. American filmmaker Jesse Alk’s documentary Pariah Dog is the absorbing chronicle of […]
Shot over a period of three years in her own home, Archana Atul Phadke’s amusing feature-length doc isn’t “all about love” but more modestly About Love, focusing on one extended family – her own – and making no pretense to finding that elusive emotion. Constant bickering and low-level tension characterize this closely knit crew. Laughter […]