Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan (impressive newcomer Udin Torabi) and his older cousin Enayat (Enayatullah) as ... Read more
From the heyday of Czech New Wave cinema, Jiri Menzel's CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS tells the affectionately filmed tale of innocent railway apprentice Milos, in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and his ... Read more
A man who is tired of life wants to commit suicide. He sets off to find someone to bury him after he is dead. Farsi dialogue. Includes 10 on Ten a cinema materclass that offers 10 fascinating lessons ... Read more
Filmed entirely inside a car, a woman drives through the streets of Tehran, picking up and dropping off passengers--her son, a friend, her sister, a prostitute--as she runs errands and goes about her ... Read more
For a soccer-mad young girl, a crucial world cup qualifying match for Iran's national football team at the Azadi stadium in Teheran is the game of her dreams. But with women banned from the country's ... Read more
Banned in Iran, Jafar Panahi's THE CIRCLE is set almost entirely on the busy streets of Tehran - a place where women are restricted by numerous laws, including a repressive dress code, and can only ... Read more
A funny and provocative look at the world of contemporary media manipulation illustrated by a hoax from two film students on an unsuspecting public in the Czech Capital, Prague. Impressed by the ... Read more
Iranian writer/director Samira Makhmalbaf directs At Five in the Afternoon, co-scripted by her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf (director of Kandahar). In the bombed-out ruins of post-Taliban Kabul, Noqreh (... Read more
Twin girls, the daughters of a blind mother and poor father, are kept inside their home as virtual prisoners. Their father believes that they must not be exposed to the sun. A social worker attempts ... Read more