World Cinema
The Age of Ignorance“It’s the end of my trilogy. After The Decline of the American Empire, The Barbarian Invasions what next? The dark ages. I get the feeling we’re headed for a kind of new Middle Ages. That’s a theme I wanted to develop because what...
Wide Angle
The AnniversariesA very unhappily married couple on their wedding anniversary.
Flash Forward
The Art of Negative ThinkingReferred to as a burlesque drama, The Art of Negative Thinking is a razor-sharp black comedy that subverts the correctness of positivism and revels in reality and the acceptance of it. When thirty-something Geirr is confined to a ...
World Cinema
The BanishmentMark, his wife Vera, and their children Eva and Kir take a trip to the countryside to his father’s old home. The easy family dynamic is soon interrupted and the cracks in the illusion of domestic harmony are revealed. Loosely base...
Wide Angle
The BathTwo sisters have an awkward air between them, and their mother avoids eye contact with her younger daughter. The older sister suggests going to a public bath and they choose to go to one that is far away from home. Despite the ini...
Midnight Passion
The Bodyguard 2Kum Lhau is a medium ranking police officer who invariably manages to find himself in situations which frustrate and annoy his superiors at the Special Investigations Unit of the People’s Republic of Wiang. Kum Lhau is sent to Tha...
Special Programs in Focus
The CowThe Cow is a classic Iranian film not widely known to the world and it is an outstanding work without any flaws. The story begins with a unique setting not found in other films and gradually leads the audience to an irresistible c...
Wide Angle
The Diapers of DaughtersA young daughter leaves her baby in the hands of its grandmother to work at a beauty salon. She is cranky as she has started her period and her mother starts suffering from urinary incontinence that makes her regret her life of ol...
World Cinema
The Diving Bell and The ButterflyIn 1995, at the apex of his personal and professional life, Elle Magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby was struck down by a stroke. He spent 20 days in a coma, and when he awoke, he was trapped inside his own paralyzed body ? later...
Midnight Passion
The FerrymanThe Ferryman’s inspiration is the Greek myth of Charon the Ferryman of Hades. According to the myth, when we pass into the realm of the dead our spirit has to pay passage to The Ferryman for a trip across the river of darkness ? s...