World Cinema
ArminWinner of the East of the West Competition at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2007, Armin is a traditional father-son story that unfolds within the hope of movie stardom and a better life. When a German film company se...
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Beautiful NightThe husband lies about his business trip to a temple that had been burnt down and the wife lets him go, unable to speak about his affair. However she goes to the temple and meets a man who is struggling to make his wife return to ...
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The Mosquito Problem and Other StoriesSet near the mouth of the Danube in northern Bulgaria, Belene is a city living in the shadow of horror. Located near a Communist-era concentration camp, the town’s dark legacy looms over everything and everyone as preparations for...
World Cinema
Our FatherPadre Nuestro is a tragic and painfully honest look at the Mexican underclass in the US that lives in constant fear of discovery. En route to New York to find his father, Diego, Pedro befriends petty thief Juan, telling him his st...
World Cinema
The Pope`s Toilet“The story ends with a broken dream, but not with the end of hope. And it’s like that because the daily struggle of Beto, like that of all the poor around the world, is a daily task that has to be carried out with conviction and c...
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Children of the Old DaysShe’s only been gone for one night, but the world has changed to an unfamiliar place with no where for children to go back to, not home, not to school. Yeon-I meets her best friend in the monstrous concrete of apartment and constr...
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AndreyRussian master filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky visited Armenia in 1965, and this doc is based upon the director’s recorded visit to Geghardavank Monastery. Linking past and present with new footage, Azatian and Mkrtchian ask what ideol...
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You Will KnowIn her first year of junior high school, So-young is suspected of cheating on her first examination. So-young persists in feigning ignorance and denies the accusation, and the suspicion falls on part-time teacher Young-sook instea...
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Appleseed : EX MACHINAA splendid Japanese SF animation that combines 2D and 3D. APPLESEED, released in 2004, drew a lot of attention for its 3D CG technique that was so close to live action and now, an upgraded CG technique is presented in APPLESEED: E...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Night BusThe war between Iran and Iraq lasted nearly 10 years and invaded the daily lives of civilians. Although the boy takes the bus daily to the front of the battle scenes like most of us commute to the office daily, what is displayed i...