IDir. Thanos Anastopoulos f Atlas thought he had a tough time holding up the world, he should have tried holding an entire country's Olympic dreams on his shoulders instead. First-time director Thanos...

The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival pushes into its second week today. The festival celebrates its halfway point tonight with a screening of the Swedish documentary "Presence" at 7:30...

TArgentina, 2003 Dir. Albertina Carri o mourn is one thing, but to mourn people without remembering them is another. Argentina's "Dirty War" during the late 1970s and early 1980s left more than 25,000...

LDir. Mara Pelece ife isn't easy in former Soviet republics. Regimes that ruled by fear and economies, burdened by bureaucracy and graft have been replaced by governments beholden to the World Bank and...

WDir. Josef Fares hatever your idea of "Swedish film" consists of, it will probably be challenged by Josef Fares' "Kops." This amalgam of "Super Troopers" and "Mayberry RFD" couldn't have less in common...

Around the world in 80 days? Forget about it. The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival explores the cinematic universe in just two weeks. "It's the largest film event, if not one of the largest...

TDir. Motohashi Seiichi he village of Budische, Belarus, doesn't immediately appear to be unique. It, like so many other villages in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Belarus, was shaken out of...

UDir. Ogigami Naoko topia has its costs. And they're often not too pleasant. In "Yoshino's Barber Shop," a small Japanese town maintains its apparently idyllic routine by abiding strictly to tradition....