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 Regimes that ruled by fear and economies, burdened by bureaucracy and graft have been replaced by governments beholden to the World Bank and...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....
IDir. He Jianjun
f you've gone to the movie theater or watched an award show lately, you've probably seen the commercials and heard the rhetoric condemning film piracy.
Here's a movie that offers a somewhat...
IDirectors: Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni
f you've never seen the oddly beautiful springtime of the Gobi Desert or the mildly nauseating glisten of a newly born camel, "The Story of the Weeping Camel"...
Not all dorm-bound University first-year students live a life of boredom and dreariness.
The 11th and 12th floors of Middlebrook Hall are the site of the West Bank Arts House, an artist community of students...
