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"...

Here are the top five ways to spot a "backpacker" (a pretentious underground hip-hop fan). 1. Backpacks They wear backpacks. All the time. To shows. To the record shop. All the time. 2. Elitist ramblings They...