Virtual Freedom
Category: World Cinema
For an exile the Internet is more than a mere resource, it is a lifeline to his or her homeland. For Maung Maung Aye, an ex-Burmese freedom fighter now living in Australia, and the co-director of this short exploration, it means even more.

Black Rider
Category: World Cinema
Pepe Danquart's Academy Award® winning short film captures the dignity of a man confronted with a problem many of us may have faced in a foreign culture.

CINEMONDO - Season 2
Category: World Cinema
Link TV has announced its line-up for the second season of CINEMONDO, the nationally broadcast world cinema series hosted and co-curated by Peter Scarlet, Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival! Learn about the new films here.

CINEMONDO: Singapore Dreaming
Category: World Cinema
A poignant, darkly humorous film about a typical Singaporean family. When Poh Huat suddenly wins two million dollars in the lottery, his family starts believing that the windfall will deliver them from their struggles.

CINEMONDO: Raja
Category: World Cinema
Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is an award-winning cross-cultural drama about the relationship of a middle-aged Frenchman with a poor local girl.

CINEMONDO: Distant Lights
Category: World Cinema
To some it's the end of the world - the river Oder between Poland and Germany. At this crossroads between two worlds Ukrainian refugees beg and bargain for entry to the West. Their moving stories populate this engrossing drama.

CINEMONDO: Aaltra
Category: World Cinema
Gus and neighbor Ben are in the midst of a brawl when they are crushed under the mechanism of Ben's tractor, and left paralyzed. Condemned to each other's company, they set off on a blackly comic odyssey of revenge.

CINEMONDO: A Time for Drunken Horses
Category: World Cinema
The award-winning first film of renowned director Bahman Ghobadi. In a remote Kurdish village on the Iran-Iraq border, five motherless children endure hard scrabble lives, smuggling in order to survive.

CINEMONDO: Takva - A Man's Fear of God
Category: World Cinema
This extraordinary character study folded into a cautionary tale explores the temptations and struggles of a Turkish man trying to live by ancient religious precepts in the contemporary globalized world.

CINEMONDO: Vanaja
Category: World Cinema
When 14-year-old Vanaja is told by a fortune teller that she will be a great dancer, she presses her alcoholic father to get her a job with a rich local landowner who was once herself a dancer. But caste issues soon arise.

CINEMONDO: Blind Shaft
Category: World Cinema
"Blind Shaft" tells the story of two itinerant miners who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop a murderous scheme in order to better their lives. But the two men’s plan takes an unexpected turn.

So Beautiful
Category: World Cinema
Sonia, an elderly lady, treats herself to a day at the beach in this CINEMONDO short film. After being asked to watch a young woman's bag, she starts longing for her younger days.

CINEMONDO: Cairo Station
Category: World Cinema
In this beautiful classic film directed by Youssef Chahine, Cairo's main railroad station is used to represent all of Egyptian society - a place brimming with sexuality, repression, madness and violence among society's most marginalized.

GLOBAL LENS: Kept & Dreamless
Category: World Cinema
Nine year-old Eugenia and her mother, Florencia, live a seemingly colorful life. But her mother’s dysfunctional and drug-addled lifestyle threatens their happiness together.

CINEMONDO: World Cinema on Link TV
Category: World Cinema
CINEMONDO is Link TV's regular series of outstanding world cinema, hosted by Peter Scarlet, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival. Watch clips and interviews from featured CINEMONDO directors here.