Diagnosed with a brain tumor and given three years to live, filmmaker R?zvan Georgescu decides to overcome the solemnity of this prognosis to explore the realm between life and death...
This post-modern narrative film tells the history of Radio Free Europe during the 80s in Communist Romania, which served as a secret confidant to its Romanian listeners despite the dictator...
This Romanian documentary of intertwined tales, discreetly discovers the intimate stories of the simple customers of a 'bar de zi' (day bar)--the last State-owned bar to survive the communist regime.
12:08 East of Bucharest describes the fall of communism through the eyes of a provincial television station. The film was the first made by Corneliu Porumboiu, and won the apt...
A revealing interview with Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, who is working toward a cinematic vocabulary that is specifically of Chad. He gives an emotional and historic context to the film, and offers...
Director Chiang Hsiu-chiung, recipient of a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival, talks about her first feature length fictional film, Artemisia about a modern family in...
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...
Cinemondo host Peter Scarlet introduces David Volach's film "My Father My Lord," and gives his closing thoughts after the film. This introduction and commentary will air alongside Link TV's presentation...
This CINEMONDO film from Israel is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion -- a dramatic retelling of...
Cinemondo host Peter Scarlet introduces Alexander Sokurov's film "Alexandra," and gives his closing thoughts after the film. This introduction and commentary will air alongside Link TV's presentation of the film...
In a desolate, sun-scorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. Alexandra is a...
In this interview, director Huseyin Karabey tells how he met the actress Ayça, the inspiration for the story in the Cinemondo film "My Marlon and Brando." He also discusses why...