In this Romanian film Kiki, a young college student from Bucharest, explains how on her very first day at university she met Alex, a country girl looking to escape from...

In this film, critically acclaimed director Crisi Puiu takes us in a rattle-trap van with a naïve young man, his pal and the pal's girlfriend, en route to Bucharest to...

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...

In this Romanian film, director Radu Muntean plunges us into the confusion of the long night-day-night of Dec. 22, 1989

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...

This documentary from Link's Bridge to Tehran series follows two young filmmakers on their journey to Iran for the 2007 Verite Film Festival.

This film probes the generational and cultural conflicts confronting modern families in Taiwan, following a long-widowed woman as she cares for her difficult mother, closeted gay son, and a daughter...

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...

This film probes the generational and cultural conflicts confronting modern families in Taiwan, following a long-widowed woman as she cares for her difficult mother, closeted gay son, and a daughter...

In late May of 2007 Peter Scarlet, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival and our host and co-curator for CINEMONDO, traveled to the Kurdish-held area of Northern Iraq and...

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...