This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
The White Ribbon suggests a Children of the Corn prequel played as rigid thesis.
In Antichrist, there’s no anchor to the cataract of malevolent images other than Lars von Trier’s own crawling neuroses.
The rodeo provides a welcome relief to the monotony of life behind bars.
Landon Van Soest’s documentary is often bleakly resigned to the limits of resistance.
The directors’ judicious patience with their subjects allows them to capture some remarkable storytelling.
Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter probes the subaltern core of Mali’s feminine psychology.
Naftaly Gliksberg forgoes providing highly personal context that might have made up for the haphazard nature of his inquiry.
Reconciliation is the watchword for the villagers in My Neighbor, My Killer whether they like it or not.
The program consists of a collection of short films created by youth from every far-flung corner of the world.
The documentary Back Home Tomorrow blazes out of the gates with a form/content double-shot.
What would another occupation bring, and when will Israel and the U.S. join 111 nations in signing a cluster-bomb ban agreement?
Unfortunately, Masha Novikova’s documentary doesn’t sizzle like its title, but merely fizzles out.
Barmak Akram depicts his milieu and its inhabitants as struggling to face the obligations that arise from their complicated circumstances.
Director Aida Begic does well in establishing her protagonist’s dogged labor as grief put into memorial, kinetic action.
Crude is both a tribute to human-rights tenacity and a sobering account of the multinational-Moloch greed that can keep justice in limbo.
Reckoning renders a crucial judiciary of last resort about as inspiring as a conference call.
The identifying phrase “New Italian cinema” is synonymous with that type of socially realist bildungsroman for adults.
Has the collective growl in the belly of a world in crisis finally made it to movie theaters?
El Tiante’s narrative is a ready-made tearjerker.
Still Walking is a family drama that gets the family dynamic exactly right.