A French pallet factory is the setting for this lively, humour-filled exploration of religious hypocrisy and the immigrant experience. Mao (played by the film's director Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche) builds a mosque for his Algerian employees and chooses the imam without consultation. When the factory threatens to close, the workers must choose whether to fight for their jobs...  More...

Four people who lived through the Algerian war of independence show us their places and tell their stories. Jean-Pierre Lledo's fresh, elegant and profound act of staged remembering tells the most important truths about what has been lost and what has been forgotten in the passage from colonialist to socialist to fundamentalist times.  More...

Delicious tango music--alternately exhilarating and heartbreaking--anchors Miguel Kohan's moving documentary that focuses on the reunion of an aging group of legendary Argentinean tango players in Buenos Aires. Think Buena Vista Social Club set in the Paris of the South.  More...

Director Lisandro Alonso (Los muertos) returns with this story of a man drawn home to the family he abandoned years earlier. On every level, from the expressive capacity of natural image and sound to the emotional content of the characters onscreen, [the film] marks personal artistic progress and an impressive standard for others to match.--Variety  More...

Mauricio Kagel, seminal new music composer, returns home to Argentina after almost 50 years to perform with the Ensemble Süden, a group that takes its name from one of the composer's most celebrated works. Over an intensive rehearsal period, the musicians and the maestro give voice to remarkable music, while Gaston Solnicki captures it all.  More...

This eye-opening and jaw-dropping documentary follows Brian, an Australian ex-Goth puppeteer, travels to Lahore, Pakistan, for a show, falls in love with Amber, a young Muslim girl, and resolves to marry her... He studies Islam, converts, returns to Lahore and begins an amazing journey to try and explain his intentions...  More...

When the word eternity (written in white chalk and in beautifully flowing copperplate script) began showing up on buildings, sidewalks and bridges in Sydney, Australia, the mystery of its origins enthralled the entire city. Sisyphusean obsession, divine mystery and the power of a single word combine to mesmeric effect in director Julian Temple (Absolute Beginners) stunning film.  More...

A sensitive young boy in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan wants to go to school rather than follow his fundamentalist father's métier--the handcrafting of firearms. Benjamin Gilmour's engaged political drama packs [an] emotional punch.--Variety  More...

What made Lars von Trier into the oft-loathed, increasingly vilfied evil genius he is currently perceievd to be? In a phrase: film school. Jacob Thuesen's wickedly funny film (co-written with von Trier), is packed with filthy jokes, razor sharp satire, and more than a few famous faces.  More...

In Heinz Emigholz's architecture as autobiography series, cinema is used in a completely new way: as a space to meditate on buildings. Following last year's Schindler's Houses, Emigholz's fixed gaze returns, focusing on the buildings of Schindler's mentor, Austrian modernist and famed anti-ornamentalist Adolf Loos.  More...

An existential thriller that eschews all hints of sentimentality, Götz Spielmann's (Antares) tightly wound, brilliantly directed drama revolves around brothel handyman/driver/criminal Alex (Johannes Krisch) and his desire for revenge when a cop accidentally kills Alex's love during a bank robbery gone awry. A cool, perfectly controlled, wonderfully photographed gem.  More...

In these days of rampant Islamophobia, this fascinating and valuable documentary tells the story of one of the most influential Muslims of the 20th century--Muhammad Asad, who began life as an Austrian Jew. Asad's peripatetic life included an important translation of the Koran, a stint at the UN, and helping to establish Pakistan.  More...

Kathy Acker's post-feminist work, in the words of one critic, had something to offend everybody. Whether rewriting canonized texts such as Don Quixote, or single-handedly forging new boundaries of form and taste, Acker was an American original. Barbara Caspar recreates her incendiary life with archival footage, animation and interviews with those who knew and loved her.  More...