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Nueba Yol

  The humble and hardworking Orodoto Balbuena finally gets an opportunity to realize his lifelong dream of reaching New York and living the “American Dream”, but soon finds out that Read More

Live-in Maid

  During the Argentine economic crisis of the early 2000s, Beba, who was once wealthy, does not have enough money to pay her live-in maid, Dora. Without her husband’s financial Read More

Love Is a Bitch

  Amores Perros is a bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting Read More

Memories of Underdevelopment

  In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), an affluent writer, chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Read More

Camila

  Camila O’Gorman (Susú Pecoraro) defies her prominent and politically-connected Buenos Aires family by publicly criticizing the Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. When she meets Father Ladislao Gutierrez (Imanol Read More

The Boat

  A German submarine patrols the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, manned by a crew that must contend with tense conflicts and long stretches of confined boredom. While war Read More

Suck Me Shakespeer

  Bank robber Zeki has a problem, the catch from the latest robbery is buried in a place where there is now a school gym. To gain access to the Read More

Kebab Connection

  A delightful, immigrant comedy from Anno Saul and Fatih Akin (Head On) that reminds us how integration really works.  Young Turkish hip-hopper Ibo dreams of making the first German Read More

The Rhinegold

  Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a Read More

Christians, Jews, and Moslems in Medieval Spain

  Due partly to the weakness of its Visigothic rulers, partly to its proximity to Africa, the Iberian peninsula was conquered by Berbers and by Arabs belonging to the Umayyad Read More