There is a fascinating delineation of public and private personas, but Luis evidently expected the footage to be watched by others - he winks at, and talks to, the camera when he is on his own.
Far from home, a Galician sailor working on a ferry between Germany and Denmark buys a video camera and films his everyday routine.
This is a complex film which aims not to show how abhorrent reactionary politics is, but how seductive it may sound to a community tearing itself apart from within.
The struggles of a working class family in Marseille.
Brazilian singer-songwriter-turned-politician Gilberto Gil may be taking a "musical voyage" around the indigenous populations of Australia, Africa and his homeland but documentarian Pierre-Yves Borgeaud is all at sea when it comes to making his point.
Cultural travels with Brazilian musician-turned-politician Gilberto Gil.
Jennifer Connelly has never been more subtle and astute.
A psychiatrically troubled woman trying to move on with her teenage son, finds her way blocked by a sheriff with whom she has had a long-standing affair.
The atmospheric sequences without narrative are too long, and the grainy texture and nauseating fast pans across neon cityscapes an unnecessary distraction.
Three girls travel to Moscow to exchange their greatest asset - their virginity - for money, celebrity or love.
It is the casting of Jónsson that is the film's master stroke. Known as a comedian in Iceland, he brings a great sense of underplayed comic timing to Fúsi, resulting in a big impact from small gestures.
A fortysomething man, who still lives at home finds a surprising catalyst for change at a line-dancing class.
McCarthy’s script is spot-on, enchanting us with its characters and giving us food for thought with its wry comment on our world of immigrants and neighbour-strangers.
An ageing, lonely man rediscovers his love of life when he visits New York and shares his home with two strangers.
Ginger Rogers shows that she can truly command a stage without an Astaire to back her up.
A shy academic falls head over heels in love with a nightclub hostess and marries her on an impulse, but their wedded bliss is strained by the impending need to tell his domineering parents.
Kossakovsky takes his time to drink in the visuals and uses his camera creatively to transport us from place to place.
A documentary looking at four pairs of countries exactly opposite one another: Argentina and China; Spain and New Zealand; Hawaii and Botswana; and Russia and Chile.
One of the most exciting contributions to the genre for years.
A Kinshasa hustler hatches a scheme to steal a lucrative stash of petrol, but his lust for the wife of a notorious crime boss might bring more trouble than he's prepared for.
The problem is one of shifting tone - and one alarming change of character - which mean that despite the central tenet you can't help feeling that you are watching films about different men.
An experimental directorial quartet taking on the four ages of a single character's life.
This comedy from director Pang Ho-Cheung keeps it saucy and kinky but also playfully satirical in its look at the hyper-banality of the modern Chinese B-grade film business.
An acclaimed film producer down on his luck is persuaded to make a porn film for the triads.
The first thing that stands out about the film is the ease with which we can recognise Vai despite her being played by a different actress each time.
A portmanteau feature film by nine female Pacific filmmakers and filmed on seven Pacific islands. It is about the journey of empowerment through culture over the lifetime of one woman, Vai.
The measured camera work focuses on their complex emotions, establishing a claustrophobic atmosphere that carries the weight of the war from across the border.
Seeking shelter from the Syrian war, two sisters find refuge in Lebanon, only to realise that their aspirations for their new life are at odds with each other.
Though the scenery is vast and beguiling, Gille keeps his camera close, keeps the story small and personal.
A Colombian fisherman returns from a long fishing night to discover that his village has been ransacked by
paramilitary forces, with his two sons abducted. Painfully aware that they wouldn’t have survived, he sets off on
a journey down the endless Colombian rivers in the search for their bodies.
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