The first 35 years of Brazil’s popular former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, like bricks piled up: poverty, saintly mother, violent father, school, factory work, the great love, the lost love, the new love, rise as a labor leader fated for greatness. Rui Ricardo Diaz is grown-up Lula, charismatic …
Four friends desperately search for their abductee friend in an underground military base. Whether they find their friend or not, what they find in the desert of the US to the sands of the Sahara, will change their lives forever. Directed by Gino McKoy, starring Ken Lawson, Eric Roberts, and …
Four professional women meet every week at an East Los Angeles restaurant to share secrets about their careers, love, family, and sex in José Luis Valenzuela’s 2000 film.
Messy docudrama on a messy subject, the unrest in the newly independent Congo and the martyrdom of its first prime minister after two months in office. Raoul Peck, the Haitian director, had treated the subject in an all-out documentary nine years earlier. (Valerio Zurlini, freed by false names and unencumbered …
Bernardo Bertolucci's slightly psychological study of a teenage boy's subconscious quest for the father he has never known. Jill Clayburgh, a rather scrawny opera singer, is the mother he knows a little too well. A field day for Freudians and other symbolists; an ordeal for most everyone else. The claims …
Ila’s (Nimrat Kaur) recipe to buck up her marriage falls into the wrong hands when a delivery boy mistakenly hands over a four-course lunch (equipped with a spicy billet doux for dessert) to a lonely government employee (the exceptional Irrfan Khan) who is just weeks away from retirement. Writer-director Ritesh …
Boy meets mermaid in this anime from Masaaki Yuasa.
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "Lupe, an aging Mexican migrant, has spent his entire life working in the California fields, separated from his family back home. One morning, Lupe, a melancholy alcoholic, realizes that life has passed him …