As he prepares to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents biological son, but that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yassin, the son of a Palestinian family from the…
Two beautiful and amorous university students, Gerardo and Jonas, meet on campus and fall passionately in love. They enjoy an idyllic romance until Jonas becomes obsessed with another boy and drives Gerardo into the arms of Sergio. The young…
This Brazilian example of cinema novo chronicles the struggle of a man deeply entangled within unstable and crooked politics. The story is told in flashback by a writer who explains how he got into his present situation. He had…
Just twenty five years old, Brazilian cinema novo force Glauber Rocha wrote and directed this impressive feature addressing socio-political problems within his country–and indeed, anywhere it may apply. It is the 1940s, during another drought in the Brazilian sertao,…
Directed by Matías Piñeiro, one of Argentinian cinemas most sensuous and daring new voices, Viola is a mystery of romantic entanglements and intrigues among a troupe of young actors performing Shakespeares Twelfth Night in a small theater in Buenos…
