J’ai pas sommeil (I Can’t Sleep)
Produced by Bruno Pesery With actors Katerina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Laurent Grevill, Alex Descas, Irina Grejbina, Tolsty, Line Renaud, Beatrice Dalle available on DVD (US) This French drama uses two plots that occasionally come together. The stories are set within the multiethnic neighborhoods of Paris. In the first, Daiga (Yekaterina Golubeva), a spunky […]
Hop
Produced by Thierry De Coster, Michel Houdmont, Dominique Standaert With actors Jan Declein, Antjie de Boeck, Alexandra Vandernot, Kalomba Mbuyi, Ansou Diedhiou, Emile M’Penza available on DVD in the US and Germany A boy gets an early lesson in issues of politics, race, and violent activism in this drama from Belgium. Justin (Kalomba Mbuy) is […]
Apo tin akri tis polis – Am Rande der Stadt (From the Edge of the City)
Produced by Dionysis Samiotis, Anastasios Vasiliou With actors Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Kotsianidis, Panayiotis Hartomatzidis, Dimitris Papoulidis Available on DVD in the US and Germany A group of young “Pontioi” (Greek Russians from the coast of the Black Sea) descend on megalopolis Athens where alienation and poverty leads to petty crime and boredom. Young Sasha, the […]
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys)
With actors Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Ona Lu Yenke, Sepp Bierbichler, Arsinee Khanjian The lives of a struggling film actress, a Kosovo War photographer, his wayward brother, a Romanian beggar, and an African émigré come crashing together after a fateful event on a Parisian street corner. Haneke offers a scathing critique of the response to […]
Bye-Bye
With actors Sami Bouajila, Nozha Kouadra, Philippe Ambrosini After a family tragedy, two young French-Arab brothers leave Paris and end up on the door step of their uncle and his family in Marseilles. Once there, the two are pulled apart as one is seduced by the streets and its life of drugs and crime, while […]
Brothers in Trouble
Produced by Robert Buckler With actors Om Puri, Pavan Malhotra, Angeline Ball, Ahsen Bhatti, Bhasker Patel Paints a vivid portrait of the secret lives and loves of a group of illegal Pakistani immigrants in 1960’s Britain. When Hussein, the leader of a house overcrowded with desperate, lonely men, brings home his British, pregnant girlfriend, the […]
Black Dju
With actors Philippe Leotard, Richard Courcet, Patrice-Flora Praxo, Cesaria Evora From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Island, it’s a very big step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that’s the journey 20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly guest worker checks have stopped. […]
Anita and Me
With actors Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster, Kathy Burke, Ayesha Dharker, Omid Djalili, Alex Freeborn, Lynn Redgrave, Zohra Segal, Meera Syal, Christine Tremarco, Chandeep Uppal, Mark Williams Anita and Me (2002) tells the coming of age story of Meena, a 12-year-old Indian girl growing up in the West Midlands of England. Meena listens to […]
Omiros (Hostage)
With actors Stathis Papadopoulos, Giannis Stankoglou, Theodora Tzimou Available on DVD in the US An Albanian immigrant hijacks a Greek passenger bus in hopes of gaining safe passage back to his home country in director Constantine Giannaris’ tense account of the headline-making 1999 hostage situation that quickly spiraled into disaster. An armed Albanian man wanders […]
Darwin’s Nightmare (Darwin’s Albtraum)
Available on DVD Darwin’s Nightmare is a documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers. The larger scope of the story explores the gun […]