The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential, difference between my film and the majority of personal or experimental documentaries made in the last decade.

Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Mar...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...

Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance sta...

About the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin, his connection with his native country, its peop...

Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect. A ska...
The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male d...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...

With £2.50 in their bank accounts, two friends Saoirse and Emma vow to have the greatest night of th...

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

At the Blue Iguana, L.A.'s most notorious strip club, the lives of five exotic dancers converge, cla...

Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicl...

Luz and Denise grow up in the midst of the adversities of being LGBT in the extreme south of the cit...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (pl...

In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his...

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...