A personal, wry, and affecting meditation on theft, from the petty to the metaphysical. Screening with Good Husband, Dear Son, in which the women of a village in the former Yugoslavia memorialize their dead, providing a deeply humanistic perspective on the devastation of war.
Every year on May 4, the Dutch commemorate the victims of World War II. This sensitive documentary follows a diverse group of people through the day, considering remembrance and forgetting, speech and silence.
A portrait of the buskers of the Paris Métro-a Venezuelan harpist, an Algerian singer, a violinist from Sarajevo-becomes a document of survival in exile. "A splendid example of how illuminating and entertaining a documentary can be."-L.A. Times
Honigmann's fictional feature is "an achingly true account of consuming passion with an almost unbearably intense sexual and emotional charge running through it...a drama of rare observational acuity."-Variety
Older residents of Rio de Janeiro give voice to the erotic poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade and recall passions of their own. "A touching fresco of art, memory, and desire."-Chicago Tribune. With short Four Times My Heart.
This documentary about formerly middle-class people surviving Peru's economic collapse by driving cabs is "quite like the Peruvians themselves-relaxed, persevering, nakedly emotional, and tougher than seat leather."-Village Voice
Heddy Honigmann in Person. "A finely made and very absorbing tragic drama about a man suffering from Alzheimer's disease....Honigmann handles the story with great delicacy and sensitivity, and is aided immeasurably by the intelligent and moving performance of Joop Admiraal."-Variety
Heddy Honigmann in Person. Dutch veterans of U.N. peacekeeping missions recalling their experiences through music, from Puccini to Guns 'n' Roses, show that neutrality does not mean indifference. "The mysterious power of these segments is a complex marriage of music and memory."-Toronto Film Festival