Filmfest Dc: Unfinished Spaces
Masterfully interweaving art, politics, and history, the spellbinding Unfinished Spaces takes us back to a little-known phenomenon that took place in the aftermath of the Cuban revolution. The film centers around thre... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Let The Bullets Fly
In remote 1920s Warlord China, a gang of bandits led by Pocky Zhang (Jiang Wen) hijack a train that happens to have the destination towns new governor on board. When the train crashes, the lone survivors are the gover... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Jean Gentil
Jean is an educated and devout Christian man, forced like many others to leave Haiti to look for work in the Dominican Republic. His biggest virtue is his remarkably genteel and dignified attitude in the face of rejec... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Monsieur Lazhar
Monsieur Lazhar was a 2012 Oscar finalist for Best Foreign Language Film. Following the death of a beloved teacher in the very classroom where she coached her ethnically diverse 11- and 12-year-old charges, 55-year-ol... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Eleanor's Secret
Academy-Awardnominated director Dominique Monfry celebrates the joy of reading in his sumptuously animated movie about a magic library where all the characters from classic children's books come alive. Seven-year-old ... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Warriors Of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Showing here in its abridged form (shortened from the original 276 minute version), Warriors of the Rainbow is an epic historical saga that became both Taiwan's most expensive film to date as well as its official subm... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Short Cuts
A collection of award-winning short films from around the world. culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Facing Mirrors
In the contemporary Tehran of the terrific character-driven drama Facing Mirrors, Rana, a hidebound wife surreptitiously driving her jailed husbands taxi, clocks the fare of her life in a rich pre-op transsexual on th... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Nuri Bilge Ceylan films take traditional movie premises and turn them on their head, offering a fresh look at what we have come to take for granted. Here, he tackles the police procedural, one of the most routine crim... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: The Island President
Twelve hundred tiny islands in the Indian Ocean make up the Maldives, one of the most low-lying countries in the world. The islands are a cross between paradise and paradise, according to Mohamed Nasheed, the country'... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Rasta: A Soul's Journey
RasTa: A Souls Journey tells the story of the journey of Rita and Bob Marley's granddaughters, Donisha Prendergast, to eight countries to explore the roots, evolution, and impact of Rastafari. Donisha is an irrepressi... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: The Giants
Boys will be boys, we like to say, but the usual assumption is that a responsible adult is nearby to offer guidance and restore order. Fifteen-year-old Seth (Martin Nissen) and his younger brother Zak (Zacharie Chasse... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Happy New Year, Grandma!
In this hilarious black comedy, Maritxu (Kontxu Odriozola) a harried and highly strung Basque woman, is becoming exhausted by the demands of her elderly mother Mari. Maritxu wont hear of putting her in a nursing home,... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Neighboring Sounds
The setting is the city of Recife, Brazil, on a seaside street, much of it owned by Francisco (W.J. Solha), an old-school paterfamilias. Director Kleber Mendonca Filho divides the film into three chapters, effortlessl... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
How far will a big corporation go to protect its brand? Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten recently experienced this scenario. His previous film, Bananas!*, recounted the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers b... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Planet Yoga
In his pursuit of the possibility of flexibility and peace, director and narrator Carlos Ferrand travels from Oakland to Vancouver to Paris to northern Canada to Toronto and, inevitably, India, in search of followers,... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Crazy Wisdom: The Life And Times Of Chgyam...
For many of us, the image of a Tibetan lama is that of a serene, burgundy-robed monk with a shaved head, not that of a man with a modern haircut, dressed in an admiral's uniform, and smoking a cigar. Yet that was one ... culturecapital.com
Filmfest Dc: Calypso Rose: The Lioness Of The Jungle
This biography follows the legendary Queen of Calypso around the world as she traces her roots from her hometown in Tobago and Trinidad to Paris, where she records a new album, and to Africa to learn about her great-g... culturecapital.com