Yo no sé qué me han hecho tus ojos, a documentary from Argentina directed by Lorena Muñoz and Sergio Wolf, possesses a haunting dreaminess, an exquisite charm. Mixing old black-and-white film clips, black-and-white reconstructions (with faux-scratchiness), and present-day color, the result is a mosaic of time and memory, including cultural memory. No one should miss […]

Episodic, correlative to the fragmented former Yugoslavia and fragmented Balkan lives, Croatian-born writer-director Zoran Solomun’s Müde Weggefährten: Fünf Geschichten Aus Dem Krieg shows disparate refugees heading to and trying to survive in Germany.      A young Bosnian named Jimmy, who is always after a buck until at the last he feels compelled to recapture his soul, […]

Kaneto Shindô’s Gembaku no ko opens with a prologue that catalogs immediate outcomes of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (During its military occupation of Japan, the U.S. suppressed all images of its assault on civilians, including women, infants, children, the elderly.) The balance of the action unfolds seven years later. Based on Arata […]