- From the same team that created 2003's box-office and critical hit, "Bridal Shower", comes a fresh and bitingly funny satirical take on Filipino beauty contests- Bikini Open.Presented in a "mockumentary" (fake documentary) format, this up-to-date comedy chronicles the proceedings of an on-going biki…
- A look at the final moments of a ruler in Haiti as a violent revolution erupts around him.
- This is a rather depressing story about a woman who suffers depression and returns to Spain from Venezuela, where she has been living with her wealthy lover. This woman, well played by a dubbed Viveca Lindfors, seeks treatment in an asylum which appears to be located near Madrid. Although they hadn't meet since she was…
- Topical Budget, the great British newsreel that ran from 1911-31, here shows a muslim festival at Woking Mosque, Surrey from over 80 years ago. After the Muezzin has lead the call (adhan) to prayer we pan along the rows of worshippers, who then pray as non-muslims observe the ceremony. An Indian prince can be seen in t…
- Kleines Tropikana (Little Tropicana) is the only kind of film the Cuban Film Institute -- a crucial institution in that Third Cinema -- is able to make in its post-Cold War straitened economy, an international co-production, in this instance with German and Spanish investors. It is something like a screwball mystery, d…