IN THEATERS FEBRUARY 15, 2006 (LIMITED) In a desperate quest to get men to talk openly and honestly about their feelings, filmmaker Françoise Kohler took a dozen guys of various ages and backgrounds to the Tunisian desert. As they trek across ...

Colorful family dysfunction is the order of the day in this ramshackle indie road comedy that travels along the LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE/FLIRTING WITH DISASTER route. Adapted by Sherwood Kiraly from his comic novel, DIMINISHED CAPACITY is about Chicago reporter Cooper ...

Set in a Cuban ghetto, this documentary explores the coming-of-age of three poor young rappers struggling to make social change and save their futures through lyrics instead of violence.

IN THEATERS DECEMBER 2, 2005 Indian director Apoorva Lakhia tells an inspiring tale of a man who finally finds a goal for himself when he takes care of a child in EK AJNABEE.

This portrait of Erika Mann and Klaus Mann, the two openly gay oldest siblings of German writer Thomas Mann (DEATH IN VENICE) follows them from childhood through adulthood in the mid-1900s. They both were writers, antifascists, and cabaret performers and ...

This unblinking and unforgettable drama from Nigeria reflects on the phenomenon of child soldiers, kidnapped and employed into wartime service. It follows the harrowing journey of one such soldier, Ezra, beginning with his arraignment before a tribunal and flashing back ...

GOD'S CHILDREN is a wrenching documentary about the residents of Payatas, one of the largest garbage dumps in the world, just outside the city of Manila. Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Shinomiya explored this hellish place in an earlier documentary, SCAVENGER: FORGOTTEN ...

Actor-turned-director Atul Agnihotri assembles a fine cast of Bollywood's best for this film. HELLO... stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sharman Joshi, Sohail Khan, and many others, as it tells its tale of a single night in a busy call center. ...

This documentary from Disney Nature reveals the relationship between pollinators--bats, honeybees, butterflies, bumblebees, and hummingbirds--and flowers in stunning detail. With acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg at the helm, NAKED BEAUTY makes full use of macro cinematography, time lapse technology, and high-speed ...

Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) joins Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a band of dwarves on a treacherous quest to a distant mountain in this epic fantasy adventure adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved novel by the creative forces behind the LORD OF ...

This documentary from director Sandhya Suri chronicles his father's emigration from India to England in the mid-1960s. Both Yash Pal Suri and his family in India use Super 8 cameras to document their lives, making I FOR INDIA a revealing ...

This thriller from Benjamin and Orson Cummings evokes classic film noir with its plot of murder, deceit, and betrayal. Bill Sage (SIMPLE MEN) plays a husband who is desperate for an heir, and he's quickly taken in by a femme ...

Daniel Leconte's IT'S HARD BEING LOVED BY JERKS recounts one of France's most incendiary trials of the early 21st century. When Philippe Val, editor of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, published 12 controversial Danish cartoons, he had no idea that ...

For the third part of his American Trilogy--following THE CIVIL WAR and BASEBALL--Ken Burns takes on the "that most American of art forms": jazz. The 10-part, 19-hour film begins with the music's roots in post-Civil War New Orleans and concludes ...

Various aspects of the 2008 presidential election have been the source of much heated discussion, but with this documentary Israeli director Ilan Ziv (SIX DAYS) focuses specifically on the religious side of the race. JESUS POLITICS approaches the election from ...

When two soccer fans get the tragic news they are both dying of cancer, they head to the UK to finish their lives off in style, and as fate would have it, fall madly in love. This colorful Bollywood features ...

Filmmaker Robert Richter speaks to some of the survivors of the nuclear missile that hit Nagasaki, creating a compelling case for nuclear disarmament in the process.

The Bernsteins are a family coming apart at the seams in this caustic comedy that portrays suburbia at the brink. Enter Dr. Livingston, a therapist who clears the way for their backlog of secrets and anguish to finally creep into the light of day.

After dismantling the institutional apartheid of South Africa, the newly-elected government faced the daunting task of coming to terms with the brutal legacy of racism, repression, and violence that dominated the nation's history, and determining whom should be held accountable ...

After the gentle drama of THE ASTRONAUT FARMER, the Polish Brothers turn to comedy with this film that reunites them with Billy Bob Thornton. In MANURE, rival salesmen of the titular product battle to corner the market in the 1960s. ...

In 1981, Christophe de Ponfilly visited Afghanistan, eager to make a film. He developed a deep affection for the beauty of the land and the humility of its people. Returning eight times over the next 17 years, Ponfilly continued filming, ...

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is the subject of MORNING SUN, a documentary by Carma Hinton, Geremie R. Barme, and Richard Gordon. Built on testimonials from people who were in high school in China in the 1960s, and who experienced ...

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE's Frankie Muniz is all grown up in this drama set in the 1970s. At 17, Brooklyn resident Jake Stein (Muniz) heads south to Miami to live with his estranged father (Harvey Keitel). The future writer is ...

NOT NUDE THOUGH, directed by Doris Kornish, is a documentary about the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, who, as a young man, immigrated to New York from Basel, Switzerland in 1935. He eventually became a prominent ...

In this Disney Nature documentary, a pair of young orphan orangutans attempt to survive in the Indonesian jungle. Though they survived the fire that killed their mother, they must now struggle to stay alive as they search for someone to take care of them.