CINEMONDO: My Marlon and Brando
Category: World Cinema
In this CINEMONDO film, a Turkish actress can no longer bear the distance between her and her lover from northern Iraq. However, getting into a country at war turns out to be just as difficult as getting out.

So Beautiful
Category: World Cinema
Sonia, an elderly lady, treats herself to a day at the beach in this CINEMONDO short film. After being asked to watch a young woman's bag, she starts longing for her younger days.

CINEMONDO: Cairo Station
Category: World Cinema
In this beautiful classic film directed by Youssef Chahine, Cairo's main railroad station is used to represent all of Egyptian society - a place brimming with sexuality, repression, madness and violence among society's most marginalized.

CINEMONDO: Alexandra
Category: World Cinema
In a desolate, sun-scorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. Alexandra is a viscerally powerful film from the great Alexander Sokurov.

CINEMONDO: My Father My Lord
Category: World Cinema
This CINEMONDO film from Israel is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion -- a dramatic retelling of the story of Abraham and Isaac with a devastating "twist."

CINEMONDO: The Violin (El Violin)
Category: World Cinema
In this award-winning CINEMONDO film from Mexico, a humble violin player is more than he appears, using his harmless look to evade the eyes of the military as he covertly supports the campesina peasant guerilla movement.

CINEMONDO: World Cinema on Link TV
Category: World Cinema
CINEMONDO is Link TV's regular series of outstanding world cinema, hosted by Peter Scarlet, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival. Watch clips and interviews from featured CINEMONDO directors here.

GLOBAL LENS: Dam Street (Hong Yan)
Category: World Cinema
In China in 1983, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun finds herself pregnant and expelled from school. Ten years later, she still lives in the same town, and has a young friend who tries desperately to protect her from the judgmental community.

GLOBAL LENS: Max and Mona
Category: World Cinema
Max Bua has his sights set on becoming a doctor. However, unable to pay his university fees, he must crash at his hard-drinking uncle's place...with goat in tow.

GLOBAL LENS: Bunny Chow
Category: World Cinema
Three up-and-coming comedians find humor amidst hardship in the "new" Johannesburg, celebrating life on a raucous roadtrip to South Africa’s largest music festival.

GLOBAL LENS: Daughter of Keltoum (Bent Keltoum)
Category: World Cinema
Rallia, a young Swiss woman, returns to her Algerian birthplace to seek out her roots. Unable to await mother's return, she heads out into the desert to find her.

GLOBAL LENS: The Fish Fall in Love (Mahiha Ashegh Mishavand)
Category: World Cinema
Atieh’s small but popular restaurant on the sleepy Caspian coast is her pride and joy. But when a former lover, shows up to close the restaurant, Atieh fixes him the meal of a lifetime.

GLOBAL LENS: Kept & Dreamless (Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños)
Category: World Cinema
Nine year-old Eugenia and her mother, Florencia, live a seemingly colorful life. But her mother’s dysfunctional and drug-addled lifestyle, threatens their happiness together.

GLOBAL LENS: Kilometre Zero
Category: World Cinema
A tragi-comic story of ethnic conflict between Kurds and Iraqis during the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, this film follows the adventures of a Kurdish soldier - a despised minority in the Iraqi military - traveling with an Iraqi taxi driver.

GLOBAL LENS: Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
Category: World Cinema
A father travels from his village to the city, determined to find his son. But instead, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to face his family's estrangement head-on.