Directed by Ziad Doueiri
Produced by Jean Bréhat & Rachid Bouchareb
Written by Doueiri & Joëlle Touma, based on the novel L’Attentat by Yasmina Khadra
Released by Cohen Media Group
Lebanon/France/Qatar/Belgium. 102 min. Rated R
Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles
With Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsellem, Evgenia Dodina, Uri Gavriel, Karim Saleh, Dvir Benedek, Ruba Salameh & Ramzi Maqdisi
The Attack is […]
Directed by Elie Wajeman
Produced by Lola Gans
Written by Gaëlle Macé & Wajeman
Released by Film Movement
French & Hebrew with English subtitles
France. 90 min. Not rated
With Pio Marmaï, Adèle Haenel, Cédric Kahn, Guillaume Gouix & Sarah Le Picard
Gritty Aliyah plays ironically on the meaning of the Hebrew word for “to ascend” that refers to Israel’s Law […]
Written & Directed by Markus Imhoof
Produced by Thomas Kufus, Helmut Grasser, Pierre-Alan Meier & Imhoof
Released by Kino Lorber
Germany/Austria/Switzerland. 91 min. Not rated
English, German, Swiss-German & Mandarin with English subtitles
More Than Honey, a delectable nature documentary of the secret life of bees, is also a philosophical rumination on the past, present, and future of those who […]
Directed by James Marsh
Produced by Chris Coen, Andrew Lowe & Ed Guiney
Written by Tom Bradby, based on his novel
Released by Magnolia Pictures
UK/Ireland/France. 100 min. Rated R
With Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aiden Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot, Martin McCann & Bríd Brennan
Terrorism, sectarian loyalties, die-hard fanatics, civilian casualties, aggressive security measures, and revenge […]
Written & Directed by Rama Burshtein
Produced by Assaf Amir
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
Hebrew with English subtitles
Israel. 90 min. Rated PG
With Hadas Yaron, Hila Feldman, Irit Sheleg, Renana Raz, Razia Israeli & Yiftach Klein
Fill the Void feels like a folk tale set in a rural village. These folk dress and live bound by tradition as if […]
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Produced by Bettina Brokemper & Johannes Rexin
Written by Pamela Katz & von Trotta
Released by Zeitgeist Films
English & German with English subtitles
Germany. 113 min. Not rated
With Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen, Klaus Pohl, Nicolas Woodeson & Michael Degen
Hannah Arendt humanizes an intellectual whose persona is usually remembered […]
The more than two dozen documentaries at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival aimed for hearts and minds and many succeeded as audience pleasers. This year’s selections, in and out of competition and as special events, straddled the world, and are notable for their timeliness, for celebrating people at a surprising variety of work, and for […]
Written & Directed by Alice Winocour
Produced by Isabelle Madelaine, Emilie Tisné, Michèle & Laurent Pétin
Released by Music Box Films
France. 102 min. Not Rated
French with English subtitles
With Vincent Lindon, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin, & Roxane Duran
Augustine is the third film in as many years about real 19th/early 20th century doctors dealing with women in three […]
Directed by John Kirby & Robbie Gemmel
Produced by Daniel Coffin, Gemmel, Libby Handros & Josh Levin
Written by Daniel Coffin
Released by the Electron Project
USA. 87 min. Not rated
Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle entertainingly accomplishes an impossible task: fairly documenting the facts and foibles behind both sides of a hot environmental debate. A local controversy that […]
