Wade out: the New York–based festival is honoring two Indian filmmakers whose works, despite their seeming hermeticism, stand in serious dialogue with the politics of their times
Sweet dreams: there is something unsettlingly liminal about the Okinawan artist’s videos, which take place on thresholds like graveyards, fences, and national borders
Spiritual unity: the recently released soundtrack pulls from avant-garde jazz and traditional Persian music to create a new audio work just as madcap, ambiguous, and avant-garde as the original film was, almost 50 years ago
Gather round: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s 1989 film is a mellow, neorealist true story about a greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo who took a troop of poor Chinese exchange students under his wing in 1987
Going home: Carol Mansour's documentary is a heist of sorts, depicting the ways in which exiled Palestinians, denied the right of return, keep their heritage alive
Another green world: with its pop imagery, sonic dissonance, and vision of life after Armageddon, Marco Ferreri’s 1969 dystopian fable brings to mind a film by George A. Romero remade by Jean-Luc Godard
Smoke gets in your eyes: Robert Altman’s jazz-infused noir finds the late legend Harry Belafonte in a role that slyly inverts his public persona as a committed and compassionate activist
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