2007 Festival Films and Events Guide

Acclaimed Argentine director Martín Rejtman makes his documentary debut with this beautifully shot, gently told portrait of the Bolivian community in Buenos Aires preparing for a holiday celebration.  More...

A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her animated world.  More...

Paz Encina's rigorously minimalist and emotionally devastating debut traces the everyday routines of a peasant couple waiting with stoic resignation for their only son to return from a far-off war.  More...

A hilarious send-up of the world of children's competitive dance, Razzle Dazzle follows the Jazzketeers, a troupe of tweenage hoofers vying for the title in Australia's most prestigious competition.  More...

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's parable about revenge and reconciliation stars Ali Bacha Barkaï as a rural teenager who journeys to the city to kill the man who years earlier murdered his father.  More...

A legendary musician assembles his many instrument-wielding sons for a dangerous road trip to Iraq in Bahman Ghobadi's stirring tribute to the long-suppressed cultural traditions of Kurdistan.  More...

Taiwanese new wave maestro Tsai Ming-liang returns to his native Malaysia for this moody, deliberate meditation on desire and communication starring Lee Kang-sheng adrift in multiethnic contemporary Kuala Lumpur.  More...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Trank carefully constructs a compelling and reverent homage to Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, who dedicated his life to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice.  More...

Teboho Mahlatsi conceived this visually ravishing fable about a hermetic hero lured out of solitude by the sight of a beautiful woman, only to be ambushed by an evil horseman.  More...

Garin Nugroho adapts an episode from the seminal Ramayana epic for his own dazzling film, which encompasses Mozart's Requiem, gamelan music, sacred court dance, and modern conceptual art installations.  More...

Paz Encina's rigorously minimalist and emotionally devastating debut traces the everyday routines of a peasant couple waiting with stoic resignation for their only son to return from a far-off war.  More...

The foremost Thai creator of mysterious cinematic objects, Apichatpong Weerasethakul derives his latest magical concoction from the lives his own parents led before they became lovers.  More...