Brazil film looks at dark past through young eyes
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Brazilian Cao Hamburger, whose film  looks at his country's dark past, is the latest director to  describe the brutality of South America's military  dictatorships through the eyes of a child.
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This Australian film could be described by the story's "Rocky"-like outlines, but there is a gripping, downbeat family drama at the movie's core.
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Written and directed by Dardo Toledo Barros, a Brazilian financier turned filmmaker, this plodding movie is the story of a Brazilian financier who becomes a filmmaker.
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Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's 1969 Brazilian picaresque, which is being shown at the New York Film Festival, survives as a gloriously demented artifact of its time.
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A film showing young Cambodians do not know about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge is opening.
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The surfaces of Cao  Hamburger's fine film, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation"  (O Ano em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Ferias) are clean and concise  and filled with keen observations about day-to-day life in a  multiethnic quarter of Sao Paulo in 1970. This allows the  director all sorts of opportunities to explore the rich subtext  of his film -- themes about alienation, community and a life in  exile.
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NEW YORK  - After a 10-year directing hiatus, Francis Ford Coppola recently returned to theaters as a writer-director-producer with "Youth Without Youth," based on the Mircea Eliade novella about aging, identity and language. Next, he'll start shooting "Tetro" in Argentina.
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With âDescent,â first-time feature filmmaker Talia Lugacy explores the psychic aftershocks of a rape. The movie is hard to watch but essential to see.
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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The 2005 film "The Constant Gardner" won acclaim at film festivals and an Oscar for best supporting actress Rachel Weisz. Now the film's Brazilian director is harnessing his fame to jump-start his country's struggling movie industry.
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"Machuca," which is Chile's submission to this year's Academy Awards, is both sweet and stringent, attuned to the wonders of childhood as well as its cruelty and terror.
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âYouth Without Youthâ is the work of a mature artist who has probably forgotten more about making movies than many current film school students will ever know.
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A grade school dropout and ex-factory worker, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vividly recalls his struggle to survive in Brazil's backwoods and urban squalor.
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âBellaâ is a movie that wears its bleeding heart on its sleeve and loves its characters to distraction.
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Danny Glover, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo closed their eyes and opened their senses to this small South American capital, a backdrop in the upcoming movie "Blindness."
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The story of a boy born into captivity in the South American jungle has riveted people for more than a year in Colombia, striking a nerve in a country numbed by 40 years of political violence.
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Zana Briski's documentary about children growing up in Calcutta's rough and squalid red light district is moving, charming and sad.