Natl Geographic Film Fest Gives Voice to Unsung Cultures
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This week the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival showcases indigenous filmmakers. Among the films, an Iranian documentary set in a public restroom, where women remove their veils, smoke, and discuss everything from drugs to sex to religion.
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Filmmakers using relatively cheap digital technology throw a harsh light on the plight faced by indigenous societies trying to survive the intrusion of a modern world. Jason Silverman reports from New York.
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A monthlong festival called MexicoNow has highlighted the challenges of defining cultural identity.
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Some say Afghani society may not be ready yet to interpret correctly what they see in movies from India and the West.
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TORONTO  - A documentary about Islam and homosexuality is vying for attention at the Toronto International Film Festival, where high-profile movies set in the Middle East are already making a splash.
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Cinema&#39;s self-styled  anthropologist, Werner Herzog, whose &quot;Grizzly Man&quot; emerged as  one of 2005&#39;s more intriguing documentaries, returns with  another unique travelogue.
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Boundaries of geography, genre and taste are tested and occasionally trampled in the ninth edition of Film Comment Selects.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - When Amin Matalqa made his first feature film in his native Jordan, he got some local attention, but when his "Captain Abu Raed" earned a spot at the Sundance Film Festival, the director saw his ticket into U.S. movie theaters.
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In a year in which most films dealing with conflicting world cultures have failed to excite moviegoers, the makers of "The Kite Runner" hope to win audiences by bridging the divide of race and ethnicity.
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At Peter SellarsÂs New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, a cross-pollination of human and artistic cultures has yielded wonderful results.
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The new Indian Museum is set to open September 21 in Washington, DC and it&#39;s collection includes hundreds of thousands of artifacts from the native cultures of both North and South America.
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The National Museum of the American Indian has much to boast of, but it tries to serve too many constituencies.
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Director Werner Herzog  is no stranger to exotic location shoots.
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The Sundance Film Festival, which opens with âIn Bruges,â the playwright Martin McDonaghâs film debut, is one of the oddest ecosystems on earth.
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Five people in five cities reflect on the nationÂs road forward.
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The onscreen heroics of presenters like Steve Irwin have shaped viewers' perceptions about the dangers of some animals.
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The world's oldest running film festival, the Venice Biennale, is used to imitators. But this year, the upstarts are just a little too close to home.