Foreign Nights
Leila is a university student, born and raised in Canada. However her parents still hold on to their traditional Palestinian customs, and her father will not allow her to go out after 5 p.m. This culture clash comes to a
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Leila is a university student, born and raised in Canada. However her parents still hold on to their traditional Palestinian customs, and her father will not allow her to go out after 5 p.m. This culture clash comes to a
Foreign Names focuses on the worker displacement in a compilation of video clips from Aroma, a coffee shop chain. Ben-Ner’s video shows counter staff at the coffee shops yelling nonsensical English “names,” fabricated an
About a girl in a country shack and the creepy demon inside the girls' mind. Evil forces separates from the girl, in the shape of a physical copy of her body and becomes a spooky threat. Since the girl is weakened the de
Shot on 16mm film in New York and composed in Berlin, the work explores polarizing themes of the metropolis. Audibly and visually, the viewer is put in a flicker between serenity and intensity; harrowing ambience cut wit
During his rehabilitation in a municipal swimming pool, a man has to learn how to cope with his new body though he is not ready to accept it. The physiotherapist accompanying him will try to bridge the distance that the
A man falsely accused of crime joins Foreign Legion, and when trouble develops is saved by the self sacrifice of the commanding officer, his own father.
Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn villages. There, Jacob is befriended by Sergeant Holt, a cynical soldier.
By combining drawings, virtuoso sound and documentary materials, the film follows the work of Drago Trumbetas in Frankfurt. A "foreign worker" himself, Trumbetas created numerous testimonies through his masterful drawing
A metatextual ghost story that traverses mediums, timelines, fictions, and realities. A woman goes missing, leaving behind a mystery spelled out in found footage, daytime TV run-off, and the work of the documentarian ben
The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a boy and his mother. FOREIGN PARTS portrays the poetics of family life in
The last ever Will Haven show filmed at Capitol Garage, Sacramento, CA Feb 2003. Also features the tour documentary "Foreign Films", and the music video for "Carpe Diem".
Foreign Sky is a film that is composed of several different historical documents. The historical account of those archival materials weaves a personal story of growing up as a north Korean minority in Japan. Kum deconst
In 1962 California, a pregnant Jamaican psychic realizes she’s being forcibly admitted to a psychiatric ward by her husband. Seeing the future won’t help her here…but looking to the past might.
Morteza Olfat is an ordinary employee who has lots of problems in his life. One day, he happens to find fifty thousand dollars. He says nothing to anyone and tries to exchange the cash.
Non-US directors speak about the idiosyncrasies of filmmaking in their respective countries. Because of the difficulty of financing, very few American film directors establish a body of work. For American women directors
A foreign exchange student with a secret past, paints her new town red.
Antonio and his son Pietro are in Milan to fight Pietro's brain cancer. Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Jaber, an immigrant from North Africa, lives in Milan and assists his best friend at the hospital. Antonio and Jaber, tw
Andrea Bredow makes friends quickly with her new colleague at the health department. Judith Lorenz seems nice and competent. And she does not like anything about office macho Volker Lehmann. But then the unbelievable hap
This film observes, in a Montréal public school, the teaching of English to immigrant children. To thousands of children arriving in Canada from Greece, Italy, France, Germany or Japan, English is "a foreign language." U