Alissa Simon

Thirty years after blowing minds with his first feature, "Koyaanisqatsi," helmer Godfrey Reggio supplies yet another dialogue-free juxtaposition of visceral imagery, time-lapse photography and mesmerizing Philip Glass music with "Visitors."...

CLAIM TO FAME Marija Pikic was a 21-year-old drama student with a few professional credits when helmer-writer Aida Begic chose her to star in " Children of Sarajevo ." She...

In January 1969, Czech university student Jan Palach set himself aflame in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet occupation of his homeland. His brave deed and painful death sparked...

Although exquisitely photographed in black-and-white, this biopic of the little-known 20th-century Polish-Roma poet Bronislawa Wajs, known as "Papusza," unfolds in time-skipping, dramatically underwhelming vignettes. Like dipping at random into an...

In today's conservative, predominantly Catholic Poland, an open homosexual relationship is more likely to trigger gay bashing than gay pride; so it is in Tomasz Wasilewski's sophomore feature, the feel-bad...

Determined to raise the birth rate among his Dalmatian island flock, a Catholic clergyman starts to play God in top Croatian helmer Vinko Bresan's "The Priest's Children." Adapted from a...

Four musicians whose rock band broke up in 1972 reunite for a comeback in the sweet, smart and funny tragicomedy "Revival," the sixth feature from talented Czech helmer-scribe Alice Nellis....

Distinctively photographed and chillingly atmospheric, Hungarian helmer Janos Szasz's "The Notebook" follows inseparable teen twins dispatched to the countryside by their parents during WWII; they survive by assiduously exterminating all...

An ill-fated love affair unfolds in the fields and forests of the Norwegian countryside in belabored drama "All That Matters Is Past," helmer-writer Sara Johnsen's third feature. The non-chronological narrative...

An ill-fated love affair unfolds in the fields and forests of the Norwegian countryside in belabored drama "All That Matters Is Past," helmer-writer Sara Johnsen's third feature. The non-chronological narrative...