Alissa Simon

"The World Is Funny" and wondrously strange in the tender new dramedy from Israeli fabulist Shemi Zarhin ("Aviva, My Love"). Full of quirky charm, this ambitious, multistrand tale about storytelling...

"The World Is Funny" and wondrously strange in the tender new dramedy from Israeli fabulist Shemi Zarhin ("Aviva, My Love"). Full of quirky charm, this ambitious, multistrand tale about storytelling...

A member of Pakistan's transgender community, the Khusras, plays a slightly fictionalized version of himself in "Noor," the feature debut of peripatetic helming-writing duo Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti. This...

A member of Pakistan's transgender community, the Khusras, plays a slightly fictionalized version of himself in "Noor," the feature debut of peripatetic helming-writing duo Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti. This...

Conflicted feelings about impending fatherhood and adult responsibilities spark bouts of spectacularly inappropriate behavior from the title character in "The Almost Man." A slender but polished dramedy, Norwegian helmer-writer Martin...

Conflicted feelings about impending fatherhood and adult responsibilities spark bouts of spectacularly inappropriate behavior from the title character in "The Almost Man." A slender but polished dramedy, Norwegian helmer-writer Martin...

Set in the period just before cinema's iconic rebel made it big, homoerotic mood piece "Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean" pictures the thesp as a bisexual hustler...

Set in the period just before cinema's iconic rebel made it big, homoerotic mood piece "Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean" pictures the thesp as a bisexual hustler...

Another leisurely told shaggy-dog story from Uruguayan helmer/co-writer Pablo Stoll Ward ("Hiroshima"), "3" extends its episodic drollery about 30 minutes beyond what the material warrants, thus repping far too much...

Another leisurely told shaggy-dog story from Uruguayan helmer/co-writer Pablo Stoll Ward ("Hiroshima"), "3" extends its episodic drollery about 30 minutes beyond what the material warrants, thus repping far too much...