CINEMONDO: The Violin (El Violin)
Category: World Cinema
In this award-winning CINEMONDO film from Mexico, a humble violin player is more than he appears, using his harmless look to evade the eyes of the military as he covertly supports the campesina peasant guerilla movement.

CINEMONDO: World Cinema on Link TV
Category: World Cinema
CINEMONDO is Link TV's regular series of outstanding world cinema, hosted by Peter Scarlet, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival. Watch clips and interviews from featured CINEMONDO directors here.

GLOBAL LENS: Dam Street (Hong Yan)
Category: World Cinema
In China in 1983, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun finds herself pregnant and expelled from school. Ten years later, she still lives in the same town, and has a young friend who tries desperately to protect her from the judgmental community.

GLOBAL LENS: Max and Mona
Category: World Cinema
Max Bua has his sights set on becoming a doctor. However, unable to pay his university fees, he must crash at his hard-drinking uncle's place...with goat in tow.

GLOBAL LENS: Bunny Chow
Category: World Cinema
Three up-and-coming comedians find humor amidst hardship in the "new" Johannesburg, celebrating life on a raucous roadtrip to South Africa’s largest music festival.

GLOBAL LENS: Daughter of Keltoum (Bent Keltoum)
Category: World Cinema
Rallia, a young Swiss woman, returns to her Algerian birthplace to seek out her roots. Unable to await mother's return, she heads out into the desert to find her.

GLOBAL LENS: The Fish Fall in Love (Mahiha Ashegh Mishavand)
Category: World Cinema
Atieh’s small but popular restaurant on the sleepy Caspian coast is her pride and joy. But when a former lover, shows up to close the restaurant, Atieh fixes him the meal of a lifetime.

GLOBAL LENS: Kept & Dreamless (Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños)
Category: World Cinema
Nine year-old Eugenia and her mother, Florencia, live a seemingly colorful life. But her mother’s dysfunctional and drug-addled lifestyle, threatens their happiness together.

GLOBAL LENS: Kilometre Zero
Category: World Cinema
A tragi-comic story of ethnic conflict between Kurds and Iraqis during the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, this film follows the adventures of a Kurdish soldier - a despised minority in the Iraqi military - traveling with an Iraqi taxi driver.

GLOBAL LENS: Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
Category: World Cinema
A father travels from his village to the city, determined to find his son. But instead, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to face his family's estrangement head-on.

GLOBAL LENS: Nada +
Category: World Cinema
Cuban postal clerk, Carla, takes up the absurd lengths of red tape in her bureaucracy and ties them up in a bow as she fabricates a rich - and covert - fantasy life out of her comrades' letters.

GLOBAL LENS: Rachida
Category: World Cinema
Rachida, a young teacher, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom, forcing her to seek refuge in the countryside. Can she escape?

GLOBAL LENS: The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant)
Category: World Cinema
Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to fulfill an arranged marriage. But she has a secret: she's in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the checkpoint.

GLOBAL LENS: Whisky
Category: World Cinema
Jacobo is the dull and and dour owner of a sock factory. He rarely shares words with the manager, Marta. Until he asks her to be his wife - that is, in pretense - to deceive his brother.

CINEMONDO: Takva - A Man's Fear of God
Category: World Cinema
This extraordinary character study folded into a cautionary tale explores the temptations and struggles of a Turkish man trying to live by ancient religious precepts in the contemporary globalized world.

Salman Ahmad

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