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  ‘Puzzle’ Pieces Together a Life

  Jonathan Kiefer
  Sep 9, 2011

  Maria Onetto quietly dazzles in Argentine film about a midlife jigsaw puzzler.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  ‘Puzzle’ Pieces Together a Life

  Jonathan Kiefer
  Sep 9, 2011

  Maria Onetto quietly dazzles in Argentine film about a midlife jigsaw puzzler.

  
• September 15, 2011
  
  

  ‘Puzzle’ Pieces Together a Life

  Jonathan Kiefer
  Sep 9, 2011

  Maria Onetto quietly dazzles in Argentine film about a midlife jigsaw puzzler.

  
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  Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'

  Susan Gerhard
  Aug 27, 2010

  The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'

  Susan Gerhard
  Aug 27, 2010

  The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.

  
• September 2, 2010
  
  

  Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'

  Susan Gerhard
  Aug 27, 2010

  The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Chilean Film 'The Maid' and the Liberation of a Genre

  Dennis Harvey
  Nov 13, 2009

  This little no-budget film has picked up a slew of festival prizes for its character depth, unpredictable storytelling, humor and warmth.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Lucrecia Martel and "The Headless Woman"

  Gail Spilsbury
  Sep 18, 2009

  To viewers of Lucrecia Martel's earlier work, The Headless Woman is the crowning achievement; the filmmaker speaks about her vision of the world.

  
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  'Lion's Den' and '24 City'

  Susan Gerhard
  Jul 31, 2009

  Veteran filmmakers Pablo Trapero and Jia Zhang-ke complicate their genres with Lion's Den and 24 City.

  
• In Production
  
  

  Tejada-Flores on "Road" for a Change

  Michael Fox
  Jun 23, 2009

  When Rick Tejada-Flores decided to explore his family's checkered Bolivian past, he accepted that he had to be a character.

  
• In Production
  
  

  Cyrus Omoomian's 'Democracy': From Iran to Chile

  Michael Fox
  May 26, 2009

  Iranian filmmaker Cyrus Omoomian documents post-Pinochet Chile in work-in-progress Pushing Towards Democracy.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  César Charlone Directs 'The Pope's Toilet'

  Miguel Pendás
  Jan 27, 2009

  Oscar-nominated cinematographer César Charlone recently codirected his first theatrical feature film, a darkly comic farce about Pope John Paul II.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  MVFF: Mulford and Cruz On Chile's Dark Past

  Michael Fox
  Oct 8, 2008

  Marilyn Mulford collaborated with Quique Cruz on the pensive, humanistic, and inspiring Archaeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi.

  
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  A Chilean Top Four

  Miljenko Skoknic
  Jan 12, 2007

  Miljenko Skoknic's list of favorites in Chilean Cinema.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  The Breno Mello of "Black Orpheus"

  Susan Gerhard
  Jan 3, 2007

  The 1959 reworking of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a bossa nova adventure through Brazilian Carnival, with actor Breno Mello as the black Orpheus.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  A Documentary on Peru's Terror War

  Susan Gerhard
  Jul 25, 2006

  A conversation with Pamela Yates, director of State of Fear, on Peru's 20-year war on terror, which bears an unsettling resemblance to U.S. current events.