Richard Pena

Un groupe d'américains atterrit au Mexique pour un voyage éducatif organisé par le père O'Sullivan. Le programme prévoit non seulement la visite guidée des temples aztèques et mayas, mais aussi une découverte des rites sanguinaires apparemment reconstitués par les tribus d'Oaxaca. Comme pour un spectacle traditionnel, les touristes assistes à un festival baptisé "mort amusante", au cours duquel des personnages en costume sont censés pratiquer des exécutions factices. Mais peu à peu, les spectateurs s'aperçoivent que les scènes meurtrières sont plus vraies que nature et que leurs vies sont en danger, surtout quand le père O'Sullivan devient possédé...

A look at the making of Dariush Mahrjui's 'The Cow' ('Gav'), considered by many to be the seminal film of the Iranian New Wave.

Hugo et Braulio ont tous deux suivis de longues études universitaires. Fatigués de chercher du travail en Espagne, ils décident de tenter leur chance en Allemagne suite à un programme télé intitulé « Les Espagnols à travers le monde ». Mais c’est vite la désillusion…

A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

Bruno, a Mexican boy who lives in Madrid, has to stay alone in the city during the summer due to visa problems, while all his friends They leave the city and their entire family is in Mexico. To earn money to survive, and with the hope of finally getting his papers, he starts to work in a factory, where he begins to perceive sexual tension with his boss. This power relationship will bring Bruno bad memories of his past.

A 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan

Spain, 1997. The story of twelve days in July during which Basque society left indifference and fear behind and faced the threat of the terrorist group ETA.

A documentary film by Bahman Maghsoodloo about Bahram Bayzaei and his cinema, released in 2019. Maghsoodloo's conversations with Bayzaei in this film were recorded in Tehran in 2002 and Palo Alto in 2017.

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.