CINEMONDO: Takva - A Man's Fear of God
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
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.

CINEMONDO: Blind Shaft
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
"Blind Shaft" tells the story of two itinerant miners who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop a murderous scheme in order to better their lives. But the two men’s plan takes an unexpected turn.

CINEMONDO: Vanaja
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
When 14-year-old Vanaja is told by a fortune teller that she will be a great dancer, she presses her alcoholic father to get her a job with a rich local landowner who was once herself a dancer. But caste issues soon arise.

CINEMONDO: Daratt
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
This fable-like gem opens in a small village in Chad, as the government is about to announce the fates of those accused of war crimes during the country’s long civil war. When amnesty is granted, 16-year-old Atim is sent on a conflicted path of revenge.

CINEMONDO: A Time for Drunken Horses
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
The award-winning first film of renowned director Bahman Ghobadi. In a remote Kurdish village on the Iran-Iraq border, five motherless children endure hard scrabble lives, smuggling in order to survive.

CINEMONDO: The President's Last Bang
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
The scandalous story of the assassination of the South Korean President in 1979. Part of our new world cinema series Cinemondo. Tune in Sunday at 8 p.m. PT.

CINEMONDO: Stolen Life
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
In this Chinese film by director Li Shaohong, a young girl finds herself shunned by the world when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock.

CINEMONDO: The Night of Truth
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
Mirroring the political strife and genocide in Sub-Saharan Africa, this film begins as preparations are being made to end a decade of civil strife in a fictitious country and explores the inhuman behavior we are capable of when at war.

CINEMONDO: Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
An moving film about two men who travel the Brazilian countryside in the '40s selling aspirin, a new "miracle drug". Then one finds out he must either return to his home in Germany, or enter a local concentration camp.

CINEMONDO: Aaltra
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
Gus and neighbor Ben are in the midst of a brawl when they are crushed under the mechanism of Ben's tractor, and left paralyzed. Condemned to each other's company, they set off on a blackly comic odyssey of revenge

CINEMONDO: Raja
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is an award-winning cross-cultural drama about the relationship of a middle-aged Frenchman with a poor local girl.

CINEMONDO: Making Of
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
This courageous film tells the story of Bahta, a young Tunisian man drawn into fundamentalism. When it is revealed that the film is really the "making of" another movie, the actor playing Bahta must take a stand on his role.

CINEMONDO: Distant Lights
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
To some it's the end of the world - the river Oder between Poland and Germany. At this crossroads between two worlds Ukrainian refugees beg and bargain for entry to the West. Their moving stories populate this engrossing drama.

CINEMONDO: Singapore Dreaming
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
A poignant, darkly humorous film about a typical Singaporean family. When Poh Huat suddenly wins two million dollars in the lottery, his family starts believing that the windfall will deliver them from their struggles.

CINEMONDO - Season 2
Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo
Link TV has announced its line-up for the second season of CINEMONDO, the nationally broadcast world cinema series hosted and co-curated by Peter Scarlet, Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival! Learn about the new films here.

Sara Tavares

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