Like the community of transgender women at its center, Nepalese drama “Elephants in the Fog” is gentle, fierce, and full of life and contradictions. Making his feature debut, writer-dire…
Unfolding in an isolated fishing village, Kai Stänicke's German drama "Trial of Hein" has a nebulous, nondescript period setting, but its concerns are entirely contemporary. We're introdu…
What if an American ballerina quintet was dropped into a mob flick in Central Europe? Director Vicky Jewson answers this question in "Pretty Lethal," at first with aplomb, but eventually wit…
A work of gently enveloping docufiction, "The Loneliest Man in Town" sees long-time DIY creative pair Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel following and dramatizing the twilight years of their frie…
A cross-cultural tale of grief and dance, Josef Kubota Wladyka's "Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!" stems from an intimate place, but ends up emotionally inert thanks to its style. Its key strengt…
A smart, withheld story about the borders between people, Ulrich Köhler's self-reflexive "Gavagai" chronicles on-set tensions between the cast and crew of a filmed update of "Medea" and s…
While upbeat at a distance, self-reflexive heist caper "Stealing Pulp Fiction" seldom translates its good nature through story or style. Danny Turkiewicz's feature debut follows a pair of be…
Set in smalltown western India, Uttera Singh's directorial debut "Pinch" (in which the writer-director also stars) unfolds with propulsive rhythms and a bleakly humorous tone. Its subject ma…
As a leading man, Kumar, who died on Wednesday at 98, helped to craft the cinematic image of post-independence India.