Salamandra
This stunning meditation on the dangers of seeking utopia follows Alba, an emotionally disturbed young woman fresh out of prison for political activity during Argentina’s dirty war, and her six-year-old boy Inti as they try to make a life for themselves in

Liverpool
Like Lisandro Alonso’s earlier Los Muertos, Liverpool details one man’s difficult homecoming in a remote section of Argentina. In lieu of a Conrad-ian trip upriver, however, we get an even more grueling physical journey overland into the frosty nowhere-lan

Birdsong
In what instantly ranks as one of cinema’s most unusual takes on the nativity story, this second feature by Catalan director Albert Serra re-imagines the journey of the three kings to visit Jesus. Rendered in lengthy shots that are sometimes so dimly lit t