A folkloric carpet (Gabbeh), picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback, is the prized possession of an elderly nomadic couple. When they ... wash it ..., a beautiful young woman ... emerges from the carpet to ... reveal the secret of the carpet. Once held hostage by the endless restraints of the family that fashioned the carpet, she reveals that the secret...lies within the mysterious black-clad rider on the white horse. Month after month,...

During a cease-fire treaty between the Sinhala government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a serviceman lives with his wife and sister, when he receives orders from the army that will change their lives forever.

In Batista's Cuba foreign capitalist influence runs rampant, economically stratifying the people into a decadent leisure class that revels in the spoils of Western civilization and a working class that toils day by day, feeling the echoes of colonialism.

Reconstructs an incident in the director's life. A former policeman wants to play in Makhmalbāf's next film. It turns out that they had already met, twenty years before, when Makhmalbāf was arrested for trying to take the policeman's gun. Makhmalbāf decides that they should recreate this incident on film, each from their own point of view.

Two Greek children embark on a mystical journey in search of the father they never knew.

A hypnotically languorous road movie with an upbeat political kick. The story follows a smalltime traveling sideshow which includes Ciço, a recent addition. A poor villager with a pregnant wife, he has fallen in love with the exotic dancer Salomé. In the end, the troupe heads down dusty roads facing increasing disinterest and social change in Brazil.

"Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for 'Peewee') is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the transvestite Lilica and his lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime."--Container....

Yusuf, laid off when the factory in his economically depressed village closes, decides to board a bus for Istanbul and stay at the home of his urbanite cousin, a successful and cosmopolitan art photographer named Mahmut. Yusef dreams of working on freighters, an exotic life of global travel far from his bucolic, insular village. Mahmut, divorced, forty-something, intensely private and self-consumed, grows increasingly resentful and impatient over...

A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become suspicious, and break out of their underground "shelter"--only...

Two friends meet after being apart for years- one in the United States studying film, and the other a professor at a university. When they start talking they realize they both loved the same woman, and decide to go find her to see if any sparks fly.