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Pragda, Gene Siskel Film Center and Instituto Cervantes Chicago announce the return of the Festival of New Spanish Cinema, bringing the best in contemporary Spanish Cinema to North America.

Join Vocalo's Brian Babylon and director Ken Wyatt to watch Ken's "Colored Confederates: Myth or Matter of Fact?" as well as "White Scripts and Black Supermen," which revisits the comic books of Jonathan Gayles' boyhood with a critical eye to the superheroes that

Smuggled out of Iran in a cake for its world premiere at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, this self-declared non-film (call it a reality show) captures Iranian director Panahi (THE CIRCLE, OFFSIDE) in sly passive-resistance defiance of the authorities that have shackled him with a six-year prison term and a 20-year ban on filmmaking.

ENEMY ALIEN follows the troubling case of New York Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti, one of more than 1,200 American Muslim immigrants arrested and imprisoned on mere speculation in the wake of 9/11.

ENEMY ALIEN follows the troubling case of New York Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti, one of more than 1,200 American Muslim immigrants arrested and imprisoned on mere speculation in the wake of 9/11.

The perfect soldier is the land mine, which never needs food, water, or rest, nor has a conscience; millions of them remain undetonated in Cambodia. Not quite as perfect were the child soldiers conscripted by the Khmer Rouge in its war against Vietnam.