Mahmut, a 40 year old independent photographer, is a "village boy made good" at least professionally in the big city - Istanbul in this case. After his wife leaves him,…
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Brazil, 1960's, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970's: Li'l Zé has prospered very well and owns the…
In 1917, in the red light district of Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she…
Francesca Johnson's future seems peordained when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are…
« Boat People » is a Hong Kong film directed by Ann Hui, first shown in theatres in 1982. The film stars George Lam, Andy Lau, Cora Miao, and Season Ma. At…
Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral.…
Leon Bernstein is New York's best news photographer in 1942, equally at home with cops and crooks. The pictures are often about death and pain, but they are the ones…
Chris Marker’s retrospective in Arles in 2011 presented more than 300 works, produced between 1957 and 2010. Coréennes is a project made in 1957 when Chris Marker was one of…
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of…
In Stockholm, the fashion photographer Susanne Frank misses her married lover Henrik Lobelius that lives in Gothenburg with his wife and children, and the naive twenty years old model Doris…