Stephen Saito

The niece of politician Tito Arias gets at the heart of his surprising 30-year relationship to Dame Margot Fonteyn in Panama's official Oscar entry.

The director talks about her time following the United Ukrainian Ballet Company across the U.S. in a beautiful bit of diplomacy.

The infamous watermelon-smashing comic is shown to be more than a punchline in this absorbing warts and all biography.

The director chronicles her sister's attempts as a rabbi to unify her community by reaching out to a local church in this heartfelt doc.

The director discusses rebuilding hope amidst the destruction of her homeland of Artsakh with the tale of four resilient women.

Miklós H. Vecsei stars as the Hungarian obstetrician who fought for cleaner delivery rooms in Hungary's official entry for the foreign feature Oscar.

The co-directors and producers of this delightful fish-out-of-water story set in Bulgaria talk about working without a net.

The director discusses the road to making this Jess Weixler & Chloe Guidry drama about a mother and daughter brought together by separation.

Ruslan Akun’s well-intentioned road movie about a mother and son looking to secure a pleasant afterlife begin to dawdle in this one.

Good intentions have a way of leading to not-so-great places in “Paradise at Mother's Feet,” a sweet but ultimately arduous road movie about a mother and son from Kyrgyzstan who set out to reach Mecca in the mother's final days. When scripture insists that salvation lies in making the pilgrimage on foot, the steps Ruslan Akun's religious drama take toward the promised land feel increasingly labored over a two-and-a-half-hour runtime, wearing out any early charm derived from a strong central relationship between its stars Emil Esenaliev and Anarkul Nazarkulova.