A wholly captivating and unusual film about acting, aging and the relationships between women from director Olivier Assayas.

Hope and Wire (directed by Gaylene Preston) is a compelling docu-drama about the 2010/2011 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquakes.

Deadpan Kristen Wiig is hilarious as a woman who creates a wild and out of control TV show after winning millions.

In Everything Will Be (directed by Julia Kwan), the story flips between the old and the new of Vancouver's fast-changing Chinatown, with the focus on the rich community of characters that live and work there.

A London council worker (John May), who leads a careful and quiet life, has the unusual job of locating the next of kin for the unclaimed dead, and for those with no kin, he creates ceremonies and narratives based on items from their homes.

In Looking for the Light: Jane Bown (about British photographer Jane Bown), we get to see her portraits of some of the world’s most famous faces like Samuel Beckett, Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger, the Queen and more.

An unhappy Taiwanese woman living in a worn and grimy apartment with her daughter, who rarely comes home, and her unresponsive husband, who works in another city, finds comfort in a strange relationship.

Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America (directed by Rodrigo H. Vila) chronicles the life and achievements of Mercedes Sosa, an Argentinian singer whose funeral in 2009 provoked a mass outpouring of grief that included the declaration of three day

A rich but decadent family spirals downward toward bankruptcy while the teenage son (Jean) breaks out of the overprotected family cocoon and steps into the world of social, racial and economic diversity in chaotic Rio de Janeiro.

Terri Upton of Frog Eyes spotted reading Geist 93 before a show in Toronto.

In Heaven Knows What (directed by Joshua & Benny Safdie), the characters are young street people who spend their time saying fuck, stealing, trying to score drugs or alcohol, figuring out where they're going to sleep, and engaging in melodrama.

A thorough and stylish biographical documentary about the influential American writer.

A very loose adaptation of Shakespeare sees a web of tangled romances in this Argentine film.

A cartoon for an adult audience: a Brazilian boy takes a kaleidoscopic voyage into the modern world

The film Walking Under Water (directed by Eliza Kubarska) centers around two members of the Badjao tribe of sea nomads in the Sulu and Celebes sea.

In economics, monopsony is the condition where there is one buyer for many sellers so that the purchaser can dictate terms to its suppliers. This is the big word used and the big situation described in Food Chains (directed by Sanjay Rawal).

Jordan Turner wins the Geist Newsletter Photo Contest.

Artificial Cherry by Billeh Nickerson has been shortlisted for the 2014 City of Vancouver Book Award.

The World Afloat by M.A.C. Farrant has been shortlisted for the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.

The real story of the Brooklyn bank robber from "Dog Day Afternoon."

Playing House: Two thought-provoking photo projects involving two women with similar names and two male mannequins whose names begin with "C." Weird and/or wonderful?

One more week left in Sofia.

Our exhibition is getting more and more complicated.

The Suitcase taverna sits on the edge of central Sofia and the surrounding suburban area.

The time after an opening is a kind of lost time. For months leading up to the show you spend all your time and energy putting it together and then, suddenly, it’s over.

Our exhibition Public Address opened tonight and, according to the participating Bulgarian artists, it was a success.

The Bulgarian Military Press is a mysterious organization that operates a tiny storefront set inside a huge building in downtown Sofia.