Tag: Robert St. Martin
Beneath the Ashes: The Past Reimagined – Documentary About Impact Eaton...
The documentary Beneath the Ashes: The Past Reimagined will premiere at Dances With Films on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. at the TCL Chinese 6...
BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT: Shahram Mokri’s Labyrinthine Iranian Tale About Film-Making
Last Friday evening at the Billy Wilder Theatre of the UCLA Hammer Museum was a screening of a film from Iran – Black Rabbit,...
BETWEEN DREAMS AND HOPE: Seeking a Trans Identity in Iran Today
One of the more interesting films in this year’s “Celebration of Iranian Cinema” at the UCLA Hammer in Westwood is Farnoosh Samadi’s Between Dreams...
THE GREAT YAWN OF HISTORY: An Iranian Allegorical Tale About the...
Iranian filmmakers are gifted story-tellers and one recent example just screened at UCLA Hammer as part of the annual “Celebration of Iranian Cinema” which...
MORTICIAN: Iranians in Exile in Canada and Dealing with Iran’s...
Last evening was the opening night of the 34th UCLA CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CINEMA (JUNE 5–21, 2026) – at the Billy Wilder Theater of the...
Ionesco’s EXIT THE KING: An Absurdist Tale About an Aged King...
Currently on stage at A Noise Within Theater in Pasadena is a production of Eugène Ionesco’s Exit the King,a darkly comic piece representative of...
THE BEAUTY OF THE DONKEY: Dea Gjinovci’s Documentary About Memory and...
One film in this year’s South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) that I particularly enjoyed was Dea Gjinovci’s documentary The Beauty of the Donkey....
FANTASY – A Slovenian Film About Three “Tomboys” and a Transexual...
Fantasy is the debut feature film of Slovenian filmmaker Kukla Kersherović, who is also a well-known musician in her country. Fantasy premiered at the...
Igor Cobileanski ‘s COMOTOGEN: A Romanian Film About the Subtleties of...
Comatogen is an interesting, well-made film from Romania by director Igor Cobileanski. Its mosaic structure driven by the perspectives of multiple characters is reminiscent...
Tereza Nvotová’s FATHER: An Unsettling Drama About Moral Ambiguity – at...
A powerful and unsettling film from Slovakia was part of the South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) on Saturday at the Laemmle NoHo Theatre...









