July’s Santa Rosalia fiesta in Palermo, Sicily celebrates the legend of a saint who saved the town from plague. Filmed in black and white, the cityscape is refine, the citizens jolly, and music gentle to the ear. Be fascinated by the richness and openness of the local culture at the heart of this vibrant festival.

Hoping to become the president of Iran one day, Mir Qanbar campaigns earnestly with his campaign manager and the film crew.

In the Lebanese film, the last days of cafe Modca, which once stood at the center of people’s lives in Beirut. The film takes on the challenge of embedding the collective memory of the withering city. In Thailand, two archival documentaries, on a northern Thai ethnic minority group in the 1960s and the crackdown of students at Thammasat University in 1976, are combined to project "truth."