In his play “The Sea Gull,” Anton Chekhov had one of his characters explain the secret of literature: to write so that the words flow freely from the heart. If it’s possible to make a film that freely ...

One of the most important and magical functions of a movie is to take its audience to another world. Sometimes that world is one of pure imagination. But sometimes a film like “Gadjo Dilo” comes along ...

To the Gypsies, he’s a “gadjo dilo” a crazy outsider. But to Paris native Stephane, it’s the hard-living, fun-loving Gypsies he encounters on a trek through Romania who are the wild and crazy ones.

Cinema Mon Amour, the Pacific Film Archive at Berkeley Art Museum series in which local notables present films that have inspired them, is back for a three-night fall series beginning Sunday, Nov. 27.

In honor of International Roma Day on April 8, the World Bank - with support from the European Commission Representation in Romania, the European Parliament Information Office in Romania, and the ...

Movies attempt to create reality for us, the audience, out of fantasy. When you're a filmmaker like Tony Gatlif who made Latcho Drom you're already halfway there because he takes a reality and inserts ...

Summary: A young French man, Stephane, goes to Romania to discover the identity of a gypsy singer who obsessed his late father. He is drawn into this strange culture and falls in love. With: Dan ...

One of the cinema's most undying formulas places an outsider protagonist in some strange new culture, where he or she learns that the unfamiliar—and apparently more primitive—society is, in fact, ...