Direction: Ismail Merchant

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman

Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan

Plot In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using...

Direction Ismail Merchant

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Sean Young · Sam Waterston · Nell Carter

Plot Thinly disguised as a returning-to-your-roots and facing-your-ghosts drama, film is actually a celluloid shrine to its Gallic star, the legendary Moreau, who plays a legendary Gallic novelist, Adrienne Mark. Mark,...

Direction Ismail Merchant

Cast Greta Scacchi · Madhur Jaffrey · James Wilby · Neena Gupta

Plot On the Malabar Coast in the early 1950s, a British family finds itself in the midst of a cultural clash, instigating a reevaluation of traditional and colonial attitudes. As India...

Direction Ismail Merchant

Cast Om Puri · Aasif Mandvi · Ayesha Dharker · Jimi Mistry

Plot In 1950s Trinidad, a frustrated writer supports himself as a masseur--and soon becomes a revered mystic and politico.

Direction Ismail Merchant

Cast Shashi Kapoor · Shabana Azmi · Om Puri · Sushma Seth

Plot An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man. Deven goes to Bhopal from Mirpur to meet Nur,...

Direction Ismail Merchant

Cast Saeed Jaffrey · Zohra Sehgal

Plot In Pavan Pool, a compound in Bombay, poor women sing, dance, and engage in prostitution. By day, they practice singing and dancing, both traditional and pop. Brothers and uncles with...