CineCafes CineCafes return this year to offer you an in-depth film viewing experience that extends beyond the final credits. Meet with directors, critics, scholars, and avid filmgoers like yourself to share views and trade questions and answers.
All events are free and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be available. Barely 40 and with 15 films to his credit, Indian director Mani Ratnam easily can be described as a prodigy. Attempt to discover, if you can, the sources of inexhaustible energy that make Ratnam one of the world's most entertaining and prolific directors, riding the edge between popular entertainment and serious art. Today Six Iranian films are screening at Filmfest DC this year. Although very recent entrants at festivals and to world distribution networks, films from Iran have won prestigious awards and plaudits from critics wherever they have been shown.