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Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife, Lea, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict, married uncle, but … +

Gabrielle (Marion Cotillard) comes from a small village in the South of France at a time when her dream of true love is considered scandalous, and even a sign of insanity. Her parents marry her to José (Àlex Brendemühl), an honest and loving Spanish farm worker who they think will make a respectable woman of her. Despite José’s devotion to her, Gabrielle … +

Winner of coveted Rotterdam International Film Festival’s Tiger Award, Radio Dreams is the newest feature film from Iranian-British director Babak Jalali (Frontier Blues). The film creates the strange yet very real world of PARS-FM – a Farsi-language radio station broadcasting from the heart of San Francisco. The story unfolds over a single day as the station’s program manager, Hamid – a brilliant, … +

Antonia Wright. From Oct 31, 2011 through Jan 13, 2012. Antonia Wright investigates the universal human condition through a multifarious, process- oriented art practice combining photography, performance, poetry, video, installation and sculpture. A poet and photographer, Wright introduces social critique into a broad conceptual framework with imagination and conviction.

The city of Miami is no stranger to Cuban heritage – and that’s an understatement, to say the least – the home of The Freedom Tower in downtown Miami, the famous Calle Ocho and Viernes Culturales, and what Miamian doesn’t enjoy a cortadito after lunch? Yes, these are staples of the Cuban community of South Florida, but Choreographer and Artistic Director Pedro … +

Miami is in a constant state of change. In any given week it’s not surprising to see a handful of establishments, young and old, close their doors for good while fresh-faced additions emerge to take their place. Among the city’s galleries, change often occurs gradually, organically and reasonably. When new ones, like Imago Art Gallery, begin exhibiting there is not always the … +

When asked to consider the state of cinemas in Miami, the first thought that comes to mind may be a strong visual like the following: a crowded theater of noisy adolescents, feet firmly planted against the rear of your seat, reveling in the ear-shattering, violent explosions of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, probably directed by Michael Bay.

Manny Lopez of Zu Galeria Fine Arts on Miami’s Calle Ocho has taken it upon himself to promote the literary arts in our city through a series of nights in which he dedicates his space to intimate Poetry Readings.

Cuban Artist Humberto Castro exhibits his work at Miami’s Calle Ocho in a show called “Draw- Wings: A Retrospective 1990- 2010”, which is just that, a retro- spective collection of drawings by the artist dating back to the 90’s that had not been shown in Miami since around ‘93. During a re- cent conversation with the artist, he tells me, “Yes, I … +

Through May 29th, 2009.  Renee Gallery, located on Miami's Calle Ocho, is presenting an exhibition titled The Nature of Things, featuring current photographs by Antonia Wright Clyde Butcher through May 29th, 2009.

Last Friday of each month Viernes Culturales / Cultural Fridays is an artistic and cultural fair that takes place on the last Friday of each month in the historic neighborhood, on 8th Street SW between 14th and 17th Avenues. A venue for local artists, artisans and entertainers, this monthly festival certainly offers an opportunity for visitors and tourists to experience an evening … +

Last Friday of the month Viernes Culturales/Cultural Fridays, the last Friday of each month, takes place in the heart of Calle Ocho’s historic Little Havana. Pedestrians line the sidewalks to enjoy fine art, food, music, and friends.