The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 13: New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
Documentary • 63 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
Film in the 1990s enters a surprise golden age. In Iran we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real. Then, in Tokyo, we meet Shinji Tsukamoto, who laid the ground for the bold new Japanese horror cinema. In Paris one of the world’s greatest directors, Claire Denis, talks exclusively about her work. The story ends in Mexico.
About The Story of Film: An Odyssey
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Birth of the Cinema
- E2The Hollywood Dream
- E3The Golden Age of World Cinema
- E4The Arrival of Sound
- E5Post-War Cinema
- E6Sex & Melodrama
- E7European New Wave
- E8New Directors, New Form
- E9American Cinema of the 70s
- E10Movies to Change the World
- E11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
- E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film