An affecting view of traditional art and architecture in Andrah Pradesh, India, Squiggle is also a personal essay on the filmmaker's long-awaited homecoming. (Oliver Husain, 2005, digital beta, 21 minutes)

Part of a triptych on the European Union's ever-expanding and increasingly militarized borders, Lefkosía records from a distance a checkpoint dividing Greek South Cyprus and Turkish North Cyprus, silently questioning the difficult conditions within this split nation. (Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, 2005, 35 mm, silent, 14 minutes)

Near France's Sangatte Red Cross camp, Border secretly and dramatically records—at night with a small video camera—refugees who seek to reach England. (Laura Waddington, 2004, digital beta, 27 minutes)

In Bahman Ghobadi's compelling portrayal of a Kurdish musician and his band traveling through the Iran-Iraq border regions as they attempt to stage a concert, the comic amassing of absurdities and the "music of incredible power" (Peter Sellars) outshines even the film's rousing storyline to craft a graceful testimony to the spirit. (Bahman Ghobadi, 2006, 35 mm, Kurdish and Persian with subtitles, 107 minutes)

Tired but proud Cape Verdean laborer Ventura makes an odyssey through the ruins of his old home in Lisbon's Fontaínhas ghetto, then returns to the antiseptic neighborhood where he has relocated. As he pursues family and finds only memories, the film blurs the boundaries between fiction, documentary, and experimentation. "Scenes are united by his search, and by astonishing lighting and framing of decaying walls and rugged visages ('as if invoking Vermeer,' said Manohla Dargis)."—Jason Sanders (Pedro Costa, 2006, 35 mm, Portuguese with subtitles, 155 minutes)