The Phoenician Scheme: A Man of No Identity
Wes Anderson offers a light-hearted comedy in the Middle East centering around Catholic motifs.

A good 20 years after the fall of the Wall, the film tells the story of Andreas Göbel, a homosexual colored man who was born in 1961 as an exotic in the GDR province and for whom it soon became too cramped in this state. Andreas Göbel wants out. And he wants a friend. A documentary about the pursuit of freedom and a film about the search for happiness.
Wes Anderson offers a light-hearted comedy in the Middle East centering around Catholic motifs.
We sat down with Writer/Director Albert Acosta to discuss his debut short film, (ha-ha), Acosta's foray into narrative cinema, and how his personal experiences have shaped his filmmaking philosophy.
I understood post-memory as passing down stories and images of one’s experiences that are not your own. For decades, rape has been depicted in cinema through a third-person perspective, leaving the viewer to observe rape; not to experience it.
If you mix religious rituals with dark mythology, the result will be effective, and the story powerful in 90% of the cases. That is exactly what happens at the beginning of The Vigil.
Asha, the main character, is a biracial woman who discovers the power of magic wishing dust.
"Up" features one of Pixar's few Asian-American heroes and explores the institutionalized hardships elderly people face. Also, Dug is a good boy.