river as cultural witness

Daughter of Nectar
2026 · Lin Chun-ni

Les Statues meurent aussi
1953 · Chris Marker

Architects of Ayorou
1970 · Jean Rouch

Cold Hell
2017 · Stefan Ruzowitzky

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
2006 · Albert Brooks

Babel
2006 · Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur

Summertime
1955 · David Lean

La Habanera
1937 · Douglas Sirk

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1965 · Sergei Parajanov

Toni Erdmann
2016 · Maren Ade

The Night of Counting the Years
1969 · Shadi Abdel Salam

Cold War
2018 · Paweł Pawlikowski

Farewell My Concubine
1993 · Chen Kaige

Once Were Warriors
1994 · Lee Tamahori

Wadjda
2012 · Haifaa al-Mansour

Four Daughters
2023 · Kaouther Ben Hania

Ixcanul
2015 · Jayro Bustamante

Yellow Earth
1984 · Zhang Yimou

The Secret Nation
1989 · Jorge Sanjinés

Cactus River
2012 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tulpan
2008 · Sergei Dvortsevoy

Florianópolis Dream
2018 · Ana Katz

Gypsy
2011 · Rachel Leah Jones

Ip Man
2008 · Wilson Yip

Khaled
2002 · Asghar Massombagi

Krapatchouk
1992 · Enrique Gabriel

Lucky Miles
2007 · Michael James Rowland

Once Upon a Time, Cinema
1992 · Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Pathfinder
1988 · Nils Gaup

Police Story
1985 · Jackie Chan

Prisoner of the Mountains
1996 · Sergei Bodrov

Undertow
2009 · Javier Fuentes-León

What a Wonderful Place
2005 · Eyal Halfon

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
2026 · Juan Jose Meza-Leon

Bhooth Bangla
2026 · Priyadarshan

Gaayapadda Simham
2026 · Kasyap Sreenivas

Kokuho
2025 · Sang-il Lee

Layla
2026 · Amrou Al-Kadhi

Tales of Taipei
2026 · Pawo Choyning Dorji

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
2026 · Yasuhito Kikuchi

Tekenchu: The Rite of the Nahuales
2026 · Carlos Matienzo Serment

The Captive
2026 · Alejandro Amenábar

Visions of Europe
2004 · Béla Tarr & Peter Greenaway