During an interview with Circle of Blue, German director Veit Helmer discusses his recently released film, Absurdistan. The film, which Helmer also co-wrote and produced, is his third feature. A race ...

BERLIN -- When Veit Helmer decided to make "Absurdistan" -- about women who imposed a sex ban until their lazy husbands repaired the town's decrepit water pipes -- he had no idea shooting the movie, ...

“Absurdistan” might take its title from a self-inflicted nickname for countries behind the collapsing Iron Curtain, but its antecedents are much older than that. This bawdy fairy tale could be ...

Director Veit Helmer is confident in his cinematic abilities: His latest film, “Absurdistan,” has almost no dialogue. It is the story of Aya and Temelko, childhood friends who fall in love. As they ...

Movies made outside the United States can illuminate the individuality of distant cultures for American audiences–while simultaneously highlighting the similarities to our particular surroundings. In ...

The idea for the film – which will shoot from June 26-August 26 in Azerbaijan – came from a small article on a battle of the sexes that the women of a Turkish village imposed on men until they ...

An Eastern European Jerry Lewis movie, “Absurdistan” answers the question: How do you make 85 minutes feel like 185? Helmed by the aptly named German filmmaker Veit Helmer, whose previous effort was ...

As demonstrated by the film’s low-grade special effects, Absurdistan makes a virtue out of modest, handmade storytelling without falling prey to cutesy self-indulgence, and Helmer gets astounding ...

Earnest, sad, and righteous, they are not. More inspired by M*A*S*H or Dr. Strangelove than The Deer Hunter or Coming Home, a new pack of political films that defy the clichés of the post-9/11 Iraq ...

‘Absurdistan’ is actually a creatively descriptive title for this movie and, while it doesn’t really tell us what the story is about, it gives us a good indication of the movie’s tone. From the very ...