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, ...

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 ...

With the women of their village on a sex strike until water service is restored, Kristyna Malerova and Maximilian Mauf, center, must figure out a way to get things flowing - or risk a long and ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Irony both subtle and obvious abounds in "Born in Absurdistan," a dramatic-satiric attempt to turn the tables on Austrian racism. Helmed and co-written by Iranian-born, Vienna-based vet filmmaker ...

Travel to the outermost reaches of reality here in Absurdistan. Veit Helmer creates a world of his own, full of whimsical humour, drops of fairytale charm and many magical ideas. Absurdistan – it ...

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 ...

“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 ...