“Socrates” is the kind of downward-spiral narrative bound to sound relentlessly bleak in description. But small wonder Alex Moratto’s first feature won him the Independent Spirit “Someone to Watch” ...

After his mother’s sudden death, Sócrates (Christian Malheiros), a 15-year-old living by his wits on São Paulo’s coast, has little or no time for grief. With the rent already overdue, he fills in for ...

Walter Salles has revealed he is eager to work again with The Motorcycle Diaries star Gael García Bernal, and that an opportunity nearly arose ahead of his making Oscar-winning drama I’m Still Here.

Can you, or how do you, portray the action of philosophical learning on film? Well, I’m not saying that this 1971 film Socrates I ran across the other day succeeds at that, but the next time you’re ...