Normal 12-year-old boys trade baseball cards, swap Pokémon, or bargain chips for cookies for fun. Joselito de la Cruz trades windshield washing tools out of necessity. Joselito, who prefers the name Jeffrey because it sounds American, is the enchanting boy from Santo Domingo in Yanillys Perez’s feature documentary “Jeffrey.” To support his family, Jeffrey washes windshields at a stoplight in Santo Domingo. When he isn’t working to pay his mother’s rent, or playing caretaker f

On May 30, 2016, Hissein Habré, the former dictator of Chad, was convicted for crimes against humanity. His offenses include rape, sexual slavery, torture and ordering the killing of more than 40,000 people during his rule from 1982 to 1990. Through the documentary “Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy,” director Mahamet-Saleh Haroun gives Habré’s victims power of their own to talk about their physical and emotional trauma, and their tumultuous paths through grief. Their stories

Screenshot from "Interchange" trailer Malaysian film “Interchange” from writer-director Dain Iskandar Said is an experiment testing how many plot twists can be packed into one film. The plot of this Malanglish-noir film rapidly devolves into a maelstrom of “ah ha” moments the audience is not privy to. Instead, anyone outside the film’s inner- circle of humanoid birds, ritual killers and intellectually questionable detectives is left with a hopelessly tangled mess of entrails—