Andrés Caicedo is a cult artist for Colombian youth. He was part of the Grupo de Cali, a group of young bohemians who share their liking for film, rock n' roll and salsa music in Cali, Colombian during the seventies. Besides committing suicide, when he was 26 years old, Caicedo left a vast multidisc

Experimental, Slangy, Urban, Violent

Lynne Ramsay has the qualities of a good ghost: she swings open doors and pulls back curtains, not to nag or threaten but just to remind the present of the values of the past. In her short career as a director and writer, Ramsay has brought a beautiful, slowed-down sensibility back into contemporary

Depressive, Gritty, Moody, Psychological, Urban, Young british/kitchen sink/free cinema

Hanif Kureishi was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1954, the son of a "Subcontinental" father (read: Pakistani) and an English mother. Growing up in the suburbs, he watched his father's obsessive efforts to write his way out of discrimination and obscurity -- efforts that went unrecognized outside the fami

Cool, Gritty, Post-colonial literature, Quirky, Urban