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Festival scene regular Brillante Mendoza is certainly a divisive filmmaker with his shaky-cam, documentary-like sensibilities. Like Hong Sang-soo has evidently uncovered, if you're a filmmaker who frequents Cannes with success, you're likely to catch the eyes of French-thesp Isabelle Huppert who's starring in the helmer's latest effort, "Captive." Based on the true story of the 2001 kidnapping of 20 hotel guests from the island of Palawan in the Philippines by the group known as Abu Sayyaf with Huppert playing a foreign missionary who is caught up in it all. While the clips are in Filipino with French subtitles, you can the sense of the film's about and Mendoza's style which, if anything, seems suited to story like this. Other than Huppert, we also spotted Mendoza's "Lola" star Rustica Carpio among the chaos with Maria Isabel Lopez, Mercedes Cabral and Joel Torre co-starring. "Captive," in fact, premiered at the...

It was about a year ago that speculation first cropped up that controversial helmer Brillante Mendoza -- who won a divisive Best Director award at Cannes for his audience-splitting "Kinatay" -- would return to the Croisette with his latest effort, "Captured." The film was apparently in post-production and headed to the finish line...and then word went quiet. Well, the movie is now in the can and headed to Berlin, and some fresh images have cropped up to give us a taste. Isabelle Huppert continues her journey through the foreign arthouse world (she also stars in Hong Sang-Soo's upcoming "In Another Country" -- first image here) by featuring here alongside Katherine Mulville, Marc Zanetta, Maria Isabel Lopez and Rustica Carpio in the based-on-a-true-story tale of Thérèse Bourgoin (Huppert), a French woman who worked for a humanitarian organization on Palawan Island in the Philippines only to be kidnapped by mistake...

Welcome back to our series of Tribeca Film Festival previews, where we highlight a film that will be screening over the next few weeks. This week we’re showing you the trailer for Brillante Mendoza’s film, Lola. This is one of Rudie’s most anticipated films, and we’ll be sure to cover it on the next bonus podcast episode, regarding the Tribeca Film Festival.

Lola will be screening all weekend (April 22, 23, 24) at the Village East Cinema 4 and the Clearview Chelsea Cinema 8. For a complete list of screening times and venues, head over to the official Tribeca page. You can also become a fan of the film over on Facebook, although I cannot confirm that the page is official. They also link to an official website, but I was getting an error every time I tried visiting it.

Are you planning on attending the Tribeca Film Festival? Which films are you most excited about?...