Writer/director Mohammad Rasoulof’s narrative feature, Iron Island, is one of the finest Iranian films ever released in the west, and his new work, Head Wind, is a no-less stellar effort, a semi-documentary about the satellite television rage currently sweeping the Middle Eastern nation, even in the face of an often violent clerical adversity.

Unlike Tribeca ‘08’s terrific New York art world doc, Guest of Cindy Sherman, The Universe of Keith Haring fails to penetrate more than cursorily (and too often annoyingly) into the brief, yet prolific career of its central figure.

If we were to go on immediate impressions, Paul H-O is the kind of guy most of us would attempt to avoid. As host of the now-defunct public access show Gallery Beat (myriad clips of which are on display in the new film, co-directed by Paul, Guest of Cindy Sherman), he was a force of underground, lo-fi nature.

Milosevic on Trial, a potent mix of courtroom footage, talking heads interviews, and video asides, runs slightly over an hour (reportedly cut down from a two-hour television version), though the brief running time actually works in this engrossing documentary’s favor. The four-years-long war crimes trial of Serbian and Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic thus goes by in the relative blink of an eye, the bogged down legal process (reams of paperwork, myriad witnesses, an overall clinical presentation and examination of the most unspeakable kinds of evidence) suddenly collapsed into a fleet-footed and deeply moving space.

Bookended by to-the-camera appeals from executive producer Colin Farrell, Kicking It initially promises to be little more than a sports channel infomercial – no surprise that this Hi-Def documentary about The Homeless World Cup was acquired by ESPN after its January premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. But there’s a good deal more to the film besides star-sanctioned awareness raising.