Iran and Indonesia have condemned a film by a Dutch lawmaker that says the Koran incites violence.

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders says he's ready to have a dialogue with Muslims about Islam and his controversial film Fitna, which made its debut on the Internet Thursday night. It is the first time the anti-immigration politician has agreed to debate his adversaries, and opposition politicians in the Netherlands are calling it the only positive thing to emerge from the controversy about his anti-Islamic film.

This April, the Panorama Film Series at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) embraces films that will tug at your heartstrings. The crowd-pleasing documentary, The Cats of Mirikitani, follows a New York City film editor who takes in a homeless, elderly Japanese-American street artist after the attacks of 9/11.

Audiences will scale the breathtaking Swiss Alps when the large-format film The Alps opens in the newly renovated Mugar Omni Theater. This powerful film centers on one man's quest to conquer the infamous North Face of the Eiger. Located at the core of the Alps, the Eiger is one of the world's most celebrated, yet treacherous peaks.

The Museum of Modern Art presents its fifth annual exhibition of recent films from Canada. Canadian Front, 2008, presented March 13–20, 2008, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, is a series of eight dramatic feature films completed in 2007, all of which are having their first New York screenings at MoMA.

Co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, New Directors/New Films 2008 hits New York, March 26 to April 6. The 37th edition of this program dedicated to the discovery and support of emerging directors, actors, and other talent will present the New York premieres of 26 films and six shorts, along with the third HBO Films Roundtable. Festival screenings are held at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater and MoMA's Titus 1 Theater.

Screened in conjunction with Inspiring Impressionism, the Denver Art Museum Cinema's spring film series presents a unique program on cinematic influence and homage. From such pairings as The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown to The Searchers and Taxi Driver, the eight-film series spotlights the rich and diverse influences celebrated classics had on succeeding films – and their impressionable makers.

Two short films produced by looked-after children as part of a University research project were the focal point of an event to celebrate the Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Sciences.

Shedding new light on one of art history's most important movements, Inspiring Impressionism runs through May 25, 2008. Organized by the Denver Art Museum (DAM), the exhibition features more than 100 paintings and works on paper drawn from nearly 70 museums and private collections, some of which have never traveled to the United States.

Featuring a retrospective of approximately 50 international films, live concerts, a gallery exhibition, and a panel discussion, Jazz Score celebrates some of the best original jazz composed for film from the 1950s to the present, with a particular emphasis on the rich and largely unexplored history of collaboration among postwar filmmakers and jazz composers, arrangers, and musicians.

The Whitechapel's Art Plus celebrates the flashpoints of art and other cultural forms in an exceptional one-off event, on 6 March, at 8:30pm.

During March, the Walker Art Center presents Women with Vision 2008: Past/Present, the 15th installment of this renowned film festival that annually celebrates the work of women directors, filmmakers, and artists. Sheryl Mousley, the Walker's film/video curator, often finds thematic threads connecting the films she selects.