One of the main reasons we support Sling TV is its international cinema resources, and having access to those resources at an affordable price.

For $20 a month you can join Sling TV Orange and access 30 tv channels as well as have the ablility to use the Fandor Festival channel. Fandor Festival on Sling TV offers the best of the most important international film festivals such as Sundance, Austin’s SXSW, Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and Toronto. You can browse the films based on the festival or genres. Good news is that you can watch 5 films for free every month. We looked through the list of films and they are all great well known films from international cinema. Just to name a few good titles on Fandor Festival: 5 Broken Cameras, Armadillo, 35 Shots of Rum and many more….

On top of your monthly $20, you will also have access to movie channels or channels that occasionally show movies such as IFC, A&E, Comedy Central and AMC. With just additional $9 you can have access to six STARZ movie channels. You will find several International films on STARZ channels and in STARZ Encore you can find Oscar nominated short films to watch. HBO is $15 a month and Cinemax $10.

However, if your budget is slim, you can just add Hollywood Extra for an extra $5 and have access to seven movie channels, HD Net Movies, Turner Classic movies, Sundance TV and four Epix channels. Just in on demand section of Turner Classic Movies you find great films like Hanna and Her Sisters, Citizen Kane, Heaven Can Wait, In The Mood For Love, The Magnificent Ambersons, Some Like It Hot and the Stagecoach.

With upcoming Sling TV’s cloud based DVR and all these movie channels international cinema fans should have nothing to complain about.

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Bijan (Hassan) Tehrani Founder and Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders, is a film director, writer, and a film critic, his first article appeared in a weekly film publication in Iran 45 years ago. Bijan founded Cinema Without Borders, an online publication dedicated to promotion of international cinema in the US and around the globe, eighteen years ago and still works as its editor in chief. Bijan is has also been a columnist and film critic for the Iranian monthly film related medias for 45 years and during the past 5 years he has been a permanent columnist and film reviewer for Film Emrooz (Film Today), a popular Iranian monthly print film magazine. Bijan has won several awards in international film festivals and book fairs for his short films and children's books as well as for his services to the international cinema. Bijan is a member of Iranian Film Writers Critics Society and International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). He is also an 82nd Golden Globe Awards voter.

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