Dust [2001] Milcho Manchevski

In present-day New York, a young thief named Edge breaks into the apartment of Angela, a dying centenarian who turns the tables on him at gunpoint. Holding him captive, she spins a tale that becomes his only way out. The story leaps back a century to the American West and Ottoman-controlled Macedonia, where two outlaw brothers - Luke and Elijah - are torn apart by their love for the same woman, Lilith. Estranged, they end up on opposite sides of a Macedonian uprising. Manchevski refuses to keep the two worlds neatly apart - Angela's gold coins and her words bleed across the century divide, her storytelling actively reshaping the past, and the past giving birth to the present, until the two time-lines mirror and contaminate each other. The result is a fractured, fearless narrative structure that makes Dust one of world cinema's most original and undervalued films.