Foreign Cinema

Films from corners of the world where the audio language track or original language track is other than English. English subtitles are customary, and denoted where applicable.

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Only the Animals (2019): Dir. Dominik Moll
Feat. Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard…; A superb psychological thriller set in rural France that uncovers a twisted web of deceit concerning five people who are all linked to the disappearance of a woman during a snowstorm. It boasts a Coen Brothers-esque tone with intriguing characterizations and a keep-you-guessing interlocking plot, adapted…
Beginning (2020): Dir. Déa Kulumbegashvili
Feat. Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli; A devout women of the Jehovah's Witness faith undergoes a profound personal crisis in this triumphant cinematic achievement for Georgian writer/director Dea Kulumbegashvili in her feature debut. The setting is a remote mountainside village in Georgia, a predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian country…
Lamb (2021): Dir. Valdimar Johannsson
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson…; An Icelandic folk horror of haunting, pastoral beauty with Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snaer Gudnason playing a couple who live on a remote farm with their herd of sheep. When one of their pregnant sheep gives birth to a human/sheep hybrid, they joyfully welcome the creature into their family, but soon face…
Big Hit, The (2021): Dir. Emmanuel Courcol
Feat. Kad Merad, David Ayala, Lamine Cissokho; Inspired by remarkable true events, this French Film Festival favourite follows a dedicated out-of-work actor (indelibly played by the fabulous Kad Merad) whose career and life prospects unexpectedly change. Merad plays a disillusioned and divorced middle-aged thespian who accepts an arts rehabilitation…
County, The (2020): Dir. Grimur Hakonarson
Feat. Arndis Hronn Egilsdottir, Sveinn Olafur Gunnarsson; A quintessentially Icelandic serio-comedy from the director of RAMS about one woman’s fight against a monopolistic co-op stifling the livelihoods of farmers in a remote valley near Reykjavik. This David vs. Goliath story plays out in a windswept hamlet, where a widowed farmer (Arndis Hronn Egilsdottir,…
Antoinette in the Cevennes (2020): Dir. Caroline Vignal
Feat. Laure Calamy, Benjamin Lavernhe, Olivia Cote…; A warm hearted French comedy from writer director Caroline Vignal, starring Laure Calamy as a school teacher on a journey of self-discovery in unexpected circumstances. When her secret lover (and the father of one of her pupils) bails on their summer holiday plans because his wife organised a surprise…
Heroic Losers (2019): Dir. Sebastian Borensztein
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Luis Brandoni, Chino Darin…; Winning underdog comedy from Argentinian director Sebastian Borensztein (CHINESE TAKEAWAY) based on the novel by Eduardo Sacheri (THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES). Set on the eve of the 2001 Corralito economic crisis in Argentina, following a group of neighbours who band together to recover their money from an…