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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Marketa Lazarova (1967): Dir. František Vláčil
Feat. Josef Kemr, František Velecký, Magda Vášáryová; A revelation of the Czech new wave, this dark medieval tale of feuding family clans beautifully evokes the historical tensions between Christianity and Paganism in the Middle Ages. Considered by many to be the best Czech film of all time.
Undertow (2009): Dir. Javier Fuentes-Leon
Feat. Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona; A beguiling drama set in a remote seaside Peruvian village, where a fisherman mourns for his deceased lover and experiences his ghost lingering in the village. A languid and poetic film which creatively explores the nature of bereavement, through the perspective of a passionate bisexual man experiencing his…
Handmaiden, The (2016): Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha…; Delicious erotic thriller from the brilliant Park Chan-Wook, who lends his impeccable style to a provocative potboiler of lesbian love and revenge, inspired by THE FINGERSMITH by Welsh writer Sarah Waters. Set in Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930's, an impoverished Korean girl is sent to serve a…
Frantz (2016): Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Pierre Niney, Paula Beer; A young woman in small-town Germany is mourning the death of her fiance in the wake of WWI, and forms an unexpected bond with an enigmatic and mysterious French veteran who she meets at her fiance's grave. A remake of Ernst Lubitsch's classic melodrama "Broken Lullaby" by prolific french director Francois…
Cemetery of Splendour (2015): Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Feat. Jenjira Pongpas Widner; Mesmerising film in the director's indefinable style, set in and around a rural Thai hospital which may be haunted. A group of soldiers excavating a patch of nearby land have fallen ill with a mysterious sleeping sickness, and a local volunteer who comes to their aid discovers that the troubled dreams…
Long Way North (2015): Dir. Rémi Chayé
Feat. Christa Theret, Féodor Atkine; Beautiful hand-drawn animation by the director of THE SECRET OF KELLS, telling the story of a 15-year old Russian aristocrat called Sasha who embarks on an epic quest to find her Grandfather, a scientist who failed to return from an expedition to the North Pole.
Kedi (2016): Dir. Ceyda Torun; An enchanting profile of an ancient city of Istanbul and its people, as told through the separate stories of seven roaming cats whose mysterious, inscrutable ways bring joy, purpose and reflection to human lives in unique and touching ways.