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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Lure, The (2015): Dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska
Feat. Marta Mazurek; Utterly beguiling musical horror set in Poland in the 1980's, following the fate of a pair of mermaid sisters as they struggle to integrate into a dark world of sleazy nightclubs in 1980's Warsaw.
Border (2018): Dir. Ali Abbasi
Feat. Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson; Remarkable Swedish black comedy about a customs officer with an extraordinary sense of smell who sniffs out a suspicious-looking traveller with whom she develops a relationship that crosses a border of societal and worldly norms.
Cold War (2018): Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
Feat. Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot; The director of 'Ida' (2013) follows up with a deeply romantic, immaculately composed tale of a Polish concert pianist and a charismatic singer who fall in love but who ultimately find themselves stranded on either side of the Iron Curtain. Inspired by the lives of the director's own parents, it uses…
Capharnaum (2018): Dir. Nadine Labaki
Feat. Zain Al Rafeea; A uniquely humanistic portrayal of tragic poverty in Beirut from the perspective of an extraordinarily gutsy 12 year old Lebanese boy. After suffering unforgivable mistreatment by his parents which leads to homelessness, starvation and incarceration, he attempts to sue them for bringing him into the world. A…
Guilty, The (2018): Feat. Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage; A Danish thriller that maximises tension from minimal means in which a desk-bound police officer answers an emergency call and becomes drawn into an alleged kidnapping case using only a telephone to secure the victim's safety.
Shoplifters (2018): Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka; Charming, funny and heartbreaking all at once, this drama from the Japanese master of humanism Kore-eda is set in Tokyo and follows a group of poverty-stricken outcasts who shoplift to make ends meet. A compassionate, resonant portrayal of family and survival.
Lost in Paris (2016): Dir. Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Feat. Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard, Dominique Abel…; A feast of clever gags highlights this playful French rom-com following a kooky small-town Canadian librarian as she attempts to track down her missing aunt, an 88-year old former Canadian dancer, on the streets of Paris.