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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Court (2014): Dir. Chaitanya Tamhane
Feat. Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber; A strikingly confident directorial debut that exposes the antiquity of the Indian legal system through the court trial of an ageing protest singer who is accused of encouraging a manhole worker to commit suicide through one of his folk songs. Most of the dialogue is in the Marathi language as it is set in…
Graduation (2016): Dir. Cristian Mungiu
Feat. Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus; Subtly engrossing drama follows the moral dilemmas of a well-meaning and respected doctor who succumbs to Romania's endemic corruption in order to protect his daughter's promising academic future abroad. In a similar way to Iran's Asghar Farhadi, writer/director Cristian Mungiu's delineates the impact of…
Midwife, The (2017): Dir. Martin Provost
Feat. Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve; Two of French cinema's most beloved actors, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Ford, team up in this rich character study by the director of SERAPHINE. Ford plays a midwife and single mum whose quiet, focussed life is disrupted both by her local community ward being shut down and the sudden intrusion of her…
Call Me By Your Name (2017): Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg…; Completing the "Desire" trilogy with I AM LOVE and A BIGGER SPLASH, this coming-of-age drama is set in Northern Italy in 1983, where a 17 year old boy begins a relationship with his father's research assistant. An exquisite production that transcends it's visual splendour with an irresistibly heartfelt and…
Blade of the Immortal (2017): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Takuya Kimura, Sugisaki Hana, Fukushi Sota…; Japanese uber-director Miike Takashi’s 100th feature, based on a popular manga series about a vengeful swordsman with an uncanny ability to grow back his own limbs. The howler of a premise giddily sets the stage for a virtuoso display of kinetic action and flying body parts.
My Life as a Zucchini (2016): Dir. Claude Barras; Expressive, bittersweet French stop-motion animated feature about a boy (Courgette) who must adjust to life in a foster home of orphans, who each have childhood traumas they are overcoming. Based on a script from acclaimed writer/director Céline Sciamma (Girlhood, Tomboy), it entirely suitable for 7-ups…
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…