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Soul KitchenSoul Kitchen (2009)
Dir. Fatih Akin
Feat. Adam Bousdoukos, Pheline Roggan, Moritz Bleibtreu
Light but hearty food comedy from the dir. of THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, about a soulful Greek immigrant who sets about relaunching his failed restaurant…
StormStorm (2009)
Dir. Hans-Christian Schmid
Feat. Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane
Accomplished international courtroom drama sees a determined prosecutor (Fox) risk life and limb in order to prove that the former commander of the…
Thin Match Man, TheThin Match Man, The (L'uomo fiammifero) (2009)
Dir. Marco Chiarini
Feat. Francesco Pannofino, Marco Leonzi, Gabriele Manfredi
Modern fairy–tale about a house–bound boy determined to find the thin–match man, a figure his mother once created who lights the…
UndertowUndertow (Contracorriente) (2009) Recommended
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…
VincereVincere (VIctory) (2009)
Dir. Marco Bellocchio
Feat. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi
Provocative portrait of Benito Mussolini's spurned first wife and their brief romance as Il Duce begins ascent to Italy's leadership. Stylistically…
WelcomeWelcome (2009) Recommended
Dir. Philippe Lioret
Feat. Vincent Lindon, Audrey Dana, Firat Ayverd
An illegal Iraqi immigrant is befriended by a dispirited swim coach, who agrees to help smuggle the teenager into England by way swimming the English…
White MaterialWhite Material (2009)
Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach de Bankole
Isabelle Huppert stars as a woman who refuses to abandon her plantation in Claire Denis' disquieting depiction of an African country on the verge of…
White Ribbon, TheWhite Ribbon, The (Das weisse Band) (2009) Aro Favourite
Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Michael Haneke’s intellectual rigour is paired with a mesmerising sociological drama in this award–winning exploration of the roots of…
Wind Journeys, TheWind Journeys, The (2009)
Dir. Ciro Guerra
A Colombian accordion player makes the long trek to return his instrument – believed to be cursed by the devil – to a former mentor, in…
35 Shots of Rum35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums) (2008) Recommended
Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue
A gorgeous meditation on child–parental devotion, centred on a middle–aged widower (Descas) who, in the tradition of Yasujiro Ozu (which…

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