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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Monster (2023): Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu; When a schoolboy starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges. Much…
Perfect Days (2023): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Koji Yakusho; The irrepressibly handsome Kôji Yakusho stars as a solitary man who cleans public lavatories for a living but seems to have a rich inner life nourished by observation, literature and the Western rock canon on cassette. It's a philosophical postcard to/from Japan that likely says more about 78-year-old…
Mars Express (2023): Dir. Jérémie Périn; A high-concept animated sci-fi from France that depicts an ultra-sleek 23rd Century future with far-out ideas that seems scarily not-so-distant. Planet Mars provides a colonized alternative to Earth where humans and androids co-exist, and where the deceased are replaced by 'back-ups'. It's an AI…
Fallen Leaves (2023): Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Jussi Vatanen, Alma Pöysti; Director Aki Kaurismaki returns with a deadpan romantic crowd-pleaser about two lost souls in Helsinki on a bumpy road to finding each other. It's the 18th feature film from the Finnish auteur and he still hasn’t lost his touch - in fact he seems to have refined it. The movie posters in the backdrop…
Two Tickets To Greece (2022): Dir. Marc Fitoussi
Feat. Laure Calamy, Olivia Cote, Kristin Scott Thomas; A sunlit escapist comedy set in Les Cyclades (the original French title) starring Laure Calamy and Olivia Côte as long-estranged childhood friends with little in common who find themselves thrown together on a disaster-prone holiday in the Greek Isles. Côte plays it convincingly straight as a wounded…
Zone of Interest, The (2023): Dir. Jonathan Glazer
Feat. Christian Friedel, Sandra Huller; A Holocaust film quite unlike any other, The Hoss family have moved into their new home in Poland. The camera objectively documents their daily life as they play and relax in their serene garden. Over the stone wall, smoke rises from the Auschwitz death camp. The chilling historical atrocities are…
November (2023): Dir. Cédric Jimenez
Feat. Jean Dujardin, Anaïs Demoustier, Sandrine Kiberlain…; A captivating thriller that dramatizes one of the most incredible manhunts in European history in the aftermath of the 2015 attacks across Paris. Led by an all-star cast, it explores the perspective of the lead investigators of the French anti-terrorism services, and the moral and ethical boundaries of their…