Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
Custody (Jusqu'à la garde) (2017)
- Dir. Xavier Legrand
Feat. Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet
- Astonishing French drama charting a family struggling with the embittered fallout of divorce, and the resulting impact on the two children. The…
Double Lover (L'amant double) (2017)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Jeremie Renier, Marine Vacth…
- Sexually–charged, stylized thriller from director Francois Ozon about a fragile young model who moves in with her psychoanalyst, only to…
Dr. Knock (Doctor Knock) (2017)
- Dir. Lorraine Levy
Feat. Omar Sy
- Popular French actor Omar Sy (THE INTOUCHABLES) stars in this feelgood comedy about a former thug turned doctor who moves to a small French town and…
Faces Places (2017)
- Dir. Agnes Varda, JR
Feat. Agnes Varda, JR
- Charming French documentary created by and starring beloved new wave director Agnes Varda, who recruits a charismatic young photographer/muralist…
Fireworks (Fireworks: Should We See It from the Side or The Bottom?) (2017)
- Dir. Nobuyuki Takeuchi
- Beautifully romantic Japanese anime set during a school summer vacation, based on Shunji Iwai’s 1993 TV series, “Fireworks”. Refreshingly…
Foxtrot (2017)
- Dir. Samuel Maoz
Feat. Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler
- The impressive sophomore effort of director Samuel Maoz (LEBANON) is a perceptive and bold exploration of war and grief. An affluent couple living in…
Gauguin: Voyage de Tahiti (2017)
- Dir. Edouard Deluc
Feat. Vincent Cassel
- Vincent Cassel delivers a committed, absorbing performance as French painter Paul Gauguin. Set in 1891, when Gauguin exiled himself to Tahiti to…
Good Manners (2017)
- Dir. Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Feat. Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano
- A genre–defying Portuguese film which artfully blends social satire and horror to tell the story of a nanny called Clara, who works for Ana, a…
Happy End (2017)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz…
- Michael Haneke lends his impeccably chilly style to this blackest of comedies about the disintegration of family relationships amidst the enduring…
I Am Not a Witch (2017)
- Dir. Rungano Nyoni
- Full of joy and tragedy in the equal measure, this assured debut from Zambian writer–director Rungano Nyoni follows the story of 9–year…