Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
Neighboring Sounds (Neighbouring Sounds) (2012)
- Dir. Kleber Mendonca Filho
Feat. Irandhir Santos, Maeve Jinkings, Gustavo Jahn
- The striking feature debut of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU) depicting life on a sheltered prosperous street adjacent to a poor…
Nightfall (2012)
- Dir. Roy Chow
Feat. Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Janice Man
- Grisly thriller with a celebrity found brutally murdered, a recently paroled rapist becomes the leading suspect.
No (2012)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro
- Gael Garcia Bernal plays an ad executive who conceives a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum in this unique celebration of…
Oh Boy (A Coffee in Berlin) (2012)
- Dir. Jan Ole Gerster
Feat. Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler
- A college dropout wanders the streets of Berlin contemplating his place in the world in this ironic portrait of early adulthood.
On Air (Parlez-moi de vous) (2012)
- Dir. Pierre Pinaud
Feat. Karin Viard, Nicolas Duvauchelle
- A solid character vehicle for French mainstay Karin Viard, here playing the sophisticated host of a radio talkback show, whose knack for delivering…
Other Son, The (2012)
- Dir. Lorraine Levy
Feat. Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk…
- Two families on either side of the Israeli–Palestinian divide learn that their sons were switched at birth in this moving human drama.
Paradise: Faith (Paradise Faith) (2012)
- Dir. Ulrich Seidl
Feat. Maria Hofstatter, Nabil Saleh, Natalija Baranova
- The second installment of Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE trilogy follows Anna Maria, the sister of Teresa (in PARADISE: LOVE), a single woman in her 50s…
Paradise: Love (Paradise Love) (2012)
- Dir. Ulrich Seidl
Feat. Margarethe Tiesel
- The first chapter of the Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE trilogy is a provocative take on exotic romance in which a middle–aged Austrian woman plays…
Paris-Manhattan (2012)
- Dir. Sophie Lellouche
Feat. Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel
- A Woody Allen–obsessed pharmacist employs the philosophies of her nebbish movie hero in life and in love. Typically, inconsequentially French,…
Patience Stone, The (2012)
- Dir. Atiq Rahimi
Feat. Golshifteh Farahani, Hami Djavadan
- Atiq Rahimi's adapts his own bestselling novel about a Muslim woman whose paralyzed husband offers quiet relief amid the sorrows of life in a…