#ForeignFilmsMatter
This is a list of 50+ non-English-language films that I think must be distributed in the United States (and possibly English-speaking Canada) by some independent/art-house/foreign/documentary/short film specialty distribution company, curated by me, Camse. The list is a combination of narrative feature films and documentaries.
Although most of the films in this list are foreign-language productions, three English-language films: the 2019 Aboriginal Australian horror anthology Dark Place, the 2016 New Zealand psychological drama The Rehearsal and Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald's 2010 Hard Core Logo sequel are included, as they have yet to get distribution by a company in the United States.
Also check out my essay regarding my reflections and thoughts on the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nwwy3tbqczstLmcYBAYdpEwIr8tTDtmSn1qeTcO-O40/
Coming soon:
Dark Blossom (2021, Denmark, Frigge Fri, D, Danish dialogue)
F = Feature film
D = Documentary
Although most of the films in this list are foreign-language productions, three English-language films: the 2019 Aboriginal Australian horror anthology Dark Place, the 2016 New Zealand psychological drama The Rehearsal and Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald's 2010 Hard Core Logo sequel are included, as they have yet to get distribution by a company in the United States.
Also check out my essay regarding my reflections and thoughts on the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nwwy3tbqczstLmcYBAYdpEwIr8tTDtmSn1qeTcO-O40/
Coming soon:
Dark Blossom (2021, Denmark, Frigge Fri, D, Danish dialogue)
F = Feature film
D = Documentary
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- DirectorIsmail BasbethStarsTara BasroRatu AnanditaCornelio SunnyA dreamy, absurdist fantasy film based on Indonesian legends. Asa is the daughter of a seer. To escape her mother's clutches, she lives hidden in a forest. One day, she is collected by a dog, who turns out to be a man sent by her mother.Indonesia (Indonesian dialogue)
F - DirectorMichel FrancoStarsEmma SuárezAna Valeria BecerrilEnrique ArrizonA pregnant 17-year-old decides to keep her condition to herself, enjoying a calm life in Puerto Vallarta. But, why on earth hadn't the inexperienced mother-to-be sought for assistance earlier? Can a mere child raise a kid on her own?Mexico (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorNino ZhvaniaStarsEka ChavleishviliArchil KikodzeGuga KotetishviliThree middle aged friends, a criminal, a painter, and an actor with badly arranged lives reunited to hit the road in a search for new assemblies, joys, and sorrows.Georgia (Georgian dialogue)
F - DirectorAdilkhan YerzhanovStarsAibek KudabayevNurbek MukushevTolganay TalgatA new mayor comes to the remote village Karatas. A very strange illness reins over here. However somebody is used to live with it and says this is a simple flu.Kazakhstan (Kazakh and Russian dialogue)
F - DirectorJet LeycoStarsAmante PulidoLance RaymundoShielbert ManuelThe routine of the quaint rural town of Matangtubig is broken with the discovery of a girl's remains, defiled in an open grass field, another girl, missing. Claims for justice and a search ensues, the national media turns its attention, as the town is put on trial for the secrets it keeps, a local fisherman struggles with his conscience to admitting as witness. The townsfolk become entities for decency and sham, attempting to divert attention, the town put up its yearly festival by the lake, unknowing of a sleeping evil that has come to claim them.Philippines (Filipino and Tagalog dialogue)
F - DirectorRebecca ZlotowskiStarsTahar RahimLéa SeydouxOlivier GourmetGary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorSekou TraoréStarsMaimouna N'DiayeFargass AssandéAbidine DioariIn an African country plagued by civil war, a young idealistic lawyer is officially assigned to defend a rebel accused of war crimes.Burkina Faso (Mooré/Mossi and French dialogue)
- DirectorAntonio LukichStarsAndriy LidagovskiyIrma VitovskaIryna OstrovskaA sound engineer tries to record the song of a rare bird that dwells in the Ukrainian mountains.Ukraine (Ukrainian and English dialogue)
F - DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKarim KassemMona HalaSherief El DesoukyThree people had to live together for one night.Egypt (Arabic and English dialogue)
F - DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsBruce McDonaldCare FailureJulian RichingsBruce the filmmaker returns to his documentary roots by following a troubled singer.Canada (sequel to 1996's Hard Core Logo) (English dialogue)
D (docufiction/mockumentary) - DirectorLorenz SuterStarsNicolas BatthyanyJeanne DevosMarina GuerriniDriven by strange desire a loner is fatally attracted to two sisters. A Neo Noir.Switzerland (Schweizerdeutsch, German and English dialogue)
F - DirectorMario MartoneStarsMarianna FontanaReinout Scholten van AschatAntonio FollettoWith Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town's young doctor on the unique island of Capri.Italy (Italian, Neapolitan, English, French, German and Russian dialogue)
F - DirectorDamjan KozoleStarsPia ZemljicJernej SugmanMarko MandicOne night, a high-profile attorney is found on the pavement along a main road through Ljubljana. He is barely conscious, lying in a pool of blood, and covered in dog bites. Doctors at the medical center fight to keep him alive while his wife, in shock, confronts her deepest fears. During the course of this night she will break every moral standard she has stood up for in her life.Slovenia (Slovene dialogue)
F - DirectorAlison MacleanStarsMichelle NyJames RollestonElla EdwardFirst-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.New Zealand (English dialogue)
F - DirectorDane KomljenStarsBoban KaludjerBoris IsakovicDane KomljenIn an abandoned bungalow complex two man have made themselves a peaceful haven. Although the relationship between them is unclear, the unexpected arrival of the third man is going to disrupt their little utopia.Serbia (Serbian dialogue)
F - DirectorDamjan KozoleStarsUrsa MenartLiza MarijinaJurij DrevensekHalf-sisters from a small coastal town who were never that close are forced by circumstance to share a flat in Ljubljana.Slovenia (Slovene and Albanian dialogue)
F - DirectorMartti HeldeStarsRea LestReimo SagorKaido VeermäeFilm with three parts, two characters and one obsession: to prevent the past from taking over.Estonia (Estonian dialogue)
F - DirectorCamila UrrutiaStarsAndrea HenryVanessa HernándezMauricio GonzálezTwo girlfriends try find a way to cope with the trauma of sexual violence.Guatemala (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorFrançois VallaStarsJérémie DuvallJules PélissierLola Le LannInspired by a true story, Achille, a handsome Parisian teenager from a wealthy family, is the victim of a violent assault. He is sent to his aunt's, Brigitte for a vacation by the sea to rebuild. There he meets an angry young man, Brian who works for the golf club. From their confrontation will spring their true nature, from their struggle will be born a killer.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorSharofat ArabovaStarsSherali AbdulkajsovIso AbdurashidovVakhob DustovMore than 50 years back in a stony set of a remote mountainous village somewhere in Tajikistan the lovers called Shams and Mekhri traveled. Mekhri pulled by a transient eclipse broke an oath of marital faithfulness that overnight transformed Sham's existence into a farcical puppet show, leading to a murder of his spouse. Unable to take the burden of the committed sin, Shams chose the path of repentance trying to cleanse his fault by serving people that's followed by the meeting with his own "Ego".Tajikistan (Tajik dialogue)
F - DirectorJens JonssonStarsJerry JohanssonHampus JohanssonGeorgi StaykovRille, an ostracized and bullied teenager, who only excels in the ping pong room, descends into a life-and-death struggle with his younger, more popular brother when the truth about their father surfaces during their spring break.Sweden (Swedish dialogue)
F - DirectorJorge Thielen ArmandStarsJosé Dolores LópezAdrializ LópezMarley AlvillaresA vivid and intimate account of the Venezuelan crisis told through the real-life struggle of a young father trying to save his family from the demolition of their home.Venezuela (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorJorge Thielen ArmandStarsJorge Thielen HedderichJuan Luis Escriban LottCarlos MedinaTo escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, a man retreats into the jungle and meets old friends. But their former happiness is transformed into evil intentions by the lure of gold.Venezuela (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorIsaki LacuestaStarsFrancisco José Gómez RomeroIsrael Gómez RomeroÓscar RodríguezIsra and Cheíto are two brothers who have gone their separate ways. When Isra comes out of prison and Cheíto's long mission in the navy comes to an end, they both return to the isle of San Fernando, their hometown. The brothers' reunion will refresh the memory of their father's violent death while they were still little, while the need for restoring and making it up with each other will bring them back together.Spain (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorIsaki LacuestaStarsIsrael Gómez RomeroFrancisco José Gómez RomeroJesús Olvera MotaA documentary/fiction mix inspired by the flamenco singer Camarón.Spain (Spanish and Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsMiki NakataniEita NagayamaYûsuke IseyaWhen Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past, discovering she wasn't just a forgotten outcast and had led an intriguing yet bizarre life.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorDimas DjayadiningratStarsSandra DewiReuben ElishamaRia IrawanJojo is an unemployed. He decides to become a gigolo for an escort company. Everything works smoothly until he falls in love with a medical student.Indonesia (Indonesian dialogue)
F - DirectorMatías BizeStarsSantiago CabreraBlanca LewinVíctor MonteroAndrés returns to Santiago after several years to face a tragic event.Chile (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorBhaskar HazarikaStarsSeema BiswasAdil HussainZerifa WahidFour folk tales from Assam re-imagined as a narrative about four mothers, each facing demons of her own.India (Assamese dialogue)
F - DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsTakako MatsuYoshino KimuraMasaki OkadaA psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorFaouzi BensaïdiStarsNadia KoundaDana AbedFaouzi BensaïdiAbdelkader is a watchman and Malika is a house maid. They were just married and are madly in love. Despite money problems, they dream of moving in and starting their love life together. One day Abdelkader is going to live an incident of great violence, a humiliating experience that will ruin their destiny.Morocco (Arabic dialogue)
F - DirectorDanilo SerbedzijaStarsLana BaricLeon LucevIvana RoscicAfter several miscarriages, Tereza's gynecologist, in an attempt to cheer her up, jokes she should try to conceive with a different partner. This remark shakes up her monotonous life and steers it in a new direction.Croatia (Croatian dialogue)
F - DirectorAnnalet SteenkampFollows four generations of South African Boers as they grapple with their identity as white farmers in a post-Apartheid South Africa, where land ownership is highly contentious and violence and racism are endemic.South Africa (Afrikaans dialogue)
D - DirectorVuk RsumovicStarsDenis MuricMilos TimotijevicPavle CemerikicIn the late 1980s, a boy has been found in the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nobody knows how he came about in the wild, nor if animals fed and raised him.Serbia (Serbian dialogue)
F - DirectorShahram MokriStarsAbed AbestElaheh BakhshiSoheil SoheiliIn a very long eclipse of the sun, an unknown disease has been widespread. Ali is accused of the murder of Saman in a club and the police is going to stage a reconstruction of the murder.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorPatrice ToyeStarsTijmen GovaertsJulia BrownIna GeertsA kindhearted twenty-something struggling with his pedophile urges is put to the test when a young girl moves in next door.Belgium (Flemish dialogue)
F - DirectorJaan ToomikStarsHendrik Toompere Jr.Jaanika JuhansonMaria AvdjushkoJuhan's life is strange enough even without visions and apparitions - his safe-and-comfortable, seemingly okay-off bourgeois existence is falling apart, ever more rapidly. Taking stock of his sex life certainly doesn't help.Estonia (Estonian dialogue)
F - DirectorLav DiazStarsJoel LamanganPiolo PascualShaina MagdayaoMadmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.Philippines (Tagalog/Filipino and English dialogue)
F - DirectorKadri KõusaarStarsTiina MälbergAndres TabunAndres NoormetsThis darkly comic crime mystery set in small-town Estonia centers on Elsa, the mother and full time caretaker of Lauri, a teacher who has been in a coma since being shot under shadowy circumstances. Attentive in her duties but at the end of her tether, Elsa receives Lauri's visitors-friends, students, his girlfriend, his boss, and others-who come to update the unconscious Lauri on their lives and unburden themselves of their troubles. But as the police inquiry into the crime progresses, some of his closest ties are called into question. Director Kadri Kõusaar cunningly navigates a script that slowly pieces together the truth behind Lauri's shooting through his visitors' confessionals to the comatose protagonist, cleverly building a web of motives among the tight-knit community. Bathed in the pastel tones of post-Soviet life, Mother is a smartly-crafted whodunit set in a small town where just about everyone is dreaming of something bigger and some are willing to do whatever it takes to get out.Estonia (Estonian dialogue)
F - DirectorKazuo HaraFollowing a new anti-establishment group 'Reiwa Shinsengumi' led by actor-turned-politician Taro Yamamoto at the election held in summer 2019.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
D - DirectorTeona Strugar MitevskaStarsLeon RistovHanis BagashovDragan MishevskiDay before Easter 2012, perfectly lined up bodies of four teenagers, each with a bullet hole in their head, were found near a lake just outside Skopje, Macedonian capital. They just went fishing. The nation was shocked. The rumours run wild. Ethnic tensions were boiling. The police investigation, officially named "Monsters", pointed to Islamists terrorists. Two years later, court jailed four persons for murder and terrorism. The alleged perpetrators deny the act. This film is fiction about what could have happened that day, those hours before the tragedy stroke. Through the film we live the last day in the life of six youngsters. It is a reconstruction of Macedonian grim reality, not of the actual events. It is a film about a country where life can cease suddenly without a cause, as it is lived.North Macedonia (Macedonian dialogue)
F - DirectorRoman BondarchukStarsSerhiy StepanskyViktor ZhdanovKhrystyna DeylykAfter several strange coincidences, Lukas, translator, who works for OSCE, strands in the southern Ukrainian town of Beryslaw. As involuntary guest of his strange host Vova, Lukas is confronted with a totally new universe, in which life seems to be completely detached from any kind of structure. Despite his initial animosity, Lukas gets more and more fascinated by Vova as well as by his daughter Marushka - and finally starts his own quest for a long ago lost happiness.Ukraine (Ukrainian dialogue)
F - DirectorGiedre BeinoriuteStarsAirida GintautaiteSigitas SidlauskasGuna ZarinaIzabele, is a modern, intellectual woman, living with her husband Liudas in a homestead near a big city. They are raising a son, Gailius, who has a case of epilepsy and is smarter than most children his age. Izabele decides to adopt Ilja - the meanest and most secretive boy in the foster home.Lithuania (Lithuanian dialogue)
F - DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsSara KlimoskaNatalija TeodosievaKamka TocinovskiThree women - one medieval, two contemporary - struggle to become mothers. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggles with tradition, loyalty, adoption and control over their bodies make them unlikely heroines.North Macedonia (Macedonian dialogue)
F - DirectorSzabolcs HajduStarsImre GelányiLujza HajduSzabolcs HajduA year ago Ernella, Albert and their 10 year old daughter, Laura, left the country for a better life. They haven't managed to succeed in Scotland, so they came back. In the middle of the night they turn up at Eszter's place, the sister of Ernella. Eszter, her husband Farkas and their 5-year-old son, Bruno, live in better circumstances than Ernella's family, who struggle with serious financial problems. The two families have never been in real harmony with each other and only Eszter's family can feel that. Ernella's family loves to be at Eszter's, although they can't agree on anything. The question is, how the two families are able to get along with each other at Eszter's sublet and for how long?Hungary (Hungarian dialogue)
F - DirectorIvan TscherkelovVasil ZhivkovStarsAlexandra VassilevaStoyan StoyanovAnton RadichevA huge spruce is cut down in the mountains to be used as a Christmas tree in the center of Sofia. As it is transported across the country it becomes the link between six stories that explore celebration or the luck of celebration in the everyday lives of the protagonists. The structure of the film is fragmentary, as our life is these days and the stories resemble snapshots of existence - moments of cruelty and longing, of beauty and disgrace... The tree is already decorated - the celebration may began!Bulgaria (Bulgarian dialogue)
F - DirectorPetr OukropecStarsBarbora StikarováKlára MelískováJan Vondrácek16-year-old Laura is swift, lively and stubborn. She wants to join a group of parkourists and gets caught off guard by love which she begins to feel toward Luky. She starts living a double life. In the fantasy world of romantic and comic visions Luky belongs to her. In reality her attempt to get closer to Luky fails. The moment these two worlds somehow entwine, Laura has to decide which one she wants to choose.Czech Republic (Czech dialogue)
F - DirectorDaniel PalacioStarsJoem BasconMara LopezGrace Ann BetalmosBangis, a gravedigger living inside a cemetery mausoleum, is pushed to the limit when his daughter becomes critically ill. With no other means to bring her to a hospital for proper medication, he's left with one option: to steal a newly buried corpse for money, and hope everything is not too late for his beloved daughter.Philippines (Filipino and Tagalog dialogue)
F - DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPavel NovýJirí LábusNorbert LichýAmateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the creative process of the film itself and interviews with the actors about their dreams.Czech Republic (Czech dialogue)
F - DirectorEloy EncisoStarsMisha Bies GolasVerónica QuintelaManuel PumaresAnxo is a man that returns to his home village in the Galician countryside in Franco-era Spain after the war.Spain (Galician dialogue)
F - DirectorJan DanhelAdam OlhaStarsJan SvankmajerJaromír KallistaEva SvankmajerováAn immersive journey through the life and work of Jan Svankmajer, last standing hero of Surrealism and author of some of the most unique masterpieces in the history of cinema.Czech Republic (Czech and English dialogue)
D - DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsJuhan UlfsakMirtel PohlaEva KolditsA small farm community is on the brink of getting swallowed by raging war. Lives of the frightened locals get shaken by the arrival of two men on the run from the mysterious, apparently vengeful Peedu.Estonia (Estonian dialogue)
F - DirectorJurgis MatuleviciusStarsAleksas KazanaviciusSeverija JanusauskaiteDainius GavenonisKaunas, Lithuania, 1941, Lithuanian activist Andrius Gluosnis kills a Jew Isaac in Lietukio garage massacre. Years after the incident Gluosnis is haunted by the guilt.Lithuania (Lithuanian, German and Russian dialogue)
F - DirectorGinevra ElkannStarsRiccardo ScamarcioAlba RohrwacherEttore GiustinianiAn eight-year-old girl hopes that her parents will get back together. She and her brothers go stay with their father in Italy, where they provoke, neglect, delight and love each other.Italy (Italian, French and English dialogue)
F - DirectorNoémie LvovskyStarsLuce RodriguezNoémie LvovskyMathieu AmalricMathilde is nine. Her parents have separated and she lives alone with her mother - a fragile woman on the brink of madness - with whom she shares a unique love story.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorMijke de JongStarsMarcel MustersMonic HendrickxElsie de BrauwThree middle-aged siblings - two sisters and a brother - with wildly different personalities struggle to make it through the Easter holidays as the brother suffers one of his psychotic episodes.Netherlands (Dutch and English dialogue)
F - DirectorPeter BrosensJessica WoodworthStarsAurélia PoirierDjango SchrevensSam LouwyckIn a scenic Belgian village, nature is turning its back on man. How will the locals cope with this new reality?Belgium (French dialogue)
F - DirectorGregor BozicStarsMassimo De FrancovichIvana RoscicGiusi MerliIn a decaying forest on the Yugoslav-Italian border in the years after World War II, a stingy, old carpenter and a lonely, young chestnut seller share imaginative memories of the past as they weigh fateful decisions for the future, in this touching homage to a lost way of life.Slovenia (Slovene and Italian dialogue)
F - DirectorMijke de JongStarsSamira MaasCoosje SmidDragan BakemaJoy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the subway. In addition, she is a skilled shoplifter and has never been caught. The film follows her closely during her dogged search for her unknown biological mother. Joy has a rather distant quality and the only times we see her animated is during her obsessive attempts to discover the identity and address of her mother. She clings to her conviction that she was the product of a loving relationship and that is why her mother called her Joy. This belief is all she has to hang onto in life. Her other activities revolve around her friend, Denise (16), who has got pregnant on purpose and is living in the home from which Joy was expelled because of bad behaviour, and her boyfriend Momo (21), a second-generation immigrant who was born and bred in Holland. Joy's search for her biological mother, have led her to an old address; on the basis of a vague physical resemblance, she assumes that the woman she finds there is her mother. She starts to follow the woman on her way to work and during shopping trips, and watches the house where she lives with her teenage daughter. Joy becomes more cheerful and more alert, and begins to develop an eye for the world around her - giving us a glimpse of the young woman she could have become if she had had a bit more luck. Then she hears someone call the woman by her name - a different name from that of her biological mother. She is profoundly shocked: her world seems to collapse around her.Netherlands (Dutch dialogue)
F - DirectorJoost van HezikStarsEelco SmitsVictor IJdensMara van VlijmenWhen the bored out evolutionary philosopher Maarten Moreau gets caught up in a robbery, he accidentally gets hold of the murder weapon. Seized by a renewed appetite for life, Maarten decides to keep the gun. A true romance blossoms between the boy and the gun, not without consequences.Netherlands (Dutch dialogue)
F - DirectorAdrian SitaruStarsBogdan DumitracheNatasa RaabMarian RâleaAlex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody's advice, he's coming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his own set of mistakes - throughout with best intentions.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorKrystof ZlatnikStarsKatharina SporrerSimson BubbelEskindir TesfayGermany refuses to receive any more refugees. The only way to obtain citizenship is to survive the popular TV show 'Immigration Game'. Whoever participates as a 'Runner' will be abandoned on the outskirts of Berlin and must make their way to the television tower at Alexanderplatz. For a prize money every German citizen may chase and eventually kill the refugees entirely unpunished...Germany (German, English and Arabic dialogue)
F - DirectorRoman VojkuvkaStarsJiri ChromeckaAndrea CivanovaAndrea CivánováConfined to a wheelchair, Otto prays for the day when he can get revenge on the men who brutally attacked his wife and daughter.Czech Republic (Czech dialogue)
F - DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsFanny ArdantTewfik JallabNadia KaciWhen his mother dies, Zino decides to find his father, Farid. But 25 years ago, Farid became Lola.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorTiago GuedesStarsMaria AbreuTónan QuitoMiguel BorgesThis is the story of a tall 10-year-old girl. She is working on a school project that aims to explain how the world works to her class. She is faced with difficult social and political questions that even adults struggle to answer.Portugal (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorLasse LauStarsAannguaq René J. HansenAngunnguaq LarsenVarna Marianne NielsenThe relationship between Greenland and Denmark is full of fantasy and myths. And these are exactly what Danish artist Lasse Lau reflects upon - and in turn documents - in his first feature-length film.Denmark (Danish and Greenlandic dialogue)
D - DirectorSteven BartloKarin SlaterFilmmakers Steven Bartlo and Karin Slater travel around the world to interview couples about their views on marriage.South Africa (English, Hindi, Zulu and Dutch dialogue)
D - DirectorNarimane MariStarsChronis BarbarianDimitris GaitanisThekla GounaridouRe-enactments, improvisations and interviews with the Inhabitants of Algiers, Kythira Island and Athens.France (Arabic, French, Greek and English dialogue)
D - DirectorIgor BezinovicStarsAnte Zlatko StolicaMladen VujcicZeljko BeljanStola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, their brief excursion turns into an allegorical journey into the unknown.Croatia (Croatian dialogue)
F - DirectorJesper GanslandtStarsJohn Axel ErikssonHolger ErikssonDavid JohnsonThe last summer the five boys are together in Falkenberg. They are now grown up to be young men, on their way out into the world. At least most of them.Sweden (Swedish dialogue)
F - DirectorMikel Cee KarlssonStarsPeter DiazLeif EdlundArvin KananianDirector Mikel Cee Karlsson is working on a film with and about his best friend Mathias - a young father who one day reveals that he is living a double life. Circumstances have driven Mathias into a criminal underworld where debts seem impossible to pay off. In a spiral of threats, lies and violence, Mathias is desperately looking for a way out. When things finally seem to look up for him, the pressure he has lived under for several years has fatal consequences, leaving Mikel forced to make crucial decisions about the film he is working on. Fraemling is a distinct counterimage to conventional portrayals of violence and criminality. Through documentary footage, interviews and re-enacted scenes, Mikel shapes a story about the thin line between victim and offender in a dog-eat-dog world. A film about close friendship, deafening silence and becoming someone you never wanted to be.Sweden (Swedish dialogue)
D - DirectorWillem BaptistStarsTengkwaEmil SitociChristian AceIn a world where fantasy meets reality, Tengkwa leads a band of Dutch wrestlers and tries to train a new generation of superheroes. With slim chances of fame and glory, only the most die-hard of them will succeed.Netherlands (Dutch dialogue)
D - DirectorReetta HuhtanenStarsAatos FloresAmine Mohamed BennaaFlo CharlierThe district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become world-famous as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is a familiar home. Here, they listen to spiders, discover black holes, and fight about what is going to steer a flying carpet. Together they search for the answers to life's big questions. But the brutality of the adult world makes itself known when terrorists detonate a bomb in the neighborhood. Aaatos envies Amine's Muslim faith and looks for his own gods, although his classmate Flo questions him; she is strongly convinced that anyone who believes in God is completely nuts. Gods of Molenbeek is a wonderful portrayal of childhood friendship, inquiry and the creation of meaning in a chaotic time.Finland/Belgium/Germany (French, Finnish, Arabic and Spanish dialogue)
D - DirectorJohana OzvoldStarsSteve GoodmanJohn RichardsFrançois BonnetElectronic music is a playground. And your toy can be an instrument, a machine, an object.Czech Republic/Slovakia/France (English, French and Czech dialogue)
D - DirectorRafael PolarThis a documentary portraying the life stories of some of the candidates to Miss Amazonas. We see how the contestants transform their bodies and self-image. It registers different stages of the longest Latino trans pageant.Peru (Spanish dialogue)
D - DirectorBárbara PazStarsHector BabencoRegina BragaWillem Dafoe"I have already lived my death and now all that is left is to make a film about it." So said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz when he realized he did not have much time left. She accepted the challenge to fulfill the last wish of her late partner: to be the main protagonist in his own death. In this tender immersion into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers from South America, Babenco himself consciously bares his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses fears and anxieties, and also memories, reflections, and fantasies, in this face-off between his intellectual vigor and physical frailty, which were the hallmarks of his career. From the onset of cancer at the age of 38 until his death at 70, Babenco made of the cinema his medicine and the nourishment that kept him alive. "Babenco - Tell me when I Die" is Barbara Paz's first feature film, but is also in a way Hector's last work: a film about filming so never to die.Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
D - DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsSusanna PukkilaAlmila BagriacikElias WesterbergMervi and Kata, a lesbian couple living in Helsinki, are considering coming out of closet. They soon realize that they are not the only ones with secrets.Finland (Finnish, English and German dialogue)
F - DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsMarlies HeuerGene BervoetsAnnet MalherbeA woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her.Netherlands (Dutch dialogue)
F - DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsAlex van WarmerdamAriane SchluterJaap SpijkersA downtrodden waiter decides to take up matters with the screenwriter determined to make him suffer.Netherlands (Dutch dialogue)
F - DirectorGuérin van de VorstStarsYasser AchabWalid AfkirYassine AgezalBen, a recently free Islam convert, wants to learn to pray and to become a good mechanic. Ben will lead a fight to resist hatred, to recreate the relationship with his son, and regain his dignity as a free man.Belgium (French dialogue)
F - DirectorBoudewijn KooleStarsRifka LodeizenElsie de BrauwEva GaretAn ill Dutch woman visits her family in Norway in hopes of reconnecting with her estranged mother.Netherlands/Norway (Dutch and Norwegian dialogue)
F - DirectorMario MartoneStarsDaniela IoiaEnzo BuonomoDaniele BaseliceThis particular version of Naples is home to Antonio Barracano, the young, vigorous and tattooed Mayor of Rione Sanità who plays by his own rules; a paternal figure who oversees the licit and illicit activities unfolding within the city.Italy (Italian and Neapolitan dialogue)
F - DirectorXavier ArtigasXapo OrtegaStarsMetello AlongeJaume AsensGonzalo Boye8 June, 2013. 800 people enter an abandoned cinema in Barcelona to project a documentary film. The old building is renamed as "Cinema Patricia Heras" in honor of a girl who committed suicide two years earlier. But who is Patricia? Why she decided to commit suicide? How his death related to Barcelona? The answers to these questions are exactly what they want to publicize with this illegal and high media impact action: the truth about one of the worst cases of police corruption in Barcelona is known, in the dead city.Spain (Catalan and Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorNobuhiro YamashitaStarsKahoMasaki OkadaElisa YanagiWhen eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsMa Dong-seokKim Young-minLee Yi-kyeongOne on One: After a high school student is murdered, the seven suspects are hunted down by members of a terrorist organization.South Korea (Korean dialogue)
- DirectorFrédéric FonteyneAnne PaulicevichStarsSara ForestierNoémie LvovskyAnnabelle LengronneEvery day, three sex workers cross the border from France into Belgium to practice their trade. At the end of one particularly hot summer, all three share a secret that will bind them together forever.France/Belgium (French dialogue)
- DirectorGaoming LiuStarsYucong HuangXuanyu ChenLong LiangThe hypnotic, clammy atmosphere is felt in the sophomore film from Gao Ming, who uses the dampness of early summer there as a lens through which to zoom in on the relationship between a young couple who grow apart.China (Chinese dialogue)
- DirectorHassen FerhaniStarsMalikaSamir El HakimChawki AmariIn the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams, Her name is Malika.Algeria (Arabic, French and English dialogue)
- DirectorKodie BedfordPerun BonserRob BraslinStarsKatie BeckettShakira ClantonTamala SheltonMystery, terror, suspense and fantasy. Dark Place is a collection of five gripping Australian Indigenous horror tales.Australia (English dialogue)
F - DirectorDani RosenbergStarsMarek RozenbaumRoni KubanNatan RosenbergA father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father's illness threatens to cut their quest short.Israel (Hebrew dialogue)
F - DirectorMiguel LlorensCristina Fernández PintadoStarsSergio CaballeroCristina Fernández PintadoÀngel FígolsAfter a friend dies from a terminal illness, five friends discover what they are really like and how much they need the support and involvement of their loved ones: one that they have chosen out of authenticity, enjoyment and affection.Spain (Catalan dialogue)
F - DirectorBenoît ChieuxJacques-Rémy GirerdStarsSabine AzémaJosiane BalaskoFrançois MorelCenters on an eccentric aunt who is everything to everyone.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorSonja ProsencStarsDoroteja NadrahKristoffer JonerZita FuscoHearing disabled 17 year old Iva, her older brother and younger sister, has lost her mother in an accident, and the whole family is in agony, not making it easier when she finds out that her mother kept secrets from them.Slovenia (Slovene and English dialogue)
F - DirectorNicolas WackerbarthStarsAndreas LustJudith EngelMilena DreißigFor her first television film - a remake of Fassbinder's Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant - director Vera wants the perfect cast. But the first day of shooting is fast approaching and the numerous casting sessions have yet to find a suitable actress to play the leading role.Germany (German dialogue)
F - DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsKresimir MikicTihana LazovicLara VladovicIn a dystopian future, Matja and his family face an unresolved tragedy. Despite losing his faith and struggling to find his true self, the dawn breaks over the valley, revealing that the only way to deal with trauma and evil is to face them head-on.Croatia (Croatian dialogue)
F - DirectorMarat SargsyanStarsDaumantas CiunisValentinas MasalskisSigitas RackysA famous colonel, who served in different countries for many years, finds himself in a strange situation when civil war breaks out in his native country.Lithuania (Lithuanian dialogue)