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World Cinema

World Cinema

A selection of acclaimed dramas from around the world.

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World Cinema
  • A Film About Couples

    Directed by Oriol Estrada, Natalia Cabral • Drama • With Oriol Estrada, Natalia Cabral, Lia Estrada Cabral, Carlos M. Matos, Homer Mora • 2021 • 89 minutes

    Directed by Miriam Lies’ award-winning team, Natalia Cabral y Oriol Estrada, A Film About Couples is equal parts a candid exposition of the ...

  • Zero Point

    Directed by Mihkel Ulk • Drama • With Tambet Tuisk, Märt Pius, Brigitte Susanne Hunt • 2014 • 114 minutes

    After being denounced as an outcast in school and frightened away from home by his mother's developing schizophrenia, there is no other way out for Johannes but to start improving his life b...

  • The Girl, the Mother and the Demons

    Directed by Suzanne Osten • Drama • With Esther Quigley, Maria Sundbom Lörelius • 2016 • 0 minutes

    Siri, a single and psychotic mother, locks herself and her daughter Ti in their apartment where Siri’s demons are in charge. Ti can neither see nor hear the demons that have clearly taken control o...

  • Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy

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    In the last decade of his long and prolific career, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) —best-known in the U.S. as the filmmaker behind the cult hit House (1977)—wrote and directed a trio of deeply personal and formally audacious films that confronted Japan’s wartime past.

    Made in the wake of the Grea...

  • Red Like the Sky

    Directed by Cristiano Bortone • Drama • With Paolo Sassanelli, Luca Capriotti • 2007 • 96 minutes

    A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound. Based on the true childhood experiences of renowned sound editor M...

  • Summer 1993

    Directed by Carla Simón • Drama • With Laia Artigas, Paula Robles • 2017 • 96 minutes

    In Carla Simon’s touching autobiographical film, six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother’s apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, unc...

  • Dachra

    Directed by Abdelhamid Bouchnak • Drama • With Yassmine Dimassi, Hela Ayed, Aziz Jebali • 2018 • 114 minutes

    Ever since she was discovered naked and near-dead decades ago, Mongia has been institutionalized, with a tendency to bite her nurses. Grisly, frightening, and stuffed with howling thrills...

  • Mysteries of Lisbon

    Directed by Raul Ruiz • Drama • With Adriano Luz • 2011 • 257 minutes

    A masterful adaptation of the nineteenth-century Portuguese novel evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between ...

  • Father

    Directed by Srdan Golubovic • Drama • With Goran Bogdan, Boris Isakovic, Nada Sargin, Muharem Hamzic • 2020 • 120 minutes

    In small town Serbia, a day laborer and father of two, is ordered to give up his children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act...

  • November

    Directed by Rainer Sarnet • Drama • With Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Arvo Kukumägi • 2017 • 115 minutes

    NOVEMBER is set in a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam, Rainer Sarnet’s third feature film is a bold, twisted fairy tale about unrequited love. In NOVEMBER, the ...

  • Air Doll (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

    Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda • Drama • With Bae Doona, Arata Iura, Itsuji Itao • 2009 • 116 minutes

    A present-day fable for the increasing disconnect we find in urban life, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air Doll transports the Galatea myth to present day Tokyo.

    A life-size sex doll (Bae Doona, The Host)...

  • The Second Mother

    Directed by Anna Muylaert • Drama • With Regina Casé, Michel Joelsas • 2015 • 110 minutes

    An excitingly fresh take on some classic themes and ideas, THE SECOND MOTHER centers around Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern day Sao Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every on...

  • And Then We Danced (Levan Akin)

    Directed by Levan Akin • Drama • With Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili • 2020 • 113 minutes

    A passionate tale of love and liberation set amidst the conservative confines of modern Georgian society, AND THEN WE DANCED follows Merab, a devoted dancer who has been training for ...

  • Adieu Paris

    Directed by Edouard Baer • Drama • With Pierre Arditi, Gérard Depardieu, Ludivine Sagnier • 2022 • 101 minutes

    ADIEU PARIS tells the story of eight friends, mostly in their seventies, who meet up for an annual lunch that has become a ritual over the decades. They are the so-called self-appointed...

  • We Are Little Zombies

    Directed by Makoto Nagahisa • Drama • With Keita Ninomiya, Mondo Okumura, Satoshi Mizuno, Sena Nakajima • 2019 • 120 minutes

    When four young orphans—Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura—first meet, their parents’ bodies are being turned into dust, like fine Parmesan atop a plate of spaghetti Bologn...

  • Empire M

    Directed by Hussein Kamal • Drama • With Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar • 1972 • 113 minutes

    After the death of her husband, Mona (Faten Hamama) is raising her six kids along with working at her demanding job. She gradually falls in love with a businessman Ahmed (Ahmed Mazhar), but is afraid to giv...

  • Carmo Hit the Road

    Directed by Murilo Pasta • Drama • With Seu Jorge • 2010 • 100 minutes

    Carmo would do anything to escape the hellhole of a Brazilian border town where she lives. So when a lonesome, wheelchair-bound low-life named Marco arrives on the scene, she jumps at the chance to help him transport a shipme...

  • Listen

    Directed by Ana Rocha • Drama • With Lúcia Moniz, Sophia Myles, Ruben Garcia • 2020 • 73 minutes

    In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social se...

  • Take Me Somewhere Nice

    Directed by Ena Sendijarevic • Drama • With Sara Luna Zoric, Lazar Dragojevic, Ernad Prnjavorac • 2019 • 91 minutes

    When her long-estranged father is hospitalized in his native Bosnia, a not-quite-headstrong young woman leaves her home in The Netherlands to visit him. When she lands at the airpo...

  • Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

    Directed by Lili Horvát • Drama • With Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó • 2021 • 94 minutes

    After 20 years in the United States, a Hungarian neurosurgeon returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous with a fellow doctor she met at a conference. When the love of her life is nowhere to be seen, she trac...

  • A New Old Play

    Directed by QIU Jiongjiong • Drama • With Tao Gu, Yi Sicheng • 2022 • 180 minutes

    Jiongjiong Qiu’s visually magnificent new film is a unique hybrid of fiction, historical reminiscence, and experimental theatre. Its overview of China from the 1930s to the 1980s is filtered through Qiu Yu, a Sichu...

  • 4 Days in France

    Directed by Jérôme Reybaud • Drama • 2017 • 137 minutes

    Jérôme Reybaud’s remarkably accomplished feature debut is a sly and sophisticated take on gay romance in the 21st century. On a seemingly ordinary night in Paris, Pierre takes one last look his lover Paul’s sleeping body, then steals away i...

  • Shall We Kiss?

    Directed by Emmanuel Mouret • Drama • With Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuel Mouret, Julie Gayet • 2009 • 102 minutes

    When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel’s...

  • Heat Wave

    Directed by Jean-Jacques Jauffret • Drama • With Adèle Haenel • 2011 • 92 minutes

    On a sweltering day in the south of France; an alluring girl; her troubled boyfriend; her mysterious mother and a gruff neighbor collide in tragedy as their secrets lead to a series of shocking events. Stars Adèle ...