Genre: Foreign Art House
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Sunny Land (2010)
Directed by: Aljoscha Weskott, Marietta Kesting
Applying an experimentalist's eye to the documentary format, German filmmakers Marietta Kesting and Aljoscha Weskott revisit a bizarre chapter in South African history: an apartheid-era…
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The Final Girl (2010)
Cast: Wendy Delorme, Véronique Lindenberg, Judy Minx …
Directed by: Todd Verow
Director Todd Verow's moody psychological drama follows the tangled lives of three Parisian women inextricably drawn toward one another as they try to learn the fate of an enigmatic…
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The World According to Shorts Presents: L'Origine de la Tendresse and Other Tales (2010)
Cast: Isabelle Nanty, Elsa Lévy, Eugene Berthier …
Directed by: Alain-Paul Mallard, Jeanne Paturle, Cécile Rousset …
This program includes Alain-Paul Mallard's title short film as well as five others from notable French filmmakers who seek expression through fiction, animation and documentary, among…
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Old Cats (2010)
Cast: Bélgica Castro, Claudia Celedón, Catalina Saavedra …
Directed by: Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva
Now in her 70s, Isadore (Bélgica Castro) begins to realize that her mental faculties are failing. However, she's determined to hide this fact from her domineering daughter Rosario…
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Dogtooth (2009)
Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia …
Directed by: Giorgos Lanthimos
Homeschooled siblings who grow up cut off from society create an idyllic alternate universe, which is shattered when their father lets in an outsider -- a female security officer brought home…
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Symbol (2009)
Cast: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Adriana Fricke, Jorge Diaz …
Directed by: Hitoshi Matsumoto
A man wakes up in an empty, doorless room in this absurdist comedy directed by and starring Japanese superstar comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto. Pressing a phallic protrusion on the wall, he sets…
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Written By (2009)
Cast: Kelly Lin, Ching Wan Lau, Mia Yam …
Directed by: Ka-Fai Wai
Still reeling from the loss of her father in a car crash that also left her blind, a young woman attempts to assuage her grief by writing a novel in which her father survives the accident and…
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Carmel (2009)
Cast: Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Samuel Fuller …
Directed by: Amos Gitai
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai -- a war veteran whose son fights in the conflict that has seized the region -- interweaves a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Middle East's bloody and complex…
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Crash Site/My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot (2009)
Cast: Dominic Oley, Irina Kastrinidis, Judith Vanderwerff …
Directed by: Constanze Ruhm
In this avant-garde reimagining of iconic female characters from classic cinema, director Constanze Ruhm brings to life alternate versions of Hari from Andrej Tarkovsky's Solaris,…
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The Angel (2009)
Cast: Lena Endre, Maria Bonnevie, Gunilla Röör …
Directed by: Margreth Olin
Lea's (Maria Bonnevie) idyllic life and bright future is shattered forever when her father's untimely death frees Lea's mother to take up with an abusive man and ultimately…
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The Misfortunates (2009)
Cast: Valentijn Dhaenens, Gilda De Bal, Koen De Graeve …
Directed by: Felix Van Groeningen
On the verge of having his first child, aspiring writer Gunther (Valentijn Dhaenens) recalls his crazy adolescence, living with his grandmother (Gilda De Bal), and watching his bombastic…
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Eden Is West (2009)
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Juliane Kohler, Ulrich Tukur …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Riccardo Scamarcio stars as Elias, a migrant worker trying to get from Greece to the city of dreams: Paris. But his journey turns out to be an obstacle course in this epic drama from…
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Ward No. 6 (2009)
Cast: Vladimir Ilyin, Aleksei Vertkov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny …
Directed by: Aleksandr Gornovsky, Karen Shakhnazarov
This unconventional drama, which employs a nonfiction filmmaking style, chronicles the peculiar case of Dr. Ragin (Vladimir Ilyin), the head of a mental hospital who irritates his…
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Ah! The Libido (2009)
Cast: Audrey Dana, Claude Degliame, Sarah Grappin …
Directed by: Michèle Rosier
In this chatty, funny and erotic sex farce, four female employees of the French daily Liberation throw in the towel on their endless hunt for the perfect man and decide to seek sensual…
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The Wolberg Family (2009)
Cast: François Damiens, Valérie Benguigui, Léopoldine Serre …
Directed by: Axelle Ropert
Passionate about his family and his hometown, dedicated Jewish mayor Simon (François Damiens) constantly interferes in the personal affairs of his wife (Valérie Benguigui) and…
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Sightseeing (2009)
Cast: Matías Castelli, Alberto Rojas Apel, Martina Juncadella …
Directed by: Ezequiel Acuña
As laid-off factory worker Marcos (Matías Castelli) pins his hopes for a new life on completing his long-unfinished one-man play, he contacts his estranged friend Martín…
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Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung …
Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta
Directed by longtime star of independent German cinema Margarethe von Trotta, this reverent biopic chronicles the fascinating story of 12th-century Christian mystic and scientist Hildegard…
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Red Birds (2009)
Directed by: Brigitte Cornand
Director Brigitte Cornand matches the voices and thoughts of 14 female artists, including Louise Bourgeois and Kiki Smith, with film footage of the various bird species she associates with…
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Disorder (2009)
Directed by: Weikai Huang
Taking an undeniably artistic approach, documentary filmmaker Weikai Huang captures the freneticism of modern-day China with a fascinating compilation of 20 seemingly random stories that…
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Gomorrah (2008)
Cast: Salvatore Abruzzese, Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato …
Directed by: Matteo Garrone
The intertwining tales of a delivery boy, a tailor, a businessman and two cocky teenagers form the fabric of this gritty and lyrical examination of the influential Neapolitan mob known as the…
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Mesrine: Part 1: Killer Instinct (2008)
Cast: Shaun Gerardo, Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France …
Directed by: Jean-François Richet
This blistering biopic stars Vincent Cassel as notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine. The first in a duology, the film details the genesis of Mesrine's career, including an incident…
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Ashes of Time Redux (2008)
Cast: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung …
Directed by: Kar Wai Wong
In ancient China, swordsman Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung) retreats to the desert to recover from the sting of an affair gone wrong. With a hardened heart, he subcontracts out killings to bounty…
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Johnny Mad Dog (2008)
Cast: Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy
Directed by: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire fictionalizes the terrifying world of ethnic violence and child soldiers running amok in eastern Africa, following 15-year-old Johnny (Christopher…
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Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Cast: Haruka Igawa, Kai Inowaki, Teruyuki Kagawa …
Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
From Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa comes a drama about the Sasakis, an ordinary Japanese family living a bucolic life -- until the father is abruptly laid off from his job and decides to…
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Il Divo (2008)
Cast: Anna Bonaiuto, Flavio Bucci, Giorgio Colangeli …
Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino directs this superbly entertaining docudrama about the colorful life and political career of Italy's Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and his party's decades-long…