#ForeignFilmsMatter: Volume 6
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She Fell to Earth (Hong Kong)
F = Feature film
D = Documentary
She Fell to Earth (Hong Kong)
F = Feature film
D = Documentary
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- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsRémy GirardSophie LorainMarie-Mai BouchardA retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that glorifies colonialism.Canada (French and English dialogue)
F - DirectorKlára TasovskáStarsLibuse JarcovjakovaCzechoslovakian photographer seeks freedom after 1968 Prague Spring suppression. Undertakes long journey to break from repressive regime's constraints.Czech Republic (Czech dialogue)
D - DirectorKlaudia Reynicke-CandeloroStarsSusi SánchezTatiana AstengoGonzalo MolinaTwo teenage sisters are about to leave their country forever when they unexpectedly reconnect with an absent father. This relationship will both amplify and ease their pain of change.Peru (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsIsabelle HuppertHafsia HerziNahuel Pérez BiscayartLucie a police officer is fond of her new neighbors a young couple. Soon she discovers that Yann, the father has a heavy criminal record. Lucie's moral conflict between her professionalism and her desire to help this family.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorYuval AbrahamBasel AdraHamdan BallalThis film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.Palestine (Arabic dialogue)
D - DirectorFarahnaz SharifiFarah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people's memories in form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorBirgitte StærmoseStarsLirija AbdullahuSadije AbdullahuXhevahire AbdullahuAFTERWAR is filmed over 15 years. Director Birgitte Stærmose originally met the cast in 2008 when they were children selling cigarettes and peanuts on the streets of postwar Pristina and returned again in 2018 and to film another 5 years with them as adults. The film builds on the lived experience of the cast and is based on extensive interviews and a co-creation process with them. They tell their collective story through monologues spoken directly to the camera as well as staged, scripted scenes, sometimes together with professional actors and sometimes with amateurs. This is not a documentary; nor a true fiction film, but a performative testament to the war that lives on in people, when the fighting is over.Denmark/Kosovo (Albanian dialogue)
D - DirectorPham Ngoc LanStarsMinh ChauXuan An NgoHa-PhuongAfter inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.Vietnam (Vietnamese dialogue)
F - DirectorSantiago Lozano ÁlvarezStarsJohn Alex CastilloCarol HurtadoJesús María MinaAn old man enters the Colombian jungle seeking a peaceful place to die, but paramilitary soldiers controlling the area threaten his journey to death.Colombia (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorMaryam MoghadamBehtash SanaeehaStarsLili FarhadpourEsmaeel MehrabiMohammad HeidariSeventy-year-old Mahin, solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life. A chance encounter becomes an unforgettable evening.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorMamadou DiaStarsAwa Djiga KaneSaikou LoBen Mahmoud MbowAfter 30 years working at the city hall in his small town, a man struggles with grief and depression as the anniversary of his wife's death nears. He finds solace reconnecting with his estranged son.Senegal (Fula dialogue)
F - DirectorJuliana RojasStarsFernanda ViannaMirella FaçanhaBruna LinzmeyerTwo stories of migration, memories and ghosts. After a disaster floods her land, Joana flees to São Paulo and tries to start her life over again. Meanwhile, after her father's death, Flavia moves to his farm with her wife Mara.Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorRoman BondarchukStarsDmytro BahnenkoZhanna OzirnaRimma ZyubinaWhile searching for marmots, young biologist Yura sees arson on the Cherson steppe. His attempts to publicize his discovery draw him into surreal political and media matters.Ukraine (Ukrainian dialogue)
F - DirectorAndrei CohnStarsDoru BemCiprian ChirichesAna CionteaLeiba runs the village inn in the 1900s, acting as a meeting point for Christians and Jews alike, however the conviviality masks racism and anti-Semitism.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorIngrid PokropekStarsSofía ClausenSantiago FerreiraMercedes HalfonAfter an accident, 14-year-old Ana has a metal plate in her arm. Unexpectedly, during the winter holidays, the plate begins to receive peculiar messages conveyed in Morse code.Argentina (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorBruno MourralStarsBruno MourralGessica GeneusAnabel LopezDoc and Zoe are two hapless kidnappers tasked with what appears to be a simple abduction for hire, only to find out that it's anything but and end up in the middle of a political conspiracy.Haiti (Haitian Creole and French dialogue)
F - DirectorJulia De SimoneStarsLucília RaimundoSamira CarvalhoMaria d'AiresMuanza is a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo and trafficked to Brazil in the 19th century. Waking up nowdays, she finds herself in a time-twisting Rio de Janeiro. Figures from the past and from the present come into her search for her roots across the city's territory. A portrait of the experiences and struggles that create community and sisterhood.Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorAvinash PrakashStarsAbdul RafeMithunRithik MohanThree siblings and their dog navigate a turbulent childhood with an abusive father and absent mother, finding solace in each other until their loving grandparents offer a potential lifeline.India (Tamil dialogue)
F - DirectorLeticia TonosStarsPaz VegaSophie GómezJalsen SantanaIn a nearby future a conservation biologist battles extinction with the help of an A.I., but after the arrival of an enigmatic traveler with a hidden past, the tension in this ménage à trois will be as toxic as the world they live in.Dominican Republic (Spanish dialogue)
F - CreatorGwydion BeynonPhathutshedzo MakwarelaStarsThembinkosi MthembuLehlohonolo MayezaNirvana Nokwe-MselekuSet in the lush but lawless land on the border between Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal, Outlaws is the story of two families at war with each other: the Zulu, cattle-farming Biyela clan and the Basotho, cattle-raiding Tseoles.South Africa (Zulu and Sotho dialogue)
TV series - DirectorAliyar RastiStarsSaber AbarMohammad AghebatiAmirhossein HosseiniBeitollah dreams of gold coins in a cave. Seeking a non-religious assistant, he recruits Shoja via fake bills. They search caves across Iran unsuccessfully. An innkeeper suspects their quest and secretly follows on his motorcycle.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorIshan ShuklaStarsGolshifteh FarahaniAsia ArgentoGaspar NoéA bored office worker may have accidentally sparked a revolution in a bizarre dystopian world.India (English dialogue)
F - DirectorOktay BaraheniStarsHajir Sam AhmadiMahsa BagheriHamed BehdadIn an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father's abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman's attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorNelson MakengoA Plans to build the largest power plant on the Congo plunge 17 million people into darkness and insecurity.Democratic Republic of the Congo
F - DirectorDmytro MoiseievStarsViktor ZhdanovVladimir YamnenkoMaksym BurlakaOnly two of them left. In a small village cut off from electricity, in the 'grey zone' that formed in Donbas after the Russian invasion in 2014. Childhood enemies, later mine workers, and now pensioners. Their windows and views of life look in the opposite directions, one to the east, the other - to the west, and their lives did not run as desired each in their own way. But then a Russian sniper appears in the village, and the threat of a large offensive is looming. Every day brings the neighbors closer to the inevitable choice - adapt or resist.Ukraine (Ukrainian dialogue)
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