78TH Foreign Language Film Submissions

The viewer of the political thriller The Man Standing Next is asked to delve into one of South Korea’s most intricate moments of its modern history. A moment when one dictator falls only to be replaced by another.

It seems the criminal justice system is not unfairly skewed towards the white and rich only in the United States but in other countries as well. The story of Crímenes de Familia, the original title of this Argentine film, centers on two court cases happening to the same household in Buenos Aires.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil is a heart-wrenching outcry against the death penalty practices in Iran. It deals with the subject from the point of view of citizens who become the unintentional executioners, usually soldiers, and who are forced in this position.

There are so many stories from World War II, most of them told from the victims’ side and many of them based on true testimonies. But rarely do we see one from a child’s perspective and even more so, one that does not take place in one of the concentration camps with names that we are all too familiar with.

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior is a biographical period action film set in the 17th.

Xiao Yuegui (Yu Nan) is the eponymous character, the aging companion of crime lord Yu Qiyang (Rhydian Vaughan). A flashback explains that she used to be the concubine of two mobster bosses who were a generation older.

Something of an Italian comedy Lebanese-style, C-Section is a screwball and endearing feel-good movie from Lebanon. Directed by 28-year-old David Oryan, it plays almost entirely inside an upscale clinic in Beirut.

Iran, today. Forty-something Heshmat is a doting husband and father.

Life, death and everything in between and beyond. These are the themes of This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, a film from Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, an African filmmaker and visual artist, who was born in Hlotse, a market town in Lesotho, and now lives in Berlin.

Show Me What You Got, Svetlana Cvetko's directorial debut, tells the story of three late twentysomethings and their playful forming of a ménage à trois, in a sensual scenario reminiscent of the French New Wave, like Jules et Jim. Filmed in black-and-white in Los Angeles (and partly in Italy), each character is seen at a moment of transition.