foreign films

Wild League (Дикая лига) is a Russian sports drama based on real events in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century which led to the birth of the first semi-professional soccer league, initially made up of players who had previously only played streetball. The picture was co-directed by Russian director Andrey Bogatyrev and American director Art Camacho.

Winner of the best director award for Anca Damian at the 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival, the Romanian film Moon Hotel Kabul is a drama starring Florin Piersic Jr. and Ofelia Popii.

Medical transport driver Vic is late, but it’s not his fault. Roads are closed for a protest, and no one else can shuttle his Russian grandfather and émigré friends to a funeral.

After ending a fling with a student half her age, Maria, a 40-something law professor (an effervescent Chiara Mastroianni) suddenly confesses a long history of affairs to Richard (Benjamin Biolay), her husband of twenty years. Moving out of the family apartment, she settles in room 212 (the movie’s original French title) at a hotel just across the street in the Paris Montparnasse district.

“Being scared alone does not make you a whore,” says Aldó to Klára, when she is reprimanded by her aunt Ogi for hugging him. “I’m scared too.

A pickaxe digs into the rock - that’s the first sound we hear while the screen is still dark. Then, a woman washes dishes in a restaurant.

Truth and Justice (Tõde ja õigus) is an adaptation of a part of the classic Estonian novelist A. H.

The Anarchist Banker, a stylishly black and white film based on a 1922 short story by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, won the Persefone Award at the 75th Venice Film Festival in 2017. A labor of love for director Giulio Base, it took 35 years to bring it to the screen due to the difficulty of translating a philosophical and poetic project to cinematic form.

The Steed tells a poignant tale of a young boy who braves brutality, betrayal and the war in his relentless search of the horse he has been separated from during the aftermath of the Russian revolution. Love, family, and devotion are at the heart of this epic tale that unfolds against the vast majestic landscape of Mongolia.

Young Ahmed is a 2019 drama, directed by the gifted Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, whose intensely humane realist dramas have already twice earned them the Palme d’Or in Cannes. Yet in Young Ahmed, the brothers dare to take a controversial turn with a portrait of a radicalized Muslim teen.