foreign films

Sobibor is the latest offering by Russian actor and director Konstantin Khabenskiy who treats this difficult subject matter with respect and a sensitive touch. The film takes us on a journey through the horror of this dreadful prison camp, not shying away from the atrocities but truly showing us how awful people are to each other.

Blind Spot is a film about the effects a tragedy has on a family. It follows a mother (Pia Tjelta) and a father (Anders Baasmo Christiansen) as they try to understand their daughter’s self-destructive actions and come to realize that she has been suffering mentally for a long time without them noticing it.

Love Sonia is the harrowing account of two sisters robbed of their innocence when one is sold by her debt-ridden father, and the other tries to rescue her but becomes trapped in the “flesh trade” herself. A troublesome and challenging journey that takes us through the red-light districts of Mumbai and Hong Kong and the rich prostitution rings of Los Angeles.

Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren is famous for her children’s stories such as “Pippi Longstocking” and “Karlsson-on-the-Roof”, but Becoming Astrid takes us back in time when she was 16 years old and still Astrid Ericsson living in a Swedish village. We meet her before she started writing fiction and just before she gets hired for her first job at the local newspaper in Vimmerby.

What happens when a Pakistani teenager grows up in Norway? What will people say about her and her family if the rules are broken? These are some of the questions raised by What Will People Say, written and directed by Pakistani director Iram Haq and produced by Norwegian Maria Ekerhovd. In the film,16-year-old Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) lives a double life: at school and out with her friends she’s a regular Norwegian girl, with girlfriends and a boyfriend, but at home, with her family and older brother, she is the perfect Pakistani daughter.

Butterflies, director Tolga Karacelik's Sundance Grand Jury Award winner for Dramatic World Cinema, is the story of three siblings reunited after a call from their estranged father Mazhar. The one hour 57-minute drama-comedy was shot in 18 days in two different cities and two different countries with an all Turkish cast and crew.

A Danish police officer, Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren), is taken off the streets of Copenhagen and is assigned to be an emergency dispatcher. The reason for his demotion is a key point in the film which takes place at the police station and follows Holm as he receives calls from citizens in trouble.

Movies are born to entertain. But cinema, especially in Spain, also has a long tradition of films that try to teach, to change the world or at least to shine a light on social or political issues.

At first sight, La noche de 12 años (A Twelve-Year Night) could pass as a story of survival. The real story of three political prisoners in Uruguay who, in 1972, were taken from their prison cells in a secret military operation that lasted twelve years.

The River represents the third chapter in director's Emir Baigazin’s “Aslan trilogy”, following Uroki Garmonii and Ranenyy Angel (Aslan being their main character's name). It's the story of a family of five boys, aged approximately 6 to 16, who live in the middle of a remote desert landscape in Kazakhstan.