FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM SUBMISSIONS

Set during the Irish potato famine in 1845, Arracht, which means monster in the Irish language, is a dark yet beautiful movie from writer/director Tom Sullivan. In his story, brutal colonization by English overlords runs side by side with the deadly blight that wiped out the lumper potato on which the Irish peasantry had become so dependent.

Set during the Irish potato famine in 1845, Arracht, which means monster in the Irish language, is a dark yet beautiful movie from writer/director Tom Sullivan. In his story, brutal colonization by English overlords runs side by side with the deadly blight that wiped out the lumper potato on which the Irish peasantry had become so dependent.

La Maca: it is the largest prison in the Ivory Coast in West Africa, where more than five thousand inmates live by their own rules in a crowded hellhole. Aging and ailing Blackbeard (Steven Tientcheu, seen in Ladj Li’s Les Misérables), reigns as its ruthless boss while challenged by rival pretenders eager to take his throne.

The Swedish custody drama was filmed in snowy Northern Sweden above the polar circle and in the sunny hills and lava beaches of Tenerife. The change of physical location brings a dramatic contrast in the film.

Eeb Allay Ooo! is a political satire addressing the heavy political atmosphere in New Delhi, the capital of India. Director Prateek Vats’s daring and hilarious film exposes the political flaws of the system as seen through the innocent eyes of a young boy who is hired to get rid of the monkeys which populate the official governmental buildings.

French screen legend Catherine Deneuve plays Fabienne, an aging renowned actress, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La vérité), his follow-up to the 2019 Palme d’or winner and Golden Globes nominee Shoplifters.   The film explores the complicated relationship between Fabienne and her visiting daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche), who resents the rose-colored version of the past presented in her mother’s just-published memoirs.

Three-time National Award winner, Dr. Bijukumar Damodaran’s film, Trees Under the Sun is a saga of a deprived and underprivileged family belonging to the Dalit (untouchable) community of India.

For any enthusiast of space exploration, Yuri Gagarin will forever be known as the first man ever to journey into space. His fame was such that after his 1961 orbital voyage, the Soviet cosmonaut travelled around the world to receive kudos.