Foreign Language Film Submissions 2020

Charlatan, directed by Polish director Agnieska Holland from a script by Marek Epstein, is about the life of Czech healer/herbalist Jan Mikolášek (1889-1973). The film shows the holistic healer at the height of his power when he counted among his patients the Communist President of Czechoslovakia Antonin Zapotocky and Nazi party official Martin Bormann.

Paradise War tells the true story of a Swiss environmentalist, Bruno Manser, who joined the nomadic Penan tribe in their fight against the catastrophic deforestation in Borneo during the late ‘80s. Bruno Manser eventually went missing in the depths of the Malaysian jungle.