7 Oct 2015 Director: Christian Petzold Germany 2014 98 min From the director of Barbara and with Nina Hoss in the lead role, Christian Petzold builds up an edgy sense of mystery, betrayal and double take in a superbly crafted melodrama set in post-war Germany. Disfigured concentration camp survivor Nelly (Hoss) has undergone reconstructive facial… Continue reading Phoenix
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Lore
18 Mar 2015 Director: Cate Shortland Germany 2012 109 min Lore is a brave, gripping and relentlessly absorbing footnote to the most brutal chapter in human history that shows the legacy of Nazism through the eyes of innocent children. Without the usual scenes of torture and carnage, it examines the post-war landscape of a defeated… Continue reading Lore
Of Horses and Men
01 Apr 2015 Director: Benedikt Erlingsson Iceland, Germany 2013 81 min Iceland’s Oscar submission and theatre director Benedikt Erlingsson’s debut, Of Horses and Men is a dark, inventive and very distinctive film set in a quirky horse-riding community in stunning rural Iceland. Pondering the relationship between man and horse (the direct translation of the original… Continue reading Of Horses and Men
The Lunchbox
24 Sep 2014 Director: Ritesh Batra India, France, Germany, US 2013 104 min The Lunchbox combines vivid, bustling scenes of daily life in the teeming city of Mumbai with an unashamedly old-fashioned romantic story. Saajan is a soon-to-retire and world-weary office worker whose daily routine includes a lunchbox delivered to his desk by one of… Continue reading The Lunchbox
The Patience Stone
22 Oct 2014 Director: Atiq Rahimi Afghanistan, France, Germany, UK 2012 102 min In this drama from French-Afghan director Atiq Rahimi and based on his own prize-winning novel, a young Afghan woman (Golshifteh Farahani) struggles to care for her husband who has been incapacitated in a shooting. As food becomes short and a war wages… Continue reading The Patience Stone
Die Falscher – Counterfeiters
08 Oct 2008 Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Austria, Germany 2007 98 min It takes a clever man to make money. It takes a genius to stay alive. Salomon ʻSallyʼ Sorowitsch is a master counterfeiter. He lives a roguish life of booze, women and cards. His luck runs out when he is arrested by the Nazis and… Continue reading Die Falscher – Counterfeiters
You Will Die at Twenty
02 March 2022 Sudan/ France/Egypt/GermanyNorway/Qatar 2019 Director: Amjad Abu Alala The debut film of Amjad Abu Alalah expands from a fable-like premise to create a culturally- specific, morally compelling story. Muzamil (Moatasem Rashid) is raised by his mother Sakina (Islam Mubarek) with a heavy weight over him. A sheikh has predicted that Muzamil will die… Continue reading You Will Die at Twenty
Veins of the World
01 December 2021 Mongolia/Germany 2020 Director: Bayambasuren Davaa The director of much-loved World Cinema classic The Story of the Weeping Camel transports us to the spectacular beauty of the Mongolian steppe. This time she looks at the encroachment ofmodernity and its effect on nomadic lifestyles that have changed little in hundreds of years. Following the… Continue reading Veins of the World
The Wonders
03 November 2021 Italy/Switzerland/Germany 2014 Director: Alice Rohrwachers Outstanding performances from the ensemble cast bring warmth and insight to this film about an alternative-lifestyle family eking out a breadline existence as beekeepers in the Tuscan wilds. When a television crew arrives to film the “Countryside Wonders” competition, twelve-year-old Gelsomina (Maria Alexandra Lungu) is transfixed by… Continue reading The Wonders
The Whistlers
06 October 2021 Romania/France/Germany 2019 Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu moves into film noir territory with this tough, twisty, elegant and stylish double-dealing thriller. Corrupt cop Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) is a member of a Bucharest crime syndicate. He travels to the Canary Island of La Gomera as part of a plan to free… Continue reading The Whistlers