Foreign

Before Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, Kore'eda's Still Walking and Sion Sono's Noriko's Dinner Table, there was Toshiaki Toyoda's Hanging Garden, the film that started it all. Family as a nightmare and a fount of terror, discord and disquiet: that was...

Barnabás Kos, a meek and modest triangle-player in a state orchestra finds himself unfathomably promoted to musical director. Now drunk with power, the once timid Kos turns into a poised, commanding peacock and seeks to transform the orchestra to suit...

Polish animation, influenced by jazz, poster design and collage, took off in the late 1950s when artists found creative freedom in the wake of Stalin's death. Pioneering filmmakers like Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica would change the form and usher in...

Deeply scarred by what he witnessed on battlefields across Asia, a young war photographer (Yusaku Matsuda, Yokohama BJ Blues) returns to the bustling streets of Tokyo, plotting a series of brutal murders and robberies that are mere warmups for an...

On the streets of Paris, Rosa 'la rose' (Marianne Basler, Va savoir) is the belle of Les Halles. With no shortage of clients, she is beloved by her fellow working girls and spoiled by her pimp Gilbert (Jean Sorel, Belle de Jour). For her, this is a...

The second film certified as part of the anti-establishment Dogme 95 movement, Lars von Trier's The Idiots follows a group of young people who share one interest: releasing their inner idiot. With a large house in the suburbs of Copenhagen as their base,...

Paddy Breathnach directs this Spanish-language drama about an emerging drag performer and his disapproving father. In Havana, Cuba, make-up artist Jesus (Héctor Medina) successfully auditions to become a drag performer but when he takes to the stage his...

After fifty years of prosperous offshore drilling in one of the world's largest oil fields, a seismic rift rips through the ocean floor of the North Sea, causing an oil rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia (Kristine...

Gakuryu Ishii, director of such cult classics as Electric Dragon 80000v and The Crazy Family takes on the 1973 novel The Box Man by Kobo Abe, an adaptation 40 years in the making! A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo...

Luc Besson's sophomore feature is a stylish urban odyssey which helped to consolidate Besson's reputation for unique, visually creative cinema. After stealing sensitive documents from a mob boss, Fred (Christopher Lambert) takes refuge in the Paris Métro...

Krzysztof Kieslowski's award-winning trilogy explores the French Revolutionary ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood and their relevance to the contemporary world. It is a snapshot of European life at a time of reconstruction after the Cold War,...

A series of eerie vignettes depict images of sorcery and evil on screen, from representations of occultism and religious hypocrisy to a chilling witch hunt in the Middle Ages. Directed by and starring Benjamin Christensen as the Devil, Häxan mixes...

In the fishing village of Aci Trezza, Sicily, the Valastro family dream of a better life. Living modestly thanks to merciless wholesalers, eldest son Ntoni takes matters into his own hands and - with the help of a bank loan - starts fishing alone. The...

Three more gems from the Golden Age of Noir. In Not Guilty, a sadistic yet brilliant doctor (Michel Simon, The Train) spins a web of lies and causes havoc in a small town. Peter Lorre (M) directs and stars as a troubled man navigating post-war Germany...

John Dannahay (Tony Musante, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), a CIA agent stationed in Rome, is preparing to overthrow an African government. But his plan goes wrong when a corrupt colleague starts shooting people from the roof of a hotel, taking an...