Foreign

Powerful political documentary shot in the occupied territories of Palestine, drawing a parallel between the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and the ancient myths of Samson and Masada.

Based on the novel by Nobel winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, this epic tale of Poland and Prussia in the Miiddle Ages focuses on the plight of the Polish knight Jurand as he and his family are tormented by the deadly, Teutonic Knights.

The last film of Polish director Andrzej Munk, who was killed in a car crash during filming, this Holocaust drama was completed by Munk's colleagues and went on to win awards at Venice Film Festival and Cannes film festival. Liza (Aleksandra Slaska) is a...

A television director (Krystyna Janda) sets out to make a documentary about former socialist hero Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radiwilowicz). Initially acclaimed as a hero for his brick-laying skills, with marble statues erected in his honour, Birkut was...

Hungarian comedy drama written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi. The film follows identical twin sisters Dóra (Dorota Segda) and Lili (also Segda), who are adopted by two different families following the death of their mother. Years later, with Lili now a...

Hungarian mythical drama directed by Miklós Jancsó. Many years after the death of her father at the hands of the tyrant Aegisthus (József Madaras), oppressed Electra (Mari Töröcsik) seeks revenge. When Aegisthus further humiliates her by forcing her...

Hungarian drama written and directed by István Szöts. The film follows a woodcutter and his family who are forced from their idyllic Transylvanian mountain home following the opening of a new lumber mill nearby. Despite being enticed into working for...

Experimental Thai documentary directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film-maker travels through rural Thailand to Bangkok and along the way invites participants to expand upon an invented tale involving a disabled boy and his teacher. When their...

Polish comedy drama written and directed by Wojciech Marczewski. Set during the latter days of Poland's communist regime in the 1980s, the film centres around a lonely government censor (Janusz Gajos). When actors refuse to speak their lines during a...

Eduard Grecner writes and directs this Slovakian drama. Set during medieval times, reclusive potter Martin Lepis (Radovan Lukavsky), who the villagers refer to as Dragon, returns to the mountain community that ousted him years before for a crime he...

Portuguese film-maker Pedro Costa writes and directs this drama chronicling the real-life inhabitants of a Lisbon slum. Costa continues filming the former residents of Fontainhas, as he has done for two decades, and reunites with retired labourer Ventura...

Vera Chytilová co-writes and directs this Czech experimental drama retelling the story of Adam and Eve. After a depiction of the Earth's creation, married couple Eva (Jitka Novákova) and Josef (Karel Novak) are enjoying an idyllic retreat in a health...

A young filmmaker attempts to understand his life by recording it on film, only to have his experiment turn into an alienating, voyeuristic obsession. One of the neglected milestones in contemporary film history, this legendary independent classic...

After she rejects the marriage that her wealthy parents have arranged, young Carmella Simoni (Eleonora Giorgi - Argento's Inferno) is packed off to the convent to become a nun. But there she finds the other 'brides of Christ' have some very bad habits:...

A costume drama like no other, Facets of Love tells the stories of the Shanghai brothel in the early years of the 20th century: of its devious owners, of the unhappy innocents that have been tricked into toiling there and of the entitled men who visit,...