Award-Winning Films

About Dry Grasses

Assigned to a remote Turkish village, a middle-aged teacher from Istanbul is accused of an inappropriate relationship with one of his pupils in this searing, slow-burn drama from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Read More

Running Time: 197

Fallen Leaves

Precise and intelligent, this bittersweet romance between two Helsinki loners (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, both irresistible) posits love as the means to transcend – or at least survive – the grim reality of living in a capitalist society. Read More

Running Time: 81

Goodbye Julia

Tensions between Northern and Southern Sudanese communities erupt into violence, forever changing two families in this moving story of an unlikely bond between two women as they confront issues of class, gender and race. Read More

Running Time: 120

Monster

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest is a Rashomon-like story of a mother who alleges that her son’s teacher has verbally and physically abused him. The scenario is approached from three perspectives, each complicating the previous, while unfolding deeper layers of humanity and hope. Read More

Running Time: 126

The Mother of All Lies

Join us for a post-screening Q&A with Director Asmae El Moudir on January 9.

In this artful documentary from Morocco, a woman turns the camera on her parents and stern camera-shy grandmother, who rules over her clan with an iron cane, to uncover a web of family secrets. Read More

Running Time: 96

Perfect Days

Tokyo is the setting of Wim Wenders’ radiant, warm story of a gentle, music-loving man (Cannes Best Actor winner Koji Yakusho) who finds joy in his simple life cleaning public toilets. But a visitor from his past challenges his monastic life. Read More

Running Time: 125

The Zone of Interest

FIPRESCI Prize, Best Screenplay.

In Jonathan Glazer’s haunting masterwork, an Auschwitz commandant and his wife maintain an idyllic domestic life with their family in a house and bucolic garden, an existence standing in stark contrast to the sounds coming from the nearby death camp. Read More

Running Time: 106