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Beyond the Hills
Romania, 2012, 152 min.
Powerful, weighty drama about faith and love from the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days. Atheist Alina arrives to stay with her childhood friend in a monastery, to the dismay of the priest. Winner: Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival... more
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Caesar Must Die
Italy, 2012, 76 min.
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s (Night of the Shooting Stars) docudrama tantalizingly blurs the line between fiction and reality. Inmates in a Roman prison stage a performance of Julius Caesar to profound and startling effect. Winner: Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival.... more
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Camion
Canada, 2012, 96 min.
Refreshingly honest and precisely observed, this Quebecois drama examines the lives of a trucker and his two estranged sons after the former is involved in a terrible crash. Winner: Best Director, Karlovy Vary Film Festival.... more
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Caught in the Web
China, 2012, 121 min.
Chen Kaige, the master of classic, opulent period dramas (Farewell my Concubine; The Promise), turns his attention to modern, high-energy China, office politics, sex scandals, intrigue, and cyber bullying in this topical drama about the pitfalls of the internet age.... more
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The Cleaner
Peru, 2012, 95 min.
In the midst of a mysterious and deadly epidemic in Lima, Perù, a depressed and isolated man cleans up after the dying. When he takes in a frightened young boy who has lost his mother, he’s quietly transformed by the experience of caring for another human being.... more
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Elephants
France, 2012, 86 min.
A funeral triggers a shift within a group of close friends. Intimacies unravel; new bonds are forged; everyday life unfolding in this affecting, quiet and poetic drama, the first feature by French artist Emmanuel Saada.... more
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The Girl
USA, 2012, 94 min.
Abbie Cornish gives a superb performance, at once contained and emotionally raw, as a troubled young working class Texan woman who loses custody of her child and sees an opportunity to make quick cash transporting Mexicans across the border.... more
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Goltzius and the Pelican Company
United Kingdom, 2012, 127 min.
Peter Greenaway’s stunningly visual, sexually provocative 16th-century tale focuses on a Dutch engraver who runs afoul of the authorities when his reenactments of lustful scenes from the Old Testament go beyond the pale in their carnality. F. Murray Abraham co-stars. Warning:sexually explicit scenes... more
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Here and There
Spain, 2012, 110 min.
A family man returns home to his village in Mexico after years as a migrant worker in the United States. But his dreams are tested when his pregnant wife falls ill. Winner: Critics Week Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival.... more
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The Hunt
Denmark, 2012, 111 min.
Accused of inappropriate behavior, a kindergarten teacher (Mads Mikkelsen) finds himself alone and ostracized in the community that has been his home. Innocence is no defense but it’s all he has to hold on to in this searing drama from the director of The Celebration. Winner: Best Actor, Cannes Film... more
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Imagine
Poland, 2012, 105 min.
A spatial orientation instructor arrives at a Lisbon school to help blind children and young adults become more confident and self-reliant. However, his unusual teaching methods are not without risk. An engrossing and original drama. Audience Award, Best Director, Warsaw Film Festival.... more
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Lost Loves
Cambodia, 2010, 110 min.
Based on a true story, Lost Loves revisits the plight of a young mother trying to keep her family alive under the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, which killed almost two million people between 1975 and 1979.... more
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Mold
Turkey, 2012, 94 min.
In Anatolia, a lonely father petitions authorities for information on the son who disappeared 18 years earlier. This prime example of Turkish art-house cinema won the Lion of the Future for Best First Film, Venice Film Festival.... more
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Our Children
Belgium, 2012, 111 min.
With a story ripped from the headlines and a gut-wrenching performance from Emile Dequenne (Rosetta), Belgium’s Academy Award submission offers an intimate look at one family’s devastating spiral towards tragedy. Winner: Best Actress, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival.... more
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Our Homeland
Japan, 2012, 100 min.
A poignant domestic drama from Japan, based on the filmmaker’s own experience of a tearful reunion with her brother, who had been sent to North Korea at the age of 16 and is allowed to visit his family for the first time in 25 years.... more
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Pieta
South Korea, 2012, 104 min.
In Kim Ki-duk’s gripping, disturbing and brilliant psychological study, a cold -blooded loan shark is forced to reconsider his brutal lifestyle with the arrival of a mysterious woman, who claims to be his long lost mother. Winner, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival. Warning: contains explicit scenes... more
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Rust and Bone
France, 2011, 120 min.
Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts star in this overwhelming, intensely physical and surprisingly erotic melodrama from the director of A Prophet – a love story between a bouncer turned bare knuckle fighter and a woman coming to terms with life after a terrible injury.... more
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The Shine of Day
Austria, 2012, 90 min.
In this low-key charmer, unexpected connections prove the spice of life. From the directors of La Pivellina, another gritty, semi-improvised drama about inter-generational bonding as a young stage actor befriends his father’s black sheep brother. Best Actor, Locarno Film Festival.... more
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Time of My Life
Belgium, 2012, 120 min.
At 39 and suffering from MS, Mario Verstraete became the first Belgian to take advantage of the country’s legalization of euthanasia – a law that he himself helped to pass. Nic Balthazar’s deeply affecting drama chronicles Verstraete’s fight with passion, grace and humor.... more
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