The Film Experience

by Nathaniel R

Four more official entries to the Foreign Language Film Oscar race.

Birds of Passage -Colombia
This is from the director Ciro Guerra (who has a co-director this time) the man behind Colombia's only Oscar nominee and TFE favorite Embrace of the Serpent. The new film is a crime/family drama.
Opening in the US in February. Orchard distributing
Border -Sweden
Un Certain Regard winner at Cannes this year. It's based on a novella by the author of Let the Right One In (!) and is a reportedly strange tale of a woman with the ability to sense and smell how people feel.
Opening in the US October 26th. Neon distributing.
Donbass -Ukraine
From the acclaimed Sergey Loznitsa (My Joy, A Gentle Creature). This one is a cheerful tale (he said sarcastically given Loznitsa's filmography) about the degradation of Ukranian society in our post-truth world
La Familia -Venezuela
A father son drama about a violent neighborhood.
Played in the US earlier this month. Film Movement distributing.

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Never Look Away - Germany
From Florian Henckel von Donnersmarch (The Lives of Others) comes this story of a romance between two art students (Tom Schilling and Paula Beer) and her father (Sebastian Koch) who fights against the relationship
Ghost Hunting - Palestine
A documentary about a former interrogation center in which the inmates reenact their interrogations inside a replica of the center built to scale