#ForeignFilmsMatter: Volume 2
More non-English-language narrative & documentary feature films that need distribution in the United States and (English) Canada.
Coming soon:
A Useful Ghost (2021, Thailand, Thai, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
I Am Arzé (TBA, Lebanon, Mira Shaib)
Communion (TBA, Tunisia, Nejib Belkadhi)
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Nwwy3tbqczstLmcYBAYdpEwIr8tTDtmSn1qeTcO-O40/
F = Narrative feature film
D = Documentary
Coming soon:
A Useful Ghost (2021, Thailand, Thai, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
I Am Arzé (TBA, Lebanon, Mira Shaib)
Communion (TBA, Tunisia, Nejib Belkadhi)
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Nwwy3tbqczstLmcYBAYdpEwIr8tTDtmSn1qeTcO-O40/
F = Narrative feature film
D = Documentary
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- StarsRen HanamiRachel SorsaUlf BjorlinJasper Vloemans, a young man with Down Syndrome, embarks on a road trip across Europe to be reunited with the love of his life.Belgium (Dutch and Albanian dialogue)
Television series - DirectorLav DiazStarsNanding JosefBart GuingonaDon Melvin BoongalingA look at how much human beings are like animals.Philippines (Tagalog and Filipino dialogue)
F - DirectorJu-hyoung LeeStarsSin Dong-ryeokJung In-taeKyeong-ik KimKim Gang-il was mobilized as a paratrooper to suppress the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Protests in 1980. Working as a forklift driver after retirement, he follows some inconvenient truths that had been buried all those years ago.South Korea (Korean dialogue)
F - DirectorCristina PinheiroStarsNuno LopesNaomi BitonBeatriz BatardaAn 8-year old Portugees child fled with her parents to France in the early seventies. But the Portuguese terror travels along with her, with an alcoholic father and unloving mother.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorMohsen GharaieStarsHamed BehdadBaran KosariMohsen KiayeeA municipality employee uses his position to put his hands on other people's money to collect enough to buy a truck, while his wife threatens to abort their child if he does not buy a house with their savings.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorKazuo HaraTen years in the making, Kazu Hara's three-and-a-half-hour-long epic is a longitudinal study of asbestos victims demanding reparations from a heartless state.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
D - DirectorNebojsa SlijepcevicStarsNina BatinicMarin BlazevicSandra Dekanic"Srbenka" is a film about peer violence toward children of different nationality in Croatia. It examines how the generation born after the war copes with the dark shadows of history.Croatia (Croatian dialogue)
D - DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsTimo TorikkaKari HeiskanenPertti SveholmDuring the COVID lockdown, three Finnish men get together in an otherwise empty bar, talk, and sample what is in some special bottles.Finland (Finnish dialogue)
F - DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsSigrún Edda BjörnsdóttirEyþór GunnlaugssonKarolina GruszkaIndiana lives in a council estate and makes her living preying on the welfare system. In her small private garden she tends to her award winning tree. When her only son turns up with a foreign girlfriend - Indiana's world is upended.Iceland (Icelandic dialogue)
F - DirectorFarnoosh SamadiStarsSadaf AsgariSahar DolatshahiAzita HajianA school teacher from Tehran is preparing to attend a wedding in northern Iran. When her husband suddenly forbids her to go, she makes a choice that will place her on a painful path zig to atonement.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorPascal PlanteStarsKaterine SavardAriane MainvilleHilary CaldwellNadia, an Olympic swimmer in her twenties, faces the challenges of her imminent retirement.Canada (French and English dialogue)
F - DirectorJudit OláhStarsIstvánné FarkasLászlóné FazekasDénes FábriIn 1980s, many Hungarian youngsters dreamed of visiting a unique summer camp in Epipo. A realm of role-playing and magic, yet behind innocent games lurked humiliation and concealed abuse. After 25 years secrets is still a part of them.Hungary (Hungarian dialogue)
D - DirectorEregowdaStarsChandrashekar C.S.Nagaraju D.P.Jnanesh MukhopadhyayKempanna, a bangle seller struggles to understand what is really wrong with their marriage. For behind every frustration there seem to lurk burning desires.India (Kannada dialogue)
F - DirectorAndrés LübbertStarsJorge LubbertAndrés LübbertJavier RebolledoDuring the Pinochet-dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert escaped from Chile and left behind a frightening period of his life. But he forgot everything. With his son Andrés he decides to remember what happened and confront his past.Chile/Belgium (Spanish and German dialogue)
D - DirectorGlenda NicácioAry RosaStarsWal DiazArlete DiasMaíra AzevedoGeralda's father is admitted to the hospital and he can die at any time. This painful expectation forces an interaction between her and the three sisters who have not seen each other since her mother's death in a long time.Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorGlenda NicácioAry RosaStarsValdinéia SorianoAline BrunneBabu SantanaFive friends drink beer and chat at Violeta's house. Bit by bit, their stories of love, loss and suffering are told, revealing the acts of love and friendship that helped them through the hardest times of their lives.Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorCécile TelermanStarsJulie DepardieuEmmanuelle BéartPatrick BruelTwo sisters, their families, and sometimes complicated lives.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorAlejandro Guzmán AlvarezStarsFernando BonillaRaúl BrionesJosé Concepción MacíasA deceitful and unemployed 40-year-old man returns to the house of his mother, who has recently passed away, to spend time with his alcoholic father and with a strange monster that oozes skin pieces, employed as fabric on the family's tailor shop business.Mexico (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorMoritz BleibtreuStarsMoritz BleibtreuNadja UhlEmily KuscheHagen develops disturbing nightmares and soon can no longer distinguish between dream and reality.Germany (German and French dialogue)
F - DirectorCãtãlin MitulescuStarsGheorghe VisuCatalina MihaiBogdan DumitracheIn the Outskirts of Bucharest, in an area he's known all his life, near 60s Police officer Visoiu is given the mission to find two prostitutes that are willing to testify in an organized crime case.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorMathieu DenisSimon LavoieStarsCharlotte AubinLaurent BélangerEmmanuelle Lussier MartinezA group of young people in Québec resolve to form a revolutionary cell together in the aftermath of student protests.Canada (French dialogue)
F - DirectorAli DerakhshandehStarsRoya AfsharNeda JebraeiliGhorban Najafi60 year-old Zohreh's son is missing. Her husband has left her and she lives with her elderly, foul-mouthed mother and recently widowed and short-tempered daughter in the Ekbatan Housing Project. She has a beauty salon in her apartment and life I good until one day when leaflets begin to appear in mailboxes around the housing project that slander Zohreh's character. Her life becomes a nightmare as problems begin to get worse. We soon find out that Zohreh herself is the author of these leaflets that she writes in order to get revenge on herself and other. It is a game where she loses everything but also wins everything back.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorYûichirô TanakaStarsRyôhei AbeHonoka IshibashiArata IuraTwo slackers work at a midnight bar while also selling marijuana; when they get dangerously close to some unhinged yakuza, they follow wildly divergent fates.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorJeon Go-WoonStarsEsomAhn Jae-hongJae-Hyun ChoiWhiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.South Korea (Korean dialogue)
F - DirectorMei-Juin ChenStarsAlly ChiuJack KaoLawrence KoWhen her mom dies unexpectedly, a rebellious teen is reunited with her dad, a small-time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime -- until a corrupt cop turns their world upside down.Taiwan (Mandarin dialogue)
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