February 10, 2017 – February 25, 2017
Capturing the imagination and praise of audiences world-wide, these compelling films tell stories that resonate beyond their borders, while offering insight into the unique cultures from which they emerge. A showcase of festival prizewinners, submissions for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and the critically acclaimed for cinema lovers of all persuasions.
After Love
Directed by Joachim Lafosse
Marie and Boris, married for 15 years, are going through the emotional turmoil of divorce in front of their twin …
El Acompañante
Directed by Pavel Giroud
Cuba 1988. The Castro regime has established “Los Cocos,” a sanatorium in Havana’s suburbs where HIV patients are confined under …
Glory
Directed by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
When a reclusive railway worker finds bags of cash on the tracks, he does the right thing and calls the …
It’s Only the End of the World
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and this year’s Canadian Oscar submission, Dolan’s visually and emotionally …
Like Crazy
Directed by Paolo Virzì
Paolo Virzì’s (Human Capital) bittersweet comedy recounts a Thelma & Louise-like adventure between two women on the run in Tuscany. …
Lost in Paris
Directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Fiona, a hapless Canadian librarian, visits Paris for the first time after receiving a letter of distress from her 88-year-old …
Maliglutit
Directed by Zacharias Kunuk
Kunuk’s (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) poignant film, shot in the spectacular Arctic, is set in 1913 and inspired by John …
Nocturama
Directed by Bertrand Bonello
Bonnello’s (Saint Laurent) latest provocation is a film in two distinct and gripping parts: first, a procedural in which we …
Soul on a String
Directed by Zhang Yang
After discovering a sacred stone in the mouth of a deer, Taibei, a Tibetan cowboy, embarks on a mission: to …
The Age of Shadows
Directed by Jee-Woon Kim
A cat-and-mouse game unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key …
The Distinguished Citizen
Directed by Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn
Daniel (Oscar Martinez), a Nobel Prize-winning author, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina for the first time …
The King’s Choice
Directed by Erik Poppe
The King’s Choice looks at a seminal moment in modern Norwegian history: the days in 1940 when King Haakon faced …
The Long Excuse
Directed by Miwa Nishikawa
Celebrated novelist Tsumura is married to Natsuko, but their passion for each other has long disappeared. When she dies in …
The Ornithologist
Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues
Winner of the Best Director award at the Locarno Film Festival, Rodrigues’s The Ornithologist follows a man’s journey on a …
The Sense of an Ending
Directed by Ritesh Batra
Based on British author Julian Barnes’s Booker-prize winning novel about memory, jealousy, aging, and self-delusion, this film follows Tony (Jim …
The Student
Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
This scathing, pitch-black satire, set in the coastal city of Kaliningrad, follows Veniamin, a high school student who, as a …
Tonio
Directed by Paula van der Oest
Based on the best-selling autobiographical “requiem novel” by one of the country’s most renowned writers, A.F.Th. van der Heijden, this …
Train Driver’s Diary
Directed by Milos Radovic
Statistics show that during their professional career, most train drivers will inadvertently kill 20 to 30 people. Their victims are …
