Julija (Gracija Filipovic) lives at her family’s seafront villa with her controlling father, Ante (Leon Lucev), and unsatisfied mother, Nela (Danica Curcic). When Javier (Cliff Curtis), a wealthy friend of Ante’s comes to visit a parcel of land that he is looking to develop, his eccentric nature instantly captures the attention of Julija and reawakens…
Tag: International Cinema
The Catholic School
Edoardo (Emanuele Maria Di Stefano) is a junior at a prestigious catholic school in 1975. Despite being taught to live a life of peace and grace, the boys flirt with violence constantly as they navigate their adolescence, rejecting anyone who is different, and acting on their growing attention to the neighborhood girls. While Edoardo fumbles…
The Box
Hatzín Leyva (Hatzín Navarrete) is a boy barely in his teens and has to travel alone to Mexico City to retrieve the remains of his father who died in a manufacturing accident. On his way back to his grandmother’s house, he sees a man, Mario Enderle (Hernán Mendoza) who bears an uncanny resemblance to the…
Troll
After a mysterious explosion during the excavation of the Dovre mountains for the construction of a rail tunnel leaves environmental protestors dead, the Norwegian government assembles a task squad to determine the source of the explosion. One expert tapped is Nora Tidemman (Ine Marie Wilmann), a renowned paleontologist. As more details about the disaster come…
You Won’t Be Alone
A small town in 19th-century Macedonia has a legend of a witch, Old Maid Maria (Anamaria Marinca), who wanders throughout the wooded countryside searching for children to turn into witches like herself. Nevena (Sara Klimoska) is promised as an infant by her mother to Maria, and on the girl’s 16th birthday, Maria appears to the…
Decision to Leave
Detective Hae-Jun (Park Hae-il) is called to the base of a mountain where Ki Do Soo’s (Seung-mok Yoo) body has been discovered after an apparent fall. Before he can rule the death a suicide, he interviews the immigration worker’s young Chinese immigrant wife, Seo-Rae (Tang Wei). The woman seems unfazed by her husband’s demise, and…
Argentina, 1985
Prosecutors Julio César Strassera (Ricardo Darín) and Luis Moreno Ocampo (Peter Lanzani) led an unlikely team of young paralegals in the 1985 landmark Trial of the Juntas which sought to bring justice to the victims of the National Reorganization Process, a military dictatorship which ruled over Argentina from 1976-1983. Julio and Luis faced a lot…
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) is excited to enlist in the Imperial German Army in the Spring of 1917 alongside his friends from school: Albert Kropp (Aaron Hilmer), Franz Müller (Moritz Klaus), and Ludwig Behm (Adrian Grünewald). The three young boys gleefully suit up in their field uniforms, listen to a speech about how they will serve…
Ponniyin Selvan: I
The Chola Dynasty is in power in India during the 10th century, and leading the country to prosperity is Emperor Sundara Chozhar (Prakash Raj). His sons, Aditha Karikalan (Vikram) and Arulmozhi Varman (Jayam Ravi), referred to affectionately by the people as the titular Ponniyin Selvan, are expanding the reach of their father’s rule in hopes of…