Film Category: Foreign Language

Touted to be the most expensive production in the history of Indian cinema, this historical epic drama charts a dispute between two brothers who are kings.

In this French romantic comedy, a teen falls for a surly girl and they set up camp in the woods together.

In the late 1970s, a woman escapes the Berlin Wall into West Germany, only to find her past catching up to her.

In this twisting thriller, a woman who has recently lost her sight retreats to the safety of her home, and enters her own internal world where the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred.

Nominated for Best Foreign Language film at this year’s Oscars, this haunting French-Mauritanian drama is set in the early days of the jihadist takeover of Mali in 2012.

Master Swedish director Roy Andersson takes up the theme of ‘being a human being’ with this meticulously crafted, dreamlike black comedy.

This humourous psychological drama is based on a short story by Ruth Rendall.

In this award-winning drama, a young girl changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in a gang of free-spirited girls, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.

Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to his Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary The Act Of Killing.

This masterful thriller follows a disfigured Auschwitz survivor as she searches ravaged post-war Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.

A French drama combining humour and heart about two people struggling to improve their lives, fate draws them together and down an unlikely path that will change them both irreparably.

Based on the cult Polish novel, this moving drama follows three friends who become resistance fighters during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw

Edgar Reitz’s heart-wrenching drama serves as a prequel to his long-running series Heimat. In the late 19th century a group of German families migrate to Brazil.

Farida Pacha’s documentary profiles individuals and families in India who spend a few months out of every year living in a saline desert and mining salt,

In this wickedly funny psychodrama, a woman on a family skiing holiday in the French Alps faces the consequences of her husband’s selfish actions in the aftermath of an avalanche.

The Oscar-nominated Argentinian black comedy consists of six stories linked by common themes of vengeance and violence.

A widowed single mother raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbour offers her help.