2012 Foreign Language Films
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- DirectorAtiq RahimiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniHamid DjavadanHassina BurganIn a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.Afghanistan
- DirectorJoni ShanajStarsKlevis BegaOlta GixhariNiko KanxheriA young pharmacist enters into a casual relationship with a young woman alleged to be his father's secret mistress, in contemporary Tirana.Albania
- DirectorSaïd Ould KhelifaStarsImad BenchenniKhaled BenaïssaAbdelkader DjeriouAlgeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.Algeria
- DirectorBenjamín ÁvilaStarsErnesto AlterioNatalia OreiroCésar TroncosoJuan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is "one about love".Argentina
- DirectorCate ShortlandStarsSaskia RosendahlKai-Peter MalinaNele TrebsAs the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.Australia
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle HuppertGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.Austria
- DirectorIlgar NajafStarsRafig GuliyevTofig AliyevElnur Karimov"Buta" is the story of a lonely 7-year old boy (named Buta), who lives in a mountain village with his grandmother. He is befriended by an old man, a liquid soap merchant who once loved (and lost) Buta's grandmother. The old man's friendship and wise advice helps Buta to overcome his difficulties in life. Buta's grandmother, in the meantime, is weaving a special carpet in memory of Buta's mother. The carpet features a special pattern (also called "Buta"), which represents love. The boy is inspired by his grandmother's work, and decides to make his own "buta" made of rocks and stones, high on the top of the mountain...Azerbaijan
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMamunTariq Anam KhanMunmun AhmedStory of a teenage boy who is hired by a colonial era landlord to entertain him until the annual flood is over.Bangladesh
- DirectorJoachim LafosseStarsÉmilie DequenneClaire BodsonNiels ArestrupHappy couple, will marry and have children under the roof of the benevolent Doctor. Little by little, relationships become complex, suffocating the couple and the family, who are unaware of the tragic end towards which they are headingBelgium
- DirectorAida BegicStarsMarija PikicIsmir GagulaBojan NavojecSiblings Rahima and Nedim are the Bosnian war orphans. She works as a restaurant chef and earns just enough money to survive.Bosnia and Herzegovina
- DirectorSelton MelloStarsSelton MelloPaulo JoséLarissa ManoelaFather and son work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar and Pangare/Benjamin in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people on the way.Brazil
- DirectorIvan VladimirovValeri YordanovStarsIvo ArakovPhillip AvramovIvan BarnevThe story of a Summer shared by six young people. It all begins with their escapes from the bleak and dreary City. Each one of them escapes East of Hell... to the point farthest away, the sea coast, a clean and pristine beach. The clean beach brings them together and reopens the prospective of hope to them all. But is such an escape at all possible?Bulgaria
- DirectorBora ChhayStarsNeak ChinSoutheary KauvSopheak NhemThe heart wrenching true story of Leav Sila, just one of many countless mothers that did all they could to keep their family alive, only to see the vast majority be killed or starve to death in the fateful years of the Khmer Rouge regime. Written and starring Kauv Sotheary, one of only two surviving children of Leav Sila, it gives a brutal yet captivating insight into the extremity of this painful chapter in history. LOST LOVES is directed by Chhay Bora, Kauv Sottheary's husband. Both being university lecturers, they have spent their life savings on this project, not for personal gain, but because Leav Sila's story, like many thousands of that period, needed to be told. The new generation of Cambodians must learn their history so as to never repeat it.Cambodia
- DirectorKim NguyenStarsRachel MwanzaAlain Lino Mic Eli BastienSerge KanyindaSomewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.Canada
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.Chile
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsYuanyuan GaoChen YaoMark You-Ting ChaoThe story begins on a bus, when white-collar worker Ye refuses to give up her seat to a senior citizen. Her defiance is videotaped by a journalist intern and played during a news show. The video sparks intense debate on and off the Internet. Some Internet users search for Ye's personal information and post it all online. The issue soon brings tremendous changes to the families of both the journalist intern and Ye's boss.China
- DirectorCarlos MorenoJuancho CardonaStarsManolo CardonaJuana AcostaDiego CadavidThe life of Andres Lopez Lopez during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle".Colombia
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsRene BitorajacNatasa Janjic MedancicLeon LucevA medical horror of corrupt gynecologists and true events from Croatian hospitals that will shock the public.Croatia
- DirectorDavid OndricekStarsIvan TrojanSebastian KochSona NorisováIn the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?Czech Republic
- DirectorNikolaj ArcelStarsAlicia VikanderMads MikkelsenMikkel Boe FølsgaardA young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.Denmark
- DirectorJosé María CabralStarsAdrián MasFrank PerozoIco AbreuA famous game show host is forced to reveal all his secrets on live TV, with his wife and children held hostage.Dominican Republic
- DirectorToomas HussarStarsRaivo E. TammElina ReinoldJuhan UlfsakA journalist has gotten wind of corruption rumors involving a politician. On the day the journalist tries to contact him, he decides to go mushrooming with his wife.Estonia
- DirectorAntti J. JokinenStarsLaura BirnLiisi TandefeltAmanda PilkeA tormented young woman is given a hiding place by an elderly lady and soon they are reminded of their mutual horrendous past.Finland
- DirectorOlivier NakacheÉric ToledanoStarsFrançois CluzetOmar SyAnne Le NyAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.France
- DirectorRusudan ChkoniaStarsIa SukhitashviliGia RoinishviliOlga Legrand10 women, seven of them belonging to the poorest population, are desperately trying to win a beauty contest for mothers who have more than 3 children. The winner will get an apartment and $25000.Georgia
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldRainer BockA doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.Germany
- DirectorFilippos TsitosStarsChristos StergioglouMakis PapadimitriouAntonis KafetzopoulosA middle-aged policeman tired of the corruption and bureaucracy finds himself in a terrible dilemma after he tries to save an innocent man.Greece
- DirectorMike MagidsonStarsGaba PetersenOle Jørgen HammekenRebekka JørgensenSeveral years after losing his father, Inuk learns the way of his people again.Greenland
- DirectorJohnnie ToStarsChing Wan LauRichie JenDenise HoThree people - a criminal, a bank officer and a cop - end up in a catastrophic situation in the midst of a global economical crisis and are forced to betray any morals and principles to solve their financial problems.Hong Kong
- DirectorBenedek FliegaufStarsKatalin ToldiGyöngyi LendvaiLajos SárkányUnknown racist murderers have already attacked four families. Some of them died. Who will be the next on this ordinary day? Inspired by a true story.Hungary
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonStefán Hallur StefánssonJoi JohannssonBased on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.Iceland
- DirectorAnurag BasuStarsRanbir KapoorPriyanka Chopra JonasIleana D'CruzThree young people learn that love can neither be defined nor contained by society's definition of normal and abnormal.India
- DirectorIfa IsfansyahStarsPrisia NasutionOka AntaraSlamet RahardjoYoung teenagers who fall in love live in poverty in their small village in the 1960s. The girl, Srintil, is a dancer blessed with dancing moves that said have a certain magic. The boy, Rasus, leaves the village to join the army force.Indonesia
- DirectorRama BurshteinStarsHadas YaronYiftach KleinIrit ShelegWhen the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.Israel
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsCosimo RegaSalvatore StrianoGiovanni ArcuriInmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."Italy
- DirectorYong-hi YangStarsSakura AndôArata IuraYang Ik-joonBased on the director's own experience, Our Homeland follows a Korean family living in Japan, of which the father (Masane Tsukayama) decided to take North Korean nationality because of his strong belief decades ago. In 1997, Sonho (Arata Iura), the son of the family who was sent to North Korea under a "repatriation program" with the promise of a "paradise" free of discrimination, returns to Japan for the first time in 25 years to seek treatment for his brain tumor due to the difference in medical technology between the two countries. Allowed to stay for only three months and closely monitored by a North Korean officer (Yang Ik-Joon), Sonho is welcomed and embraced by his family and old friends but his father, who is still sticking to the belief but also feeling guilty about sending his son to North Korea at the same time, while Sonho's younger sister Rie (Sakura Andô) develops the aversion to North Korea and its political ideas.Japan
- DirectorAkan SatayevStarsAsylkhan TolypovAyan UtepbergenKuralai AnabekovaA universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and the struggle against slavery and despotism, about love, loss and betrayal. It is seen through the eyes of simple Kazakh kids and teenagers.Kazakhstan
- DirectorDavid 'Tosh' GitongaStarsJoseph WairimuOlwenya MainaShix KapyengaA young, aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming a success in the big city. In pursuit of this and to the chagrin of his brother and parents, he makes his way to Nairobi:the city of opportunity.Kenya
- DirectorNurbek EgenStarsMaral KoichukaraevaCecile PlageAtai OmurbekovKyrgyzstan. Ascel is engaged to Sultan, the local Mr Big with the grandest house. This looks like a palace to Ascel, who lives in a hovel with her drunkard father. She doesn't love Sultan, but she wants a better life. She is having an affair with Marat and expecting his child. She marries Sultan but immediately leaves for Moscow for an abortion, and starts living with gastarbeiters. She sells her unborn child to Virginie, a French woman. She becomes housemaid to (and then lover of) a rich New Russian, Arkady. Marat appears, starts a fight with Arkady and gets arrested. Ascel decides to go to France and stay with Virginie. But she discovers that the latter has a mental disease. Then the baby arrives...Kyrgyzstan
- DirectorEvgeniy PashkevichStarsVille HaapasaloOlga SepickaYuriy TsuriloAdam's first wife Lilith is mentioned in ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these sources, she was not created from Adam's rib like Eve but from clay like he himself. Nevertheless Lilith was not recognized by Adam as his equal and left him after a quarrel heading for Babylon where pre-Adamians lived. She has no soul, and she is immortal. Lilith assumes different names, can change her appearance, and takes possession of men against their will. Once it's accomplished, she leaves her victims forever, marking them for either spiritual, or physical death. Whatever she does it is neither Good nor Evil. She is made of an altogether different matter. The story consists of three interrelated stories: "Escape" (1664, Hanseatic League); "Loss" (1883, Russian Empire/France); "Aberration Feelings" (1990, Latvia).Latvia
- DirectorAudrius StonysStarsRamin LomsandzeRamin Lomsadze, a 75-years old Georgian wrestler who once won seven matches in 55 seconds, is getting ready for the fight with his last and most formidable opponent - Loneliness. He gets on the train and sets off for a remote Georgian village to seek out the girl he loved and lost fifty years ago.Lithuania
- DirectorDarko MitrevskiStarsKatarina IvanovskaSasko KocevRichard SammelDimitry hires German coach Rudolph Spitz to galvanize his ragtag team into the country's best football club, but then the first Nazi tanks roll in and Rebecca, a local banker's beautiful daughter, elopes with his star player.Macedonia
- DirectorDain SaidStarsFaizal HusseinZahiril AdzimPekin IbrahimA complex story of murder, passion and haunting memories for three estranged brothers and their ailing father.Malaysia
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsTessa IaHernán MendozaGonzalo Vega Jr.Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.Mexico
- DirectorFaouzi BensaïdiStarsFehd BenchemsiFouad LabiedMouhcine MalziIn Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewelry store. The heist goes awry, and their destinies part drastically.Morocco
- DirectorBoudewijn KooleStarsRick LensLoek PetersCahit ÖlmezA young boy and his father have a difficult relationship, but are trying to reach each other. They need a catalyst to make that happen.Netherlands
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsPål Sverre HagenAnders BaasmoGustaf SkarsgårdLegendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.Norway
- DirectorAnnemarie JacirStarsMahmoud AsfaRuba BlalSaleh Bakri1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in "temporary" refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses until they would be able to return, they wait, like the generation before them who arrived in 1948. With difficulties adjusting to life in Harir camp and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches a way out, and discovers a new hope emerging with the times. Eventually his free spirit and curious nature lead him to a group of people on a journey that will change their lives. When I Saw You is the story of people affected by the times around them, in search of something more in their lives. A journey full of adventure, love, humor, and the desire to be free. A story of the human spirit that knows no borders.Palestine
- DirectorRosario Garcia-MonteroStarsFatima BuntinxKaterina D'OnofrioMelchor GorrocháteguiA young girl convinces herself that she will die on the same day that her brother will be born.Peru
- DirectorJun LanaStarsEddie GarciaPrincessRez CortezGruff and cynical Rene is no stranger to loneliness, living an emotionally detached life with his dog, Bkawaw. Yet a connection with a middle-aged taxi driver begins to soften his outlook on life.Philippines
- DirectorWaldemar KrzystekStarsFilip BobekMarcin BosakWojciech SolarzSolidarity activists prepare a bravura heist, taking out 80 mln from a union bank account just before it is blocked by communist authorities.Poland
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsRita BlancoAnabela MoreiraCleia AlmeidaA regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.Portugal
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsCosmina StratanCristina FluturValeriu AndriutaThe friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.Romania
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsAleksey VertkovVitaliy KishchenkoValeriy GrishkoGreat Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.Russia
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsMustafa NadarevicPredrag EjdusMeto JovanovskiThe story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.Serbia
- DirectorMichelle ChongStarsMichelle ChongAlien HuangMeng Chue LokAh Kiao is a Malaysian village girl who dreams of becoming a big TV star. After joining an acting contest for extras in Singapore, she unexpectedly finds both romance and fame.Singapore
- DirectorIveta GrofovaStarsDorotka BillaMaria BillaJarka BucincovaA poignant story about a young girl named Dorotka, who hails from eastern Slovakia. Full of determination and naive expectations regarding her new life; she takes on the job of a seamstress in a small factory on the Czech-German border town of As. Due to the consequences of her own decisions, she is faced with a grim reality in the westernmost corner of the Czech Republic. As is a meeting point for people from both sides of the border. The girls who come to work in the factories would like to earn an honest and decent living, while the relatively well off Germans are in search of an inexpensive good time. As is like a Babylon of languages and morals, which are quickly broken down.Slovakia
- DirectorNejc GazvodaStarsLuka CimpricJure HenigmanNina RakovecThree friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?Slovenia
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsLindiwe NdlovuVuyelwa MsimangMutodi NesheheSometimes healing comes from the most unexpected places.South Africa
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsJo Min-sooLee Jung-JinWoo Ki-hongA loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.South Korea
- DirectorPablo BergerStarsMaribel VerdúEmilio GaviraDaniel Giménez CachoA twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.Spain
- DirectorLasse HallströmStarsTobias ZilliacusMikael PersbrandtLena OlinA detective pairs himself with a famous psychologist on a case involving a traumatized young witness to a crime.Sweden
- DirectorUrsula MeierStarsLéa SeydouxKacey Mottet KleinMartin CompstonA drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.Switzerland
- DirectorJung-chi ChangStarsSandrine PinnaYu-Siang HuangLieh LeeA drama centered on the experiences of a blind piano prodigy.Taiwan
- DirectorPen-Ek RatanaruangStarsNopachai ChaiyanamSirin HorwangChanokporn SayoungkulA cop who becomes a hitman for a group aimed at eliminating those who are above the law finds his world turned upside down by a single a devastating blow.Thailand
- DirectorIsmail GünesStarsHakan KarahanElifcan OngurlarYesim Ceren BozogluWhen a conservative family finds out that their 16-year-old daughter is pregnant, according to tradition, they have to kill her.Turkey
- DirectorMykhailo IllienkoStarsDmytro LinartovychVitaliy LinetskiyOlga GrishinaThe Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.Ukraine
- DirectorRodrigo PláStarsEmilia DíazErnesto LiottiJorge TemponiA middle-aged, single mother of three cares for her eighty year old father, and they are pushed to the breaking point.Uruguay
- DirectorHernán JabesStarsGloria MontoyaLeónidas UrbinaScarlett JaimesChristian kidnaps Hector's son by mistake, unleashing a chain of delicate events that will be tragic for everyone involved.Venezuela
- DirectorHuu Muoi NguyenStarsTo Tuan DangLe Chi KeinLe Chi KienFour North Vietnamese soldiers fighting in an 81-day battle in 1972.Vietnam