All posts tagged "foreign film"
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774Film & TVAdelaide Film Festival: Animated Shorts Package
For those wanting something different and outside their comfort zone, this package is the perfect choice.
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746Film & TVAdelaide Film Festival: Rafiki
This Kenyan-based, coming-of-age film is a refreshing change from the commercial stream out of Hollywood.
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1.3KFilm & TVAdelaide Film Festival: Knife + Heart
Yann Gonzalez pays homage to exploitation and slasher films while still finding room for emotional distress.
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775Film & TVAdelaide Film Festival: World Shorts Package
It is definitely worthwhile digging into the buffet of world-class short films gracing our screens at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival.
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733Film & TVAdelaide Film Festival: Girl
Tackles the complex topic of gender transition with the utmost delicacy.
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1.2KFilm & TVSpanish Film Festival Review: The Tip of the Iceberg
A hard-nosed boss is sent to investigate why three staff members have suicided in recent months, and she uncovers the horrific true working conditions of her staff.
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525Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Souvenir
A former Eurovision Concert performer, now living a mundane life, finds romance reignited when she meets a young boxer who remembers her star turn.
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615Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Moka
While privately investigating the hit-and-run death of her son, a woman entwines herself in the lives of the couple she thinks are guilty of the horrific crime.
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482Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Wùlu
Set in Mali in the lead up to their 2012 Civil War, a young Malian man who becomes involved in the thriving, illegal drug-trade within Western Africa.
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1.1KFilm & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Polina
The struggles of a young dancer to overcome adversity to fulfil her dream of dancing as an expression of herself, not just as a series of steps strung together.
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579Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Things to Come
A philosophy lecturer's middle class existence is upended by a series of events, forcing her to gather together enough pieces of her life to move forward.
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831Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: It’s Only the End of the World
After abandoning his mother, brother and sister twelve years ago, Louis returns to his small-town family to let them know he is terminally ill.
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588Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: The Unknown Girl
After ignoring a woman who showed up late one night at her clinic, a doctor becomes obsessed with finding out the woman's identity when she's found dead.
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1.5KFilm & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Planetarium
The story of Laura and Kate Barlow, two tightly-knit sisters who perform séances to communicate with the dead, travelling the continent to make a modest living.
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799Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Les Ogres
The show must go on for a touring circus troupe despite their personal joys and woes, and being faced with closure after a mishap in a children's performance.
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507Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: The Dancer
In 1887, after her father’s death, 25-year-old Marie-Louise (Loie) leaves to join her mother in New York and pursue her dream of becoming an actress and dancer.
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836Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Monsieur Chocolat
The true story of Afro-Cuban performer Rafael who was the first black clown to play a lead role in a circus pantomime act.
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1.0KFilm & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Saint Amour
A farmer and his middle-aged son embark on a wine tour across France, growing closer as a family and developing a connection with their young, hired driver.
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462Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Slack Bay
The annual summer holiday of the extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family is interrupted by two bumbling inspectors investigating a number of missing tourists.
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531Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Standing Tall
A confronting drama about the efforts made by social services to repair the life of a self-destructive juvenile delinquent over a number of years.
