Single Girl, A (French Film)
Benoît Jacquot’s dazzling A Single Girl follows a day in the life of a young Parisian woman as she deals with various personal and professional issues.
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Extraordinary Tales (Animated Film)
Extraordinary Tales, by award-winning Spanish animator Raul Garcia, was a treat. It was like Animatrix, except with great creepy stories by a dude obsessed with Death.
It’s Winter (Iranian Film)
It’s Winter is a poignant and poetic film about a young man’s moral coming of age in a bleak Iranian town.
Haru’s Journey (Japanese Film)
Haru’s Journey is an intimate and quietly affecting film about a retired fisherman who takes his granddaughter on a trip to visit family members in hopes that someone will take him in.
Days Between, The (German Film)
A subtle and assured debut feature by German filmmaker Maria Speth about a restless young woman who is alienated from the world around her.
Under Electric Clouds
Set in Russia in the near future, Under Election Clouds offers an episodic, multi-dimensional look at a country suffering from existential and spiritual malaise.
Beautiful City (Iranian Film)
The sister and the best friend of a young man awaiting execution for a crime of passion join forces to save his life in this morally and psychologically complex second feature by Asghar Farhadi.
100 Yen Love (Japanese Film)
100 Yen Love is an engaging comedy-drama about a 32-year-old slacker who improbably finds her calling in the sport of boxing.
Light Shines Only There, The
Two lost souls living on the fringes of society come together in search of hope in this bleak but sensitive drama from Japanese director O Mipo.
Mommy (2014)
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
