OTHER FOREIGN CINEMA
2:37 *Staff Picks*

Emerging Australian filmmaker Murali K. Thalluri has been honored with the nomination of his seminal debut feature film 2:37 in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Arguably one of the most important Australian films in recent years, Thalluri’s 2:37 dramatizes the inner and outer turmoil of six students of Adelaide High […]
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Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer directed the first major motion picture shot entirely in an indigenous Aboriginal language. It’s an enchanting and wholly symbolic film that journeys with ten Aborigine tribesmen from Arnhem Land on their yearly hunt for goose eggs in the wetlands. One young warrior, Dayindi, covets one of his older brother’s wives. […]
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The Cuban revolution is at the center of Mikhail Kalatozov’s (The Cranes are Flying) strange, poetic film from 1964 that unites four stories. Originally controversial because of a uniquely Russian view of Cuba, it was not widely seen. In the years since its initial release, the film, which features a poem by Yevgeni Yevtushenko, has […]
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Bucharest 1989 – Last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory […]
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The Yacoubian Building is adapted from a novel of the same name by Alaa Al Aswany, which took the Arab world by storm upon release in 2002. Director Marwan Hamed is faithful to the original conceit, and we follow the diverse inhabitants of Yacoubian’s Building in downtown Cairo. There’s Zaki (Adel Imam), a faded aristocrat, […]
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In a small enclave, an isolated cage in the heart of enemy territory, in the backyard of a magnificent ancient Crusader fortress, stands the Beaufort outpost. Beaufort symbolized Israeli control in Lebanon, but it was also a myth of heroism upon which generations were raised and for which many lost their lives. That was the […]
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