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Foreign Films New to View December 2017
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Blue Eyes
(Swedish) There are only a few, crucial weeks left to the national election when the chief of staff at the Justice Department disappears without a trace. As her replacement, Elin Hammar, tries to find out what happened she is thrown into a conspiracy of lies, falsified documents and hidden agendas. In the small town of Ludvika, Annika Nilsson, the party's local representative is preparing a public speech, in spite of her son's protest. He blames her for being a racist and has grown tired of the threats.
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Boris Without Beatrice
It is a morality tale with fairy-tale inflections that focuses on Boris Malinovsky, an affluent, successful businessman who comports himself with an extreme degree of pride and arrogance. When his wife, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is rendered nearly catatonic by a mysterious depression, it triggers a series of events that brings Boris to the point of professional, personal, and even existential crisis.
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Camilla Lackberg: The preacher. the stonecutter and the stranger
(Swedish) Detective Patrik Hedström and his fiancée, the novelist Erica Falck becomes enmeshed in complex murder cases which affect all the residents of the stunningly beautiful coastal community of Fjällbacka on Sweden's west coast. Underneath the idyllic façade lies another reality, family feuds, domestic disputes and dark secrets.
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Casa de Lava
(Portuguese) A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, it foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary, ravishing work in its own right.
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Fanny's Journey
(French) Based on a true story of a daring young girl who will stop at nothing and fear no one. In 1943, thirteen-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these eleven children do the impossible and reach the Swiss border to freedom.
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God of war
(Mandarin) In the sixteenth century in China, a commander and his newly promoted general devise a plan to rid the country's coastline of pirates
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Harmonium
(Japanese) Life for Toshio, his wife, and their younger daughter Hotaru carries on as usual until he hired the mysterious Mr. Yasaka, an old acquaintance dressed in white who has just been released from prison, in his workshop.
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Inspector Winter
(Swedish) Inspector Erik Winter in a dedicated, yet tormented Swedish investigator. Winter and his wife, Angela, both juggle demanding careers as they face the challenge of raising two young daughters. Family provides a refuge for him, away from work where he is constantly faced with the darkest secrets of the human psyche. Never satisfied with just solving crimes, Erik Winter's motivation goes much deeper, he wants to understand. But sometimes solving a mystery leads to more unanswered questions.
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Jab Harry met Sejal
(Hindi) After losing her engagement ring while touring Europe, a woman and her tour guide retrace their steps in order to find it.
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Moka
(French) Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha-colored Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money, and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives. But sometimes the path of revenge is more tortuous that it seems. Diane will have to face another woman, friendly and mysterious.
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Nile Hilton Incident
(Arabic) Cairo, 2011, just weeks before the revolution. Police Detective Noredin, working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station, is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the very power elite, close to the president's inner circle.
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School of Babel
(French) Welcome to a one-of-a-kind Paris education program for immigrant children from around the globe. In her feature documentary debut, director Julie Bertuccelli follows one class of students ranging from eleven to fifteen years of age as they begin life in a new land.
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Tower
(German) On August 1, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event. This documentary combines archival footage with animated re-enactments of the dramatic day, based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes, and survivors, in a seamless and suspenseful retelling of the unfolding tragedy.
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Villainess
(Korean) Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited as a sleeper agent with the promise of freedom after ten years of service, and she jumps at the chance for a normal life. But soon enough, secrets from her past destroy everything she's worked for, and now nobody can stand in her way as she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.
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Woman's Life
(French) Adapted from the novel Une vie by Guy de Maupassant, A Woman's Life is a tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Young aristocrat Jeanne navigates her husband's infidelity, pressure from her family and community, and the alternating joys and burdens of motherhood.
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