world cinema spotlight
Showcasing contemporary world cinema is fundamental to an art house cinema. Exposure to cinema originating outside of the United States is vital to our role as global citizens. World cinema introduces us to faces we’ve never seen before on screen, languages that are unfamiliar to our ears, and cultures/communities that make us curious to learn more about the world in which we live. Global filmmakers are reinventing the art form with new styles and modes of storytelling through the shared medium and art of film.
Check out the 100 best films from before 2010 (when a/ opened) here.
Seven Samurai
- Sat, Jul 27
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Director: Akira Kurosawa Run Time: 207 min. Release Year: 1954 Language: Japanese
Starring: Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Inaba
The Mighty Warriors Who Became the Seven National Heroes of a Small Town
The Vourdalak
- Sat, Jul 27
- Tue, Jul 30
Director: Adrien Beau Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 2023 Language: French
Starring: Ariane Labed, Claire Duburcq, Grégoire Colin, Kacey Mottet Klein, Vassili Schneider
When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the...
Crossing
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Director: Levan Akın Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: Georgian
Starring: Deniz Dumanlı, Lucas Kankava, Mzia Arabuli, Tako Kurdovanidze, Ziya Sudançıkmaz
Lia, a retired school teacher living in Georgia, hears from a young neighbour Achi that her long lost...
Kneecap
- Fri, Aug 2
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Director: Rich Peppiatt Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: Irish
Starring: DJ Próvai, Josie Walker, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, Simone Kirby
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in Northern Ireland. Three of them became a...
Green Border
- Fri, Aug 2
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Director: Agnieszka Holland Run Time: 152 min. Release Year: 2023 Language: Polish
Starring: Behi Djanati Atai, Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Mohamad Al Rashi, Tomasz Włosok
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland,...
The Gleaners and I
- Sun, Aug 18
- Wed, Aug 21
Director: Agnès Varda Run Time: 82 min. Release Year: 2000 Language: French
Starring: Agnès Varda, Bodan Litnanski, François Wertheimer
An 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet inspired septuagenarian documentarian Agnes Varda to cross the French countryside to videotape...
Close-Up
- Sun, Nov 10
- Wed, Nov 13
Director: Abbas Kiarostami Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 1990 Language: Persian (Farsi)
Starring: Abolfazl Ahankhah, Hossain Sabzian, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Monoochehr Ahankhah
While reading a novel by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf on the bus, Ali Sabzian strikes up a conversation...