The Brand New Testament
Le tout nouveau testament

Jaco Van Dormael
Belgium/France  ·  2015

There’s the Old Testament, the New Testament and now this Brand New one in which God’s 10-year-old daughter leaves home on a mission to liberate humanity from the bored old man’s destructive whims.
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“​A surreal comedy whose endless visual imagination matches its conceptual wit.”
– NY Times

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Fireworks Wednesday Chaharshanbe-soori

Asghar Farhadi
Iran ·  2006 

From two-time Oscar winner Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman). 

“This compelling, corrosive account of male-female relationships in today’s Tehran is tempered by genuine compassion for the individuals concerned.”

– Geoff Andrew, Time Out

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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After the Storm
Umi yori mo mada fukaku

Kore-eda Hirokazu
​Japan ·  ​2016

A formerly successful novelist tries to reconnect with his ex-wife and young son in this affectionate, shrewdly observed drama of family life from the director of Our Little Sister.

“Such intelligence and delicacy… such wit and understated humanity.”
​– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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Mustang
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Deniz Gamze Ergüven
​France/Turkey  ·  ​2015 

“Five young sisters in a small coastal Turkish town come of age against a backdrop of sun, secrets, and socially-mandated sexual suppression in [this] heartfelt, beautifully performed debut feature.” – The Playlist.

​Oscar nomination, Best Foreign Language Feature 2016

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Fill The Void
Lemale et ha’halal

Rama Burshtein
Israel  ·  ​2012

Eighteen-year-old Shira must choose a husband in this sensitive drama that provides rare insight into family tradition and personal choice in Tel Aviv’s Hared community. 

“Intelligent and moving.” 
​– The Observer

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>​

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The Innocents
Les innocentes

Anne Fontaine
France/Poland  ·  2016
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A young French doctor finds herself caught up in the lives of nuns at a Polish convent, traumatised and shamed by their experience of war. 

“Shines a glimmer of hope on a period of great doubt.” 
– Washington Post

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Listen to Me Marlon

Stevan Riley
UK  ·  2015
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​Brando in his own words.  With never-before-seen photos, audio and film footage, British documentarian Stevan Riley delivers an enthrallingly intimate look at the brilliant, troubled and charismatic Marlon Brando.
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"The story of Marlon Brando not as the world saw him but as he saw himself."
- LA Times

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The Selfish Giant

Clio Barnard
​UK  ·  2013
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This feature debut from the director of The Arbor is the tale of two boys who fall in with a dodgy scrap metal dealer.

“Heartfelt and passionate, fluent and supremely confident... this is a heart-wrenching movie.”

– The Guardian

​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>​

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Tangerine

Sean Baker
USA ·  2015

Shot on iPhone and looking fantastic, Sean Baker’s raunchy comedy storms the streets, donut shops, brothels and clubs of West Hollywood as two transgender BFFs hunt down the ‘bitch’ who did them wrong.

“Oodles of low-life, grubby-edged glamour, and an energy that jumps off the screen.”
– The Telegraph

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China’s Van Goghs

Yu Haibo & Yu Tianqi Kiki
China  ·  2016

This revealing portrait of a peasant-turned-oil painter who falls under the spell of Van Gogh while producing replicas of his paintings offers surprising perspectives on Western culture and Chinese labour.
 
​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

China’s Van Goghs presented in co-operation with the Confucius Institute, Victoria University of Wellington

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For more contemporary world cinema titles in the 2018 season, see also:
   French Connections ​ · ​ Beautiful Creatures  ·  German Cinema 

FRENCH CONNECTIONS

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

GERMAN CINEMA

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