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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

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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

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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

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Fidelio: Alice’s Journey
Fidelio, l’odysseé d’Alice​

Lucie Borleteau
​France  ·  2014

In this insightful study of a woman at work in an almost exclusively male milieu, Ariane Labed stars as a nautical engineer who encounters an old flame in her new posting aboard a cargo ship.
“A powerful first feature” – Time Out

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Baden Baden

Rachel Lang
Belgium/France  ·  2016
 
First-time director Rachel Lang delivers an utterly distinctive and lively coming-of-age comedy about a flaky French 20-something searching for meaning in her life.

“Very fresh and often very funny.”
– NY Times

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In A World...

Lake Bell  
USA  ·  2013
 
In a world where male voiceover artists reign supreme, one woman must struggle against the odds to earn the respect of her famous father and make her voice heard...

​"Engaging and eccentric"
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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24 Weeks*
24 Wochen

Anne Zohra Berrached
​Germany  ·  2016
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 Julia Jentsch stars as a comedian who is six months pregnant and confronted with a heart-wrenching decision.

“Meticulous and quietly forceful… follows a track that feels at once implacable and unpredictable.” 
​– Film Comment

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Wild*
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Nicolette Krebitz
​Germany  ·  2016
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A chance encounter with a wolf is life-changing for the lonely young woman at the heart of this challenging drama.

“Somewhere between a love story and a twisted variation on Beauty and the Beast.”
​ – Screendaily


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Fukushima, Mon Amour*
​Grüsse aus Fukushima

Doris Dörrie
Germany  ·  2016
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 In the aftermath of the nuclear disaster a young German woman travels to Fukushima and joins a charity circus group.

“Peppered with absurdist cross-cultural gags– offers a refreshingly quirky perspective on a heavy subject.”
–Variety

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed* 
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed

Lotte Reiniger
Germany  ·  1926

The oldest existing animated feature, this enchanting film exploits the exotic tales of The Arabian Nights to display the transformative possibilities of Reiniger’s delicate hand-cut silhouette animation.
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Presented in co-operation with the Goethe Institut. Non-members welcome.

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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

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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.

​China’s Van Goghs presented in co-operation with the Confucius Institute, Victoria University of Wellington
 
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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. “
​A surreal comedy whose endless visual imagination matches its conceptual wit.”
– NY Times

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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

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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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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. “
​A surreal comedy whose endless visual imagination matches its conceptual wit.”
– NY Times

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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 >>

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

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>