Foreign Language Films

Watch Trailer for French Comedy DEERSKIN, Starring Jean Dujardin as a Man Obsessed with his Jacket

Deerskin

The new trailer dropped this week for the weird French comedy Deerskin (Le Daim) from Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops) which opened the 2019 Directors’ Fortnight, the independent sidebar running parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Academy Award-winner Jean Dujardin as a man so obsessed with his designer deerskin jacket that it causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. Deerskin which also starts Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier, Laurent Nicolas, and Pierre Gommé will open in theaters on March 20th, 2020.

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TWO OF US, Bold Story of Decades-old Love Between Two Women, Opens on April 10

TWO OF US, starring Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier

Magnolia Pictures will release Two Of Us (Deux), Filippo Meneghetti’s deeply moving French drama about the love between two older women starring Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier in the US. Two Of Us which world premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, will open in New York on Friday, April 10 with a national release to follow.

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Watch Captivating First English Trailer for BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, Premiering at Berlinale 2020

Welket Bungué in Berlin Alexanderplatz by Burhan Qurbani

Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, which will have its world premiere in Competition at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival released the first English trailer via Screen Daily.

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Watch Stunning Trailer for THE WILD GOOSE LAKE, Chinese Noir Crime Thriller by Diao Yinan

The Wild Goose Lake directed by Diao Yinan

Film Movement release the official trailer for The Wild Goose Lake, the noir crime thriller from director Diao Yinan (Black Coal, Thin Ice). The Wild Goose Lake which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival is billed as the follow-up to Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice – winner of the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. Featuring gorgeous, neon-drenched cinematography and bursts of shocking, expertly choreographed action; and starring Hu Ge, Gwei Lun Mei, Liao Fan, Wan Qian, Qi Dao, the film will open in select theaters on March 6th, 2020.

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34th Goya Awards Winners. PAIN AND GLORY Wins Top Awards incl. Best Picture

Antonio Banderas won the award for Best Actor (Pain and Glory) at 34th Goya Awards

Pedro Almodovar’s Oscar-nominated Pain and Glory swept the top awards on Saturday at 34th Goya Awards, Spain’s version of the Oscars, winning a total of seven awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Antonio Banderas won the award for Best Actor, Julieta Serrano for Best Supporting Actress in addition to awards for Best Editing, and Best Original Music.

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Film at Lincoln Center Announces 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Lineup, Opens with THE TRUTH

La vérité (The Truth), directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu and starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke

UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center announce the complete lineup for the 25th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the celebrated annual festival that exemplifies the variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking, March 5–15.

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‘Neighboring Scenes’ Latin American Cinema Showcase Returns to Film at Lincoln Center

Joanna Reposi Garibaldi’s documentary “Lemebel”

Film at Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical announce the fifth edition of Neighboring Scenes, the annual wide-ranging showcase of contemporary Latin American cinema featuring established auteurs as well as fresh talent from the international festival scene, February 14-18.

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AND THEN WE DANCED and ANIARA Dominated 2020 Guldbagge Awards

All the 2020 Guldbagge winners at Cirkus in Stockholm, 20 January 2020. Photo: Pelle T. Nilsson

And Then We Danced and Aniara were crowned the winners of the 2020 Guldbagge Awards held in Stockholm yesterday, with four awards each. Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced won the top prize of Best Film, with the Best Director award going to Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja for Aniara.

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Watch Trailer for German Drama I WAS AT HOME, BUT… in Theaters on Valentine’s Day

Ich war zuhause, aber / I Was At Home, But,

The new trailer debuted via The Playlist for I Was at Home but (Ich war zuhause aber) directed by Angela Schanelec (“The Dreamed Path,” “Bridges of Sarajevo,” “Marseille”). I Was At Home, But… competed for the Golden Bear at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival where Schanelec won the Silver Bear for Best Director.

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South Korean Disaster Film ASHFALL Expands into Theaters Nationwide | Trailer

South Korean film Ashfall directed by Lee Hae Jun and Kim Byung Seo

Featuring an all-star cast, the South Korean film Ashfall directed by Lee Hae Jun and Kim Byung Seo, expands into additional theaters and released nationwide on Friday, January 17th. In the film starring Lee Byung-hun, Ha Jung-woo, Ma Dong-seok, Bae Suzy and Jeon Hye-jin, a disaster threatens to engulf both North and South Korea and a mission is put into action to stop the super volcanic eruption.

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US Premiere of Hello World! + More Added to Animation First Festival

Hello World! (Bonjour le Monde!) directed by Anne-Lise Koehler and Éric Serre

Less than one month before opening night, the 2020 Animation First festival continues to add new films and events including the US premiere of Hello World! directed by Anne-Lise Koehler and Éric Serre, an exhibition of illustrator/filmmaker Lorenzo Mattotti’s New Yorker covers, as well as expanded programs of shorts, video games, virtual and augmented reality, and public workshops. The Animation First festival will take place from February 7 to 9.

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Filmmaker Angela Schanelec Gets Complete Retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center

Angela Schanelec

Film at Lincoln Center will present Dreamed Paths: The Films of Angela Schanelec, a complete retrospective of the Berlin School filmmaker’s audacious body of work, February 7 to 13.

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