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Beloved Sisters

Dominik Graf, director · Music Box Films
Pages: 1

(In German, with English subtitles)

This film is something of a cross between a biopic and a costume drama, focusing on the love triangle of Friedrich Schiller and two sisters, Charlotte von Lengefeld and the married Caroline von Beuliwitz.  Charlotte and Caroline come from...

 
 
Camille Claudel 1915

Bruno Dumont, director · Kino Video
Pages: 1

(In French, with English subtitles)

Camille Claudel was a successful sculptor and the lover of Auguste Rodin in early 20th century France.  When she and Rodin parted ways, Claudel began to fall apart and was eventually committed to a mental hospital in 1913, by her poet...

 
 
The Confession

Costa-Gavras, director · Criterion Collection (Direct)
Pages: 2

(In French, with English subtitles)

What was it like to live behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950's?  Costa-Gavras takes us to Prague, where Artur London is a high-ranking government official, arrested possibly for treason and certainly for not being entirely within the party...

 
 
Girlhood

CĂ©line Sciamma, director · Strand Releasing
Pages: 1

(In French, with English subtitles)

Marieme longs for more than what her family, friends, and community can give her.  She wants to go to high school, but her grades are channeling her into vocational school instead.  She has a crush on her brother’s best friend,...

 
 
Maidan

Sergei Loznitsa, director · Cinema Guild
Pages: 1

(In Ukrainian, with English subtitles)

During the winter of 2013-14, the people of Ukraine rose up in protest against their corrupt government, longing for reform and closer ties to the European Union.  Citizens of all ages occupied Independence Square in Kiev, also known...

 
 
Nuclear Nation

Atsushi Funahashi, director

(In Japanese, with English subtitles)

Very different in style from the documentary Maidan discussed above, the cameras in Nuclear Nation move about the town of Futaba in the Fukushima prefecture in Japan after the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown...

 
 
To Take a Wife

Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz, directors

(In Hebrew and French, with English subtitles)

Viviane is trying to do it all:  raise her four children, one of whom is a surly teenager, keep the family's flat tidy, work a job as the neighborhood hairdresser, please her husband, and be a good Jewish wife under Jewish...

 
 
Welcome to Sweden: Season 1

Carl Astrand, director · Entertainment One
Pages: 2

(In English and Swedish, with English subtitles)

A joint Swedish-American TV production, Welcome to Sweden will give you more than a few laughs, especially since Amy Poehler was involved in its production.  The comedy is based on the experiences of Greg Poehler,...