Foreign Films

Catherine Breillat’s exploration of feminine tales continues with this subversive take on the story of Bluebeard.

Claire Denis revisits Africa, the setting for her celebrated first feature Chocolat, in this starkly haunting film that explores post-colonial Africa.

This year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner is a skillful blend of love story, police procedural crime thriller and legal drama.

Kurosawa’s thoroughly entertaining action romp follows the adventures of a princess, her retainer and two arguing servants transporting clan treasures through enemy territory.

Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore returns with an epic valentine to his Sicilian heritage.

Mother is the wholly refreshing corrective to the much abused film term – Hitchcockian. At once nail-bitingly tense and brimming with humanity, this terrific film comes fresh from sweeping the Asian Film Awards.

Stray Dog is arguably Kurosawa’s best 1940s film. Set in post-war Tokyo, the story of a cop obsessively hunting the criminal who stole his gun…

Hot on the heels of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo comes this sequel, which sees Lisbeth Salander and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation.

Summer movies just don’t come any better than this classic slice of Tati.

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Bellville Sisters…

This samurai Macbeth relocates the Scottish play to the civil wars of the 16th century Age of Warring States.

Visconti’s masterpiece The Leopard gets a breathtaking new digital restoration courtesy of Martin Scorcese and the Gucci foundation.

Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami’s film is a startlingly enigmatic work that begins with Juliette Binoche’s gallery owner in Tuscany attending a talk given by an English author about authenticity, fakes and copies in art.

Sorrentino’s life of notorious Italian PM Guido Andreotti is just as telling a picture of the modern state of Italy as The Leopard’s depiction of the lost world from which it emerged.

The Leopard’s Prince of Salina is the ultimate exponent of familial duty.

Arguably the greatest of all Eric Rohmer’s films, Ma nuit chez Maud, is set over a Christmas in Clermont-Ferrand, where his brilliant script is the basis for a profoundly insightful study of desire, doubt and self-delusion.

Winner of multiple audience awards including the 2010 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award, Undertow continues Latin-America’s exploration of magical realism in modern cinema.

This beguiling biopic tells the true outsider story of primitive artistic genius Seraphine de Senlis and her heavenly inspired canvases.

LT22 Radio La Colifata is a radio show produced entirely by patients at a Buenos Aires psychiatric hospital. This screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Celia Atherton, Director of Social Justice at Dartington, with Tim Yealland from English Touring Opera.

Belgian animators Aubier and Patar take their beloved characters on a fantastic voyage via the centre of the earth…

Tasked with pursuing a schoolboy suspected of supplying marijuana, a young policeman becomes troubled by the clash between duty and instinct.