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LES OSCARS DU MEILLEUR FILM ÉTRANGER

DU XXIe SIÈCLE

All About My Mother

V.O.: Todo sobre mi madre
Esp. 1999. Mores drama by Pedro Almodovar with Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz. The mother of a teenager killed in an accident tries to find his father, whom she had left eighteen years earlier.
Runtime: 101 min.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

V.O.: Wo Hu Zang Long
H.-K. 2000. Adventures by Ang Lee with Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi. A warrior and his comrade in arms cross swords with a young aristocrat trained in martial arts by a murderess.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 2001. War drama by Danis Tanovic with Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic. In 1993, while war is in full swing in Bosnia, two enemy soldiers find themselves isolated in a trench.

The Barbarian Invasions

V.O.: Les Invasions barbares
Can. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze. A wealthy young financier tries to ease the last days of his father, an academic dying with cancer.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Sea Inside

V.O.: Mar Adentro
Esp. 2004. Biography by Alejandro Amenabar with Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Duenas. With the help of a lawyer, and despite his entourage, a quadriplegic who has been bedridden for 28 years tries to obtain the right to die.
Runtime: 125 min.
Afr.S. 2005. Crime drama by Gavin Hood with Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi. A delinquent from the ghetto takes home the baby that was in the back seat of the car he stole.
Runtime: 94 min.

The Lives of Others

V.O.: Das Leben der Anderen
All. 2006. Psychological drama by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck with Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck. In the 1980s, a Stasi officer becomes increasingly fascinated by the artist couple in East Berlin he is assigned to spy on.
Runtime: 137 min.

The Counterfeiters

V.O.: Die Fälscher
All. 2007. History by Stefan Ruzowitzky with Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow. In a concentration camp, a clever counterfeiter of Jewish origin takes part in a vast clandestine operation to manufacture foreign currency.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Secret in Their Eyes

V.O.: El Secreto de sus ojos
Arg. 2009. Drama by Juan José Campanella with Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago. In 1999, a retired investigator and his ex-girlfriend recall the circumstances of a 25-year-old murder case for which justice has not been served.
Runtime: 129 min.

In a Better World

V.O.: Haevnen
Dan. 2010. Drama by Susanne Bier with Markus Rygaard, William Johnk Nielsen, Mikael Persbrandt. A kid who is bullied at school befriends a student who has become withdrawn and violent since the death of his mother.
Runtime: 118 min.

A Separation

V.O.: Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Iran. 2011. Drama by Asghar Farhadi with Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat. After his wife leaves him, a man comes into conflict with the young mother he hired to take care of his father who has Alzheimer's disease.
Runtime: 123 min.
Fr. 2012. Drama by Michael Haneke with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert. Paralyzed on her right side after a failed operation, a former piano teacher is cared for at home by her husband, who is in his 80s.
Runtime: 127 min.

The Great Beauty

V.O.: La Grande Bellezza
It. 2013. Dramatic comedy by Paolo Sorrentino with Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli. An aging journalist, who belongs to the Roman cultural elite, suddenly becomes aware of the emptiness of his existence.
Runtime: 142 min.
Pol. 2013. Drama by Pawel Pawlikowski with Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik. In Poland in the early 1960s, a novice about to take her vows discovers her true origins and tragic family secrets.
Runtime: 83 min.

Son of Saul

V.O.: Saul Fia
Hongr. 2015. Drama by Laszlo Nemes with Géza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn. In order to provide a funeral service for a boy before his autopsy, a Jewish member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau defies all odds to find a rabbi.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Salesman

V.O.: Forushande
Iran. 2016. Drama by Asghar Farhadi with Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi. Disturbed by the assault on his wife, a Tehran-based actor opens his own investigation to track down the culprit.
Runtime: 124 min.

A Fantastic Woman

V.O.: Una Mujer fantastica
Chil. 2017. Drama by Sebastian Lelio with Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco. A transgender waitress and singer tries to assert her rights with the family of her deceased partner.
Runtime: 104 min.
14A
Mex. 2018. Chronicle by Alfonso Cuaron with Alitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey. In Mexico City in 1970, the life of a bourgeois family on the verge of breaking up, seen through the point of view of a young maid.
Runtime: 135 min.
18A

Parasite

V.O.: Gisaengchung
Cor.S. 2019. Mores drama by Bong Joon-ho with Choi Woo-sik, Cho Yeo-Jeong, Song Kang-ho. An unemployed family intrude into the opulent bourgeois home of a very gullible housewife.
Runtime: 132 min.

Departures

V.O.: Okuribito
Jap. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Yôjirô Takita with Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue. An unemployed cellist is reluctant to tell his relatives about his new job: preparing the dead for their last "journey."
Runtime: 131 min.
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