Shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards

Shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards

Leviathan/ Russia

 

In a Russian coastal town, Nikolai is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits his old Army friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. (140 mins.)

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev

Ida/ Poland

Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. (82 mins.)

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Force Majeure/ Sweden

A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath, their dynamic has been shaken to its core, with a question mark hanging over their patriarch in particular. (118 mins.)

Director: Ruben Östlund

Wild Tales/ Argentina

A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control. (122 mins.)

Director: Damián Szifron

Timbuktu/ Mauritania

A look at the brief occupation of Timbuktu by militant Islamic rebels. (97 mins.)
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako

Tangerines/ Estonia

War in Georgia, Abkhazia region in 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in. (87 mins.)

Director: Zaza Urushadze

The Liberator/ Venezuela

Simon Bolivar fought over 100 battles against the Spanish Empire in South America. He rode over 70,000 miles on horseback. His military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. His army never conquered — it liberated.(119 mins.)

Director: Alberto Arvelo

Accused (aka Lucia De B.) / Netherlands

A psychological thriller, based on one of the most controversial court cases in Netherlands. Lucia, a nurse, is sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having killed at least seven babies and elderly people.

Director: Paula van der Oest

Corn Island/ Georgia

The river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can’t escape. (100 mins.)

Director: George Ovashvili