Upcoming 2015 Foreign Films

Seriously exciting stuff in the works!

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That looks really good. Asia Argento's film MISUNDERSTOOD looks good, too, but I don't think it has a distributer here.


INCOMPRESA Trailer

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Updated On: 1/19/15 at 02:13 PM

I could recommend the Israeli comedy/drama The Farewell Party.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV3yVl9YjRU

Synopsis: “A bunch of geezers at an old-age house construct a self-euthanasia device to assist their dying friend end his life in dignity.

Yehezkel, age 75, living in a Jerusalem retirement home, decides to fulfill his terminally ill best friend Max's wish to die in peace. Despite the objections of his wife Levana, Yehezkel and Max's wife Yana enlist the help of Dr. Daniel, a veterinarian, and retired police officer Raffi Segal to help them with their mission. At the moment of truth when the group realize that none of them is willing to “pull the trigger”, Yehezkel builds a machine for self- euthanasia.

But after Max is gone, rumors about the machine begin to spread, and the group receives more pleas for help. Meanwhile Yehezkel refuses to face the reality of his wife's deteriorating dementia. As Yehezkel navigates between new requests for the machine, and Levana's growing dependency, boundaries begin to blur, and the moral dilemmas the group face become impossible to bear.”

http://www.betacinema.com/thefarewellparty

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There's a new film from Roy Andersson, entitled something like A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE, it picked up a major European film festival prize and I can't wait, easily the film I'm most anticipating in 2015.

Andersson's made a couple of very very odd very idiosynchratic little films, one of which SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR is incredibly relevant right now and deserves a very wide audience.

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