Monthly pick of foreign language films - October 2018
Here are our monthly pick of the foreign language films being released in Britain and Ireland during October 2018.
Friday 5th October 2018
A Thousand Girls Like Me Persian
Khatera, a 23 year old Afghan woman, is a victim of sexual abuse from her father. She tells her story publicly on national TV, seeking punishment for her perpetrator and shedding light onto the faulty Afghan judicial system.
Khatera, a 23 year old Afghan woman, is a victim of sexual abuse from her father. She tells her story publicly on national TV, seeking punishment for her perpetrator and shedding light onto the faulty Afghan judicial system.
Andhadhun Hindi
He sees what he shouldn't. She sees what he couldn't. So the question is, does he see it or not?
He sees what he shouldn't. She sees what he couldn't. So the question is, does he see it or not?
Hello, Mrs. Money (12A) Chinese
Chinese comedy in which a man poses as his friend's wealthy aunt.
Chinese comedy in which a man poses as his friend's wealthy aunt.
Jalouse (12A) French
A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.
A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.
Loveyatri Hindi
Sushrut garba is a teacher who falls in love with NRI girl Michelle when she visits town during a festival.
Sushrut garba is a teacher who falls in love with NRI girl Michelle when she visits town during a festival.
Parahuna (PG) Punjabi
Punjabi language comedy in which a man's desire for a popular actress leads him to fall for her look alike.
Punjabi language comedy in which a man's desire for a popular actress leads him to fall for her look alike.
Tehran Taboo (15) Persian
When prostitute and single mum Pari moves in to an apartment with her mute son, she unintentionally befriends her new neighbour Sara. Sara is a middle class mullah who seemingly has a perfect family life but who too hides her own secrets; and so the company of Pari is a welcome escape. The lives of the two women become further intertwined with that of a young musician and the girl for whom he is trying to raise money for an illegal operation following a night they spent together in a club. As stories of sex, drugs and corruption unravel, the lives of the unlikely allies prove more alike than they think.
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When prostitute and single mum Pari moves in to an apartment with her mute son, she unintentionally befriends her new neighbour Sara. Sara is a middle class mullah who seemingly has a perfect family life but who too hides her own secrets; and so the company of Pari is a welcome escape. The lives of the two women become further intertwined with that of a young musician and the girl for whom he is trying to raise money for an illegal operation following a night they spent together in a club. As stories of sex, drugs and corruption unravel, the lives of the unlikely allies prove more alike than they think.
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Thursday 11th October 2018
MFKZ (Mutafukaz) (15) French
Angelino is just one of thousands of deadbeats living in Dark Meat City. But an otherwise unremarkable scooter accident caused by a beautiful, mysterious stranger is about to transform his life into a waking nightmare! He starts seeing monstrous forms prowling around all over the city. Is Angelino losing his mind, or could an alien invasion really be happening this quietly?
Angelino is just one of thousands of deadbeats living in Dark Meat City. But an otherwise unremarkable scooter accident caused by a beautiful, mysterious stranger is about to transform his life into a waking nightmare! He starts seeing monstrous forms prowling around all over the city. Is Angelino losing his mind, or could an alien invasion really be happening this quietly?
Friday 12th October 2018
1945 (12A) Hungarian
12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. In the shadow of Russian occupation, the people of the village are preparing for the wedding of the son of the clerk, but the bride's former fiance returns from captivity. Within a few hours, everything changes. Secrets, sins, reckoning, love, betrayal, confrontation.
12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. In the shadow of Russian occupation, the people of the village are preparing for the wedding of the son of the clerk, but the bride's former fiance returns from captivity. Within a few hours, everything changes. Secrets, sins, reckoning, love, betrayal, confrontation.
Helicopter Eela Hindi
Eela is an aspiring playback singer and single mother. She has given up all her dreams to raise her only son. But now her baby son 'Vivan' is all grown up and being a typical young millennial, doesn't want his mother's life to revolve around him. But being an over protective mother, Eela has other ideas and joins her son's college to spend more time with him. Unfortunately her plans backfire and she suffers a backlash from Vivan for invading his privacy. Will Helicopter Eela manage to salvage her relationship with Vivan and find her calling again?
Eela is an aspiring playback singer and single mother. She has given up all her dreams to raise her only son. But now her baby son 'Vivan' is all grown up and being a typical young millennial, doesn't want his mother's life to revolve around him. But being an over protective mother, Eela has other ideas and joins her son's college to spend more time with him. Unfortunately her plans backfire and she suffers a backlash from Vivan for invading his privacy. Will Helicopter Eela manage to salvage her relationship with Vivan and find her calling again?
Kler (Clergy) (18) Polish
Polish drama following three priests navigating the corruption within the Catholic church.
Polish drama following three priests navigating the corruption within the Catholic church.
Pili (12A) Swahili
Pili lives in rural Tanzania, working the fields for less than $1 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret. When she is offered the chance to rent a sought-after market-stall, Pili is desperate to have it. But with only two days to get the deposit together, Pili is forced to make increasingly difficult decisions with ever-deepening consequences. How much will she risk to change her life?
Pili lives in rural Tanzania, working the fields for less than $1 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret. When she is offered the chance to rent a sought-after market-stall, Pili is desperate to have it. But with only two days to get the deposit together, Pili is forced to make increasingly difficult decisions with ever-deepening consequences. How much will she risk to change her life?
Friday 19th October 2018
Gangsta (Patser) (18) Dutch
Antwerp. The lives of four dealer friends, who want to become real life swaggers, spins out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine. They trigger a full out war between them, an Amsterdam drug lord and the ruthless Colombian cartels.
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Antwerp. The lives of four dealer friends, who want to become real life swaggers, spins out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine. They trigger a full out war between them, an Amsterdam drug lord and the ruthless Colombian cartels.
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Namaste England Hindi
Namaste England, starring Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra is a romantic comedy directed and co-produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. The film is the sequel to Namastey London (2007).
Namaste England, starring Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra is a romantic comedy directed and co-produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. The film is the sequel to Namastey London (2007).
The School in the Cloud Bengali/Hindi/English
What is the future of education in a networked world? Indian professor Sugata Mitra sets up an unmanned internet kiosk in a remote Bengali village to pioneer the "School in the Cloud". The film follows the children as they encounter the internet for the first time. Will they be able to use it to transform their futures, or will it destroy the stability of their way of life?
What is the future of education in a networked world? Indian professor Sugata Mitra sets up an unmanned internet kiosk in a remote Bengali village to pioneer the "School in the Cloud". The film follows the children as they encounter the internet for the first time. Will they be able to use it to transform their futures, or will it destroy the stability of their way of life?
Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Donkeyote (15) Spanish
Manolo and his donkey Gorrion plan a journey to the West.
Manolo and his donkey Gorrion plan a journey to the West.
Friday 26th October 2018
The Guilty (Den skyldige) (15) Danish
Alarm dispatcher Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
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Alarm dispatcher Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
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U - July 22 (15) Norwegian
A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.
A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.