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Foreign Films New to View July 2026 |
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Amrum
(German) In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.
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Beauty and Mr. Romantic
(Korean) Beauty and Mr. Romantic follows Park Do-ra, a top actress whose career is ruined by her mother's greed, and Go Pil-sung, a rookie producer and her childhood first love. After a public downfall and amnesia lead her to live under a new identity, Pil-sung recognizes her and works to help her reclaim her life and find redemption through their rekindled romance.
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Letters from Wolf Street
(Polish) A street in central Warsaw becomes the focus of this witty and personal portrait of Poland. Filmmaker Arjun Talwar immigrated to the country over a decade ago, but still feels like an outsider. Through encounters with neighbors, immigrants, workers, and longtime residents, he explores the contradictions of contemporary Polish society and the challenges of belonging in an increasingly divided Europe. Blending humor, observation, and personal reflection, the film transforms Wolf Street into a microcosm of modern Poland.
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Nenuphar
(French) Maude invites her boyfriend Jeremy to her mother's secluded lakeside villa for what should be a perfect vacation. But the tranquility turns into dread when she senses someone watching them. Her jealous and unstable ex, Felix, may be closer than she thinks. As paranoia grows and secrets surface, love, obsession, and danger collide in this tense psychological thriller where escape may already be impossible.
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Shari
(Japanese) Welcome to Shari: a small town on the north-east coast of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, on the Shiretoko Peninsula where the Sea of Okhotsk meets Russian shores. Here, we meet hunters and bakers who love venison a few ways; flying squirrel enthusiasts and a collector known for his "Hall of Hidden Treasures." At the heart of it all is the conspicuous absence of drift ice and fish in this crucial winter season. Meanwhile, the Red Thing, a yeti-like creature, sanguine "like a throbbing blood clot" rampages through the scenery where folklore blossoms from the meeting between human and nature... the latter now skipping a beat. Dancer-turned-filmmaker Nao Yoshigai (whose short films, such as the 2019 Directors' Fortnight-selected Grand Bouquet, have charmed festival audiences across the world) makes her feature debut with Shari, an experimental documentary bringing audiences to one of Japan's most secluded and magnificent areas. Like Yoshigai's short works, blurring the line between documentary, dance film and fantasy, Shari is multifaceted: part introspective travelogue, part wistful exploration of myth and legend, part climate change diary or in situ intervention. Offering a unique viewpoint into a community rarely captured on film, Shari advocates for the future of Japan's far-flung rural areas, uncertain in the face of a warming world.
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The Last Autumn
(Icelandic) A desolate farm, pushed up against the Arctic ocean has been breeding sheep for centuries. This is the last autumn they herd their sheep down from the surrounding mountains.
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Tierra Baja
(Spanish) Carmen, a retired screenwriter, lives in solitude in a nearly abandoned village in Spain, tending to the olive grove she inherited from her grandmother. The arrival of Eduardo Llanos an old flame and former colleague from her film days, reopens wounds from the past. As he decides to stay, Carmen must confront what happened and what she still feels.
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