Film Awards

2019 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAtlanticsIn a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.AmazonInvisible LifeTwo sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life, each mistakenly believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.AmazonPain and GloryA film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.AmazonParasiteAll unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incid...

2018 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBurningJong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.AmazonCold WarIn the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.AmazonCustodyA broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.AmazonHappy as LazzaroAn unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.AmazonShopliftersA family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.AmazonThe GuiltyA police officer assigned alarm d...

2017 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Fantastic WomanMarina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.AmazonFoxtrotA troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son's desolate military post.AmazonFrantzIn the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.AmazonLovelessA couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.AmazonSummer 1993After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds...

2016 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerElleA successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.AmazonJulietaAfter a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.AmazonLand of MineIn post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.AmazonNerudaAn inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.AmazonThe HandmaidenA woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heires...

2015 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerGoodnight MommyTwin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery, but under her bandages is someone the children don't recognize.AmazonMediterraneaTwo men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.AmazonPhoenixA disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.AmazonSon of SaulA Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.AmazonThe Second MotherWhen the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barrier...