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Award Winners

Oscar for Best Picture

Parasite

The most garlanded film of 2020 is a blistering contemporary satire of economic inequality, whose riches demand multiple viewings.

Oscar for Best Actress

Still Alice

Julianne Moore won an Oscar and BAFTA for her astonishing performance as a linguistics professor facing early-onset Alzheimer’s in this heartbreaking drama.

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

Céline Sciamma’s sumptuous and heartbreaking period piece entwines romance and art, with a distinctly modern feminist energy.

Oscar for Best International Feature Film

Amour

Michael Haneke’s Oscar- and PALME d’Or-winning drama is a profoundly moving depiction of an elderly couple facing their greatest challenge yet.

Palme d'Or

The Square

Ruben Östlund's PALME d'Or winner is a bitingly satirical take-down of the art world.

Oscar for Best International Feature Film

Son of Saul

László Nemes’ unflinching Holocaust drama deservedly won both the BAFTA and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Waltz With Bashir

Sebastian Schipper’s ambitious, authentic one-take sensation ‘Victoria’ won the 2015 Berlin Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography.

Oscar for Best International Feature Film

The Great Beauty

The story of an aging writer who bitterly recollects his passionate, lost youth.

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

A Greek myth for the modern world, Yorgos Lanthimos’ unsettling and shocking satire deconstructs the American Dream.

Oscar for Best International Feature Film

A Separation

A suspenseful and intelligent drama detailing the fractures and tensions at the heart of Iranian society.

César Award for Best Documentary

The Beaches of Agnes

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Iconic Curzon

Cold War

Paweł Pawlikowski’s achingly beautiful romance begins in 1950s Poland and follows a couple’s tumultuous relationship across Europe.

Parasite - Black and White Edition

The sumptuous monochrome version of Bong Joon Ho’s modern masterpiece.

45 Years

Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay deliver sensational performances in Andrew Haigh’s intimate and beautifully restrained portrait of a marriage in crisis.

We Need to Talk about Kevin

Lynne Ramsay’s three-times-BAFTA-nominated adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel.

Victoria

Sebastian Schipper’s ambitious, authentic one-take sensation ‘Victoria’ won the 2015 Berlin Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography.

Force Majeure

In Ruben Östlund’s critically-acclaimed satire, a potentially life-threatening event fractures a picture-perfect family during their holiday in the French Alps.

Three Colours: Blue

The first of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy on France’s revolutionary ideals: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, Three Colours: Blue stars Juliette Binoche as a grieiving widow who learns to live again through music.

Three Colours: White

The second instalment of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours Trilogy, Three Colours: White is a droll tale of reversed fortune and revenge.

Three Colours: Red

Krzysztof Kieslowski completes his Three Colours Trilogy, and his career, with a beautifully complex tale of parallel lives and interwoven destinies.

The Handmaiden

Park Chan-wook turns to the past for this BAFTA-winning sensual, florid adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, set in 1930s Korea.

Ida

Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret.

The White Ribbon

Themes of guilt and denial haunt this riveting PALME d’Or-winning masterpiece by Austrian auteur Michael Haneke.

So Long, My Son

Wang Xiaoshuai’s epic, muti-generational portrait of lives lived under China’s one child policy is both breathtaking and heartbreaking.

European Cinema

Paris, Texas

Both a road movie and a mystery, Wim Wenders’ Cannes winner is not only the pinnacle of the filmmaker’s fascination with the American West but the highlight of his career.

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders’ heart-breaking Berlin masterpiece is a glorious love letter to a city and a time capsule of a bygone era.

A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence

The third entry in Roy Andersson’s trilogy is more expansive but remains an unsettling yet frequently hilarious portrait of human existence.

The Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant’ follows two rebellious young lads - Arbor (Conner Chapman) and Swifty (Shaun Thomas) - and their involvement with a local scrap dealer.

Jeune Femme

First-time filmmaker Léonor Serraille and the dazzling Laetitia Dosch conjure up a raucous portrait of a thirtysomething Parisian.

Jeune et Jolie

François Ozon’s portrait of emerging sexuality is the first of his collaborations with newcomer Marine Vacth.

Frantz

In a small German town in 1919, Anna mourns every day at the grave of her fiancé, Frantz, who was killed in battle during World War I.

The Piano Teacher

Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory.

Pina

Pina is revolutionary film that captures the aesthetic of Bausch’s greatest works in an utterly thrilling way.

The House That Jack Built

A grisly thriller that follows Jack, a serial killer, over a span of 12 years introducing the murders that defined his life.

The Truth

The Cannes-winning director of Shoplifters and one of the most articulate chroniclers of family life makes his non-Japanese debut with this gem.

Berlin Syndrome

A riveting psychological thriller featuring a raw and compelling performance from rising star Teresa Palmer.

Mektoub, My Love

A romantic drama following a young screenwriter faced with a difficult choice between his lover and his career.

Victoria

Sebastian Schipper’s ambitious, authentic one-take sensation ‘Victoria’ won the 2015 Berlin Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography.

Force Majeure

In Ruben Östlund’s critically-acclaimed satire, a potentially life-threatening event fractures a picture-perfect family during their holiday in the French Alps.

The Quiet Girl

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.

Queer Cinema

Paris, 13th District

Set in the French capital’s 13th arrondissement, on the left bank of the Seine, Audiard’s film charts the interwoven relationships between four twenty-somethings.

Disobedience

The Oscar-winning director of A Fantastic Woman adapts Naomi Alderman’s tale of forbidden love amongst North London’s Orthodox Jewish community.

120 BPM

The lives of AIDS activists in early 1990s Paris are reimagined in bold and vivid detail in Robin Campillo’s enthralling Cannes-winning drama.

A Fantastic Woman

Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend in Sebastián Lelio's Oscar-winning drama.

Flee

Tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years.

Mary Shelley

The tempestuous romance that inspired one of Gothic literature’s most influential works is brought to life in this luscious and moving period drama starring Elle Fanning.