International Films

Chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation.
Language: Pushtu, with optional English subtitles.

Documentary. The intimate lives of three taxi drivers are seen through a humanistic lens as they navigate a quickly morphing city, confronting modern issues and changing values.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Documentary. Follows elections for class monitor at a Chinese grammar school and examines how the children take to this exercise in democracy.
Language: Cantonese, with optional English subtitles.

The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Just as Guai, a bicycle messenger, makes his final payment for the silver mountain bike loaned by his company, he finds it stolen. After endless searching, Guai discovers his bicycle is now in the hands of Jian who bought the bicycle with stolen money. Though Guai and Jian finally work out a deal, they find themselves involved in a series of unforgettable events.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

The story of a family in China in 1953 living with the Chinese Revolution.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

This kung fu thriller is set in the late Ming Dynasty. Three elite guards for the palace are involved in a power struggle with one of their own brothers.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Dramatizes the Japanese siege of the Chinese capital of Nanking on December 9, 1937, which resulted in the death of 300,000 civilians.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, English, or French, with optional English or French subtitles.

Family strife and rebellion trouble the royal family during 10th century.
Language: Mandarin Chinese or dubbed English, with optional English or French subtitles.

A sad story of a woman, as a mother and a prostitute in Shanghai in earlier 1930s.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

With supernatural skill and no fear, a nameless soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, dubbed English, or dubbed French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

In 1920s China, a young woman is forced into marriage and is then abused by her elderly husband.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Two warring generals, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, fight for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, who was a small-time imposter. Bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
Language: Mandarin Chinese or dubbed English, with optional English subtitles.

A father prepares to hand his 112-mile mail route over to his son. At dawn, the two embark on the three-day round trip on foot. Traveling along the rugged landscape of wind-blown hills, craggy rocks, and winding rivers, the son learns not only about the isolated mountain to which they deliver mail but also about his own father.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Set in 1920's China, 19-year-old Songlian has become Fourth Wife to the wealthy Chen. Yet she must share her husband with three existing wives.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with English subtitles.

As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parents' courtship unfolds.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English or French subtitles.

Mistakenly believing his father has passed away, a bathhouse master's son returns home and soon discovers the magic of the family business and its importance to the community.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English, Spanish, or French subtitles.

An ordinary, courageous woman in a small village fights against the system in her quest for justice.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

The story of a prodigal son set against the backdrop of China in the tumultuous era of the 40s and beyond.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English, Cantonese, French, or Spanish subtitles.

Inspired by four shocking and true events, the film focuses on four characters who are driven to violent ends.
Language: Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, with optional English subtitles.

On the outskirts of Beijing is an amusement park called The World. The staff, most who have come to work from rural areas, may be happy around the guests, but it’s a different story behind the scenes.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Punjabi boy and Tamilian girl discover love on their college campus. However, their diverse cultures make its culmination a challenge.
Language: Hindi, with optional English subtitles.

Set in the city of Lahore in 1947, this film chronicles the fate of a religiously diverse group of working-class friends during the partition of India and Pakistan.
Language: Hindi, with optional English subtitles.

Banned in India, this film was the first to confront lesbianism in that country.
Language: English; no subtitles available.

A young man goes against the wishes of his beloved father to marry the girl he loves. When he leaves home, his younger brother vows to reunite the family and bring back the happiness they once shared.
Language: Hindi, with optional English subtitles.

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Language: Hindi, with optional English subtitles.

Love, lust and hope envelop an upper middle-class Indian family and their world-wide guests as they celebrate for four days the arranged marriage of their daughter to an East Indian man from Texas.
Language: English with some Hindi dialogue, with optional French or Spanish subtitles.

Depicts, through one woman's life from marriage to old age, the joys and tragedies of village life in rural India
Language: Hindi, with optional English subtitles.

Evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat desperately clinging to his way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years, now a shadow of its former vivid self.
Language: Bengali, with optional English subtitles.

In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and amid the stunning natural beauty of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, an elderly British teacher struggles to run a small primary school despite the loss of many of the islands' children to the recent tragedy.
Language: Hindi, with optional English subtitles.

The story of Venkatesh, a 'room boy' working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall.
Language: Hindi, with optional English subtitles.

Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets.
Language: Hindi, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.

Ruth is searching for her father, a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the alien, yet strangely familiar backdrop for Ruth's quest. She struggles to find her independence and space, even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the city's underbelly.
Language: Hindi, with optional English subtitles.

Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, the story begins as eight-year-old Chuyla is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live out their lives in penitence.
Language: Hindi, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

A young boy, Ali, loses his sister Zahara's school shoes. In order to stay out of trouble, the two come up with a plan to share Ali's shoes, but they must keep it a secret from their parents.
Language: Farsi or French, with optional English subtitles.

This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of despair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
Language: Farsi, with optional English subtitles.

The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made. A joyful mash up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films and the Iranian New Wave.
Language: Farsi, with optional English subtitles.

Reza and Leila, an attractive and affluent young couple deeply in love and recently married, discover that Leila is unable to conceive.
Language: Farsi, with optional English subtitles.

Follows a pair of young musicians, recently released from prison, on a mission to take their rock band to Europe. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan their escape abroad with a fast-talking music promoter.
Language: Farsi, with optional English subtitles.

In 1970s Iran, Marjane "Marji" Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family.
Language: French or dubbed English, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

When their housing complex suddenly threatens to collapse, Emad and Rana have to find a place to stay, moving to a nearby shabby apartment owned by one of their acquaintances. One of the apartment rooms is locked and filled with the luggage of the former tenant. This inconvenient displacement and disruption of personal space soon intersects a violent and terrible personal intrusion in their home. In spite of trying to erase what happened, the terrible events break through their minds again and again, and Emad proceeds to find the culprit in a reprisal attempt. At the same time, the couple is playing the lead roles in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman", and the deterioration of relationships in the play eerily mirrors the breakdown of understanding between the film's characters.

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision—to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Language: Farsi or French, with optional English subtitles.

Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
Language: Farsi, with optional English subtitles.

Rahmat the boatman navigates the increasingly brackish waters of a coastal land, collecting the heartaches and tears of its inhabitants. But he remains powerless against their misguided attempts to appease the gods and make the land green again.
Language: Farsi, with optional English subtitles.

Desperate to free herself from a loveless marriage, an Israeli woman named Viviane Amsalem files for divorce from her cruel and manipulative husband. But Israeli law and its Rabbinical court dictates that a divorce can only be granted under the husband's consent.
Language: French, Hebrew, and Arabic, with optional English, French, and Hebrew subtitles.

Daigo Kobayashi, a cellist, dreamt of going around the world with his wife Mika. Unfortunately, the orchestra folds, so he sells his instrument, retreats to the small town he came from, lives in his late mother’s house, and tries to start a new life.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies.
Language: Japanese or dubbed English, with optional English subtitles.

Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Inflicted with a deadly curse, Ashitaka travels the western forests in search of the cure that will save him. Once there, he becomes entangled in a bitter battle between a clan of humans and the forest's animal gods. Animated.
Language: Japanese, dubbed English, or dubbed French, with optional English subtitles.

Four people involved in the murder of a gentleman in feudal Japan and the seduction of his wife report differing views of what actually happened.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto begins his quest for military glory. His dream ends in defeat, but the love of a woman and the cunning of a Buddhist priest set him on the samurai path.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

A sweeping saga of the legendary 17th century warrior, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior. In this second installment of the Samurai trilogy, the main character faces several enemies eager to test his reputation as a great fighter.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

In this third installment of the Samurai trilogy, the main character continues his quest for enlightenment, but turns his back on the world in disillusionment. Forced to fight again, he eventually comes face to face with his arch rival and long time enemy in a final showdown.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime. Animated.
Language: Japanese, dubbed English, or dubbed French, with optional English or French subtitles.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family, they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

As the feudal Shogun period is unravelling in late 19th-century Japan, widowed, low-ranking samurai Seibei devotes his life not to the art of war but to his two children and ailing mother. Hopeful that true happiness may at last find him when his childhood love divorces her husband, Seibei instead succumbs to fate when he is forced to face a renowned enemy warrior in a life-or-death battle.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
Language: Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers.
Language: Japanese or dubbed English, with optional English or French subtitles.

The story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh start.
Language: Korean, with optional English subtitles.

Kim Sang-nam is a hero on the pitcher's mound, but thanks to his drunk and disorderly behavior off the field, he now faces the prospect of a lifetime expulsion from Korea's pro-baseball league. Desperate to salvage his public image, Sang-nam's manager hauls him to the countryside to serve as the guest coach for the baseball team at a school for the hearing impaired.
Language: Korean, with optional English subtitles.

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Language: Korean, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Parks' home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Language: Korean with English Subtitles

A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.
Language: Korean, with optional English subtitles.

In the port city of Icheon, five female friends struggle to stay close while forging a life for themselves after high school.
Language: Korean, with optional English subtitles.

Based in the heart of Lahore, the story takes place in a house of daughters, teeming with the vibrancy of life but restricted to bloom.
Language: Urdu, with optional English or Arabic subtitles

They not only save the village, but the Barrier is pushed back behind the Green Line into No Man's Land. In the process, Ayed and Iltezam unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today.
Language: Arabic, English, and Hebrew, with optional English subtitles.

The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
Language: Arabic, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.

A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.

A married man begins to question his sexual orientation as he and his wife consider having another child.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

This film begins in the 1920's in the Chinese desert. When her bridegroom is killed, the bride is forced by tradition to marry a wooden effigy of the dead man. She secretly begins a forbidden, passionate affair with a young man setting off violence and revenge.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English or Korean subtitles.

An intimate look at the life of a middle-class family in Taipei, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, with optional English subtitles.

Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle.
Language: Arabic or French, with optional English or French subtitles.