FOREIGN SPOTLIGHT Movies and television from around the world. Australia’s official submission to the 2020 Academy Awards!
Buoyancy (Khmer)
Blinded
Father’s Chair
Starring: Matias Varela, Julia Ragnarsson Economics reporter Bea has a secret affair with Peder, a married bank CEO, even though she promised herself not to mix her job with her private life. UNK 452 min. (2019) Drama
Starring: Wagner Moura, Lima Duarte, Mariana Lima Theo is living the good life. However, he has chosen his career over his family and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him when he discovers that his fifteen-year-old son has disappeared. UNK 99 min. (2012) Suspense
Season 1 (Swedish)
Available November 24 DVD
13593807 $26.24 2 Discs
Sword of God (Polish) Starring: Sarm Heng, Mony Ros, Thanawut Ketsaro This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test. UNK 92 min. (2020) Drama
Available November 24 DVD
13594796 $19.99
Starring: Karol Bernacki, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Wiktoria Gorodecka In the early Middle Ages, a contingent of knights embarks on a dangerous journey to spread Christianity and baptize the pagan inhabitants of an isolated village hidden deep in the mountains of a faraway island. NR 104 min. (2018) Horror DVD
13582780 $24.99
(Portuguese)
DVD
13541045 $14.99
Violet Evergarden Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (Japanese)
Violet Evergarden works as an Auto Memory Doll, writing people’s thoughts and feelings into letters. Her latest job is a change from the norm as she becomes a tutor to help the heir to the York family, Isabella, become a proper lady. 13UP 93 min. (2020) Anime
Available December 1
BLU-RAY+DVD 13611625 $26.99 2 Discs
GERMAN The Audition
Starring: Nina Hoss, Simon Abkarian, Jens Albinus Anna Bronsky is a violin teacher at a music-focused high school. Despite the opposition of all other teachers, Anna drives through the admission of a student, Alexander, in whom she detects a remarkable talent. UNK 99 min. (2020) Drama DVD
13577235 $27.99
Dream Factory
Starring: Emilia Schule, Ken Duken, Svenja Jung A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra’s ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall. UNK 128 min. (2019) Romance
Available December 1 DVD
13612886 $24.99
The German Lesson
Starring: Ulrich Noethen, Tobias Moretti, Levi Eisenblatter Siggi is in juvenile detention and must write an essay on ‘The Joys of Duty.’ Once put in solitary confinement, he recounts his childhood during the war in a small north German village. UNK 125 min. (2019) Drama
Available December 15 DVD
13612890 $24.99
SPANISH Accidental Blessing
Starring: Luna Baxter, Laura Garcia Marulanda, Juana del Rio Beatriz flees to her childhood home to escape fraud charges, only to discover that her quirky aunt has turned the estate into a high school. What seems at first a terrible surprise will in fact help her finally find a fulfilling path in life. UNK 90 min. (2020) Comedy DVD
24
13541046 $14.99
The Gasoline Thieves
(Huachicolero)
Starring: Leonardo Alonso, Eduardo Banda, Fernando Becerril Propelled by a need for cash to impress a crush, fourteen-year-old Mexican farmhand Lalo finds himself dangerously in over his head after entering into the country’s underworld of illegal gasoline extraction. UNK 93 min. (2019) Suspense
Available November 10 DVD
November 2020 | Midwest Tape | 1.800.875.2785
13579187 $24.99
The Wolf House
The film follows Maria, a young girl who hides in a mysterious abandoned house in southern Chile after escaping from a colony run by German religious fanatics. UNK 73 min. (2018) Animated DVD
13582782 $29.99
