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Title:  The Bora Foreign Title: Sardbad Year: 2024 Country: Iran Language: In Farsi with English subtitles Awards: Director: Mohammad Esmaeili Cast: “Four members of the Sarab mountaineering team made the winter ascent of the Takht-e-Sulaiman Massif. Only one of them managed to return to the base unharmed. The team’s leader didn’t go missing – he was murdered.” And so, begins our film; with white text on a black background, director Muhammad

Title: Muljil: Diving  Foreign Title:  Year: 2025 Country: South Korea Language: In Korean with English subtitles Awards: Director: Young Eun Yoo (Yooye) Credits:  There are hundreds of documentaries about people struggling to secure the most basic, universally accepted necessities of life, food, water and shelter. This is not one of them… Well, not quite. It’s about 77-year-old Yang Young-sam’s melancholy farewell to the sea that has nourished her not only with

Title: Our pantheons Foreign Title: Nos panthéons Year: 2025 Country: France Language: In French with English subtitles Awards: Director: Rosalie Charrier Credits: “Everything is political. Every choice, every camera angle in my technical cuts, everything means something” – Rosalie Charrier, Director The French love their Pantheon. It houses the tombs of great men and women of France, but mainly men. According to D. W. O’Boyle, the creator of a world-building Tabletop Role

Title:Sixty-Seven Milliseconds Foreign Title: Soixante-sept millisecondes Year: 2025 Country: France Language: In French with English subtitles Awards: Directors: Galdric Fleury, Antoine Fontaine Credits: What happens “after” a shooting of a teen is recorded on a surveillance camera? Alternating between images of the high-caliber weapon used in the deed and the repulsive badges of the Anti-Crime Squad who appear and disappear around corners like a video game, the event at the

Title: Four Walls of Memory Foreign Title:  Year: 2024 Country: Poland Language: English Awards: Director: Joanna Płatek Credits: When you think about it, animated shorts are potentially the most imaginative and problematic of all the film genres. Nothing is off the table. Four Walls of Memory may not be the most abstruse work, but it does provide the type of “situation” that will test even the more “open-minded” cinephiles among