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Use our World Map to find the best films from each country, choose a continent below to explore the best films from each continent, or simply scroll down to see our latest posts featuring films from around the world. Or, if you're up for a challenge, work your way up to the top of our Film Difficulty Rankings to become a World Film expert.
If you’re a boxing fan or simply a regular gym rat, you’ll be able to sympathise with Christ in Boxing Libreville. He’s a boxer who trains all day and works all night to try to become the best boxer in Gabon as the hope of a new political future builds in the background.
From: Gabon, Africa Watch: Trailer Next: Makala, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, Fruitvale StationContinue reading “Boxing Libreville – Boxing for Freedom in Gabon”
In Crystal Swan you’ll meet Velya, an aspiring club DJ living in Minsk who doesn’t fit in Belarus. So she tries to get a U.S. visa to go live a better life abroad. The only problem is that she doesn’t have a respectable job to put on her visa application. So she puts down a fake job and adds a fake telephone number. However, when the visa officials say they will call her to confirm her application, she goes on a journey to rural Belarus to track down the number and try and make her American dream come true.
From: Belarus, Europe
Watch: Trailer
Next: Ladybird, Volver, Run Lola Run
If you’re looking for a heart warming Sri Lankan film with widescreen shots of the beautiful Sri Lankan landscape, you’ve come to the wrong place. House of My Fathers deliberately uses a narrower screen (as you’ll see in the trailer) to focus your eye on the trauma from the Sri Lankan civil war. You’ll meet one man and one woman,one Sinhala and the other Tamil, who are sent to an island together to find peace for the two communities. It’s a contemporary myth/fable full of dreams and visions.
From: Sri Lanka, AsiaContinue reading “House of My Fathers – Civil War Trauma in Sri Lanka”
Watch: Trailer
Next: Ahlaam, Sleepwalking Land, Tanna
If you’re looking for a fun road movie like Thelma and Louise or Y Tu Mama Tambien, you’ve come to the wrong place. The Load is a brutal depiction of a country traumatised by war – it’s not a place where humour exists. There are no bright colours and no sweeping landscape shots. No one really knows what they’re doing, and there aren’t any dreams.
From: Serbia, EuropeContinue reading “The Load – A Road Trip Through Serbia’s Wasteland”
Watch: Trailer
Next: Shok, The Trader, Mardan
Freedom Fields follows a group of Libyan women trying to start up the women’s Libyan football team. They’ve all grown up watching sports stars like Messi and Ronaldo and want to be just like them. However, in a fiercely patriarchal society, their dreams are under threat from extremist preachers and their conservative followers.
From: Libya, AfricaContinue reading “Freedom Fields – Meet the Libyan Women’s Football Team”
Watch: Trailer
Next: Wadjda, The Eagle Huntress, Girlhood
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