The Second Mother
The Second Mother probably has the single best performance in a foreign film I have seen this year.
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The Throne
Both The Assassin (China) director Hsiao-Hsien Hou and Joon-ik Lee, director of The Throne (South Korea), have spent eight years on the sidelines before returning to film.
White Dog
The most usual thing about White God, the official entry from Hungary for best foreign language film, is how it’s a “dog film” that probably will make dog lovers grimace.
Timbuktu
Mauritania is a country in West Africa with about 3 million people. This is Mauritania’s first time submitting a film to the Academy Awards foreign language category and obviously their first nomination. However this isn’t director Abderrahmane Sissako’s first time with an award winning film, in 2002 he also was singled out at the Cannes