News and updates Five films vastly different in pace and temperament – yet bound by the theme of family and sororities – make it to our best of international films list Cinema can breed a peculiar rapaciousness—the more you feed on images, the more voracious your appetite becomes. In a year where I could feast on a lot more than usual, I still couldn’t savour a bunch — Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away , Benedikt Erlingsson's Woman At War , Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses , Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life to name just a few. Of the lot that were seen, many have registered strongly in the mind’s eye. The many separations than the few shared moments between Zula and Viktor in Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski’s haunting dissection of the human repercussions of politics, of individual desires getting smothered ...

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