Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1982 • Sweden
Starring Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Ingmar Bergman intended FANNY AND ALEXANDER as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award-winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality. Bergman described Fanny and Alexander as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.”
Directed by Gabriel Axel • 1987 • Denmark
Starring Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning BABETTE’S FEAST is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Dire...
Directed by Danis Tanović • 2001 • Bosnia and Herzegovina
Starring Branko Djurić, Rene Bitorajac
Set during the Bosnian-Serb conflict, this wickedly satirical Oscar winner is a powerful exploration of the absurdity of war. Fleeing enemy fire, a Bosnian soldier named Čiki (Branko Djurić) retreats...
Directed by Caroline Link • 2001 • Germany
Starring Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler
A love story spanning two continents, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in ...
