Comic slice-of-life drama about three generations of women living in post-soviet Tblisi in Georgia.

This Belgian film, made by the same director team as "La Promesse," is about a young man who attempts to sell his girlfriend's baby and gets himself into a lot of trouble.

Two men, best friends from childhood, are summoned to fulfill their agreement to be suicide bombers for the Palestinian cause. Written and directed by Hany Abu-Assad.

This multi-award-winning film from Spain tackles the difficult subject of domestic abuse and in particular a father's abusive relationship with his twelve-year-old son.

Director Deepa Mehta's story has the lushly romantic impulses of her earlier film, "Earth," while in its portrayal of Hindu practices in 1938 it has its own moral and political message to relate in the face of injustice and unreason.

Tony Fingleton's account of his achievement as a championship swimmer in 1960s Australia. Fine performances by Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis.

Set in the Golan Heights, the characters in this film attempt to have a wedding in which the bride and groom come from opposite sides of the Israeli-held border with Syria.

A young girl must pass for a boy in this sobering film that explores the soul-crushing impact of the Taliban's reformist practices on the people of Afghanistan during their 5 years ruling the country.

In this Taiwanese film, the estranged parents of a teenage son live together in a small apartment, reaching out for human contact through moments of illicit encounters, while the boy falls ill.

Iranian director Magid Magidi portrays the plight of a blind boy whose misfortune it is to have a widowed father more selfishly concerned with winning a new wife than caring for his disabled son.

Another film by Majid Majidi. In a Tehran building site, a 17-year-old Iranian loses his job to a young Afghan refugee who turns out to be a girl in disguise.

Set in 1953, this film was shot in the far northern regions of Canada. A well-done story of survival in the Arctic wilderness that's a fascinating 90-minute journey into the heart of Inuit culture

Set in a town in Croatia during the early 1990s at the time of Balkan War, this melancholy film follows several characters in the aftermath of the killing of a Serb man by Croatian soldiers on leave. Told out of sequence and with scenes repeated from different points of view, viewers are kept in a shroud of mystery until the end, as all the pieces and what they mean finally come together.

A nervous, frenetic, fast-paced story with multiple plot threads, characters in head-on conflict, and a fascinating, agitated performance by actor Romain Duris. In French.

A mix of thriller and police procedural, this film by Flemish director Erik Van Looy is clever, intelligent, and compelling. There is wit and some broad humor, and it recalls at times the finest suspense sequences in Alfred Hitchcock, managing to keep our sympathies with both the young police investigators and the aging hit man they are pursuing - quite a trick.

Set in Dublin, this film is an ensemble piece that loosely weaves together more plot threads than a viewer can hope to follow or account for after seeing the whole film, it has a capable cast skillfully portraying a broad range of characters, not any of them particularly sympathetic, though you find yourself cheering for some of their small victories.

This is an unusual story about two urban souls who find each other and then don't fall in love as conventional movie stories lead us to expect. What develops instead is a kind of friendship, as a young man patiently insinuates himself into a woman's life and the life of her young daughter.

This gleefully diabolical film by French director Claude Chabrol gives new meaning to the term "going postal." Nicely creepy from the very beginning, it's a bloody wreck in slow motion that you can see coming from a long way off. What mystifies is the exact form it will all take, and Chabrol does not disappoint.

This languid, elliptical film set in Istanbul is a fascinating, Chekhovian study of urban isolation, as a divorced, middle-age photographer reluctantly takes in a younger man from the country, who is looking for work.

This long and rambling - though fast-paced - film is loosely based on the memoirs of two French filmmakers, who worked in the movie industry during the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.