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Topic: foreign language films

Ki-jung Kim (So-dam Park) and Ki-woo Park (Woo-sik Choi) in "Parasite." (Courtesy of NEON + CJ Entertainment)

"Parasite": Class war, Korean-style

Andrew O'Hehir
"Birds of Passage" (2018 New Zealand International Film Festival)

Six foreign Language Oscar contenders

Gary M. Kramer
"Fire at Sea" (01 Distribution)

"I saw the dead bodies"

Gary M. Kramer
A still from Krzysztof Kieslowski's TV series "Dekalog" (Janus Films)

How "Dekalog" changed TV

Andrew O'Hehir
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Agata Kulesza, Joanna Kulig, and Lou de Laâge in "The Innocents" (Aeroplan Film)

Rape and rebirth, in a convent

Andrew O'Hehir
Do Won Kwak and Han-Cheol Jo in "The Wailing" (Pan Media & Entertainment)

Summer's first great movie

Andrew O'Hehir
The Idol (Adopt Films)

Building a Palestinian "Idol"

Andrew O'Hehir
(TIFF)

Auschwitz as a workplace

Andrew O'Hehir
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From left: Leonardo Ortizgris, Sebastián Aguirre and Tenoch Huerta in “Güeros."

Up all night: Mexico City 1999

Andrew O'Hehir
Golshifteh Farahani in "About Elly" (The Cinema Guild, Inc.)

A masterful Iranian thriller

Andrew O'Hehir

An African film breakthrough

Andrew O'Hehir
Anne Dorval and Antoine-Olivier Pilon in "Mommy" (Roadside Attractions)

Down and out in Quebec's burbs

Andrew O'Hehir
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(Elena Lyadova in "Leviathan")

A tragicomic Russian classic

Andrew O'Hehir

A haunting Turkish masterpiece

Andrew O'Hehir

Vampire in a chador

Andrew O'Hehir
Kristofer Hivju in "Force Majeure" (Magnolia Pictures)

A gripping marriage disaster

Andrew O'Hehir
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Luminita Gheorghiu in "Child's Pose"

A gripping mother-son thriller

Andrew O'Hehir

David Lynch-esque doomed love

Andrew O'Hehir
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Prachi Gupta
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