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What better way to celebrate International Education Week (November 13-17) than by renting a video from the Library's extensive collection of international films?
View a list of over 800 international film titles in the Library catalog.
| Nimeh-ye penhan (Iran) The Hidden Half Khosro is sent from the president's office on a fact-finding mission to Shiraz to investigate the complaints of a female political prisoner awaiting execution. Khosro's wife Fereshteh, being of the same generation as the prisoner, decides to do something about her situation. Fereshteh writes of her own participation in the revolution of 1980, of which her husband is unaware. In his hotel room in Shiraz, Khosro begins to read his wife's memoirs the night before he is to visit the prisoner. | 
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| Yeshou xingjing (China) Beast Cops A shady cop and a by-the-book officer find themselves drawn into a showdown between thugs and the law in Hong Kong's toughest neighborhood. (VHS) | 
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| Winterschlafer (Germany) Winter Sleepers Rebecca, a young translator, lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. René, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local farmer Theo, whose daughter is almost killed. René suffers amnesia as a result of a crash and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car. The convoluted relationships between these characters is told-- René being the catalyst for it all. | 
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| Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto (Italy) Swept Away A rich capitalist woman taunts and teases her working-class, Communist deckhand during a sailing party. A boating accident leaves them stranded together on a deserted island, and it is the deckhand's turn to humiliate his employer, but her eventual submission to him seems to leave them in love with each other. Not Madonna's Swept Away or Goldie Hawn's Overboard. This is the 1974 original in all it's Italian glory. (VHS) | 
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| Subarashiki nichiyobi (Japan) One Wonderful Sunday A young factory worker and his fiancee spend their weekly holiday together. It is a Sunday in spring and they have just thirty-five yen, but together they overcome several near disasters. The theme of the film is to try, and try again. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. (VHS) | 
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| Un long dimanche de fiançailles (France) A Very Long Engagement Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiance to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories. Starring Audrey Tatou and based on the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. | 
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| Dom durakov (Russia) House of Fools Psychiatric patients become entrenched in the Chechen War after the staff leave to find them a safer hospital. Soldiers take over the asylum, and a young female patient falls in love with a soldier. Based on a true story! Venice Film Festival, 2002: Grand Special Jury Prize (Andrei Konchalovsky). | 
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| Abre los Ojos (Spain) Open Your Eyes César tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, César's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies in his dreams. Sound kind of familiar? Vanilla Sky was based on this Spanish film. An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. (VHS) | 
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| Dzien swira (Poland) Day of the Wacko Depicts a day in the life of a 49-year-old school teacher who is completely disillusioned with his reality. As he looks for causes for his unhappiness, he blames his neighbors, his mother, his students, everyone but his own pathetic self. Winner of 2 Golden Lions Awards, Polish film of the year 2002, and the 2003 European Eagle Award. | 
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| 301/302 (Korea) When the young woman in apartment 302 disappears, a detective visits the woman in 301 to start the investigation. Through flashbacks, we meet two women who share common, yet completely dissimilar, obsesssions about food and men. A black comedy. Winner of Korea's Grand Bell Award. (VHS) | 
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