Tsotsi

78th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner
Tsotsi
2005
South Africa
Color
Directed by Gavin Hood

Plot: Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader (Chweneyagae).

Theme: Youth violence, poverty

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Merry Christmas

78th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël)
2005
France
Color
Directed by Christian Carion

Plot: On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.

Theme: WWI, Peace

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Paradise Now

78th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Paradise Now (الجنة الآن)
2005
Palestine
Color
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad

Plot: Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Theme: Terrorism, Religions

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Don't Tell

78th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Don't Tell (La bestia nel cuore)
2005
Italy
Color
Directed by Cristina Comencini

Plot: Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast inside the heart". (Written by 1felco)

Theme: Family secret

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Sophie Scholl – The Final Days

78th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (Die letzten Tage)
2005
Germany
Color
Directed by Marc Rothemund

Plot: A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Theme: WWII, Nazi

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