Timbuktu

87th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Timbuktu
2014
Mauritania
Color
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako

Plot: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed.

Theme: Drama

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Wild Tales

87th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes)
2014
Argentina
Color
Directed by Damián Szifrón

Plot: Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

Theme: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

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Tangerines

87th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Tangerines (Mandariinid)
2014
Estonia
Color
Directed by Zaza Urushadze

Plot: War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region in 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.

Theme: Drama, War

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Leviathan

87th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Leviathan (Левиафан)
2014
Russia
Color
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Plot: In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Theme: Drama

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Ida

87th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner
Ida
2014
Poland
B&W
Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

Plot: Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.

Theme: Drama

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