A War

88th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
A War (Krigen)
2015
Denmark
Color
Directed by Tobias Lindholm

Plot: Company commander Claus M. Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile, back in Denmark, Claus' wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.

Theme: Crime, Drama, War

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Theeb

88th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Theeb (ذيب)
2015
Jordan
Color
Directed by Naji Abu Nowar

Plot: In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.

Theme: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

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Mustang

88th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Mustang
2015
France
Color
Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Plot: When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.

Theme: Drama

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Embrace of the Serpent

88th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente)
2015
Columbia
B&W | Color
Directed by Ciro Guerra

Plot: The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

Theme: Adventure, Drama, History

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Son of Saul

88th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner
Son of Saul (Saul fia)
2015
Hungary
Color
Directed by László Nemes

Plot: In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

Theme: Drama, Thriller, War

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