Movies by Country: 6 Movies from 6 Countries – I

In this list, we have compiled for you beautiful movies from 6 beautiful countries.You can reach our list of yesterday’s art documentaries here.(The most beautiful art documentaries

Movies are our most important guide. Because it includes feelings that we have not witnessed. I hope it’s been a good list. Lets start. We are with you with 6 beautiful movies.

1.) A Separation (Iran) 2011

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One of the best examples of Iranian cinema; A Separation. This movie, which fascinates the whole world with its realism, is perhaps the best movie that Iranian cinema has released in recent years. Simin (Leyla Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moaadi), married for 14 years, where modern times bring modern problems, decide to divorce. Our couple, who live in a flat with their smart and sensitive 11-year-old daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) and Nader’s elderly father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi), who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and are in constant need of care, are under the responsibility of their big decision, and this is the reason why they want to divorce. While Simin wants to move to a country where there are more opportunities for women and especially for her daughter’s education; Nader says they must stay in Iran to take care of his father.

As we said at the beginning, the director of the film, which takes its power from its realism, is Asgar Ferhadi, the director of Oscar. We should also mention that the film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

2.)City of God ( Brazil) 2002

City of God ”is a furious movie that plunges into the story of Rio de Janeiro’s slum gangs. The movie of Fernando Meirelles, who always ranks high on the list of the best movies ever made, takes place in the slums Rio built to isolate the poor from the city center. The movie starts with the main character who is in the middle of everything with the growth of organized crime in the suburb of Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro between the late 1960s and the early 1980s and ends with the war between drug dealer Li’l Zé and the vigilantes at the close of the film. “If you run away, the monster will catch you; the beast eats you if you stay. ” Let’s also say that the film, in which the slogan is frequently emphasized, has four Oscar nominations.

3.)Incendies (France) 2010

The director of films like; The Fire Inside Me, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, Sicario, and Dune – whose vision was postponed for a year – is French Denis Villeneuve.

Based on Wajdi Mouawad’s award-winning theater play, the film centers on a tragic family story. Confronted with a letter written to them after their mother’s death, twin brothers Jeanne and Simon set out for Lebanon to fulfill their deceased mother’s dying wish upon the call of a lawyer, friends of the family. Although Simon behaves reluctantly at first, he joins his brother Jeanne after a while… Although the years have complicated the family’s history, the children are determined to follow this adventure. But the past they dig into more and more day by day will bring the brothers to face to face with heartbreaking realities. The Fire Inside Me, which sheds light on the darkest period of the Muslim-Christian civil war in Lebanon, was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

4.) Dogtooth (Greece) 2009

The Dog Tooth, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2009 and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in Greece, is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, who is now renowned for his films Lobster and Death of the Sacred Deer. The film, which leaves a bitter taste in the mind, features names such as Christos Stergioglou, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Michele Valley, and Hristos Passalis in the cast.

A controlling, manipulative father (Christos Stergioglou) locks his three adult children in a constant state of childhood, trapping them in fences around their home. Children never get outside of these fences. Three children who even receive all their education at home have no connection with the outside world. With distractions such as Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), an employee of their father who regularly visits the house to sexually serve the boy, they become increasingly curious about the outside world. The big girl (Aggeliki Papoulia) devises a plan to escape, but there is only one way for them to escape; the fall of “canine teeth”… The successful film Dog Fang is also on our list of movies by country.

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5.) Toni Erdmann (Germany)2016

This movie is coming from Germany for all cinema lovers… Toni Erdmann is actually the most prominent feature of female director Maren Ade. With his third film Toni Erdmann, Toni Erdmann attracted the attention of the Academy, especially in independent European cinema, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2017. (The winning movie that year won with Asghar Fardadi The Seller. Who can object?)

Toni Erdmann, a father-daughter story. It got full marks from almost all critics at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered. But perhaps because of the Cannes jury’s prejudice to comedy films, the film, which failed to win an award – as we mentioned above – managed to resonate enough to reach an Oscar nomination. The film, which is not exactly a comedy with a duration of 2 hours and 40 minutes, is about a man who lives with his old dog and spends his days making small jokes to the people around him, trying to communicate with his daughter who lives abroad. In the habitat of his daughter, who is very successful in his job, a father who goes into unfamiliar environments by changing costumes and continues his pranks, of course, causes a conflict. The drama of a “loser” father and a “winner” girl born out of sadness will make you laugh and upset in some places.

6.)Burning (South Korea) 2018

Burning is one of the best examples of South Korean cinema that has been on the rise in recent years. Lee Chang-dong, who previously won international success, was awarded the FIPRESCI award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 for his movie “Burning”. The film, whose script is based on a story by Murakami, was also announced as Korea’s Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in 2019.

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