2018 National Board of Review – Best Foreign Language Films Winner
Burning
Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she’s on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.
Cold War
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Custody
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
Happy as Lazzaro
An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.
Shoplifters
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
The Guilty
A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.