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Mongol
Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Sergei Bodrov's "Mongol" recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
First time filmmaker Cristian Mungiu's devastating drama "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" tells the story of a young woman who helps her friend obtain an illegal abortion in 1980s Communist Romania. Winner of the Palme D'or at the Cannes Film Festival, "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" makes its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival.

Day Watch
The second installment of the horror-fantasy trilogy that famously out-grossed The Lord of the Rings in its native Russia, Day Watch stages a timeless war between good and evil in the snowed-in streets of contemporary Moscow.

Kontroll
Set entirely underground in the Budapest subway sytem, Nimrod Antal's "Kontroll" is a terse, claustrophobic debut, rich in gritty characters and shocking incidents but short on explanation, rhyme, or reason.