OXNARD FILM SOCIETY
The Oxnard Film Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) ARTS organization (#20-5734347).
presents
THE monday night foreign film series
Celebrating Our 19th Year
All dialog in films from non-English speaking countries will be presented in its original language accompanied by English subtitles
All dialog in films from non-English speaking countries will be presented in its original language accompanied by English subtitles
Screenings at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas 14 in downtown Oxnard.
KOKUHO (2025) has become a historic box office phenomenon in Japan, shattering the 22-year record for the highest-grossing live-action film in Japanese history. Japan's submission to this year's Academy Awards, KOKUHO screens on Monday, April 20 at Plaza Cinemas. Due to length of film we will start the film at 3:35pm/6:35pm without trailers. Please arrive early.
Just a reminder to our patrons that I personally preview each film to insure a great viewing experience each and every Monday screening.
Our Foreign Film Series usually screens two films (sometimes three) each month, on the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas 14.
We will continue our mission of providing the Best of World Cinema to the Oxnard and Ventura County community along with supporting local filmmakers.
Thanks and Be Safe, George J. Sandoval, Executive Director
Just a reminder to our patrons that I personally preview each film to insure a great viewing experience each and every Monday screening.
Our Foreign Film Series usually screens two films (sometimes three) each month, on the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas 14.
We will continue our mission of providing the Best of World Cinema to the Oxnard and Ventura County community along with supporting local filmmakers.
Thanks and Be Safe, George J. Sandoval, Executive Director
Plaza Cinemas 14, 255 West 5th Street, Oxnard CA 93030
General Admission: $11.75/ General Admission Matinee: $9.25
Seniors/Children/Military: $8.50
General Admission: $11.75/ General Admission Matinee: $9.25
Seniors/Children/Military: $8.50
We'd like to thank the Port of Hueneme for becoming
a 2026 Annual Sponsor of the Oxnard Film Society.
a 2026 Annual Sponsor of the Oxnard Film Society.
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Monday, April 20 at 3:30pm & 6:30pm
KOKUHO
2025 Japan 2h 54 minutes
Drama NR
In Japanese with English subtitles
Japan's Submission to Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film "Nagasaki, 1964. After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, Kikuo decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. Across decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – from acting school to the grandest stages – amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals, as each pushes to become the greatest living Kabuki master.
From acclaimed director Lee Sang-il (Pachinko), KOKUHO (meaning ""national treasure"") is a film of awe-inspiring scope and sumptuous beauty, and a monument to the artists who would sacrifice everything in the pursuit of the ultimate performance."
Film Sponsor: Shima Lara
2025 Japan 2h 54 minutes
Drama NR
In Japanese with English subtitles
Japan's Submission to Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film "Nagasaki, 1964. After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, Kikuo decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. Across decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – from acting school to the grandest stages – amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals, as each pushes to become the greatest living Kabuki master.
From acclaimed director Lee Sang-il (Pachinko), KOKUHO (meaning ""national treasure"") is a film of awe-inspiring scope and sumptuous beauty, and a monument to the artists who would sacrifice everything in the pursuit of the ultimate performance."
Film Sponsor: Shima Lara
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"The filming is gorgeous, though the story becomes attenuated in its third hour. Still, it's easy to see how this film, nominated for best makeup and hairstyling at this year's Oscars, became Japan's highest-grossing live-action film." - Bob Mondello, NPR
"a cinematic epic, a sweeping saga that pits innate talent against traditional hereditary birthright throughout decades...one of 2025's very best. " - Laura Clifford , Reeling Reviews "Yet, even as it periodically languishes, the film comes back around, with some moving flourishes, to stamp its idea: To witness these vicissitudes over a lifetime, is to see the beauty, bloodshed and loneliness of true artistic greatness." - Brandon Yu, New York Times |
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Monday, May 4th at 3:30pm & 6:30pm
CALLE MALAGA
2025 Morocco 1h 56 minutes
Drama/Romance NR
In Spanish with English subtitles
Morocco's Submission to Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.
Film Sponsor: Dr. Jesus Gonzales and Dr. Terry Gonzales
2025 Morocco 1h 56 minutes
Drama/Romance NR
In Spanish with English subtitles
Morocco's Submission to Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.
Film Sponsor: Dr. Jesus Gonzales and Dr. Terry Gonzales
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“Maura is as good as it gets … there is no doubt in my mind why it became an audience winner in Venice.”
- Pete Hammond, Deadline "Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Tousani's warm and tender dramatic exploration of a simple, gentle life cycle is invigorated by the expressive Spanish actress Carmen Maura as a vibrant 79-year-old widow. Maura commands the screen like a maestra seizing a baton" - Lynn Venhaus, AWFJ.org "Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts." - Guy Lodge, Variety |
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Monday, May 18th at 3:30pm & 6:30pm
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN
2025 Denmark, Czechia, Germany 1hr 30minutes
Documentary NR
In Russian with English subtitles
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature - 98th Academy Awards
Official submission of Denmark for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 98th Academy Awards in 2026.
Pasha Talankin is an unlikely hero—a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a safe haven in his office. After Russia invades Ukraine, Pasha’s role in the school changes dramatically as he is reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine. Forced to promote state-sanctioned messages and horrified by the transformation of his school and community, he struggles with guilt and a sense of powerlessness, leading him to become an international whistleblower.
As the school’s videographer, Pasha documents intimate and revealing footage of Putin’s regime, capturing the rise of militarized children’s groups, repressive laws, fervent nationalism, and the recruitment of graduating students to fight in the war. When he learns his own life may be at risk, Pasha is forced to plan a dangerous escape from Russia.
2025 Denmark, Czechia, Germany 1hr 30minutes
Documentary NR
In Russian with English subtitles
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature - 98th Academy Awards
Official submission of Denmark for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 98th Academy Awards in 2026.
Pasha Talankin is an unlikely hero—a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a safe haven in his office. After Russia invades Ukraine, Pasha’s role in the school changes dramatically as he is reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine. Forced to promote state-sanctioned messages and horrified by the transformation of his school and community, he struggles with guilt and a sense of powerlessness, leading him to become an international whistleblower.
As the school’s videographer, Pasha documents intimate and revealing footage of Putin’s regime, capturing the rise of militarized children’s groups, repressive laws, fervent nationalism, and the recruitment of graduating students to fight in the war. When he learns his own life may be at risk, Pasha is forced to plan a dangerous escape from Russia.
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“Through the eyes of its delightfully brave, yet utterly relatable subject (also the de facto cinematographer), this terrifying, revelatory and poignant exposé offers an unseen human angle on an ongoing conflict.”
– Carlos Aguilar, Variety “In the wave of documentaries about the Ukraine War that have come out over the past two years, there hasn’t been one that’s offered what Mr. Nobody Against Putin does — and certainly not with such wit, verve, and insight.” – Christian Blauvelt, Indiewire “A cross between School of Rock and 1984, a surprisingly funny study of how authoritarian regimes break the spirit of all except the most unlikely.” – Helen Rumbelow, The Times |
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Monday, June 1st at 3:30pm & 6:30pm
- LATE SHIFT
2025 Switzerland, Germany 92 minutes
Drama NR
In German, Turkish and French with English subtitles
Switzerland's Submission to Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
With a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Benesch, The Teachers’
Lounge) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she works as a
nurse on the overnight shift. With one colleague out sick and no replacement on
deck, just two nurses and a nervous trainee will have to cover more than two dozen
patients. The doctors to whom the nurses are supposed to defer are nowhere to be
found. Floria juggles endless tasks: administering medication, updating charts,
soothing patients, answering phones, and managing complaints. Surrounded by
fluorescent lights, the steady beeping of monitors, and echoing footsteps, Floria
struggles to fight off exhaustion and maintain her professional demeanor. Every
second counts, and every interruption could mean the difference between life and
death.
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"It’s an intimate look at the fraying of nerves that happens when dealing with the fragility of the human body on a daily basis, a portrait of the caretaker as a soldier in the trenches." - David Fear, Rolling Stone
"Benesch’s beautifully controlled performance — a balancing act of anxious, fidgety physicality and poker-faced concentration — shows us the difficulty of honoring each patient’s humanity when workplace conditions demand efficiency over empathy." - Beatrice Loayza, New York Times |
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Monday, June 15th at 3:30pm & 6:30pm
AMRUM
2025 Germany 92 minutes
Drama NR
In German with English subtitles
It is the Spring of 1945 on the German island of Amrum, a remote outpost in the North Sea. The front is far away, and 12-year-old Nanning (newcomer Jasper Billerbeck) spends his days working the nearby farm and his nights fishing, helping his mother to feed their family. Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept isle seems idyllic. When their anti-fascist neighbor Tessa (Diane Kruger) mentions to Nanning that the war will soon be over, the boy – too young to understand the political implications – is pleased to imagine that his father, a Nazi officer, might soon be coming home. But his mother Hille (Laura Tonke) is a true believer, and word of Germany’s imminent defeat sends her into decline. One day from her sick bed, she wishes for white bread, butter and honey, near impossible luxuries on Amrum which Nanning innocently tries to find for her. But as he sets off on his quest, he learns from his neighbors that the enemy is far closer than he imagined. From Golden Globe Award-winning filmmaker Fatih Akin (In the Fade, Head-On), Amrum is a tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence set against the waning days of the Second World War.
2025 Germany 92 minutes
Drama NR
In German with English subtitles
It is the Spring of 1945 on the German island of Amrum, a remote outpost in the North Sea. The front is far away, and 12-year-old Nanning (newcomer Jasper Billerbeck) spends his days working the nearby farm and his nights fishing, helping his mother to feed their family. Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept isle seems idyllic. When their anti-fascist neighbor Tessa (Diane Kruger) mentions to Nanning that the war will soon be over, the boy – too young to understand the political implications – is pleased to imagine that his father, a Nazi officer, might soon be coming home. But his mother Hille (Laura Tonke) is a true believer, and word of Germany’s imminent defeat sends her into decline. One day from her sick bed, she wishes for white bread, butter and honey, near impossible luxuries on Amrum which Nanning innocently tries to find for her. But as he sets off on his quest, he learns from his neighbors that the enemy is far closer than he imagined. From Golden Globe Award-winning filmmaker Fatih Akin (In the Fade, Head-On), Amrum is a tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence set against the waning days of the Second World War.
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"Set on a picturesque windswept German island in the waning days of World War II, the Cannes selection walks an impossible morality line with delicate beauty." -
Tomris Laffly, Variety [Fatih Akin] fashions a tender coming-of-age film that steers clear of the sappy and the showy and touches a chord with both a sense of loss for and hope in a child’s innocence. - Namrata Joshi, The New Indian Express |
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The Oxnard Film Society is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization. Your contribution is tax deductible. Thank you. (#20-5734347)
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LOCATION MAIL ADDRESS
Plaza Cinemas 14 Oxnard Film Society 255 West 5th Street PO Box 606 Oxnard, CA 93030 Oxnard, CA 93032-0606 |
ADMISSION
Seniors/Students/Military $8.50 General Admission Matinee $9.25 General Admission Evening $11.75 |
Executive Director: George J. Sandoval Info at: [email protected] - 805.798.0830
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