Controversy-courting director Michael Haneke (CACHé) earned the Palm d’Or at Cannes in 2009 for this arresting drama set just before World War I. In a small German village, a number of unexplained accidents beset the schoolchildren and their parents. Though they at first appear coincidental, it begins to seem that they are not, in fact, accidents at all.

Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film! Nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film, and Best Cinematography!

In German, Polish, Italian and Latin with English Subtitles.

Immaculately crafted in beautiful black-and-white and entirely absorbing... -- Todd McCarthy, Variety

The ends remain loose in The White Ribbon. But that lack of closure is thrilling. -- Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

I don’t question Haneke’s craft: it’s his ideas that get under my skin. -- A.O. Scott, At the Movies

This is among the most luminous and painterly of black-and-white films, but what's portrayed will shock or numb you. -- TIME Magazine

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