Tag: Foreign Films
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #50. Just Philippot’s Eau-forte
Eau-forte
Breaking onto the scene in the thick of the pandemic with 2020's The Swarm (Critics' Week selection), Just Philippot continues to find inspiration in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: 51. Maureen Fazendeiro’s The Seasons
As Estações
We look forward to charting the future filmography of Maureen Fazendeiro - the French filmmaker based in Lisbon who recently gave us The...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #52. Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year's most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #53. Johanna Pyykkö’s Ebba
Ebba
Sweden-Finn filmmaker (based in Norway) Johanna Pyykkö almost grabs our most anticipated debut feature of the year but we nonetheless look forward to noir...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #54. Laura Ferrés’ The Permanent Picture
The Permanent Picture
Another directorial debut we are big on is from a Catalan filmmaker who first got noticed with her short The Disinherited -...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #55. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
We had Canto Tre at the #63 spot and we are ranking part II (or III depending if you include...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #56. Meryam Joobeur’s Motherhood
Motherhood
Tunisian Canadian filmmaker Meryam Joobeur's fourth short film Brotherhood put her on the map (a Sundance-Clermont selection and Oscar-nominated short) and when the industry...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #57. Mahalia Belo’s The End We Start From
The End We Start From
Her filmography to date was shorts and television and so it says a lot about one's skillset when a project...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #58. Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed-Girl
Left-Handed-Girl
We believe this under-the-radar project dipped its toe in co-production coin so we aren't categorizing this shot in Taiwan family drama as American indie...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #59. Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding
Love Lies Bleeding
Among the many A24 films circling the festival circuit this year we have Rose Glass' sophomore feature. Her 2019 debut Saint Maud...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #60. Sofia Alaoui’s Animalia
Animalia
A directorial debut we've been heavily anticipating since we came across her masterful Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize short, French-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui (who was...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #61. Camila Beltrán’s Mi Bestia
Mi Bestia
Programmers will want to keep tabs on this new voice in Colombian cinema. A filmmaker who saw her shorts compete in Clermont-Ferrand and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #62. Mareike Engelhardt’s Rabia
Rabia
A new voice in German cinema embarks on a journey that could have been pulled from the headlines but it's the destination and possible...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #63. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre
Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre
The pandemic and the servings of humble pie eaten after his Cannes 2019 premiere debacle means that while he might...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #64. Catherine Corsini’s Le retour
Le retour
Formerly titled "La Loi du plus fort", Catherine Corsini began filming on Le retour back in September of last year. Set in Corsica,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #65. Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation
The Pod Generation
We thought there was an outside chance that this third feature film The Pod Generation from French-American filmmaker Sophie Barthes would premiere...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #66. Lila Avilés’ Totem
Totem
A project that would have shot sometime around the summer of '21, auteur Lila Avilés reteamed with actress Teresa Sanchez and Lazua Larios (from...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #67. David Michôd’s Wizards!
Wizards!
In his short, quartet feature film filmography David Michôd has given us a garden variety. His fifth feature in Wizards! is no different. Wizards!...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #68. David Zonana’s Heroic
Heroic
A sophomore feature that we thought might drop in '22 will instead break out this month at Sundance. Mexican filmmaker David Zonana who gave...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #69. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool
NEON break in the new year with a title that we've been discussing on and off for some time now. Brandon Cronenberg's first...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #70. Sacha Polak’s Silver Haze
Silver Haze
For her fourth feature film, Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak appears to be moving into an area that blurs the lines - promising "a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #71. Dorota Kobiela’s The Peasants
The Peasants
We thought there might be a genuine chance at catching this last year (we had it at the #80 slot) but the nature...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #72. Joachim Lafosse’s Un silence
Un silence
Working at approximately a film per every three years pace, Joachim Lafosse who last gave us the relationship drama The Restless (a Main...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #73. Emily Atef’s Some Day We Will Tell Each Other Everything
Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen
Quickly after her Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere of More Than Ever, Emily Atef moved onto her next project...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #74. Patricia Mazuy’s Portraits trompeurs
Portraits trompeurs
Two decades after working together on the Un Certain Regard selected Saint-Cyr (2020), Patricia Mazuy is set to reteam with Isabelle Huppert and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #75. Quentin Dupieux’s DAAAAAALI !
DAAAAAALI !
A true original who never seems to be running out of zany ideas, we learned back in November that Quentin Dupieux was at...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #76. Antonio Mendez Esparza’s Que nadie duerma
Que nadie duerma
Settling into his fourth feature film (and third fiction following 2020's Courtroom 3H) in February of last year, Spaniard Antonio Mendez Esparza...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #77. Fien Troch’s Holly
Holly
A fifth feature film backed by an army of producers with Antonino Lombardo and Elisa Heene leading the charge with co-producers such as the...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #78. Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara
Matt and Mara
A project that was shot a little bit under the radar, Torontonian Kazik Radwanski moved into production on his fourth feature this...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #79. Jérémy Clapin’s Pendant ce temps sur Terre
Pendant ce temps sur Terre
Jérémy Clapin made a huge splash with his debut film J'ai perdu mon corps (the animated film premiered in the...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #80. Katell Quillévéré’s Le Temps d’aimer
Le Temps d’aimer
Production on Katell Quillévéré's highly anticipated fourth film began in June of last year in northern, France. Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #81. Stéphanie Di Giusto’s La Rosalie
La Rosalie
Production on Stéphanie Di Giusto's sophomore feature took place in October of last year and it features the likes of Nadia Tereszkiewicz (a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #82. Sofia Exarchou’s Animal
Animal
She saw her feature debut Park break out at major A fests such as TIFF, San Sebastián and Rotterdam, Sofia Exarchou would get a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #83. Laura Luchetti’s La bella estate
La bella estate
Following her critically acclaimed sophomore feature Twin Flower (world preem at 2018's TIFF), Laura Luchetti went on to shoot ten episodes of an...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #84. Thomas Lilti’s Un Métier sérieux
Un Métier sérieux
Production on Thomas Lilti's fifth feature commenced back in February of '22 in Normandy with a formidable comprised of Vincent Lacoste, François...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #85. Garth Davis’ Foe
Foe
Lion (2016) and Mary Magdalene (2018) filmmaker Garth Davis moved into an ambitious sci-fi thriller third feature in January of 2022. Starring Saoirse Ronan,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #86. Delphine Girard’s Le plus vivant possible
Le plus vivant possible
We had Delphine Girard's Le plus vivant possible has a possible 2022 drop, but perhaps there wasn't enough time in post...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #87. Ena Sendijarevic’s Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams
Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević first landed on the scene with Take Me Somewhere Nice - it premiered in the Tiger Competition in Rotterdam...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #88. Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Banel & Adama
Banel & Adama
A recent Red Sea Souk Award winner this past December, Banel & Adama is an under-the-radar buzz title and directorial debut by...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #89. Giacomo Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy
Disco Boy
A project that received backing in the shape of a Cinefondation residency and an Arte Development Prize at the Arcs Film Festival's Village...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #90. Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s Eat the Night
Eat the Night
Prior to premiering their feature debut Jessica Forever (TIFF Platform followed by a showcase at the Berlinale), Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #91. Vladimir Perišić’s La honte
La honte
While he did contribute a segment in the Bridges of Sarajevo omnibus, Ordinary People's Vladimir Perišić will have taken more than a dozen...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #92. Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal’s They Shot The Piano Player
They Shot The Piano Player
Producers were hopeful for a Spring delivery date but we never know with animated films. Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal's...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #93. Alex Garland’s Civil War
Civil War
Weeks before premiering Men in Cannes in the Directors' Fortnight section, Alex Garland jumped into his fourth feature film (and third A24 project)...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #94. Erwan Le Duc’s No Love Lost
La fille de son père (aka No Love Lost)
For his sophomore feature (which received some Fondation Gan coin), Erwan Le Duc moves...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #95. Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun
Rotting in the Sun
Before sliding into television (he has two projects in development with Ari Aster and the A24 folks), Sebastián Silva will be...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #96. Jessica Woodworth’s Luka
Luka
Shot in glorious B&W and Super 16mm, Belgian-American filmmaker Jessica Woodworth mounted this solo adventure utilizing the backdrop of Sicily back in October of...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #97. Liu Jian’s Art College 1994
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Identified as the film that was pulled from the Directors' Fortnight less than a week before...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #98. Liliana Cavani’s L’ordine del tempo
L’ordine del tempo
On our list we have a quartet of filmmakers who returned to the director's chair after at least a decade away and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #99. François Ozon’s Mon Crime
Mon Crime
In his usual form, the indefatigable French filmmaker François Ozon filmed his twenty-second feature last April with the likes of Rebecca Marder and...
