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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #85. Garth Davis’ Foe

Published on January 13, 2023

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, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre, the Amazon Studios project is an adaptation of the Iain Reid novel and went into production in Australia. Foe is being coined as a ” taut, sensual, psychological mind-bender set.” Anonymous Content’s Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, See-Saw Films’ Emile Sherman and Iain Canning and Davis’ I Am That shingle produced the project. This might be a beast of a project – so a fest strategy entry point will be critical in the eventual theatrical and platform rollout.

Gist: Set slightly in the future, after severe climate change has ruined farmland. A farmer and his wife struggle on one of the last remaining farms until a knock on the door changes things.

Release Date/Prediction: Amazon Studios will stake out a spot at a major film fest – perhaps Toronto?

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).