Tag: 2017 Most Anticipated Foreign Films List
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With his sixth feature film, Son of Joseph, New York born French-language...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #1. Michael Haneke’s Happy End
Happy End
Director: Michael Haneke
Writer: Michael Haneke
At the end of 2015, after several mentions of a reunion from Isabelle Huppert, news broke of Michael Haneke’s...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #2. Carlos Reygadas’ Where Life is Born
Where Life is Born
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Writer: Carlos Reygadas
Open couples relationships and bull breeding ranches form the backdrop for the latest from Mexican auteur Carlos...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #3. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub is Mektoub
Mektoub is Mektoub
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer: Francois Begaudeau
French Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche stormed Cannes in 2013 with his controversial fifth film, Blue is the Warmest...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #4. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless
Loveless
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer: Oleg Nevin
One of the most notable contemporary Russian filmmakers, Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to the realm of the domestic drama for his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #5. Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
Zama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
We’ve been waiting quite a while for Zama, and had high hopes this would appear at either Cannes or Venice...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #6. Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
Okja
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Writer: Bong Joon-ho, Jon Ronson
Fans of South Korean auteur Bong Joon-Ho’s 2013 English language debut Snowpiercer will most likely be excited to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #7. Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Writer: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky‘s debut, The Tribe, was one of the best titles out of Cannes 2014 (where it swept...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #8. Serge Bozon’s Madame Hyde
Madame Hyde
Director: Serge Bozon
Writer: Serge Bozon
Serge Bozon’s wonky sophomore effort Tip Top was a slapstick comedy skewering racial tension and police procedures in France...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #9. Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature
A Gentle Creature
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Writer: Sergei Loznitsa
Having completed three documentaries, plus several documentary shorts since his 2012 sophomore narrative feature In the Fog, Ukrainian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #10. Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side of Hope
The Other Side of Hope (aka Refugee)
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Writer: Aki Kaurismaki
Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki scored some of the best notices of his impressive career...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #11. Benoit Jacquot’s Eva
Eva
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Writer: Benoit Jacquot, Gilles Taurand
Several months after premiering his Don DeLillo adaptation Never Ever out of competition in Venice last September, the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #12. Jean-Luc Godard’s Image Et Parole
Image Et Parole
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
Little is known about a new project from Nouvelle Vague icon Jean-Luc Godard, a project fleetingly announced in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #13. Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s Let the Bodies Sunbathe!
Let the Bodies Sunbathe!
Director: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Writer: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
We’ve been tracking this latest project from Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani since...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #14. Ulrich Seidl’s Evil Games
Evil Games
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer: Ulrich Seidl
Since premiering his masterpiece Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, the Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has returned to heavy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #15. Erick Zonca’s Black River
Black River
Director: Erick Zonca
Writer: Erick Zonca, Lou de Fanget Signolet
French director Erick Zonca scored his most critically acclaimed hit with his 1998 debut The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #16. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos.
Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Following the success of 2015’s The Lobster, Greek Weird Wave forefather Yorgos Lanthimos...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #17. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
The Nightingale
Director: Jennifer Kent
Writer: Jennifer Kent
Before her notable 2014 debut The Babadook (which premiered to ecstatic review out of Sundance) had reached theatrical release,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #18. Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story
Based on a True Story
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Olivier Assayas, Roman Polanski
After some more court related issues seemingly delayed his long gestating project The Dreyfus...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #19. Ruben Ostlund’s The Square
The Square
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Writer: Ruben Ostlund
While plans are underway for an English language remake of Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s internationally lauded Force Majeure (2014),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #20. Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma
Roma
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Writer: Alfonso Cuaron
After his Oscar winning 2013 big budget Gravity, news of Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuaron’s next project has been highly anticipated....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #21. Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau (Nighthawk)
Bacurau (Nighthawk)
Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles
Writer: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles
Brazilian film critic turned director Kleber Mendonca Filho has become a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #22. Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Lean on Pete
Director: Andrew Haigh
Writer: Andrew Haigh
British filmmaker Andrew Haigh may possibly unveil two new projects this year, the first being Lean on Pete,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #23. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Suspiria
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: David Kajganich
Considering his dry spell between 2009's I Am Love and 2015's A Bigger Splash, it's hard to believe we're going...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #24. Bruno Dumont’s Jeannette
Jeannette
Director: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont
French director Bruno Dumont has weaned himself off naturalism and will now focus on comedy, where he claims one can...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #25. Hong Sang-soo’s Claire’s Camera
Claire's Camera
Director: Hong Sangsoo
Writer: Hong Sangsoo
Usually there's little news about a new Hong Sangsoo title until it shows up in a film festival program....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #26. Joachim Trier’s Thelma
Thelma
Director: Joachim Trier
Writer: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Following his 2015 English language debut Louder than Bombs, Norwegian director Joachim Trier returns to Norway for romantic...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #27. Michael Roskam’s The Racer and the Jailbird
The Racer and the Jailbird
Director: Michael R. Roskam
Writer: Thomas Bidegain, Noe Debre, Michael R. Roskam
Breaking out in 2011 in the Panorama section at the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #28. Philippe Garrel’s One Day Lover
One Day Lover
Director: Philippe Garrel
Writer: Jean-Claude Carriere, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Arlette Langmann, Philippe Garrel
French auteur Philippe Garrel presented one of his strongest entries in years...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #29. Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Les Vacances
Les Vacances
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is one of the most prominent figures to come out of Iran's New Wave, though he left...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #30. Lech Majewski’s Valley of the Gods
Valley of the Gods
Director: Lech Majewski
Writer: Lech Majewski
Polish writer/director Lech Majewski, who received story credit on Julian Schnabel’s 1996 Basquiat, has garnered acclaim for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #31. Aleksey German Jr.’s Dovlatov
Dovlatov
Director: Aleksey German Jr.
Writer: Aleksey German Jr., Katherine Dovlatov
Since helping to complete his father’s posthumous opus Hard to Be a God, Russian director Aleksey...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #32. Lorenzo Vigas’ The Box
The Box
Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Writer: Lorenzo Vigas
After becoming the first Venezuelan to win Venice with 2015’s From Afar, Lorenzo Vigas announced plans to complete his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #33. Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: Luca Guadagnino, James Ivory, Walter Fasano
A surprise announcement came when Luca Guadagnino was in the middle of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #34. Lisa Langseth’s Euphoria
Euphoria
Director: Lisa Langseth
Writer: Lisa Langseth
Swedish director Lisa Langseth makes her English language debut with her third feature, Euphoria. A festival favorite thanks to her...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #35. Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts
Ismael’s Ghosts
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Writer: Arnaud Desplechin, Lea Mysius, Julie Peyr
Arnaud Desplechin has been one of the most notable contemporary Gallic auteurs since the mid-1990s,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #36. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Strolling Invader
Strolling Invader
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writer: Tomohiro Maekawa
2016 was a notable year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who premiered his excellent genre thriller Creepy in Berlin and his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 37. John Cameron Mitchell’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Writer: Philippa Goslett, John Cameron Mitchell
We’d had high hopes this would have popped up in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #38. Martin Provost’s The Midwife
The Midwife
Director: Martin Provost
Writer: Martin Provost
French director Martin Provost has consistently crafted strong, prominent roles for women (his first two titles featured Carmen Maura),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #39. Andre Techine’s Our Roaring Twenties
Our Roaring Twenties
Director: Andre Techine
Writer: Andre Techine, Cedric Anger
The perennial Andre Techine presented one of his best films to date in 2016 with Being...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #40. Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Kings
Kings
Director: Deniz Gamze Erguven
Writer: Deniz Gamze Erguven
Turkish-French director Deniz Gamze Erguven was one of the best success stories out of 2015 with her directorial...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 41. Sally Potter’s The Party
The Party
Director: Sally Potter
Writer: Sally Potter
British filmmaker shot to prominence in 1992 with her sophomore feature, an exquisite adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s genderbending novel Orlando,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #42. Andrew Haigh’s Untitled Alexander McQueen Biopic
Director: Andrew Haigh
Writer: Chris Urch
British director Andrew Haigh continues his hot streak with potentially two new theatrical releases in 2017. While his first new...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #44. Malgorzata Szumowska’s Face
Face
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Writer: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska has been steadily making features since 2000, but her 2011 film Elles was an...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #43. Radu Jude’s You Were Born for This
You Were Born for This
Director: Radu Jude
Writer: Radu Jude
Radu Jude, one of the secondary players out of the Romanian New Wave has come into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #45. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Season in France
A Season in France
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Writer: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the preeminent filmmaker from Chad, will embark on his first feature to be shot in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #46. Laurent Cantet’s The Workshop
The Workshop
Director: Laurent Cantet
Writer: Robin Campillo
French filmmaker Laurent Cantet returns to France for his seventh feature, The Workshop, co-written by his usual collaborator, Robin...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #47. Laszlo Nemes’ Sunset
Sunset
Director: Laszlo Nemes
Writer: Laszlo Nemes
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, who once worked as AD for none other than Bela Tarr, made quite a reputation for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #48. Quentin Dupieux’s Au Poste
Au Poste
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Writer: Quentin Dupieux
Having taken a two-year break from filmmaking to work on a new album under his pseudonym Mr. Oizo (the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #49. Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames
24 Frames
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Writer: Abbas Kiarostami
Passing away at the age of 76 in July of 2016, the cinematic community mourned the surprise loss of...
