Tag: 2019 World Cinema
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #51. The Box – Lorenzo Vigas
The Box
Lorenzo Vigas should finally be ready with his long-gestating sophomore feature The Box, which is meant to conclude his paternity-themed trilogy which began...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #52. The True History of the Kelly Gang – Justin Kurzel
The True History of the Kelly Gang
Justin Kurzel returns to Australia for his fourth feature, The True History of the Kelly Gang, following on...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #53. Isabella – Matías Piñeiro
Isabella
Argentina’s Matías Piñeiro seems to be somewhere in the midst of his latest Rohmer-esque Shakespeare reads, the most recent news being his plans for...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #54. Possessor – Brandon Cronenberg
Possessor
Seven years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Canadian director Brandon Cronenberg returns again to the body horror theme established early on by his father...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #55. Ghost Town Anthology (Repertoire des villes disparues) – Denis Côté
Ghost Town Anthology (Repertoire des villes disparues)
For his eleventh feature film, French-Canadian auteur Denis Côté adapts the first novel by Laurence Olivier (a Montreal...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #56. An Easy Girl (Une fille facile) – Rebecca Zlotowski
An Easy Girl (Une fille facile)
French director Rebecca Zlotowski attempts something new with her fourth film, Une fille facile (An Easy Girl), which is described...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #57. Anton – Zaza Urushadze
Anton
Georgian director Zaza Urushadze returns with his seventh feature Anton, a co-production between Georgia, Ukraine, and the US set in the years following the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #58. Salt of Tears (Le Sel des larmes) – Philippe Garrel
Salt of Tears (Le Sel des larmes)
Showing no signs of slowing, French director Philippe Garrel commences work on his twenty-seventh feature film Salt of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #59. Personalien – Albert Serra
Personalien
The multifaceted and indefatigable Catalonian director Albert Serra turns to more contemporary climes with his latest project Personalien, a portrait of an episode from...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #60. 2019 – Lav Diaz
2019
The perennial Lav Diaz should be back in 2019 with a sci-fi political drama, provisionally titled 2019. A French-Filipino co-production between France’s ARP and...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #61. It Must Be Heaven – Elia Suleiman
It Must Be Heaven
Palestinian director Elia Suleiman breaks a ten year hiatus from narrative features with his latest project, It Must Be Heaven, his...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #62. Sibyl – Justine Triet
Sibyl
Following the runaway success of her 2016 sophomore film Victoria, director Justine Triet returns with the highly anticipated dramedy Sibyl, filmed in secret over...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #63. The County – Grimur Hakonarson
The County
Four years after his hit sophomore film Rams (2015), Iceland’s Grimur Hakonarson should at last be ready with his third feature, The County....
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #64. Saturday Fiction – Lou Ye
Saturday Fiction
Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye’s eleventh feature Saturday Fiction promises to be among his more extravagant offerings of late, featuring a handsome international cast...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #65. Martin Eden – Pietro Marcello
Martin Eden
Italian director Pietro Marcello tackles Jack London’s 1909 novel Martin Eden for his second narrative feature. Although various television versions have been made,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #66. Tremors (Temblores) – Jayro Bustamante
Tremors (Temblores)
Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante (under his label La Casa de Producción) reteams with France’s Tu Vas Voir and Spain’s Film Factory Entertainment for...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #67. The Weeping Woman (La Llorona) – Jayro Bustamante
The Weeping Woman (La Llorona)
Before he’s even premiered his sophomore feature, Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante commences on his third feature, The Weeping Woman (La...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #68. Dernier amour – Benoît Jacquot
Dernier amour
French director Benoît Jacquot returns to period filmmaking with his 25th feature, Dernier amour (Casanova). Reuniting with Vincent Lindon, who also starred in Jacquot’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #69. Last Words – Jonathan Nossiter
Last Words
For his fourth narrative feature, US based filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter embarks on the long-gestating Last Words, a French-Italian co-production through Paris-based Doc &...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #70. The Golden Glove – Fatih Akin
The Golden Glove (Der goldene Handschuh)
Germany’s Fatih Akin turns to horror for his tenth feature, The Golden Glove, which relays the true story of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #71. The Sunlit Night – David Wnendt
The Sunlit Night
German filmmaker David Wnendt goes international with his sixth film, a German-Norwegian-American co-production which will also serve as his English language debut....
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #72. Pelican Blood – Katrin Gebbe
Pelican Blood (Pelikanblut)
Personal sacrifice is again the central theme in the sophomore film from Germany’s Katrin Gebbe, who nabs Nina Hoss as the lead...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #73. Sisters (Soeurs) – Yamina Benguigui
Sisters (Soeurs)
It’s been eighteen years since Yamina Benguigui’s critically acclaimed 2001 debut Inch’Allah dimanche, and she’s back with sophomore narrative feature Sisters (Soeurs). Benguigui...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #74. Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate) – Claudia Llosa
Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate)
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa breaks a five year hiatus and returns with her fourth feature Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate)....
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #75. C’est Extra – Guillaume Nicloux
C’est Extra
France’s Guillaume Nicloux begins his fifteenth feature film C’est Extra by reuniting with two of his previous headliners, Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #76. Le daim – Quentin Dupieux
Le daim
For his seventh feature, French director Quentin Dupieux continues his particular brand of black comedy with Le daim, starring Oscar winner Jean Dujardin,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #77. Les envoûtés – Pascal Bonitzer
Les amis des amis
French writer and director Pascal Bonitzer commences on his eighth feature, Les envoûtés (formerly titled Les amis des amis), which features...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #78. Fools (Glupcy) – Tomasz Wasilewski
Fools (Glupcy)
Poland’s Tomasz Wasilewski is about to begin working on his fourth film, the tentatively titled Fools. The Polish-Romanian co-production will be produced by...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #79. Positive School – Nabil Ayouch
Positive School
French-Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch will have his seventh feature Positive School ready in 2019. The French-Moroccan production has been backed by Ali N’ Productions (Morocco)...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #80. Guest of Honour – Atom Egoyan
Guest of Honour
Canada’s Atom Egoyan ends a four year break with his sixteenth feature Guest of Honour. Serving as producer alongside Simone Urdl and...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #81. As Long as the War Lasts (Mientras dure la guerra) – Alejandro Amenabar
As Long as the War Lasts (Mientras dure la guerra)
Alejandro Amenabar makes his first Spanish language film since 2004’s The Sea Inside with seventh...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #82. Happy Birthday – Cédric Kahn
Happy Birthday
For his eleventh feature, Happy Birthday, actor/director Cédric Kahn nabs the legendary Catherine Deneuve in the lead role, starring opposite himself, writer/director Emmanuelle...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #83. Roads – Sebastian Schipper
Roads
It’s been four years since German director Sebastian Schipper’s single take thriller Victoria (2015), but he’ll back in 2019 with his first English language...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #84. A Golden Youth (Une jeunesse dorée) – Eva Ionesco
A Golden Youth (Une jeunesse dorée)
Actress and director Eva Ionesco re-teams with Isabelle Huppert for her sophomore film A Golden Youth, which also stars...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #85. Nobody Likes Me – Petr Kazda & Tomas Weinreb
Nobody Likes Me
The Czech directing duo behind the starkly entertaining 2016 debut I, Olga Hepnarova (read review) have been putting together their sophomore project, Nobody...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #86. The Day Shall Come – Christopher Morris
Writer-director Christopher Morris, who won a BAFTA for Best Debut with 2010’s Four Lions, despite having directed four episodes of the television series “Veep”...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #87. Gareth Jones – Agnieszka Holland
Gareth Jones
Director Agnieszka Holland returns to English language filmmaking with her latest, Gareth Jones, a British-Polish-Ukrainian co-production. The ever busy Holland, who has worked...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #88. Alexanderplatz – Burhan Qurbani
Alexanderplatz
Alfred Doblin’s acclaimed 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz has been remade as Alexanderplatz for Afghan-German director Burhan Qurbani’s fourth feature. First adapted in 1931, Doblin’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #89. The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea – Syllas Tzoumerkas
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
Greek director Syllas Tzoumerkas is finally getting ready to unveil his third feature, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #90. Fire Next Time (La Prochaine fois le feu) – Mati Diop
Fire Next Time (La Prochaine fois le feu)
The highest ranking directorial debut on our countup, actress Mati Diop moves behind the camera in her...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #91. The Orphanage – Shahrbanoo Sadat
The Orphanage
Afghan writer-director Shahrbanoo Sadat should be ready with her sophomore feature The Orphanage in 2019. Produced through Katja Adomeit of Adomeit Film, the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #92. Mignonnes – Maïmouna Doucouré
Mignonnes
French director Maïmouna Doucouré won a Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 for the screenplay of her first feature Mignonnes,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #93. Monos – Alejandro Landes
Monos
Alejandro Landes’ sophomore feature, kidnap thriller Monos, features an international cast as a Colombian-Argentinean-Uruguayan-Dutch-German co-production (produced out of each country’s respective financiers from La...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #94. My Zoe – Julie Delpy
My Zoe
Actress/Writer/Director Julie Delpy will unveil her seventh title in 2019 with the drama My Zoe, an English language British-French-German co-production. Gabrielle Tana of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #95. The 20th Century – Matthew Rankin
The 20th Century
With over a decade worth of short films to his name, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin heads into feature territory with his debut...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #96. La femme de mon frère (My Brother’s Wife) – Monia Chokri
La femme de mon frère
French-Canadian actress Monia Chokri makes her directorial debut with My Brother’s Wife (La femme de mon frère). Produced by Nancy...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #97. Molly – Sally Potter
Molly
Sally Potter’s ninth feature will be Molly, a narrative taking place across three continents featuring a stellar cast. The project is produced by Christopher...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #98. Seules les bêtes (Only Beasts) – Dominik Moll
Only Beasts (Seules les bêtes)
Director Dominik Moll returns to genre for his sixth film Seules les bêtes (Only Beasts), adapted from a 2017 novel...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #99. Labor (Mano de obra) – David Zonana
Labor (Mano de obra)
Mexican producer David Zonana steps into the director’s chair with his debut Labor (Mano de obra), produced through Michel Franco’s Mexico...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #100. Notre Dame – Valérie Donzelli
Notre Dame
French director Valérie Donzelli makes her fifth feature with Notre Dame, in which she will star in and produce herself, alongside Mina Driouch...
