Tag: 2020 Foreign Films
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #52. When the Waves Are Gone – Lav Diaz
When the Waves Are Gone
Without taking a breath, Filipino auteur Lav Diaz should likely have latest feature When the Waves Are Gone ready for...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #53. Petite fleur – Santiago Mitre
Petite fleur
Argentina’s Santiago Mitre moves forward on his third feature, Petite fleur (Little Flower), adapted from Pequena Flor by Iosi Havilio. The French co-pro,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #54. Petrov’s Flu – Kirill Serebrennikov
Petrov’s Flu
For his eighth feature, Russia’s Kirill Serebrennikov, still unable to leave Moscow despite being released from house of arrest in April of 2019,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #55. Numbers – Oleg Sentsov
Numbers
Ukraine’s Oleg Sentsov, who was infamously arrested and held in a Moscow prison in 2014 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, wherein Sentsov became the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #56. Au Crépuscule – Sharunas Bartas
Au Crépuscule (Dusk)
Lithuania’s Sharunas Bartas will have his tenth feature ready for presentation in 2020. Au Crépuscule (Dusk) was financed by Film Center Serbia/Serbia’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #57. Pieces of a Woman – Kornél Mundruczó
Pieces of a Woman
Hungarian auteur Kornél Mundruczó will make his English language debut in 2020 with the Canadian production Pieces of a Woman, which...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #58. Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful – Lech Majewski
Brigitte Bardot cudowna / Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful
Polish director Lech Majewski adapts his own novel Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful for his latest feature, produced...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #59. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Tre – Abdellatif Kechiche
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Tre
The conflict continues surrounding the impending theatrical release of Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2019 Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (read review), which premiered in...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #60. Night Shift – Anne Fontaine
Night Shift
French director Anne Fontaine continues to be a perennial presence in 2020 with her seventeenth feature, Night Shift (formerly titled Police). Produced by...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #61. Comédie humaine – Xavier Giannoli
Comédie humaine
France’s Xavier Giannoli scored a sleeper hit with 2018’s supernatural tinged drama The Apparition starring Vincent Lindon (scoring a Cesar nod for newcomer...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #62. Charlatan – Agnieszka Holland
Charlatan
Polish director Agnieszka Holland remains as busy as ever, leaving behind the horrors of the Holodomor in her 2019 biopic Mr. Jones for a...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #63. Serre moins fort – Mathieu Amalric
Serre moins fort
Actor/director Mathieu Amalric commences work on his eighth feature with Serre moins fort, a working title. The French-German co-production is being produced...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #64. Dead & Beautiful – David Verbeek
Dead & Beautiful
For his seventh narrative feature, Dutch director David Verbeek continues to pursue his unique cultural and co-production infusions with Dead & Beautiful,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #65. Diorama – Tuva Novotny
Diorama
Swedish actress turned director Tuva Novotny is likely to have her third consecutive feature in 2020 with Diorama, which is being produced by Nordisk...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #66. Wonder Zenia – Małgorzata Szumowska
Wonder Zenia
Get ready for a deluge of new films from Poland’s Małgorzata Szumowska. 2019 saw her English language debut The Other Lamb (read review)...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #67. Love After Love – Ann Hui
Love After Love
Hong Kong’s Ann Hui will be ready with her latest feature in 2020, the preliminarily titled Love After Love (which was the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #68. Des hommes – Lucas Belvaux
Des hommes
Belgium’s Lucas Belvaux has assembled one of his highest profile casts in some time with his latest feature Des hommes (Home Front), which...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #69. Suzanna Andler – Benoît Jacquot
Suzanna Andler
Benoît Jacquot, who rarely lets the earth circle the sun without unveiling a new project, turns to Marguerite Duras for inspiration for his...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #70. Druk – Thomas Vinterberg
Druk
Denmark’s Thomas Vinterberg reunites with most of the crew from his 2012 drama The Hunt for a drama about binge drinking, Druk (Next Round),...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #71. Madame Claude – Sylvie Verheyde
Madame Claude
Director Sylvie Verheyde returns to the world of the sex worker in her sixth feature, Madame Claude, a Parisian period piece about a...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #72. Rifkin’s Festival – Woody Allen
Rifkin’s Festival
Now that Woody Allen has been officially exiled, he’s been adopted in the realm of world cinema with his latest feature, Rifkin’s Festival,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #73. The Middle Man – Bent Hamer
The Middle Man
2020 should see the premiere of Norwegian auteur Bent Hamer’s long-awaited eighth film The Middle Man, which will star actor/director Tuva Novotny...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #74. Mandibules – Quentin Dupieux
Mandibules
Quentin Dupieux shows no signs of slowing, with his eighth feature Mandibules a new premiere in three consecutive years. Produced by Hugo Selignac and...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #75. Passion Simple – Danielle Arbid
Passion Simple
Lebanese born French filmmaker Danielle Arbid mounts a high profile adaptation for her fifth narrative feature, Passion Simple, based on the popular 1992...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #76. One Second – Zhang Yimou
One Second
Will we ever be able to see Zhang Yimou’s One Second, which was yanked out of Berlin 2019 days before its premiere for...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #77. Stowaway – Joe Penna
Stowaway
Brazilian born musician/director Joe Penna continues with interesting co-production packaging for his sophomore feature Stowaway, a US-German project starring Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #78. Untitled Kiyoshi Kurosawa War Drama
Untitled Kiyoshi Kurosawa War Drama Project
Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa lets no moss gather, as he will be following his 2019 Uzbekistan set To the End...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #79. Rock Solid – Zhang Yimou
Rock Solid
Zhang Yimou has remained busier than ever. With 2018’s Shadow premiering out of competition at Venice and reaching theatrical release stateside in 2019,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #80. The Reckoning – Neil Marshall
The Reckoning
Even though English director Neil Marshall’s first foray into franchise filmmaking with 2019’s Hellboy was a critical and financial disappointment (and broke a...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #81. Schwesterlein – Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond
Schwesterlein
It’s been ten years since the narrative debut of Swiss directing duo Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, 2010’s The Little Bedroom (though they’ve worked...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #82. The Roads Not Taken – Sally Potter
The Roads Not Taken
Sally Potter’s ninth feature will be The Roads Not Taken (formerly titled Molly), a narrative taking place across three continents featuring...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #83. Fabian – Dominik Graf
Fabian
German director Dominik Graf ends a six year hiatus next year with Fabian, a period piece produced by Felix von Boehm of Lupa Film...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #84. Gli Indifferenti – Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli
Gli Indifferenti
It’s been well over a decade since a filmmaker has attempted an new adaptation of Italian author Alberto Moravia, whose novels provided the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #85. Libertad – Clara Roquet
Libertad
Screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014) and Jaime Rosales’ Petra (notably premiered in Cannes 2018 in Directors’ Fortnight) makes her directorial...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #86. Les cinq diables – Léa Mysius
Les cinq diables
France’s Léa Mysius has been working on several projects but looks to have her sophomore film Les cinq diables potentially completed in...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #87. Arthur Rambo – Laurent Cantet
Arthur Rambo
Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet unites with some new collaborators for his eighth feature, Arthur Rambo, produced by Marie-Ange Luciani (of Robin Campillo’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #88. Lisa Redler – Nicole Garcia
Lisa Redler
Nicole Garcia returned to work with producers David Thion and Philippe Martin for Les Films Pelleas (who produced her 2013 title Going Away...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #89. Tout Le Monde M’appelle Mike – Guillaume Bonnier
Tout Le Monde M'appelle Mike
Guillaume Bonnier makes his directorial debut Tout Le Monde M'appelle Mike in 2020, produced by Cedric Walter, and co-produced by...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #90. Cuties – Maïmouna Doucouré
Cuties
Winner of the Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 for the screenplay of her first feature Cuties (Mignonnes), Maïmouna Doucouré...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #91. Se Escuchan Aullidos – Julio Hernández Cordón
Se Escuchan Aullidos
One of Mexico’s busiest directors over the past decade has been the multi-award winning Julio Hernández Cordón, who will likely have three...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #92. Une histoire d’amour et de désir – Leyla Bouzid
Une histoire d’amour et de désir
It’s been five years since French-Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid (daughter of director Nouri Bouzid) premiered her 2015 debut As...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #93. Charter – Amanda Kernell
Charter
Sweden’s Amanda Kernell is poised to debut her sophomore feature Charter in 2020, produced by Lars Lindstrom and Eva Akergren. Kernell reunites with her...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #94. Effacer l’historique – Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine
Effacer l'historique
Kooky Belgian duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine will present their ninth collaboration in 2020, Effacer l'historique, another exercise about social misfits attempting...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #95. Cosmogonie – Vincent Paronnaud
French director Vincent Paronnaud is best known as an animator, having co-directed two films with Marjane Satrapi. The two parted ways following 2011’s Chicken...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #96. Atarrabi & Mikelats – Eugène Green
Atarrabi & Mikelats
US born French filmmaker Eugène Green’s eighth feature will be Atarrabi & Mikelats, produced by Julien Naveau (Evolution, 2015) of Noodles Production...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #97. The Father – Florian Zeller
The Father
French playwright Florian Zeller makes his directorial debut in 2020 with UK production The Father (of note, he directed a stage version of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #98. Distancia de rescate – Claudia Llosa
Distancia de rescate
Peru’s Claudia Llosa teams with Netflix for her fourth feature, Fever Dream, produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams in conjunction with...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #99. Persian Lessons – Vadim Perelman
Persian Lessons
Director Vadim Perelman looks to have his most notable project in over a decade make the festival rounds in 2020 with Persian Lessons,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #100. Daughter of Rage – Laura Baumeister
Daughter of Rage
Nicaragua’s Laura Baumeister should have her highly anticipated feature debut Daughter of Rage ready for 2020. A co-production between Nicaragua-Netherlands-Mexico-Germany, Baumeister took...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #101. Enfant Terrible – Oskar Roehler
Enfant Terrible
Oskar Roehler is one of Germany’s most well-traveled directors, so his desire to mount a portrayal of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in his latest...
