Tag: 2022 World Cinema
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #51. David Zonana’s Heroico
Heroico
A longtime producer for Michel Franco's films, Mexican filmmaker David Zonana finally kicked off his feature filmmaking career with Workforce (Mano de obra) in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #52. Sofia Alaoui’s Parmi Nous (Among Us)
Parmi Nous (Among Us)
It's almost unfair how talented our next featured artist is. This year's highest ranked directorial debut on our list belongs to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #53. Soudade Kaadan’s Nezouh
Nezouh
Been spotting French-born Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan's fourth feature film (and second consecutive fiction) project a little bit everywhere for the past couple of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #54. Romain Gavras’ Athena (Fka Moussa)
Athena
Look for a title change to occur on Romain Gavras' third feature film project which is passing as RG03 and Moussa -- a term...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #55. Mikhaël Hers’ Les passagers de la nuit
Les passagers de la nuit (Night Birds)
His film festival bingo card includes Locarno (2010's Memory Lane), Rotterdam (2016's This Summer Feeling), and Venice (2018's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #56. Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation
The Pod Generation
Fatigue, odd food cravings, varicose veins, and stretch marks - while parenthood ain't all it's cracked up to be, what if men...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #57. Gianni Amelio’s Il signore delle formiche
Il signore delle formiche
Septuagenarian Gianni Amelio is showing zero signs of slowing down quickly after 2020's Hammamet he climbed onto a film that could...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #58. Guillaume Nicloux’s La Tour d’Assitan
La Tour d’Assitan (Lockdown Tower)
Upon getting a whiff of this project one can't help but feel that Gareth Evans' The Raid created a new...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #59. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Les Amandiers
Les Amandiers
There'll definitely be some autobiographical elements in Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's fifth feature film as a filmmaker and it might be the formative years...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #60. Alex Garland’s Men
Men
During these pandemic times low budget productions are perhaps the safer bet --- and it was during this same upheaval where Alex Garland started...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #61. Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men
Enys Men
After making his mark on the film fest circuit with his strong auteur flair, Mark Jenkin would make the next step inroads with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #62. Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains
The Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne)
After a slight detour to English language film terrain with 2018's addiction drama Beautiful Boy, Felix van Groeningen adapts...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #63. Ira Sachs’ Passages
Passages
Entering his third decade in filmmaking, Ira Sachs (The Delta, Forty Shades of Blue, Keep the Lights On, Love Is Strange) has moved into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #64. Jessica Woodworth’s Fortress
Fortress
They've been sharing co-directing duties since their inception with 2006’s Khadak, but there was only one director's chair on set of Fortress. Jessica Woodworth...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #65. Denis Côté’s Un été comme ça
Un été comme ça
Easily Canada's most prolific filmmaker, without exaggeration, Denis Côté has been on a film per year pace for the past dozen...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #66. Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light
Empire of Light
Slightly "downgrading" in budget and no necessarily "scope," Sam Mendes' tenth outing (backed by Searchlight) will employ Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #67. Siew Hua Yeo’s The Once and Future
The Once and Future
If it weren't for a small blurb last October, we'd still not be in the know about Siew Hua Yeo's fourth...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #68. Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985
Argentina, 1985
Argentina’s Santiago Mitre will have not one, but two films setting sail this year. The long awaited Petite fleur (15 Ways to Kill...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #69. Koji Fukada’s Love Life
Love Life
Just a couple of weeks back we saw Japan's Koji Fukada name attached to a market project going by the title of Love on...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #70. Alice Diop’s Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer
A documentary filmmaker for about a decade now, the Senegalese French born Alice Diop has set her sights now on fiction having contributed to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #71. Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story
The Woodcutter Story
A TorinoFilmLab and Cinéfondation lab selection, and winner of the Critics' Week's Next Step Award, there is a lot of forward momentum...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #72. Natalia López’s Manto de Gemas
Manto de Gemas (Robe the Gems)
It's always a noteworthy point of interest when an artist who excels in one film department crosses over into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #73. Helena Wittmann’s Human Flowers of Flesh
Human Flowers of Flesh
In what sounds like a cerebral high stakes at sea, Helena Wittmann's promising sophomore feature concluded filming in October of 2020...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #74. Blake Williams, Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik’s A Woman Escapes
A Woman Escapes
Cinema birthed a new Antoine Doinel and her name is...Audrey Benac. Voyage to the center of Audrey via actress Deragh Campbell includes...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #75. Michael Grandage’s My Policeman
My Policeman
After about two decades as an award-winning British theatre director, Michael Grandage made the move into feature films beginning with his 2016 debut...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #76. Sudabeh Mortezai’s Europa
Europa
After a pair of docu features, Austrian–Iranian filmmaker Sudabeh Mortezai finds herself on a firm path with fiction films with Berlin competition selected Macondo...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #77. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Big Bug
Big Bug
It's been close to a decade since his last feature The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet premiered, and so the Netflix folks aren't...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #78. Sally Potter’s Alba
Alba
Alba was being mounted back in September of 2019 and yet with no other developments we thought this was still in development so you...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #79. Yuriy Bykov’s The Owner
The Owner
We don't know if this is a case of no news is good or bad news but Yuriy Bykov's The Owner has not...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #80. Dorota Kobiela’s The Peasants
The Peasants
Best known for 2017's Loving Vincent (co-directed with Hugh Welchman), Polish filmmaker Dorota Kobiela couldn't have asked for a better entry onto the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #81. Katell Quillévéré’s Le temps d’aimer
Le temps d'aimer
Having just completed the television docu project Le monde de demain, it would appear that Katell Quillévéré is currently on location and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #82. Delphine Girard’s Le plus vivant possible
Le plus vivant possible
With three shorts under her belt and noteworthy second assistant director gigs for Maïwenn's Polisse and Bavo Defurne's Souvenir, Belgian filmmaker...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #83. Laurent Larivière’s À propos de Joan
À propos de Joan
We were anticipating a 2021 drop for Laurent Larivière's sophomore project (initially going by the title of Joan Verra) as this...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #84. Cédric Jimenez’s Novembre
Novembre
Perhaps France's answer to Antoine Fuqua, Cédric Jimenez has padded his decade long filmography working mostly with gritty texts that either get in tight...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #85. Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Carnation
Carnation
With over two decades of output beginning with a splash at the 2000 edition of Sundance with Chasing Buddha to showing Cicada in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #86. Laura Mora’s Los Reyes del Mundo
Los Reyes del Mundo
Among the bright spots in contemporary Colombian cinema, Laura Mora moved into her third feature film this past autumn. With a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #87. Theodore Ushev’s Phi 1.618
Phi 1.618
One of the best filmmakers to ever work with the National Film Board of Canada, Bulgarian Montrealer Theodore Ushev might be considered as...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #88. Babak Anvari’s I Came By
I Came By
With Under the Shadow (2016) and Wounds (2019) under his belt, British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari made a significant move into the larger...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #89. Carolina Markowicz’s Pedagio
Pedagio (Toll)
A feature film debut project that has been workshopped and invited to several high-end labs from Berlinale Talents, CineMart, TIFF to Torino Film...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #90. Diego Lerman’s El Suplente
El Suplente
Now at the half dozen mark in his feature film career, Argentinean filmmaker Diego Lerman had Rotterdam support a couple of his short...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #91. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s As Bestas
As Bestas
Spanish helmer Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been shooting up the charts with multiple projects for just over the past decade. Best known to international...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #92. Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone
You Won’t Be Alone
Treading the waters of short film filmmaking for almost a decade has culminated into the type of big leagues grand entrance...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #93. Emanuele Crialese’s L’immensità
L'immensità
Working at a pace that hovers around one feature per five years, Emanuele Crialese took a longer than usual "sabbatical" after Terraferma premiered at...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #94. Paolo Taviani’s Leonora Addio
Leonora Addio
With production wrapping up in late 2020 we were thinking that a release sometime last year was in the cards - but there's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #95. Dominik Moll’s La nuit du 12
La nuit du 12
For the better part of the last decade Dominik Moll has been moving from feature film to directing television work and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #96. Lena Dunham’s Catherine, Called Birdy
Catherine, Called Birdy
While Tiny Furniture dates back to 2010, Lena Dunham was hardly inactive working in television, acting, writing books and typing out essays. In...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #97. Francisca Alegria’s The Cow That Sang A Song About The Future
The Cow That Sang A Song About The Future
When it comes time to developing the next generation of auteurs, the nation of Chile has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #98. Alice & Benoît Zeniter’s Avant l’effondrement
Avant l'effondrement
Writing her first novel when she was still a teen - the written word is definitely her strong suit and while Alice Zeniter...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #99. Héloïse Pelloquet’s La Passagère
La Passagère
For almost a decade now Héloïse Pelloquet has cut her teeth as an editor -- mostly in the narrative short film format with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #100. Céline Devaux’s Tout le monde aime Jeanne
Tout le monde aime Jeanne
In the rare case we're delighted, engaged and even surprised by French comedies (Bruno Dumont's France is a rare example...
