Tag: 2023 Most Anticipated Movies
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #50. Just Philippot’s Eau-forte
Eau-forte
Breaking onto the scene in the thick of the pandemic with 2020's The Swarm (Critics' Week selection), Just Philippot continues to find inspiration in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: 51. Maureen Fazendeiro’s The Seasons
As Estações
We look forward to charting the future filmography of Maureen Fazendeiro - the French filmmaker based in Lisbon who recently gave us The...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #52. Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year's most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #53. Johanna Pyykkö’s Ebba
Ebba
Sweden-Finn filmmaker (based in Norway) Johanna Pyykkö almost grabs our most anticipated debut feature of the year but we nonetheless look forward to noir...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #54. Laura Ferrés’ The Permanent Picture
The Permanent Picture
Another directorial debut we are big on is from a Catalan filmmaker who first got noticed with her short The Disinherited -...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #55. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
We had Canto Tre at the #63 spot and we are ranking part II (or III depending if you include...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #56. Meryam Joobeur’s Motherhood
Motherhood
Tunisian Canadian filmmaker Meryam Joobeur's fourth short film Brotherhood put her on the map (a Sundance-Clermont selection and Oscar-nominated short) and when the industry...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #57. Mahalia Belo’s The End We Start From
The End We Start From
Her filmography to date was shorts and television and so it says a lot about one's skillset when a project...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #58. Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed-Girl
Left-Handed-Girl
We believe this under-the-radar project dipped its toe in co-production coin so we aren't categorizing this shot in Taiwan family drama as American indie...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #59. Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding
Love Lies Bleeding
Among the many A24 films circling the festival circuit this year we have Rose Glass' sophomore feature. Her 2019 debut Saint Maud...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #60. Sofia Alaoui’s Animalia
Animalia
A directorial debut we've been heavily anticipating since we came across her masterful Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize short, French-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui (who was...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #61. Camila Beltrán’s Mi Bestia
Mi Bestia
Programmers will want to keep tabs on this new voice in Colombian cinema. A filmmaker who saw her shorts compete in Clermont-Ferrand and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #62. Mareike Engelhardt’s Rabia
Rabia
A new voice in German cinema embarks on a journey that could have been pulled from the headlines but it's the destination and possible...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #63. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre
Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre
The pandemic and the servings of humble pie eaten after his Cannes 2019 premiere debacle means that while he might...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #64. Catherine Corsini’s Le retour
Le retour
Formerly titled "La Loi du plus fort", Catherine Corsini began filming on Le retour back in September of last year. Set in Corsica,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #65. Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation
The Pod Generation
We thought there was an outside chance that this third feature film The Pod Generation from French-American filmmaker Sophie Barthes would premiere...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #66. Lila Avilés’ Totem
Totem
A project that would have shot sometime around the summer of '21, auteur Lila Avilés reteamed with actress Teresa Sanchez and Lazua Larios (from...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #67. David Michôd’s Wizards!
Wizards!
In his short, quartet feature film filmography David Michôd has given us a garden variety. His fifth feature in Wizards! is no different. Wizards!...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #68. David Zonana’s Heroic
Heroic
A sophomore feature that we thought might drop in '22 will instead break out this month at Sundance. Mexican filmmaker David Zonana who gave...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #69. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool
NEON break in the new year with a title that we've been discussing on and off for some time now. Brandon Cronenberg's first...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #70. Sacha Polak’s Silver Haze
Silver Haze
For her fourth feature film, Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak appears to be moving into an area that blurs the lines - promising "a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #71. Dorota Kobiela’s The Peasants
The Peasants
We thought there might be a genuine chance at catching this last year (we had it at the #80 slot) but the nature...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #72. Joachim Lafosse’s Un silence
Un silence
Working at approximately a film per every three years pace, Joachim Lafosse who last gave us the relationship drama The Restless (a Main...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #73. Emily Atef’s Some Day We Will Tell Each Other Everything
Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen
Quickly after her Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere of More Than Ever, Emily Atef moved onto her next project...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #74. Patricia Mazuy’s Portraits trompeurs
Portraits trompeurs
Two decades after working together on the Un Certain Regard selected Saint-Cyr (2020), Patricia Mazuy is set to reteam with Isabelle Huppert and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #75. Quentin Dupieux’s DAAAAAALI !
DAAAAAALI !
A true original who never seems to be running out of zany ideas, we learned back in November that Quentin Dupieux was at...