Tag: Foreign Films
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #99. Oorlagh George’s Stranger with a Camera
Stranger with a Camera
Belfast-born filmmaker Oorlagh George will be ready to present her narrative debut Stranger with a Camera in 2021, developed through Sundance...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #100. Abner Benaim’s Plaza Catedral
Plaza Catedral
Panama’s Abner Benaim’s sophomore narrative feature Plaza Catedral is a dramatic thriller featuring actress Ilse Salas (Gueros; Cantinflas) and Manolo Cardona (“Narcos”). Newcomer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: 200-101
Before we move into tomorrow's Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021 countdown we take a final look at other noteworthy projects that...
Introducing Our Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021
As we bid adieu and wave good riddance to 2020 it's with measured optimism that we tread/transition lightly into the new year of cinema....
IndieSponge Episode 4 – Yankee Comandante, The Ice Beneath Her & An American Pickle
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and I talk talk about Jeff Nichols' possible sixth feature film Yankee Commandante (which would feature...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #1. Annette – Leos Carax
Annette
Produced by Charles Gillibert, Paul-Dominique Win Vacharasinthu
Directed by Leos Carax
Written by Ron Mael, Russell Mael
Starring: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #3. Memoria – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Memoria
Produced by Diana Bustamante, Julio Chavezmontes, Charles de Meaux, Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Michael Weber
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Written by Apichatpong...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #4. Undine – Christian Petzold
Undine
Produced by Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber.
Directed by Christian Petzold
Written by Christian Petzold
Starring: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #5. The Story of My Wife – Ildikó Enyedi
The Story of My Wife
Produced by Monika Mécs, András Muhi, Erno Mésterhazy, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Flaminio Zadra and Pilar Saavedra Perrotta.
Directed...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #6. Le Genou – Nadav Lapid
Le Genou d’Ahed
Produced by Les Films du Bal's Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin / Pie Films
Directed by Nadav Lapid
Written by Nadav Lapid
Release Date/Prediction: 2020...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #7. Todos Os Mortos – Marco Dutra & Caetano Gotardo
Todos Os Mortos
Produced by Clément Duboin, Maria Ionescu, Sara Silveira
Directed by Marco Dutra & Caetano Gotardo
Written by Marco Dutra & Caetano Gotardo...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #8. Earwig – Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Earwig
Produced by Andy Starke, Jean des Forêts.
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Written by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Geoff Cox
Release Date/Prediction: 2020 Venice Film Festival...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #9. Lo que algunos soñaron – Michel Franco
Lo que algunos soñaron
Produced by Edgar San Juan
Directed by Michel Franco
Written by Michel Franco
Starring: Diego Boneta, Naian González Norvind, Darío Yazbek Bernal,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #10. Bergman Island – Mia Hansen-Løve
Bergman Island
Produced by Charles Gillibert, Rodrigo Teixeira, Erik Hemmendorff, Lisa Widén.
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Anders...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #11. Wicked Games – Ulrich Seidl
Böse Spiele
A project which has been developing for the past several years, it would appear 2020 is finally the year in which Ulrich Seidl’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #12. The Girl and the Spider – Ramon Zürcher
Das Mädchen und die Spinne
Swiss director Ramon Zürcher at last returns with sophomore feature, Das Mädchen und die Spinne (The Girl and the Spider), a...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #13. The Souvenir: Part II – Joanna Hogg
The Souvenir: Part II
British director Joanna Hogg’s fourth feature The Souvenir finally brought her to much deserved international acclaim after premiering at the 2019...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #14. Il Buco – Michelangelo Frammartino
#14. Il Buco / The Hole
It’s been a full decade without a new narrative feature from Italy’s Michelangelo Frammartino, whose Le Quattro Volte was...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #15. On a Half Clear Morning – Bruno Dumont
On a Half Clear Morning
No doubt about it --- Bruno Dumont’s been busier than ever. While 2019 saw the restoration of his 1997 debut...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #16. Viens je t’emmène – Alain Guiraudie
Viens je t’emmène / Come, I Will Take You There
For his sixth film, French auteur Alain Guiraudie tackles the strangeness of more intimate human...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #17. How Do You Live? – Hayao Miyazaki
Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka / How Do You Live?
With 2013’s The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, arguably the most influential anime director of all...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #18. Inexorable – Fabrice Du Welz
Inexorable
Hot on the heels of his Locarno debuted Adoration (read review), the final chapter in his thematic Ardennes trilogy, Belgian auteur Fabrice du Welz...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #19. La caja – Lorenzo Vigas
La caja
Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas became an immediate international director of note after winning the Golden Lion at the 2015 Venice Film Festival for...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #20. Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project
Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project
Having spent 2019 embroiled in widely publicized divorce court proceedings, 2019 came and went without a new film project from South...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #21. Comes Morning – Naomi Kawase
Asa ga Kuru / Comes Morning
A director whose international prestige has been orchestrated primarily through her repeated appearances at the Cannes film festival (where...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #22. Dear Comrades – Andrey Konchalovsky
Dear Comrades (Dorogie tovarishchi)
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky continues his prolific chameleonic streak with his latest project, Dear Comrades, which will feature, once again, the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #23. Untitled Yellow Vest Jean-Luc Godard Drama
Untitled Yellow Vest Jean-Luc Godard Drama
In April of 2019, the 88-year-old Jean-Luc Godard revealed he was working on his next film, a yet-to-be-titled drama...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #24. Siberia – Abel Ferrara
Siberia
It’s been a long, hard road, but it looks like 2020 may finally be the year we’ll see Abel Ferrara’s Siberia, a film he...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #25. Lingui – Mahamat Saleh-Haroun
Lingui
Chad’s most notable director, Mahamat Saleh-Haroun, is readying his eighth feature, Lingui, produced by Florence Stern, Diana Elbaum and Melanie Andernach. The French-German co-production...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #26. La Daronne – Jean-Paul Salomé
La Daronne
Director Jean-Paul Salomé’s international reputation should expand significantly with his eighth feature, La Daronne aka Mama Weed, adapted from a celebrated novel by...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #27. Malmkrog – Cristi Puiu
Malmkrog
2019 has come and gone, but we’ve yet to see the latest project from Cristi Puiu, which was reportedly completed sometime ago (with a...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #28. La práctica – Martín Rejtman
La práctica
It’s already been five years since Martín Rejtman’s (one of the key figures of New Argentine Cinema) last film, 2014’s Two Shots Fired...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #29. Paradis sale – Bertrand Mandico
Paradis sale
French director Bertrand Mandico was the breakout hit of 2018 when Cahier du Cinema named his directorial debut The Wild Boys the best...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #30. Le sel des larmes – Philippe Garrel
Le sel des larmes
2020 will see the premiere of the 27th feature by French auteur Philippe Garrel with The Salt of Tears, which reunites...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #31. Rebecca – Ben Wheatley
Rebecca
A decade into feature filmmaking and Ben Wheatley has taken it upon himself to remake Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 classic Rebecca, which won the Best...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #32. Luz – Flora Lau
Luz
Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau finds her sophomore film Luz headlined by none other than Isabelle Huppert. Produced through AMA Productions, the Chinese-French co-pro...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #33. My Salinger Year – Philippe Falardeau
My Salinger Year
Quebec’s Philippe Falardeau will unleash his highest profile project to date next year with My Salinger Year, an adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #34. The Innocents – Eskil Vogt
The Innocents
Eskil Vogt, the co-writer for Joachim Trier’s films, should have his sophomore directorial effort The Innocents ready for a major film festival in...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #35. Uppercase Print – Radu Jude
Uppercase Print
One of the latter figures of the Romanian New Wave, Radu Jude, also remains one of the busiest. He returns to the nightmare...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #36. Le quai de Ouistreham – Emmanuel Carrère
Le quai de Ouistreham
It’s been fifteen years since writer Emmanuel Carrère’s 2005 narrative debut La Moustache. Just as his own novel Limonov has been...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #37. Ammonite – Francis Lee
Ammonite
British director Francis Lee will deliver the high profile drama Ammonite in 2020, which stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan as a pair of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #38. A Chiara – Jonas Carpignano
A Chiara
Italy’s Jonas Carpignano should have his third feature, A Chiara, ready to present sometime in 2020. Produced by Olivier Pere of Arte France...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #39. Where is Anne Frank? – Ari Folman
Where is Anne Frank?
A project seven years in-the-making, Israel’s Ari Folman should finally return with his high-profile animated feature Where is Anne Frank?, which...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #40. Pour le meilleur et pour le pire – Stéphane Brizé
Pour le meilleur et pour le pire
Stéphane Brizé reunites with Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon for his ninth feature Pour le meilleur et pour...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #41. Prisoners of the Ghostland – Sion Sono
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Despite being a perennial festival presence, some may be wondering what’s happened to Japanese provocateur Sion Sono, who usually has somewhere...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #42. The Nest – Sean Durkin
The Nest
Eight years after the success of his 2011 debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin resurfaces with sophomore feature The Nest, a Canadian-U.K....
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #43. School Town – Liu Jian
School Town
Chinese animator Liu Jian should hopefully have his third feature ready sometime in 2020, School Town, meant to be an autobiographical look at...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #44. La bonne épouse – Martin Provost
La bonne épouse
Initially an actor whose career began in the mid-1970s, France’s Martin Provost has become a notable director over the past decade, which...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #45. Akelarre – Pablo Agüero
Akelarre
For his fifth feature, Argentinean director Pablo Agüero recreates a 1609 witchcraft trail for Akelarre, co-written by Katell Guillou (loosely based on Pierre de...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #46. All Inclusive – Malgorzata Szumowska
All Inclusive
Get ready for a deluge of new films from Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska. 2019 saw her English language debut The Other Lamb (read review)...
