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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #16. Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand
Firebrand
After a handful of films that didn’t really stick, Karim Aïnouz made a triumphant return when he premiered The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #17. Catherine Breillat’s L’été dernier
L’été dernier
After almost a decade away from the camera, Catherine Breillat makes her return behind the camera working on a remake of Queen of Hearts...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #18. Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life
Strange Way of Life
Pedro Almodóvar has been challenging himself as of late moving away from what could be repetitiveness and a certain complacency by...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #19. Ramon & Silvan Zürcher’s Der Spatz im Kamin
Der Spatz im Kamin
This latest micro indie film from Ramon and Silvan Zürcher titled Der Spatz im Kamin (which translates to The Sparrow in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #20. Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina
La Cocina
Another project that was working under the radar, Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios quickly moved back into production on his fourth film project only...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #21. Cristi Puiu’s MMXX
MMXX
With lengthy time between film projects it always feels like an event film when there is a new Cristi Puiu in the works. Best...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #22. Valérie Donzelli’s L’amour et les forêts
L’amour et les forêts
Adapted alongside Audrey Diwan, Valérie Donzelli moved into the turbulent relationship terrain with her sixth feature film. The book-to-film project features...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #23. Pablo Larraín’s El Conde
El Conde
An endless source for film narratives including several in his own filmography, Pablo Larraín decides to reimagine (and do some dentistry) to Pinochet...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #24. Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live?
How Do You Live?
In the end, The Wind Rises was not the film that would see Hayao Miyazaki hang up his brush. In production...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023:#25. Justine Triet’s Anatomie d’une chute
Anatomie d’une chute
Last year we thought this might premiere and that Cannes was not in the cards. We can now take that back. Triet’s...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #26. Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
The critic elite in Cannes might not have been big (we were) on his Tchaikovsky's Wife, but Kirill Serebrennikov is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #27. Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn
Saltburn
Our take on Promising Young Woman - it was a monumental piece of cinema and was released in the perfect context. Hence Amazon comes...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #28. Thomas Cailley’s Le Règne animal
Le Règne animal
Thomas Cailley couldn't have asked for a better springboard with how 2014's Directors' Fortnight selected Love at First Fight was received -...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #29. Isabella Eklöf’s Kalak
Kalak
We still think about her breakout directorial debut and we were filled with glee when we learned that Isabella Eklöf moved into her sophomore...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #30. Andrew Haigh’s Strangers
Strangers
After a detour in television, Weekend (2011) and 45 Year (2015) filmmaker returns to cinema with Strangers - a film Andrew Haigh directed in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #31. Ira Sachs’ Passages
Passages
A project we thought might drop in '22 is leading the gem offerings from the beginning of '23 instead. American indie filmmaker Ira Sachs...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #32. Marco Dutra’s Enterre Seus Mortos
Enterre Seus Mortos
We've been big fans of the filmmaker since he broke out with Locarno preemed Hard Labor (2011) and Un Certain Regard selected...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #33. Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project
It's almost laughable just how prolific South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo is - it's almost as if there is this continual assembly line of...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #34. Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves
Kuolleet lehdet
The Finnish master filmmaker might have slightly slowed down with a one feature pace every half dozen years or so which means a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #35. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Kaibutsu
Kaibutsu
Broker filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has been in creative overdrive working on both a series (Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House) and what was an...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #36. Charlène Favier’s La Fille qu’on appelle
La Fille qu'on appelle
Who knew that a tale about a ski instructor and favored skier narrative that teeters into power-struggle and examines sexual exploitation...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #37. Miguel Gomes’ Selvajara
Selvajara
With what feels like the start of a new decade with one too many overlapping projects, Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes finally laid the long-gestating...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #38. Ken Loach’s The Old Oak
The Old Oak
The film universe is a better place with the film of Ken Loach. Working class portrait bliss, Loach last gave us a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #39. Christos Nikou’s Fingernails
Fingernails
Apples filmmaker Christos Nikou moves into some hearty, heady and hefty terrain with his hyped-up sophomore feature (plus debut English language debut) which is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #40. Untitled Philippe Lesage Project
The highest-ranked Canadian filmmaker on this year's list moved into production on his fourth feature film back in August of last year. After 2015's...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #41. Stéphane Demoustier’s Ibiza
Ibiza
He has been steadily building his filmography with 2014's 40-Love, 2018's Cléo & Paul and 2019's The Girl with a Bracelet and we have...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #42. Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect too Much of the End of the World
Do Not Expect too Much of the End of the World
It has been quite an astonishing creative couple of years for Romanian filmmaker Radu...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #43. Abderrahmane Sissako’s La Colline Parfumee
The Perfumed Hill
A project that has been gestating perhaps not that long after the release of Timbuktu (2014), Mauritanian-born Malian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako was...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #44. Gu Xiaogang’s Dwelling By West Lake
Dwelling By West Lake
After a pair of features, it was his third film in 2019's Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (which landed a spot...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #45. Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind
The Way of the Wind
When will the seas part for this film is the $64,000 question. A long time in post, we're hopeful that...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #46. Barbara Albert’s Die Mittagsfrau
Die Mittagsfrau
For her next feature outing Barbara Albert lands on some heavy material in the adaptation based Julia Franck's novel which reconstructs the complete...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #47. Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano
Io Capitano
After 2018's Dogman and then 2019's Pinocchio, Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone stirs his ship towards coming-of-age adventure drama territory. Filmed in Italy, Morocco...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #48. Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
Bachmann & Frisch
Veteran German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta puts her focus on a feminist author who wrote on women's issues in the post-war period...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #49. Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt
The Dead Don’t Hurt
An actor who needs no introduction appears to have the directing bug as prior to moving into production on his sophomore...
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...
