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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #165. Anne Émond’s La meute
La meute
After exploring body issues in the teenage years with 2019's Jeune Juliette, Anne Émond's once again moves towards an entire new genre with...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #166. Sophie Dupuis’ Drag
Drag
Quebecois filmmaker Sophie Dupuis reteams with her muse Théodore Pellerin for her third feature film -- a drag queen drama set in the Montreal...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #167. Anand Tucker’s The Critic
The Critic
After moonlighting as a producer and working in television, Anand Tucker's returns to feature films a dozen years after his last feature film...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #168. Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s Darling
Darling
The husband-and-wife filmmaker tandem from Brussels known best for exploring their worlds via a giallo lense, moved into animated film territory sometime around 2018...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #169. Daniel Hoesl’s Veni Vidi Vici
Veni Vidi Vici
After checking in with the powerful elite with the '20 docu Davos, Daniel Hoesl moved into a screenplay that is not that...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #170. Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters
Wicked Little Letters
For her third feature film, Thea Sharrock lassoed powerhouses in Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley along with Anjana Vasan, Timothy Spall, Joanna...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #171. Patric Chiha’s The Beast in the Jungle
La bête dans la jungle
Austrian Patric Chiha reunited with Béatrice Dalle and returned to fiction form almost a decade later back in November of...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #172. Filip Jan Rymsza’s Object Permanence
Object Permanence
Best known for putting together The Other Side of the Wind, Filip Jan Rymsza blasted off on the Lido again with his third...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #173. Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead
Handling the Undead (Håndtering av udøde)
A directorial debut that reunites thesps Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie for a third occasion, Norwegian helmer Thea...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #174. Simon Jaquemet’s Electric Child
Electric Child
For his third feature film, Swiss filmmaker Simon Jaquemet moves into English language terrain with what is coined as an arthouse take on...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #175. Robert Morgan’s Stopmotion
Stopmotion
A shorts film filmmaker more than two decades into his filmography, Robert Morgan made the big move into feature film terrain with actress Aisling...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #176. Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó’s White Plastic Sky
White Plastic Sky
With an earlier track record that includes Sundance short Les Conquerants in '12 and Clermont-Ferrand's Leftover '16, Hungarian filmmaker tandem Tibor Bánóczki...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #177. Koen Mortier’s Skunk
Skunk
Blasting onto the film scene with Ex Drummer in 2007 and followed by 22nd of May in 2010 and distinct opposites attract in Angel...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #178. Mehdi Fikri’s Avant que les flammes ne s’éteignent
Avant que les flammes ne s'éteignent
Production took place on Mehdi Fikri's directorial debut this past October in Strasbourg, France. A former journalist for L’Humanité,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #179. Federico Cecchetti’s Jíkuri
Jíkuri
Mexican filmmaker Federico Cecchetti was one of the lucky half-dozen filmmakers to participate in the Cannes The Residence (32nd edition) with his sophomore project...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #180. Naqqash Khalid’s In Camera
In Camera
Naqqash Khalid went into production with his alluring-sounding directorial debut this past August. Set in Manchester, in a nutshell, In Camera details what...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #181. Daina Reid’s Run Rabbit Run
Run Rabbit Run
There was some moving pieces at the onset of Run Rabbit Run but Sarah Snook would end up toplining Daina Reid's directorial debut...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #182. Kamal Lazraq’s Les meutes
Les meutes
He made quite the impression with his first pair of shorts with the Cannes’ Cinéfondation competition winner in '11 and a Clermont-Ferrand’s international...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #183. Jean-Bernard Marlin’s Salem
Salem
Jean-Bernard Marlin got his big break with his feature debut Sheherazade blasting out of the Critic's Week in 2018 with César Awards wins in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #184. Sophie Letourneur’s Voyages en Italie
Voyages en Italie
For her fifth feature film, Sophie Letourneur returns in front of the camera and behind for the Arte France Cinéma and CNC...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #185. André Téchiné’s Les âmes soeurs
Les âmes soeurs
For his thirtieth feature film, the great André Téchiné filmed in two seasonal time frames (in June of '21 and the following...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #186. Alice Zeniter & Benoît Volnais’ Before the Collapse
Avant l'effondrement
It wasn't quite ready for a '21 launch, but author Alice Zeniter & Benoît Volnais will see their co-directorial debut break bread in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #187. Martin Provost’s Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe
Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe
A French filmmaker who offers comfort food portraits, for his eighth outing Martin Provost enlisted the likes of Vincent Macaigne, Cécile...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #188. Lucía Puenzo’s Los impactados
Los impactados
2022 was a fruitful one for Argentinean filmmaker Lucía Puenzo - she put out two features in the omnibus Tell It Like a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #189. Oorlagh George’s The Sniper’s Daughter
The Sniper's Daughter
We've had to wait a while for Oorlagh George's directorial debut to shore up and we'll definitely be getting a taste in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #190. Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Carnation
Carnation
We're beginning to think Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Carnation is driftwood at sea as it wrapped up back in 2019. The Australian filmmaker with film splash...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #191. Anthony Chen’s The Breaking Ice
The Breaking Ice
His Camera d'Or winning Ilo Ilo (2013) and TIFF Platform section preemed Wet Season (2019) followed by his contribution with the Cannes...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #192. Zhang Yimou’s Full River Red
Full River Red (Man jiang hong)
Currently in a creative overdrive with what appears to be one project overlapping the next, word last summer was...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #193. Sally El Hosaini & James Krishna Floyd’s Unicorns
Unicorns
For their third creative collaboration, actor James Krishna Floyd shares co-directing duties alongside Sally El Hosaini for what becomes her third directing outing. The...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #194. Flora Lau’s Luz
Luz
Stuck in what feels like a Terrence Malick post-production purgatory abyss, Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau's Luz has been a yearly no-show since 2019...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #195. Damián Szifron’s Misanthrope
Misanthrope
While we're not expecting this fourth feature to land with the same ripple effects as what occurred when Damián Szifron's Wild Tales competed for...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #196. John Carney’s Flora and Son
Flora and Son
Known for his Sundance breakout music drama Once, Irish filmmaker John Carney has been chugging away at the music-based cinema in some...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #197. Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s Tuesday
Tuesday
We've been kicking around the A24 backed Tuesday in our fest predictions for some time now as it was in the can in June...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #198. Vasilis Katsoupis’ Inside
Inside
Shot in Germany in June of '21, Vasilis Katsoupis' directorial debut has been lingering around long enough to find a distrib and big festival...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #199. Pascal Plante’s Les chambres rouges
Les chambres rouges
For his third feature film, Canadian filmmaker Pascal Plante moves into the dark corners of the interwebs and with Les chambres rouges...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #200. Aly Muritiba’s Barba ensopada de sangue
Barba ensopada de sangue
For his sixth feature film, Brazilian filmmaker Aly Muritiba tackled the book-to-film adaptation of Daniel Galera's Blood-Drenched Beard - a 2015...
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films for 2023!: A Countdown
We love to begin the year with a bang and as per usual, we present to you: IONCINEMA.com's Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films...
Alcarràs | Review
Peach Be With You: Simon Harvests Bitter Reality in Solid, Steady Family Drama
Returning to the rural experiences which defined her 2017 debut Summer of...
2023 Sundance: Leaf’s Earth Mama, Song’s Past Lives & Gavin’s Beyond Utopia Added to Line-up
In a usual move, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival with have what they call Encore Special Screenings - giving four recent award-winning films one...
Par Coeurs | Review
A Matter of Method: Jacquot Surveys the Techniques of Two French Titans in Conversational Doc
“I’m all at sea,” moans Isabelle Huppert at the onset...
Broker | Review
Be My Little Baby: Kore-eda Gets Weepy with Sentimental Adoption Drama
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan’s esteemed purveyor of domestic melancholy, continues with his bid for...
Babylon [Video Review]
Something to Talkie About: Chazelle Swings Hard with Homage to Hollywood’s Unruly Infancy
If there’s a film deserving of the Leone-esque moniker Once Upon a...
The Pale Blue Eye | Review
Poe Boy: Cooper Fails to Find the Exquisite Beauty in Eerie, Dreary Period Mystery
You’ll certainly be reduced to the mindset of the weak and...
Interview: Kamila Andini – Before, Now & Then
It's been a remarkable couple of years for Indonesian filmmaker Kamila Andini who's career took flight at TIFF when she showcased The Seen and...
Women Talking | Review
Polley's Fierce and Tender Adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel is a Stirring Exploration of Faith, Love & Survival
There may not be a word in...
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “Those Who Find Me” & Alain Guiraudie’s “Miséricorde” Aiming for 2024
Perhaps the last tidbit of foreign production support type news for '22, we have some excellent news with regards to Dea Kulumbegashvili's sophomore project...
No Bears | Review
Blow-Out: Twice Told Tales Unfold in Panahi’s Layered Docufiction
Borders and Boundaries and Bears, Oh My! The perpetually hobbled Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi continues to...
Corsage | Review
Waist of Time: Sissi is no Sissy in Kreutzer’s Rebel Biopic
The foreboding restraints of an upper body female garment figuratively represent the repression and...
Interview: Richa Meena – Last Film Show
The well-known saying, "if you love someone, set them free," takes on deeper significance in Pan Nalin's Last Film Show. This film serves as...
Interview: Pan Nalin – Last Film Show
It's not uncommon for seasoned filmmakers to, at some point, turn their lens towards their own love for cinema. Steven Spielberg recently treated us...
