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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #26. Lila Avilés’ Totem
Totem
As highlighted in our countdown there are many reasons to be excited for the new year in Mexican and new auteur cinema when we...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #27. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Les enfants des autres
Les enfants des autres (Other People’s Children)
Directly after premiering her fourth feature film Une fille facile (An Easy Girl) in the Directors' Fortnight section,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #28. Jean-Paul Salomé’s La Syndicaliste
La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck)
Jean-Paul Salomé moves the pendulum from crime caper to crime thriller but with biopic elements in his second consecutive project...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #29. Florian Zeller’s The Son
The Son
Human Swiss army knife novelist, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter and director hit pay dirt with his directorial debut The Father (review). Among the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #30. Serge Bozon’s Don Juan
Don Juan
In 2013's Tip Top and 2017's Mrs. Hyde we've come to fully appreciate his brand of cinema and with his fifth project we're...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #31. Ulrich Seidl’s Böse Spiele
Böse Spiele (Wicked Games)
With filming taking place in portions between April 2017 to May 2018, it's been a painstakingly long post-production process for Austrian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #32. Quentin Dupieux’s Incroyable mais vrai
Incroyable mais vrai
A project that has slightly moved up our depth chart, Quentin Dupieux's ninth feature film was more than ready to go for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #33. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool
As we learned late last year, cinephiles can now expect Cronenberg riches from not one, but three sources. Sprinkling his filmography with a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #34. Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin
Officially five features into his feature filmmaking career, The Banshees of Inisherin was meant to begin production in 2020 but that...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #35. Bertrand Bonello’s Coma
Coma
It'll likely be known as the "interim" project between regularly funded features 2019's Zombi Child and the forthcoming La Bête, Bertrand Bonello (we did...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #36. Quentin Dupieux’s Fumer fait tousser
Fumer fait tousser
Especially comforting in these awkward pandemic days of 2022, we'll be receiving not one, but two servings of chicken soup for the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #37. Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider
Holy Spider
Winner of the Un Certain Regard section in 2018 (watch the ceremony here) with his sophomore feature Border, Ali Abbasi has been developing...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #38. Lukas Dhont’s Close
Close
Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont could't have asked for a better career launch than premiering his debut feature in the Un Certain Regard section and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #39. Mounia Meddour’s Houria
Houria
Another Un Certain Regard breakout filmmaker, Mounia Meddour quietly began filming her sophomore film this past September on a project that reunited her with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #40. Léonor Serraille’s Un petit frère
Un petit frère
Catapulted onto the film scene when her feature debut film Jeune Femme (aka Montparnasse Bienvenüe) was first selected for the Un Certain...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #41. Emmanuel Mouret’s Chronique d’une liaison passagère
Chronique d'une liaison passagère
We can speculate as to what the actual status of his last film's selection in Cannes - 2020's Les choses qu'on...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #42. Ursula Meier’s La ligne
La ligne
Excluding her docu features, Ursula Meier is now at the three feature film mark with La ligne (The Line) - a project that...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #43. Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind
The Way of the Wind
There was a time when receiving a new Terrence Malick film to premiere was like waiting for paint to dry...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #44. Christophe Honoré’s Le Lycéen (Winter Boy)
Le Lycéen
Announced really late in 2021, Christophe Honoré went into production on his fourteenth with the formidable pair of Vincent Lacoste and Juliette Binoche...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #45. Justine Triet’s Anatomie d’une chute
Anatomie d’une chute
Unless they pass up on the fall festival circuit and wait until '23, Justine Triet is not going to make it four...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #46. Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun
Rotting in the Sun
There is no biding his time for this Chilean filmmaker and there is no remaining in one spot either. Depending on...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #47. Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris
Revoir Paris
She's three features into her filmography and we feel like she's one perfectly mapped out film from breaking out bigger than she has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #48. Emily Atef’s Plus que jamais
Plus que jamais (More Than Ever)
Having worked on several television projects since competing for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #49. Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio
Padre Pio
His insatiable appetite for the seventh art means that when Abel Ferrara ain't making one movie in particular, he is already onto some...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #50. Alejandra Márquez Abella’s El norte sobre el vacío
El norte sobre el vacío
After successfully launching her sophomore feature Las niñas bien at the Toronto Intl. Film Feature in 2018, Mexico City based...
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...
