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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #76. Sudabeh Mortezai’s Europa
Europa
After a pair of docu features, Austrian–Iranian filmmaker Sudabeh Mortezai finds herself on a firm path with fiction films with Berlin competition selected Macondo...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #77. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Big Bug
Big Bug
It's been close to a decade since his last feature The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet premiered, and so the Netflix folks aren't...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #78. Sally Potter’s Alba
Alba
Alba was being mounted back in September of 2019 and yet with no other developments we thought this was still in development so you...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #79. Yuriy Bykov’s The Owner
The Owner
We don't know if this is a case of no news is good or bad news but Yuriy Bykov's The Owner has not...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #80. Dorota Kobiela’s The Peasants
The Peasants
Best known for 2017's Loving Vincent (co-directed with Hugh Welchman), Polish filmmaker Dorota Kobiela couldn't have asked for a better entry onto the...
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | Review
Eye See You: Koberidze Spins a Modern Fairy Tale of Distracted Perceptions
Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze ascends to a sublime arthouse stature with his curious...
The Tender Bar [Video Review]
Producers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ted Hope.
Executive producers: Barbara A. Hall, J.R. Moehringer.
Director: George Clooney.
Screenplay: William Monahan, based on the memoir by J.R. Moehringer.
Camera:...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #81. Katell Quillévéré’s Le temps d’aimer
Le temps d'aimer
Having just completed the television docu project Le monde de demain, it would appear that Katell Quillévéré is currently on location and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #82. Delphine Girard’s Le plus vivant possible
Le plus vivant possible
With three shorts under her belt and noteworthy second assistant director gigs for Maïwenn's Polisse and Bavo Defurne's Souvenir, Belgian filmmaker...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #83. Laurent Larivière’s À propos de Joan
À propos de Joan
We were anticipating a 2021 drop for Laurent Larivière's sophomore project (initially going by the title of Joan Verra) as this...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #84. Cédric Jimenez’s Novembre
Novembre
Perhaps France's answer to Antoine Fuqua, Cédric Jimenez has padded his decade long filmography working mostly with gritty texts that either get in tight...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #85. Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Carnation
Carnation
With over two decades of output beginning with a splash at the 2000 edition of Sundance with Chasing Buddha to showing Cicada in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #86. Laura Mora’s Los Reyes del Mundo
Los Reyes del Mundo
Among the bright spots in contemporary Colombian cinema, Laura Mora moved into her third feature film this past autumn. With a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #87. Theodore Ushev’s Phi 1.618
Phi 1.618
One of the best filmmakers to ever work with the National Film Board of Canada, Bulgarian Montrealer Theodore Ushev might be considered as...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #88. Babak Anvari’s I Came By
I Came By
With Under the Shadow (2016) and Wounds (2019) under his belt, British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari made a significant move into the larger...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #89. Carolina Markowicz’s Pedagio
Pedagio (Toll)
A feature film debut project that has been workshopped and invited to several high-end labs from Berlinale Talents, CineMart, TIFF to Torino Film...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #90. Diego Lerman’s El Suplente
El Suplente
Now at the half dozen mark in his feature film career, Argentinean filmmaker Diego Lerman had Rotterdam support a couple of his short...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #91. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s As Bestas
As Bestas
Spanish helmer Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been shooting up the charts with multiple projects for just over the past decade. Best known to international...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #92. Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone
You Won’t Be Alone
Treading the waters of short film filmmaking for almost a decade has culminated into the type of big leagues grand entrance...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #93. Emanuele Crialese’s L’immensità
L'immensità
Working at a pace that hovers around one feature per five years, Emanuele Crialese took a longer than usual "sabbatical" after Terraferma premiered at...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #94. Paolo Taviani’s Leonora Addio
Leonora Addio
With production wrapping up in late 2020 we were thinking that a release sometime last year was in the cards - but there's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #95. Dominik Moll’s La nuit du 12
La nuit du 12
For the better part of the last decade Dominik Moll has been moving from feature film to directing television work and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #96. Lena Dunham’s Catherine, Called Birdy
Catherine, Called Birdy
While Tiny Furniture dates back to 2010, Lena Dunham was hardly inactive working in television, acting, writing books and typing out essays. In...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #97. Francisca Alegria’s The Cow That Sang A Song About The Future
The Cow That Sang A Song About The Future
When it comes time to developing the next generation of auteurs, the nation of Chile has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #98. Alice & Benoît Zeniter’s Avant l’effondrement
Avant l'effondrement
Writing her first novel when she was still a teen - the written word is definitely her strong suit and while Alice Zeniter...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #99. Héloïse Pelloquet’s La Passagère
La Passagère
For almost a decade now Héloïse Pelloquet has cut her teeth as an editor -- mostly in the narrative short film format with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #100. Céline Devaux’s Tout le monde aime Jeanne
Tout le monde aime Jeanne
In the rare case we're delighted, engaged and even surprised by French comedies (Bruno Dumont's France is a rare example...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: An Introduction
We begin 2022 with major disruptions to the film festival circuit. Berlin's Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian and SXSW's Janet Pierson are certainly considering options...
The Tragedy of Macbeth | Review
O Brother Wherefore Art Thou: Joel Cohen’s Stunning Solo Shakespeare
Joel Coen’s first solo effort as director sans brother Ethan is visually sumptuous, visceral Shakespeare:...
Being the Ricardos [Video Review]
Producers: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch.
Executive producers: Jenna Block, Stuart Besser, David Bloomfield, Lauren Lohman, Lucie Arnaz, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Director: Aaron Sorkin.
Screenplay: Aaron...
Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) | Review
The Lives of Mothers: Almodovar’s Melodrama Mines the Personal and Political
Coincidences abound in Parallel Mothers, the latest soap dish from Spain’s perennial auteur, Pedro...
Swan Song [Video Review]
Producer: Mahershala Ali, Rebecca Bourke, Jonathan King, Jacob Perlin, Adam Shulman, Mimi Valdés.
Executive Producers: Shea Kammer.
Director: Benjamin Cleary.
Screenplay: Benjamin Cleary.
Camera: Masanobu Takayanagi.
Editor: Nathan Nugent.
Music:...
Nightmare Alley [Video Review]
Guillermo Del Toro's latest might not feel like a major departure from his general reputation as a creature-centric creator type, but there is a...
The Lost Daughter | Review
Parallel Mothers: Gyllenhaal Paints a Dark Portrait in Sinister Ferrante Adaptation
“Attention is the purest form of hospitality,” is a quote from Simone Weil utilized...
Video Interview: Ayten Amin – Souad
Egypt's official submission for the 'Best International Feature' category at the 94th Academy Awards is Ayten Amin's Souad, which received the official Cannes 2020...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Short Films Comps include Carina Gabriela Dașoveanu, Nash Edgerton & Hannah Peterson
With lottery ticket winning odds of having your short film selected, the Sundance Film Festival have unveiled the lucky 59 films selected for their...
The Unforgivable [Video Review]
Healing the emotional wounds in the present day from the missteps of the past is part of the taxing bliss found in Nora Fingscheidt's...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Jim Archer, Francisca Alegría & Goran Stolevski Travel to World Cinema Dramatic Comp
Sprinkled a bit everywhere in several section, there were 2110 international films that were submitted and only 10 of those are part of the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Monia Chokri, Mimi Cave, Hanna Bergholm & Christian Tafdrup Scare Up Midnight Section
It'll be a truly international Midnight section for 2022 with the half dozen offerings. We got representation from Spain and Carlota Pereda's PIGGY, Denmark...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Ricky D’Ambrose, Sierra Pettengill & Justin Benson/Aaron Moorhead Load Up NEXT Section
We've been fans of this section since its launch back in 2010 when it used to identified with the ticker symbol of <=>, and...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Riley Stearns, Nikyatu Jusu, Mariama Diallo, Cooper Raiff & Bradley Rust Gray in the U.S. Dramatic Comp Section
In 2022, ten lucky titles/filmmakers will be vying for the big daddy prize of them all in the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize...
France | Review
France de France: Dumont Soars with Offbeat Melodrama on Media & Misogyny
Few and far between are odd cinematic delights so deliberately off-center and...
Don’t Look Up [Video Review]
When an astroid is on a flight path to annihilate the human species, neither the cooler heads or those in positions in power prevail....
Wolf [Video Review]
Oddly aggressive therapy tactics are the antagonist forces in a coming-of-ager drama that looks at a particular mental health disorder that is steeped in...
The Humans [Video Review]
Premiering at the 2021 Toronto Intl. Film Festival, Lebanese-American playwright and screenwriter (The Seagull) Stephen Karam adapted his one act stage play for a...
Red Rocket | Review
Nude Illusion: Baker Returns to Sex Work in Bristling Character Study
You can’t go home again, especially when no one missed you in the first...
Flee | Review
Flee a Mile in your Neighbor’s Shoes: Ramussen’s Refugee Doc Is A Journey Worth Taking
Evocative animation, first-person pain and a strong dose of hope...
Licorice Pizza [Video Review]
Age is just a number but when you're a teen at footsteps of what are unattainable gates to adulthood it could feel like entire...
Video Interview: Debbie Lum – Try Harder!
Debbie Lum’s Try Harder! is a supremely moving documentary about high schoolers in the throes of their college application process. Lum’s focus is on...
Try Harder! | Review
A Dream Deferred: Debbie Lum’s Masterclass in Self-Esteem
Try Harder! is a supremely moving documentary about high schoolers in the throes of their college application...
