2022 Submissions for Best International Feature
Brighton 4th
A father's love transcends borders.
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- Bulgaria, France, Georgia • 2022
- Director Levan Koguashvili
- Cast Levan Tedaishvili, Giorgi Tabidze, Kakhi Kavsadze, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Irakli Kavsadze
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Costa Brava, Lebanon
(كوستا برافا)
A family living in the rural mountainside are threatened by the construction of a new landfill next to their land.
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- • 2022
- Director Mounia Akl
- Cast Nadine Labaki, Saleh Bakri, Nadia Charbel, Ceana Restom, Geana Restom
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy, Eventive
A Hero
(قهرمان)
A good deed turns a man into a local celebrity, and also raises the suspicions of those closest to him.
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- France, Iran • 2021
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
(Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc)
A secondary school teacher must face the wrath of her community when her sex tape spreads online.
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- Romania, Croatia, Czech Republic • 2021
- Director Radu Jude
- Cast Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Malai, Nicodim Ungureanu, Alexandru Potocean, Andi Vasluianu
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Vudu, Microsoft Store
Casablanca Beats
(Haut et fort)
A group of young people in Casablanca finds a new passion in rapping at their local cultural center.
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- France, Morocco • 2021
- Director Nabil Ayouch
- Cast Ismail Adouab, Nouhaila Arif, Samah Baricou, Abdelilah Basbousi, Anas Basbousi
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Clara Sola
The arrival of a new farm worker awakens something within Clara, the villages local mystic.
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- Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium • 2021
- Director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
- Cast Wendy Chinchilla Araya, Ana Julia Porras Espinoza, Daniel Castañeda Rincón, Flor María Vargas Chaves
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Compartment No. 6
(Hytti Nro 6)
On a long train ride, a Finnish student forms an unexpected bond with a Russian miner.
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- Finland, Russia, Estonia • 2021
- Director Juho Kuosmanen
- Cast Seidi Haarla, Yuriy Borisov, Dinara Drukarova, Yuliya Aug, Lidiya Kostina, Tomi Alatalo
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
Drive My Car
(ドライブ・マイ・カー)
A car ride across Japan leads to an unlikely connection between a widowed stage director and his introverted young driver.
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- Japan • 2021
- Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Cast Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Drunken Birds
(Les oiseaux ivres)
Mexican drug-cartel worker Willy goes to Canada in search of his missing girlfriend Marlena.
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- Canada • 2021
- Director Ivan Grbovic
- Cast Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Marine Johnson, Hélène Florent, Claude Legault, Maxime Dumontier
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Eventive
Escape from Mogadishu
(모가디슈)
In the Somali civil war, embassy staff from North and South Korea must come together if they want to make it out of the country alive.
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- Korea • 2021
- Director Ryoo Seung-wan
- Cast Kim Yoon-seok, Jo In-sung, Heo Joon-ho, Kim So-jin, Jeong Man-sik, Koo Kyo-hwan
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Peacock, Rakuten Viki, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Plex,
Flee
(Flugt)
Part memoir, part documentary, this animated film recounts the story of a refugee from Afghanistan to Denmark.
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- Denmark, France, Sweden • 2021
- Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen
- Cast Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz, Elaha Faiz, Zahra Mehrwarz
- Genre Animation, Documentary
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Great Freedom
(Große Freiheit)
A gay Jewish man is sent to prison after World War 2, immediately after being released from a concentration camp.
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- Austria, Germany • 2021
- Director Sebastian Meise
- Cast Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn, Thomas Stecher, Alfred Hartung
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Hive
(Zgjoi)
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo: does she wait for his return, or move forward on her own?
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- Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania • 2021
- Director Blerta Basholli
- Cast Yllka Gashi, Çun Lajçi, Aurita Agushi, Kumrije Hoxha, Adriana Matoshi, Molike Maxhuni
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
I'm Your Man
(Ich bin dein Mensch)
To secure funding for her work, an archeologist signs up to test a robot designed to be her perfect partner.
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- Germany • 2021
- Director Maria Schrader
- Cast Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Annika Meier
- Genre Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
- Available on Hulu, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
Lamb
(Dýrið)
An Icelandic couple takes a human-sheep hybrid as their child, with tragic consequences.
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- Iceland, Sweden, Poland • 2021
- Director Valdimar Jóhannsson
- Cast Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Ester Bibi
- Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Available on Hoopla, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Leave No Traces
(Żeby nie było śladów)
Jurek is targeted by the Communist government in 1980's Poland for being the only witness to a police sanctioned murder.
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- Poland, Czech Republic, France • 2021
- Director Jan P. Matuszyński
- Cast Tomasz Zietek, Sandra Korzeniak, Jacek Braciak, Agnieszka Grochowska, Robert Więckiewicz
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Plex,
Let It Be Morning
(Vayehi Boker)
A Palestinian businessman is trapped in a remote Arab village when the Israeli army enacts an unexplained lockdown.
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- Israel, France • 2021
- Director Eran Kolirin
- Cast Alex Bakri, Juna Suleiman, Salim Dau, Ehab Salami, Khalifa Natour
- Genre Drama
- Available on Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
(Lingui, les liens sacrés)
A single mother goes against the church and the patriarchy to obtain an illegal abortion for her fifteen-year-old daughter.
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- France, Germany, Belgium • 2021
- Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Cast Achouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro, Briya Gomdigue, Saleh Sambo, Mounira Michala
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Memoria
For Jessica, it really isn't all in her head.
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- Colombia, Thailand, France • 2021
- Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Cast Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jerónimo Barón, Juan Pablo Urrego, Jeanne Balibar
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Olga
A Ukrainian gymnast living in Switzerland finds her life changing with the 2013 protests in her home country.
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- France, Switzerland, Ukraine • 2021
- Director Elie Grappe
- Cast Thea Brogli, Nastya Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio, Tanya Mikhina
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Playground
(Un monde)
7-year-old Nora is forced by her brother to keep his abuse at the hands of classroom bullies a secret.
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- Belgium • 2021
- Director Laura Wandel
- Cast Maya Vanderbeque, Günter Duret, Karim Leklou, Laura Verlinden, Thao Maerten, Lena Girard Voss
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Prayers for the Stolen
(Noche de fuego)
Three young girls come of age in a small and war-torn town in Mexico.
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- Mexico, Germany, Brazil • 2021
- Director Tatiana Huezo
- Cast Mayra Batalla, Norma Pablo, Olivia Lagunas, Teresa Sánchez, Guillermo Villegas
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Rehana Maryam Noor
(রেহানা মরিয়ম নূর)
Struggling to balance her work and family life, an assistant professor seeks justice after witnessing an assault on her campus.
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- Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar • 2021
- Director Abdullah Mohammad Saad
- Cast Azmeri Haque Badhon, Afia Jahin Jaima, Kazi Sami Hassan, Afia Tabassum Born, Yasir Al Haq, Zopari Lue
- Genre Drama
- Available on Metrograph, Amazon Video
The Falls
(瀑布)
Quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic takes its toll on the relationship of a divorced mother and her teenage daughter.
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- Taiwan • 2021
- Director Chung Mong-Hong
- Cast Alyssa Chia, Gingle Wang, Lee-zen Lee, Waa Wei, Yi-Wen Chen, Guan-Ting Liu
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Good Boss
(El buen patrón)
A CEO meddles in the lives of his employees in order to prepare for an inspection by a national committee.
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- Spain • 2021
- Director Fernando León de Aranoa
- Cast Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo, Almudena Amor, Óscar de la Fuente, Sonia Almarcha, Fernando Albizu
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Showtime, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Kino Now
The Gravedigger’s Wife
(Guled & Nasra)
A gravedigger faces the possibility of his wife's death from kidney failure.
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- Finland, Germany, France • 2021
- Director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
- Cast Omar Abdi, Yasmin Warsame, Kadar Adboul-Aziz Ibrahim, Samaleh Ali Obsieh, Hamdi Ahmed Omar
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Hand of God
(È stata la mano di Dio)
Based in part on the life of director Paolo Sorrentino, this film tells the story of a fateful encounter with soccer superstar Diego Maradona.
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- Italy • 2021
- Director Paolo Sorrentino
- Cast Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Luisa Ranieri, Marlon Joubert, Massimiliano Gallo
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Worst Person in the World
(Verdens Verste Menneske)
Julie must navigate the troubled waters of her romantic life while struggling to find her career path in contemporary Oslo.
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- Norway • 2021
- Director Joachim Trier
- Cast Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner, Helene Bjørnebye, Vidar Sandem
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
Tigers
(Tigrar)
Playing pro-football is the chance of a lifetime--but at what cost?
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- Sweden, Italy, Denmark • 2021
- Director Ronnie Sandahl
- Cast Erik Enge, Frida Gustavsson, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Maurizio Lombardi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Titane
A near-fatal car crash leaves a girl with physical and emotional trauma that shapes her future — and her fetishes.
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- France, Belgium • 2021
- Director Julia Ducournau
- Cast Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cissé, Marin Judas
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Microsoft Store, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
Unclenching the Fists
(Разжимая кулаки)
A young woman hopes to leave her family and start a new life, but finds that leaving is harder than she thought.
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- Russia • 2021
- Director Kira Kovalenko
- Cast Milana Aguzarova, Alik Karaev, Soslan Khugaev, Khetag Bibilov, Arsen Khetagurov
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Amazon Video
Yuni
In Indonesia, Yuni must choose between her dream of attending university or a potential final chance at marriage.
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- Indonesia, France, Singapore • 2021
- Director Kamila Andini
- Cast Arawinda Kirana, Kevin Ardilova, Dimas Aditya, Neneng Wulandari, Vania Aurellia, Boah Sartika
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Zátopek
With love in your life, anything is possible.
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- Czech Republic, Germany, Finland • 2021
- Director David Ondříček
- Cast Václav Neužil, Martha Issová, James Frecheville, Robert Mikluš, Gabriel Andrews, Sinéad Phelps
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Plex, , Reveel
Fear
(Страх)
The arrival of an African refugee changes a widowed Bulgarian teacher's life.
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- Bulgaria • 2020
- Director Ivaylo Hristov
- Cast Michael Flemming, Svetla Yancheva, Stoyan Bochev, Krassimir Dokov, Miroslava Gogovska
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
On the Water
(Vee peal)
Raised by strict grandparents in Soviet Estonia, Andres finds comfort in his friends: the drunkards, whores, and thieves next door.
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- Estonia • 2020
- Director Peeter Simm
- Cast Rasmus Ermel, Kalju Orro, Aurora Aleksandra Künnapas, Maria Klenskaja, Evelin Pang
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Shambala
(Шамбала)
The life of an 8-year-old boy living in the remote Tengri Mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
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- Kyrgyzstan • 2020
- Director Artyk Suyundukov
- Cast Artur Amanaliev, Nasretdin Dubashev, Talant Apyev, Jamilya Sydykbaeva, Taalaikan Abazova
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.