Foreign Contenders

Foreign Contenders: Director Mouly Surya on Indonesian Western Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

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Foreign Contenders: Shoplifters Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Father Figures and His Methods of Working with Children

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Foreign Contenders: Director Ofir Raul Graizer Filmed Pastries Like People With The Cakemaker

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Foreign Contenders: Ziad Doueiri on Adapting American Courtroom Drama Tropes Into Lebanon’s The Insult 

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Foreign Contenders: John Trengove on Surviving the Controversy Surrounding South Africa’s The Wound

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Foreign Contenders: Ildikó Enyedi Aligns Framing and Sound for the Dreamy Romance in Hungary’s On Body and Soul

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Foreign Contenders: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson Confronts Neighborly Conflicts with Under the Tree

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Failed Fatherland: Martin Zandvliet Disarms a Dark Passage in Denmark’s History in Oscar-Nominated Land of Mine

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Foreign Contenders: Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada Dissects Romanian Society Through a Confined Epic

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Foreign Contenders: Veteran Actor Rade Šerbedžija Turns Director for Macedonian Drama The Liberation of Skopje

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Foreign Contenders: Cloak-And-Dagger Thriller The Age of Shadows Has Kim Jee-woon Channeling His Inner Patriot

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Foreign Contenders: Ukrainian Sheriffs is a Buddy Cop Doc Set Against the Annexation of Crimea

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Foreign Contenders: A Veteran Actor and a Newcomer are Partners in Crime in Venezuela’s Riveting From Afar

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Foreign Contenders: Sparrows Explores Modern Icelandic Masculinity on Beautiful 16mm

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Foreign Contenders: Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’Rosa Tells a Real-Life Story, Driven By the Energy of the Philippines

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Foreign Contenders: Finland’s The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki Revives 16mm Reversal Film

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Foreign Contenders: Georgia’s House of Others Invokes Tarkovsky to Explore Post-War Abkhazia

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