Dan Sallitt’s Favorite Films of the 2020s, by International Release Date

2023

  1. THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  2. LE GRAND CHARIOT (THE PLOUGH) (Philippe Garrel, France)
  3. THIS CLOSENESS (Kit Zauhar, USA)

2022

  1. ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  2. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE IT (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  4. EN CORPS (Cedric Klapisch, France)
  5. EMILY THE CRIMINAL (John Patton Ford, USA)

DHUIN (Achal Mishra, India)

2021

  1. EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, Spain/USA)
  2. SOUAD (Ayten Amin, Egypt)
  3. PEBBLES (P. S. Vinothraj, India)
  4. OUTSIDE NOISE (Ted Fendt, Germany/Austria)
  5. ACTUAL PEOPLE (Kit Zauhar, USA)
  6. DECEPTION (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  7. THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  8. FRANCE (Bruno Dumont, France)
  9. THE APARTMENT WITH TWO WOMEN (Kim Se-in, South Korea)
  10. RIEN À FOUTRE (Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre, France)
  11. WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  12. SUSANNA ANDLER (Benoit Jacquot, France)
  13. DE SON VIVANT (Emmanuelle Bercot, France)
  14. GUERMANTES (Christophe Honoré, France)
  15. ALBUM FOR THE YOUTH (Malena Solarz, Argentina)
  16. IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  17. THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema García Ibarra, Spain)
  18. BRUNO REIDEL (Vincent Le Port, France)
  19. WOOD AND WATER (Jonas Bak, Germany)
  20. HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG (Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, USA)

PETITE MAMAN (Céline Sciamma, France)

2020

  1. THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane, India)
  2. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo and Seo Han-sol, South Korea)
  3. LAS NIÑAS (Pilar Palomero, Spain)
  4. ISABELLA (Matias Piñeiro, Argentina)
  5. POUR ELSA (Carmen Leroi, France)
  6. BUILD THE WALL (Joe Swanberg, USA)
  7. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  8. LAS RANAS (Edgardo Castro, Argentina)
  9. LE PRIX DE BONHEUR (Rodrigo Muñoz, Switzerland)
  10. MAMÁ, MAMÁ, MAMÁ (Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére, Argentina)
  11. THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  12. RESERVE (Gerard Ortín Castellví, Spain)
  13. EPISODES: SPRING 2018 (Mathilde Gerard, France)
  14. OTTO THE BARBARIAN (Ruxandra Ghitescu, Romania)
  15. THE CLOUD IN HER ROOM (Zheng Lu Xinyuan, China)
  16. I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE (Sameh Alaa, Egypt)

MY SORRY LIFE (Kozue Nomoto, Japan)
MONEY HAS FOUR LEGS (Maung Sun, Myanmar)
DEAR COMRADES (Andrei Konchalovsky, Russia)
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (Eliza Hittman, USA)
À L’ABORDAGE! (Guillaume Brac, France)