Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once are among the titles in the 17-strong longlist for best international independent film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa).
Laura Poitras’ Venice Golden Lion winner All The Beauty And The Bloodshed also made the longlist. As did Park Chan-Wook’s Decision To Leave; Colm Bairead’s The Quiet Girl; Lukas Dhont’s Close; Carla Simon’s Alcarras; and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985.
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In best documentary feature, seven out of the 15 titles are directed by women.
This includes Kim Hopkins’ A Bunch Of Amateurs which picked up the audience award at Sheffield DocFest earlier this year.
Kathryn Ferguson’s Sinead O’Connor documentary Nothing Compares has also made the longlist along with Jono McLeod’s My Old School and Ed Perkins’ The Princess about the late Princess Diana.
The categories will be shortlisted to five nominations announced on November 3 with the awards ceremony taking place December 4.
Further longlists are expected to be announced next week.
Best International Independent Film
Alcarras (Sp-It)
Dir. Carla Simon
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (US)
Dir. Laura Poitras
Argentina, 1985 (Arg-UK-US)
Dir. Santiago Mitre
Broker (S Kor)
Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Close (Bel-Fr-Neth)
Dir. Lukas Dhont
Decision To Leave (S Kor)
Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Everything Everywhere All At Once (US)
Dirs. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Full Time (Fr)
Dir. Eric Gravel
Hit The Road (Iran)
Dir. Panah Panahi
La Mif (Switz)
Dir. Fred Baillif
More Than Ever (Fr-Lux-Nor-Ger)
Dir. Emily Atef
Murina (Cro-US-Slo)
Dir. Antoneta
Navalny (US)
Dir. Daniel Roher
Playground (Bel)
Dir. Laura Wandel
Return To Dust (China)
Dir. Li Ruijun
The Quiet Girl (Ire)
Dir. Colm Bairead
The Worst Person In The World (Nor-Fr-Den)
Dir. Joachim Trier
Best Feature Documentary
A Bunch Of Amateurs
Dir. Kim Hopkins
A Story Of Bones
Dir. Joseph Curran
Electric Malady
Dir. Marie Liden
Fadia’s Tree
Dir. Sarah Beddington
Fashion Reimagined
Dir. Becky Hunter
Kanaval
Dirs. Leah Gordon and Eddie Hutton Mills
My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years In Afghanistan
Dir. Phil Grabsky
My Old School
Dir. Jono Mcleod
Nascondino (Hide And Seek)
Dir. Victoria Fiore
Nothing Compares
Dir. Kathryn Ferguson
Rebellion
Dir. Elena Sanchez Bellot
The Princess
Dir. Ed Perkins
The Story Of Film: A New Generation
Dir. Mark Cousins
This Much I Know To Be True
Dir. Andrew Dominik
Young Plato
Dirs. Declan McGrath and Neasa Ní Chianain
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