Top 10 this year
1. “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (Radu Jude, Romania)
2. Cold Case Hammerskjöld (Mads Brugger, Denmark) *
3. They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson, Britain / New Zealand)
4. Shadow (Zhang Yimou, China)
5. Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
6. Give Me Liberty (Kirilk Mikhanovsky, USA) *
7. Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, USA)
8. High Life (Claire Denis, France)
9. Amazing Johnathan Documentary (Ben Berman, USA) *
10. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke, China)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
English fiction:
Foreign fiction:
Monos (Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, Colombia) *
Documentary:
Festival films with 8-,9- or 10-grades, with distribution status or date uncertain: Queen of Hearts (May El-Toukhy, Denmark); In Fabric (Peter Strickland, Britain); In My Room (Ulrich Kohler, Germany); American Dharma (Errol Morris, USA)
* Not yet released, but a U.S. date for this year is set.
