PSIFF 2015: 50 Must-see films!

"Concrete Night","Cowboys",  "Human Capital", "Wild Tales", "Mommy" and 45 other Oscar titles are in the official Awards Buzz selection!


Films from 50 countries are part of the Awards Buzz section of the 2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival which begins January 2, 2015.

Buzzy titles from Argentina (Wild Tales), Denmark (Force Majeure), Belgium (Two Days, One Night), Poland (Ida), Russia (Leviathan), Finland (Concrete Night), Croatia (Cowboys), Canada (Mommy), Turkey (Winter Sleep) are among the films to be screened.

Full list below. I highlighted those that I have already seen with their respective ratings.

A Few Cubic Meters of Love (Afghanistan), Director Jamshid Mahmoudi
Wild Tales (Argentina), Director Damián Szifrón (5 Stars)
Charlie’s Country (Australia), Director Rolf de Heer
The Dark Valley (Austria), Director Andreas Prochaska
Nabat (Azerbaijan), Director Elchin Musaoglu                
Two Days, One Night (Belgium/France/Italy), Directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne (5 Stars)
The Way He Looks (Brazil), Director Daniel Ribeiro
Mommy (Canada), Director Xavier Dolan
To Kill a Man (Chile), Director Alejandro Fernández Almendras (4 ½ Stars)
The Nightingale (China), Director Philippe Muyl
Mateo (Colombia), Director Maria Gamboa
Cowboys (Croatia), Director Tomislav Mršić (4 ½ Stars)
Behavior (Cuba), Director Ernesto Daranas
Fair Play (Czech Republic), Director Andrea Sedláčková
Sorrow and Joy (Denmark), Director Nils Malmros
Tangerines (Estonia), Director Zaza Urushadze
Concrete Night (Finland), Director Pirjo Honkasalo (5 Stars)
Saint Laurent (France), Director Bertrand Bonello
Corn Island (Georgia), Director George Ovashvili
Beloved Sisters (Germany), Director Dominik Graf
Little England (Greece), Director Pantelis Voulgaris
The Golden Era (Hong Kong), Director Ann Hui (4 Stars)
White God (Hungary), Director Kornél Mundruczó
Life in a Fishbowl (Iceland), Director Baldvin Zophoníasson (3 ½ Stars)
Liar’s Dice (India), Director Geetu Mohandas
Today (Iran), Director Reza Mirkarimi
Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Israel), Directors Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Human Capital (Italy), Director Paolo Virzì (3 ½ Stars)
The Light Shines Only There (Japan), Director Mipo O
Three Windows and a Hanging (Kosovo), Director Isa Qosja
Kurmanjan Datka: Queen of the Mountains (Kyrgyzstan), Director Sadyk Sher-Niyaz
Rocks in My Pockets (Latvia), Director Signe Baumane
Ghadi (Lebanon), Director Amin Dora
Never Die Young (Luxembourg), Director Pol Cruchten
Timbuktu (Mauritania/France), Director Abderrahmane Sissako
Accused (Netherlands), Director Paula van der Oest
1001 Grams (Norway), Director Bent Hamer (5 Stars)
Dukhtar (Pakistan), Director Afia Nathaniel
Eyes of a Thief (Palestine), Director Najwa Najjar
Norte, the End of History (Philippines), Director Lav Diaz (3 ½ Stars)
Ida (Poland), Director Pawel Pawlikowski (4 ½ Stars)
The Japanese Dog (Romania), Director Tudor Cristian Jurgiu (4 Stars)
Leviathan (Russia), Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
See You in Montevideo (Serbia), Director Dragan Bjelogrlić (3 ½ Stars)
Sea Fog (South Korea), Director Sung-bo Shim
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (Spain), Director David Trueba
Force Majeure (Sweden), Director Ruben Ã-stlund (5 Stars)
Winter Sleep (Turkey), Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Guide (Ukraine), Director Oles Sanin
Mr. Kaplan (Uruguay), Director Álvaro Brechner

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Raymond Lo