FINALISTS:

Argentina, 1985 (Argentina; Dir. Santiago Mitre)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany; Dir. Edward Berger)

The Quiet Girl (Ireland; Dir. Colm Bairéad)

WE ALSO REVIEW TWO SEMI FINALISTS:

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Mexico; Dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu)

Decision to Leave (South Korea; Dir. Park Chan-wook)

Kalev (Estonia; Dir. Ove Musting)

Immaculate (Romania; Co Dir Monica Stan / George Chiper)

Magnetic Fields (Greece; Dir. Yorgos Goussis)

Klondike (Ukraine; Dir. Maryna Er Gorbach)

NOMINEES:

Europa (Iraq; Dir. Haider Rashid)

Lucie Loses Her Horse (Netherlands; Dir. Claude Schmitz)

Compartment Number 6 (Finland; Dir. Juho Kousmanen)

Plan 75 (Japan; Dir. Chie Hayakawa)

January (Bulgaria; Dir. Andrey Paounov)

Also, Prop of the Year 2022, Smoking Moment of the Year 2022, Party Scene of the Year 2022!

Persona Non Grata - Denmark

(Dir, Lisa Jespersen)

Compartment Number 6 - Finland

(Dir, Juho Kuosmanen)

Lamb - Iceland

(Dir, Valdimar Jóhannsson)

The Middle Man - Norway

(Dir, Bent Hamer)

Clara Sola - Sweden

(Dir, Nathalie Álvarez Mesén)

Crimes of the Future (USA)

The Cursed (France)

Titane (France)

Flux Gourmet (UK)

The Feast (UK)

The Cloud and The Man (India... Bengal to be exact)

Neon Spring (Latvia)

Wolf and Dog (Portugal)

Victim (Slovakia)

Aloners (South Korea)

Babysitter (Canada)

Roza (Guatemala)

Ramona (Spain)

Children of the Mist (Vietnam)

The Dream and The Radio (Canada)

Yuni (Indonesia)

January (Bulgaria)