Ready for one more round of International Film Favorites? Here we go! 🇿🇦🇫🇷🇳🇿🇬🇭🇯🇵🇷🇴🇦🇷 I’ve had a lot of fun highlighting a sampler platter of favorite international movies for the Stuck-at-Home International Film Festival. There’s a good chance that this will be the final entry, partly because if I were to do another round, I’d need to find more movies! (If you know of any I NEED to check out, let me know!) In the meantime, I’m ready to share my final batch of foreign films and the answer to a pretty good question: how do you even find good international movies?
Here are just a few tips:
ASK FRIENDS
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Especially your international friends, of course. Whenever I get to know somebody from another country, after a while, I usually ask for a film recommendation. They might also volunteer their two cents about what’s unique about films from their countries and that’s where I learn a lot. This is how I’ve discovered Jerusalema, Shoplifters, and other favorites.
LET AIRLINES DO THE WORK FOR YOU
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Of course, this doesn’t work right now, but eventuallyyy. International flights used to be my best place for catching up on movies, and I would try to make at least half of them international films. International airlines need to appeal to pretty broad tastes from different regions of the world, and I almost always discover something new. KLM, Air New Zealand, and Cathay Pacific have had some of my favorite selections, and Ethiopian Airlines steps it up for African cinema.
PRETEND TO GO TO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS
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This includes the big names like Cannes, Venice, Banff, Toronto, SXSW, as well as local gems like the Busan International Film Festival or even something like San Diego’s Asian Film Festival. I know, some are expensive… but you can at least look up their lineups online and keep tabs on them for later.
Now for the final batch of films, including a gorgeously animated French feature, an indie favorite from New Zealand, and a gangster flick full of heart from South Africa. I’ll be emailing the links out tomorrow- to sign up, just drop your email off in my stories!
#sahiff2020
