Best Films List

Best Undistributed Films of 2015

Waiting for the spotlight: 20 of the best films of 2015 that are not yet distributed

Right Now Wrong Then

1. Right Now, Wrong Then
Hong Sangsoo, South Korea

Chevalier Athina Rachel Tsangari

2. Chevalier
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

3. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Ben Rivers, U.K.

The Academy of the Muses

4. The Academy of Muses
José Luis Guerín, Spain

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

5. Don’t Blink – Robert Frank
Laura Israel, U.S.

cosmos 2015 Andrzej Zulawski

6. Cosmos
Andrzej Zulawski, Poland

Journey to the Shore

7. Journey to the Shore
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan

happy hour

8. Happy Hour
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan

Lost and Beautiful

9. Lost and Beautiful
Pietro Marcello, Italy

Minotaur

10. Minotaur
Nicolas Pereda, Mexico

Bi Gan Lu bian ye can

11. Kaili Blues
Bi Gan, China

Lewis Klahr Sixty-Six

12. Sixty Six
Lewis Klahr, U.S.

The Visit, or Memories and Confessions Manoel de Oliveira

13. Visit, or Memories and Confessions
Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal

El Movimiento

14. El Movimiento
Benjamin Naishtat, Argentina

88:88

15. 88:88
Isiah Medina, Canada

Microbe & Gasoline

16. Microbe & Gasoline
Michel Gondry, France

pervert park

17. Pervert Park
Frida & Lasse Barkfors, Sweden/Denmark

Afternoon Tsai Ming-liang

18. Afternoon
Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan

of the North

19. Of the North
Dominic Gagnon, Canada

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20. The Smell of Us
Larry Clark, U.S.

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This story is part of the November-December 2015 issue of Film Comment.

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