Best of 2022: International Features

How does Oscar cull just five nominees for Best International Feature from the sum of all movies produced across the planet in one year? After explaining that arcane process (and the exclusions it often produces), we will look closely at the styles and subject matters of some of this year’s selections. We will also reserve time for one or two films that barely missed Oscar’s list, noting some contexts for the acclaim they elicited in their countries of origins as well as the aesthetic nuances that earned them more admirers around the world.

Join the Chicago International Film Festival and Nick Davis, Northwestern Professor and film critic, for a series of free interactive lectures exploring recent releases and festival films from around the world with a focus on the nuances of imagery, editing, and sound that complicate story and theme. This discussion is free and open to the public.

Optional viewing in advance: All Quiet on the Western Front and Argentina, 1985.

This event series is made possible with the support of the Robert & Penelope Steiner Family Foundation.