19/12/2024 - Want to know how our Top 2024 came to be? Here is a breakdown of the individual votes of our journalists who took part

Want to know how our Top 2024 came to be?
Here is a breakdown of the individual votes of our journalists who took part:

Davide Abbatescianni, journalist (Italy)

1 I'm Still Here - Walter Salles
2 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
3 Grand Tour - Miguel Gomes
4 No Dogs Allowed [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Steve Bache (Germany)
5 Ciao bambino [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Edgardo Pistone (Italy)
6 Sons [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Gustav Möller (Denmark/Sweden)
7 The Return of the Projectionist [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Orkhan Aghazadeh (France/Germany)
8 Norwegian Democrazy [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning (Norway)
9 Weightless [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sara Fgaier
film profile] - Sara Fgaier (Italy)
10 The Girl with the Needle - Magnus von Horn

Marta Bałaga, journalist (Poland/Finland)

1 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
2 The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
3 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
4 The Brutalist - Brady Corbet
5 All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
6. The Other Way Around [+see also:
film review
interview: Jonás Trueba
film profile] - Jonás Trueba (Spain)
7 Love Lies Bleeding [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Rose Glass (USA/UK)
8 Stormskerry Maja [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Tiina Lymi (Finland)
9 Living Large [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kristina Dufková
film profile] - Kristina Dufková (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France)
10 Apple Thieves - Samppa Batal (Finland)

Valerio Caruso, director (Italy/Belgium)

1 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
2 Vermiglio - Maura Delpero
3 The Girl with the Needle - Magnus von Horn
4 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
5 Three Kilometres to the End of the World [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Emanuel Pârvu
film profile] - Emanuel Pârvu (Romania)
6 Parthenope [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy/France)
7 Savages [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Claude Barras (Switzerland/France/Belgium)
8 The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Mohammad Rasoulof
9 The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar
10 Living Large - Kristina Dufková

Camillo De Marco, journalist (Italy)

1 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
2 The Brutalist - Brady Corbet
3 I'm Still Here - Walter Salles
4 Vermiglio - Maura Delpero
5 The Devil’s Bath - Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala
6 The Girl with the Needle - Magnus von Horn
7 The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Mohammad Rasoulof
8 All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
9 Conclave [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Edward Berger (UK/USA)
10 Queer [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Luca Guadagnino (Italy/USA)

Giorgia Del Don, journalist (Switzerland)

1 Reinas [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Klaudia Reynicke
film profile] - Klaudia Reynicke (Switzerland/Peru/Spain)
2 Paradises of Diane [+see also:
film review
interview: Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassmann
film profile] - Carmen Jaquier (Switzerland)
3 Milk Teeth [+see also:
film review
interview: Mona Cathleen Otterbach
interview: Sophia Bösch
film profile] - Sophia Bösch (Germany/Switzerland)
4 Toxic - Saulė Bliuvaitė
5 Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Martina Parenti and Massimo…
film profile] - Massimo D’Anolfi & Martina Parenti (Italy/Switzerland)
6 Electric Fields [+see also:
film review
interview: Lisa Gertsch
film profile] - Lisa Gertsch (Switzerland)
7 Fréwaka [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Aislinn Clarke
film profile] - Aislinn Clarke (Ireland)
8 Memories of a Burning Body [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss
film profile] - Antonella Sudasassi Furniss (Costa Rica/Spain)
9. Bogancloch [+see also:
film review
interview: Ben Rivers
film profile] - Ben Rivers (UK/Germany/Iceland)
10 Vermiglio - Maura Delpero

Muriel Del Don, journalist (Switzerland)

1 Bogancloch - Ben Rivers
2 Fréwaka - Aislinn Clarke
3 Real [+see also:
film review
interview: Adele Tulli
film profile] - Adele Tulli (Italy/France)
4 Paradises of Diane - Carmen Jaquier
5 Reinas - Klaudia Reynicke
6 Toxic - Saulė Bliuvaitė
7 Electric Fields - Lisa Gertsch
8 Milk Teeth - Sophia Bösch
9 Memorias de un cuerpo que arde - Antonella Sudasassi Furniss
10 Vermiglio - Maura Delpero

Aurore Engelen, journalist (Belgium)

1 Foreign Language [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Claire Burger
film profile] - Claire Burger (France/Germany/Belgium)
2 Soundtrack to a Coup d’État - Johan Grimonprez
3 Wild Diamond [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Agathe Riedinger
film profile] - Agathe Riedinger (France)
4 The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
5 Queens of Drama [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Alexis Langlois (France)
6 A Good Jewish Boy [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Noé Debré (France)
7 Listen to the Voices [+see also:
film review
interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste
film profile] - Maxime Jean-Baptiste (Belgium/France)
8 The Empire [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bruno Dumont
film profile] - Bruno Dumont (France/Germany/Italy/Belgium/Portugal)
9 Ghost Trail [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jonathan Millet
interview: Pauline Seigland
film profile] - Jonathan Millet (France/Germany/Belgium)
10 Night Call [+see also:
film review
interview: Michiel Blanchart
film profile] - Michiel Blanchart (Belgium/France)

David González, journalist, editorial coordinator (Spain/Belgium)

1 Grand Tour - Miguel Gomes
2 Queer - Luca Guadagnino
3 All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
4 April [+see also:
film review
interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili
film profile] - Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia/France/Italy)
5 Misericordia - Alain Guiraudie
6 Dahomey - Mati Diop
7 The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar
8 Viet and Nam [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Trương Minh Quý (Vietnam/Philippines/Singapore/France/Netherlands/Italy/Germany/USA)
9 Kinds of Kindness [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland/UK/USA)
10 No Other Land - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor

Susanne Gottlieb, journalist (Austria)

1 The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
2 The Brutalist - Brady Corbet
3 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
4 The Devil’s Bath - Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala
5 Reinas - Klaudia Reynicke
6 Souleymane's Story - Boris Lojkine
7 All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
8 Challengers [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Luca Guadagnino (USA/Italy)
9 Favoriten [+see also:
film review
interview: Ruth Beckermann
film profile] - Ruth Beckermann (Austria)
10 The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar

Carmen Gray, journalist (New Zealand/Germany)

1 Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra
2 Crossing [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Levan Akin
film profile] - Levan Akin (Sweden/Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia)
3 A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljafari
4 The Sparrow in the Chimney - Ramon Zürcher
5 Holy Electricity [+see also:
film review
interview: Tato Kotetishvili
film profile] - Tato Kotetishvili (Georgia/Netherlands)

Mariana Hristova, journalist (Bulgaria/Spain)

1 Limonov: The Ballad [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] – Kiril Serebrennikov (Italy/France/Spain)
2 Hard Truths [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] – Mike Leigh (UK/Spain)
3 The Sparrow in the Chimney - Ramon Zürcher
4 Trains [+see also:
film review
interview: Maciej J Drygas
film profile] - Maciej J Drygas (Poland)
5 Windless [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pavel G Vesnakov
film profile] – Pavel G Vesnakov (Bulgaria/Italy)
6 January 2 [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Zsófia Szilágyi (Hungary)
7 I'm Not Everything I Want to Be [+see also:
film review
interview: Klára Tasovská
film profile] - Klára Tasovská (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Austria)
8 The Brink of Dreams [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir
film profile] - Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir (Egypt/France/Denmark/Qatar/Saudi Arabia)
9 Moor [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan/France)
10 Toxic - Saulė Bliuvaitė

David Katz, journalist (UK)

1 Misericordia - Alain Guiraudie
2 Grand Tour - Miguel Gomes
3 No Other Land - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
4 Mário [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Billy Woodberry (Portugal/Austria)
5 The Brutalist - Brady Corbet
6 Rumours [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson (Canada/Germany)
7 Hard Truths - Mike Leigh
8 It’s Not Me - Leos Carax (France)
9 Eight Postcards from Utopia [+see also:
film review
interview: Radu Jude, Christian Ferenc…
film profile] - Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz (Romania)
10 Dahomey - Mati Diop

Martin Kudlac, journalist (Czech Republic)

1 Viet and Nam - Trương Minh Quý
2 Dying [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Matthias Glasner
film profile] - Matthias Glasner (Germany)
3 The Sparrow in the Chimney - Ramon Zürcher
4 Grand Tour - Miguel Gomes
5 Vermiglio - Maura Delpero
6 Ulysses [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nikita Lavretski
film profile] - Nikita Lavretski (Belarus)
7 I'm Not Everything I Want to Be - Klára Tasovská
8 Toxic - Saulė Bliuvaitė
9 New Dawn Fades [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Gürcan Keltek
film profile] - Gürcan Keltek (Turkey/Italy/Germany/Norway/Netherlands)
10 Girl America [+see also:
film review
interview: Viktor Tauš
film profile] - Viktor Tauš (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Switzerland)

Domenico La Porta, editor-in-chief (Belgium)

1 The Shameless [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Konstantin Bojanov
film profile] - Konstantin Bojanov (Switzerland/France/Bulgaria/Taiwan/India)
2 Soundtrack to a Coup d’État - Johan Grimonprez
3 The Brutalist - Brady Corbet
4 I'm Still Here - Walter Salles
5 Toxic - Saulė Bliuvaitė
6 On Falling [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Laura Carreira
film profile] - Laura Carreira (UK/Portugal)
7 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
8 The Girl with the Needle - Magnus von Horn
9 Vermiglio - Maura Delpero
10 Colors of Evil: Red - Adrian Panek (Poland)

Fabien Lemercier, journalist (France)

1 The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Mohammad Rasoulof
2 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
3 The Brutalist - Brady Corbet
4 Grand Tour - Miguel Gomes
5 The New Year That Never Came [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bogdan Mureşanu
film profile] - Bogdan Mureşanu (Romania/Serbia)
6 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
7 April - Dea Kulumbegashvili
8 Ghost Trail - Jonathan Millet
9 Souleymane's Story - Boris Lojkine
10 Shambhala [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Min Bahadur Bham (Nepal/France/Norway/Hong Kong/Turkey/Taiwan/USA/Qatar)

Jan Lumholdt, journalist (Sweden)

1 I'm Still Here - Walter Salles
2 Families Like Ours [+see also:
series review
interview: Thomas Vinterberg
series profile] - Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark/Sweden/France/Belgium) (series)
3 Cry Wolf [+see also:
series review
interview: Jesper Ganslandt
series profile] - Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden) (series)
4 Armand - Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
5 Love [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dag Johan Haugerud
film profile] - Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway)
6 The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar
7 The Andersson Brothers [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Johanna Bernhardson (Sweden/Finland)
8 The Last Journey [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Filip Hammar & Fredrik Wikingsson (Sweden)
9 The Girl with the Needle - Magnus von Horn
10 Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 [+see also:
film review
interview: Göran Hugo Olsson
film profile] - Göran Hugo Olsson (Sweden/Finland/Denmark)

Roberto Oggiano, journalist (Italy/UK)

1 A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljafari
2 True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, When Dr Frantz Fanon was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Abdenour Zahzah (Algeria/France)
3 Misericordia - Alain Guiraudie
4 The Empire - Bruno Dumont
5 Three Friends [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Emmanuel Mouret (France)
6 Suspended Time [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Olivier Assayas (France)
7 Tale of Shepherds [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jaime Puertas Castillo
film profile] - Jaime Puertas Castillo (Spain)
8 Queer - Luca Guadagnino
9 Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass [+see also:
film review
interview: Quay Brothers
film profile] - Quay Brothers (UK/Germany/Poland)

Júlia Olmo, journalist (Spain)

1 The New Years [+see also:
series review
trailer
series profile] - Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Sara Cano & Paula Fabra (Spain/France) (series)
2 Querer - Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
3 All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
4 Kill the Jockey [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Luis Ortega
film profile] - Luis Ortega (Argentina/Mexico/Spain/Denmark/USA)
5 La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés [+see also:
film review
interview: Antón Álvarez
film profile] - Antón Álvarez (Spain)
6 Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra
7 Glimmers [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pilar Palomero
film profile] - Pilar Palomero (Spain)
8 On Falling - Laura Carreira
9 April - Dea Kulumbegashvili
10 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard

Savina Petkova, journalist (Bulgaria/UK)

1 Bird - Andrea Arnold
2 Harvest [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Athina Rachel Tsangari
film profile] - Athina Rachel Tsangari (UK/Germany/Greece/France/USA)
3 No Other Land - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
4 Tarika [+see also:
film review
interview: Milko Lazarov
film profile] - Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria/Germany/Luxembourg)
5 Drowning Dry [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Laurynas Bareiša
film profile] - Laurynas Bareiša (Lithuania/Latvia)
6 Toxic - Saulė Bliuvaitė
7 All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
8 Trans Memoria [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Victoria Verseau
film profile] - Victoria Verseau (Sweden/France)
9 On Falling - Laura Carreira
10 Rumours - Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson

Vladan Petkovic, journalist (Serbia/Croatia)

1 We Are Inside - Farah Kassem (Lebanon/Qatar/Denmark)
2 The Girl with the Needle - Magnus von Horn
3 I'm Not Everything I Want to Be - Klára Tasovská
4 Soundtrack to a Coup d’État - Johan Grimonprez
5 No Other Land - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
6 The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Mohammad Rasoulof
7 Armand - Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
8 Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries - Massimo D’Anolfi & Martina Parenti
9 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
10 My Stolen Planet [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Farahnaz Sharifi (Germany/Iran)

Olivia Popp, journalist (USA/Germany)

1 78 Days [+see also:
film review
interview: Emilija Gašić
film profile] - Emilija Gašić (Serbia)
2 No Other Land - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
3 Toxic - Saulė Bliuvaitė
4 Pepe [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nelson Carlo De Los Santos …
film profile] - Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias (Dominican Republic/Namibia/Germany/France)
5 The End [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden)
6 Once Upon a Time in a Forest [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Virpi Suutari
film profile] - Virpi Suutari (Finland)
7 Gülizar [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Belkıs Bayrak and Bekir Beh…
film profile] - Belkıs Bayrak (Turkey/Kosovo)
8 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Hernán Rosselli (Argentina/Spain/Portugal)
9 The Editorial Office [+see also:
film review
interview: Roman Bondarchuk
film profile] - Roman Bondarchuk (Ukraine/Germany/Slovakia/Czech Republic)
10 The Assessment [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Fleur Fortuné (UK/Germany/USA)

Līga Požarska, journalist (Latvia)

1 Bird - Andrea Arnold
2 Toxic - Saulė Bliuvaitė
3 The Brink of Dreams - Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir
4 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
5 All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
6 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
7 Trains - Maciej J Drygas
8 Soviet Jeans [+see also:
series review
series profile] - Staņislavs Tokalovs, Teodora Markova & Waldemar Kalinowski (Latvia) (series)
9 The Girl with the Needle - Magnus von Horn
10 Drowning Dry - Laurynas Bareiša

Alfonso Rivera, journalist (Spain)

1 Salve María [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mar Coll
film profile] - Mar Coll (Spain)
2 The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar
3 Celeste [+see also:
series review
trailer
series profile] - Diego San José (Spain) (series)
4 Challengers - Luca Guadagnino
5 Saturn Return [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Isaki Lacuesta
film profile] - Isaki Lacuesta, Pol Rodríguez (Spain)
6 The Other Way Around - Jonás Trueba
7 They Will Be Dust [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Carlos Marqués-Marcet
film profile] - Carlos Marqués Marcet (Spain/Italy/Switzerland)
8 Querer - Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (series)
9 Baby Reindeer - Richard Gadd (UK) (series)
10 See You in Another Life [+see also:
trailer
interview: Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-C…
series profile] - Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo (Spain) (series)

Vittoria Scarpa, journalist (Italy)

1 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
2 I'm Still Here - Walter Salles
3 Gloria! [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Margherita Vicario
film profile] - Margherita Vicario (Italy/Switzerland)
4 This Is Not Hollywood [+see also:
series review
trailer
series profile] - Pippo Mezzapesa (Italy) (series)
5 Manas [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Marianna Brennand
film profile] - Marianna Brennand (Brazil/Portugal)
6 Vermiglio - Maura Delpero
7 Baby Reindeer - Richard Gadd (series)
8 Maldoror [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fabrice Du Welz
film profile] - Fabrice du Welz (Belgium/France)
9 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
10 The Substance - Coralie Fargeat

Jesús Silva Vilas, journalist (Spain)

1 Dahomey - Mati Diop
2 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
3 No Other Land - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
4 All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
5 The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Mohammad Rasoulof
6 Bird - Andrea Arnold
7 Armand - Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
8 The Human Hibernation [+see also:
film review
interview: Anna Cornudella
film profile] - Anna Cornudella Castro (Spain)
9 Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
10 Kneecap [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Rich Peppiatt (Ireland)

Cristóbal Soage, journalist, database coordinator (Spain/Belgium)

1 Dahomey - Mati Diop
2 No Other Land - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
3 Querer - Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (series)
4 Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
5 Vermiglio - Maura Delpero
6 Queer - Luca Guadagnino
7 The Human Hibernation - Anna Cornudella Castro
8 The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
9. Misericordia - Alain Guiraudie
10 Saturn Return - Isaki Lacuesta, Pol Rodríguez

Marko Stojiljković, journalist (Croatia)

1 The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
2 Parthenope - Paolo Sorrentino
3 When the Phone Rang [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Iva Radivojević
film profile] - Iva Radivojevic (Serbia/USA)
4 Moor - Adilkhan Yerzhanov
5 Celebration [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bruno Anković
film profile] - Bruno Anković (Croatia/Qatar)
6 8 Views of Lake Biwa [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Marko Raat (Estonia/Finland)
7 The New Year That Never Came - Bogdan Mureşanu
8 Family Therapy [+see also:
film review
interview: Sonja Prosenc
film profile] - Sonja Prosenc (Slovenia/Italy/Norway/Croatia/Serbia)
9 The Devil’s Bath - Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala
10 Misericordia - Alain Guiraudie

Teresa Vena, journalist (Italy/Germany)

1 Lesson Learned [+see also:
film review
interview: Bálint Szimler
film profile] - Bálint Szimler (Hungary)
2 Skill Issue [+see also:
film review
interview: Willy Hans
film profile] - Willy Hans (Germany/Switzerland)
3 Im Haus der alten Augustin [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Gerald Pribek (Austria)
4 Souleymane's Story - Boris Lojkine
5 The Second Act [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Quentin Dupieux (France)
6 The Sparrow in the Chimney - Ramon Zürcher
7 Eternal You [+see also:
film review
interview: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
film profile] - Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck (Germany/USA)
8 Magpie - Sam Yates (UK)