The British Independent Film Award for Best International Independent Film is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best international independent films. The award was first presented in the 1998 ceremony.
From 1998 to 2002, two categories named Best Foreign Independent Film – English Language and Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language were presented, in 2003 both categories were merged into the current category.
In 2012 the category was renamed to its current name, previously the category was named Best Foreign Independent Film.
Winners and nominees 1990s YearEnglish titleOriginal titleRecipient(s)Country 1998 Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language The Apartment L'Appartement Gilles Mimouni Airbag Juanma Bajo Ulloa Live Flesh Carne trémula Pedro AlmodóvarMarquise Véra Belmont Men with Guns Kari Skogland Best Foreign Independent Film – English Language Boogie Nights Paul Thomas Anderson Left Luggage Jeroen Krabbé Broken Vessels Scott ZiehlChasing Amy Kevin SmithThe Castle Rob Sitch 1999 Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language All About My Mother Todo sobre mi madre Pedro Almodóvar The Celebration Festen Thomas Vinterberg Life Is Beautiful La vita è bella Roberto Benigni Romance Catherine Breillat The Dreamlife of Angels La Vie rêvée des anges Erick ZoncaBest Foreign Independent Film – English Language Happiness Todd Solondz Buffalo '66 Vincent GalloPraise John CurranRushmore Wes AndersonThe Blair Witch Project Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
2000s YearEnglish titleOriginal titleRecipient(s)Country 2000 Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language Kadosh Amos Gitai Beau travail Claire Denis Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train Patrice ChéreauUne liaison pornographique Frédéric Fonteyne The Emperor and the Assassin 荊軻刺秦王, Jīng Kē Cì Qín Wáng Chen Kaige Best Foreign Independent Film – English Language The Straight Story David Lynch Jesus' Son Alison Maclean Boiler Room Ben YoungerChuck & Buck Miguel ArtetaNurse Betty Neil LaBute 2001 Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language In the Mood for Love 花樣年華, huāyàng niánhuá Wong Kar-wai Amores perros Alejandro González Iñárritu The Taste of Others Le Goût des autres Agnès Jaoui Songs from the Second Floor Sånger från andra våningen Roy Andersson Best Foreign Independent Film – English Language Memento Christopher Nolan Chopper Andrew Dominik Hedwig and the Angry Inch John Cameron MitchellDark Days Marc Singer 2002 Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair Talk to Her Hable con ella Pedro Almodóvar Nine Queens Nueve reinas Fabián Bielinsky Y Tu Mamá También Alfonso Cuarón Best Foreign Independent Film – English Language Lantana Ray Lawrence Ghost World Terry ZwigoffIvans XTC Bernard RoseLost in La Mancha Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Best Foreign Independent Film YearEnglish titleOriginal titleRecipient(s)Country 2003 City of God Cidade de Deus Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund The Triplets of Belleville Les Triplettes de Belleville Sylvain Chomet Secretary Steven Shainberg Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi Hayao Miyazaki Whale Rider Niki Caro 2004 Oldboy 올드보이 Park Chan-wook Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael MoorePieces of April Peter Hedges Hero 英雄, Yīngxióng Zhang Yimou The Motorcycle Diaries Diarios de motocicleta Walter Salles 2005 Downfall Der Untergang Oliver Hirschbiegel Broken Flowers Jim JarmuschCrash Paul HaggisThe Woodsman Nicole KassellSecuestro Express Jonathan Jakubowicz 2006 Caché Michael Haneke Brick Lane Sarah Gavron Hard Candy David Slade The Beat That My Heart Skipped De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté Jacques Audiard Volver Pedro Almodóvar 2007 The Lives of Others Das Leben der Anderen Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Black Book Zwartboek Paul Verhoeven La Vie en rose La Môme Olivier Dahan Tell No One Ne le dis à personne Guillaume CanetOnce John Carney 2008 Waltz with Bashir ואלס עם באשיר, Vals Im Bashir Ari Folman I've Loved You So Long Il y a longtemps que je t'aime Philippe ClaudelPersepolis Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Le Scaphandre et le Papillon Julian Schnabel Gomorrah Gomorra Matteo Garrone 2009 Let the Right One In Låt den rätte komma in Tomas Alfredson Il Divo Paolo Sorrentino Sin Nombre Cary Fukunaga The Hurt Locker Kathryn BigelowThe Wrestler Darren Aronofsky
2010s YearEnglish titleOriginal titleRecipient(s)Country 2010 A Prophet Un prophète Jacques Audiard Dogtooth Κυνόδοντας, Kynodontas Yorgos Lanthimos I Am Love Io sono l'amore Luca Guadagnino The Secret in Their Eyes El secreto de sus ojos Juan J. Campanella Winter's Bone Debra Granik 2011 A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین, Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín Asghar Farhadi Animal Kingdom David Michôd Drive Nicolas Winding Refn Pina Wim Wenders The Skin I Live In La piel que habito Pedro Almodóvar 2012 The Hunt Jagten Thomas Vinterberg Amour Michael Haneke Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul Rust and Bone De rouille et d'os Jacques Audiard Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin 2013 Blue is the Warmest Colour La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 Abdellatif Kechiche Blue Jasmine Woody AllenFrances Ha Noah Baumbach The Great Beauty La grande bellezza Paolo Sorrentino Wadjda وجدة, Wajda Haifaa al-Mansour 2014 Boyhood Richard Linklater Ida Paweł Pawlikowski Blue Ruin Jeremy SaulnierFruitvale Station Ryan CooglerThe Babadook Jennifer Kent 2015 Room Lenny Abrahamson Force Mejeure Turist Ruben Östlund Carol Todd Haynes Girlhood Bande de filles Céline Sciamma Son of Saul Saul fia László Nemes 2016 Moonlight Dede Gardner, Barry Jenkins, Jeremy Kleiner, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Adele Romanski Hunt for the Wilderpeople Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne Saunders and Taika Waititi Manchester by the Sea Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Kenneth Lonergan, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward and Kevin J. Wals Mustang Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Charles Gillibert and Alice Winocour , Toni Erdmann Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski and Michael Merkt , 2017 Get Out Jordan Peele The Florida Project Sean BakerI Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck Loveless Нелюбовь, Nelyubov Andrey Zvyagintsev The Square Ruben Östlund 2018 Roma Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodriguez and Nicolás Celis Capernaum كفرناحومNadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Michelle Keserwani, Khaled Mouzanar and Michel Merkt Cold War Zimna wojnaPaweł Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki, Ewa Puszczynska and Tanya SeghatchianThe RiderChloé Zhao, Mollye Asher, Sacha Ben Harroche and Bert HamelinckShoplifters 万引き家族, Manbiki KazokuHirokazu Kore-eda 2019 Parasite 기생충, Gisaengchung Bong Joon-ho Ash Is Purest White 江湖兒女, jiānghú érnǚ Jia Zhangke Marriage StoryNoah Baumbach MonosAlejandro LandesPortrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la jeune fille en feuCéline Sciamma
2020s YearEnglish titleOriginal titleRecipient(s)Country 2020 Nomadland Chloé Zhao, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher and Dan Janvey Babyteeth Shannon Murphy, Alex White and Rita Kalnejais Les MisérablesLadj Ly, Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti Never Rarely Sometimes AlwaysEliza Hittman, Adele Romanski and Sara Murphy, NotturnoGianfranco Rosi, Donatella Palermo, Paolo Del Brocco, Serge Lalou, Camille Laemlé, Orwa Nyrabia and Eva-Maria Weerts, 2021 Flee Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Amin Nawabi, Monica Hellstrøm and Signe Byrge Sørensen Compartment No. 6 Hytti nro 6 / Купе номер шесть Juho Kuosmanen, Livia Ulvan, Andris Feldmanis, Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Hakka , First Cow Kelly Reichardt, Jon Raymond, Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino and Anish Savjani Petite Maman Céline Sciamma and Bénédicte Couvreur Pleasure Ninja Thyberg, Peter Modestij, Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå and Erik Hemmendorff , , 2022The Worst Person in the WorldVerdens verste menneskeJoachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar and Thomas RobsahmAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni GolijovEverything Everywhere All at Once Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo and Mike LaroccaClose Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens, Michiel Dhont and Dirk Impens Decision to Leave 헤어질 결심, Heojil gyeolsim Park Chan-Wook and Chung Seo-Kyung 2023 Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute Justine Triet, Arthur Harari, Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion Fallen Leaves Kuolleet lehdet Aki Kaurismäki, Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff and Reinhard Brundig Fremont Babak Jalali, Carolina Cavalli, Marjaneh Moghimi, Sudnya Shroff and Rachael Fung Past Lives Celine Song, David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler Monster 怪物 Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yuji Sakamoto, Genki Kawamura, Kenji Yamada, Megumi Banse, Taichi Ito and Hijiri Taguchi 2024 Anora Sean Baker, Alex Coco and Samantha Quan All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia, Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff , La Chimera Alice Rohrwacher, Carlo Cresto-Dina and Paolo Del Brocco No Other Land Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Fabrien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning , The Seed of the Sacred Fig دانهی انجیر معابد / Les Graines du figuier sauvage / Die Saat des heiligen Feigenbaums Mohammad Rasoulof, Rozita Hendijanian, Amin Sadraei, Jean-Christophe Simon and Mani Tilgner , 2025 Sentimental Value Affeksjonsverdi Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar It Was Just an Accident یک تصادف ساده Jafar Panahi and Phillippe Martin , Sirāt Óliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol, Domingo Corral, Oriol Maymo, Andrea Queralt, Mani Mortazavi, Xavi Font, Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar and Esther García Sorry, Baby Eva Victor, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak and Barry Jenkins Sound of Falling In die Sonne schauen Mascha Schilinski, Louise Pete, Maren Schmitt and Lucas Schmidt
References
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