BIFA Award for Best Foreign Independent Film

The British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Independent Film is an annual award given to the best foreign independent film. The award was introduced in the 1998 ceremony.

Winners and nominees

From 1998 to 2002 there were two separate categories:

  • Best Foreign Independent Film – English Language
  • Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language

1998–2002

Category Film Country Director
1998
Foreign languageL'Appartement  France Gilles Mimouni
Airbag  Spain Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Live Flesh  Spain Pedro Almodóvar
Marquise  France Véra Belmont
Men with Guns  Canada Kari Skogland
English languageBoogie Nights  United States Paul Thomas Anderson
Broken Vessels  United States Scott Ziehl
Chasing Amy  United States Kevin Smith
Left Luggage  Netherlands Jeroen Krabbé
The Castle  Australia Rob Sitch
1999
Foreign languageAll About My Mother  Spain Pedro Almodóvar
The Celebration  Denmark Thomas Vinterberg
Life Is Beautiful  Italy Roberto Benigni
Romance  France Catherine Breillat
The Dreamlife of Angels  France Erick Zonca
English languageHappiness  United States Todd Solondz
Buffalo '66  United States Vincent Gallo
Praise  United States John Curran
Rushmore  United States Wes Anderson
The Blair Witch Project  United States Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
2000
Foreign languageKadosh  Israel Amos Gitai
Beau travail  France Claire Denis
The Emperor and the Assassin  China Chen Kaige
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train  France Patrice Chéreau
Une liaison pornographique  France Frédéric Fonteyne
English languageThe Straight Story  United States David Lynch
Boiler Room  United States Ben Younger
Chuck & Buck  United States Miguel Arteta
Jesus' Son  Canada Alison Maclean
Nurse Betty  United States Neil LaBute
2001
Foreign languageIn the Mood for Love  Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai
Amores perros  Mexico Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Taste of Others  France Agnès Jaoui
Songs from the Second Floor  Sweden Roy Andersson
English languageMemento  United States Christopher Nolan
Chopper  Australia Andrew Dominik
Hedwig and the Angry Inch  United States John Cameron Mitchell
Dark Days  United States Marc Singer
2002
Foreign languageMonsoon Wedding  India Mira Nair
Talk to Her  Spain Pedro Almodóvar
Nine Queens  Argentina Fabián Bielinsky
Y Tu Mamá También  Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
English languageLantana  Australia Ray Lawrence
Ghost World  United States Terry Zwigoff
Ivans XTC  United States Bernard Rose
Lost in La Mancha  United States Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe

2003–2019

Film Country Director
2003
City of God  Brazil Fernando Meirelles
The Triplets of Belleville  France Sylvain Chomet
Secretary  United States Steven Shainberg
Spirited Away  Japan Hayao Miyazaki
Whale Rider  New Zealand Niki Caro
2004
Oldboy  South Korea Park Chan-wook
Fahrenheit 9/11  United States Michael Moore
Hero  China Zhang Yimou
Pieces of April  United States Peter Hedges
The Motorcycle Diaries  Argentina Walter Salles
2005
Downfall  Germany Oliver Hirschbiegel
Broken Flowers  United States Jim Jarmusch
Crash  United States Paul Haggis
Secuestro Express  Venezuela Jonathan Jakubowicz
The Woodsman  United States Nicole Kassell
2006
Caché  France Michael Haneke
Brick  United States Rian Johnson
Hard Candy  United States David Slade
The Beat That My Heart Skipped  France Jacques Audiard
Volver  Spain Pedro Almodóvar
2007
The Lives of Others  Germany Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Black Book  Netherlands Paul Verhoeven
La Vie en rose  France Olivier Dahan
Once  Ireland John Carney
Tell No One  France Guillaume Canet
2008
Waltz with Bashir  Israel Ari Folman
Gomorrah  Italy Matteo Garrone
I've Loved You So Long  France Philippe Claudel
Persepolis  France Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly  France Julian Schnabel
2009
Let the Right One In  Sweden Tomas Alfredson
Il Divo  Italy Paolo Sorrentino
Sin Nombre  Mexico Cary Fukunaga
The Hurt Locker  United States Kathryn Bigelow
The Wrestler  United States Darren Aronofsky
2010
A Prophet  France Jacques Audiard
Dogtooth  Greece Yorgos Lanthimos
I Am Love  Italy Luca Guadagnino
The Secret in Their Eyes  Argentina Juan J. Campanella
Winter's Bone  United States Debra Granik
2011
A Separation  Iran Asghar Farhadi
Animal Kingdom  Australia David Michôd
Drive  United States Nicolas Winding Refn
Pina  Germany Wim Wenders
The Skin I Live In  Spain Pedro Almodóvar
2012
The Hunt  Denmark Thomas Vinterberg
Amour  Austria Michael Haneke
Searching for Sugar Man  Sweden Malik Bendjelloul
Rust and Bone  France Jacques Audiard
Beasts of the Southern Wild  United States Benh Zeitlin
2013
Blue is the Warmest Colour  France Abdellatif Kechiche
Blue Jasmine  United States Woody Allen
The Great Beauty  Italy Paolo Sorrentino
Frances Ha  United States Noah Baumbach
Wadjda  Saudi Arabia Haifaa al-Mansour
2014
Boyhood  United States Richard Linklater
Blue Ruin  United States Jeremy Saulnier
Fruitvale Station  United States Ryan Coogler
Ida  Poland Paweł Pawlikowski
The Babadook  Australia Jennifer Kent
2015
Room  United States Lenny Abrahamson
Carol  United States Todd Haynes
Force Mejeure  Sweden Ruben Östlund
Girlhood  France Céline Sciamma
Son of Saul  Hungary László Nemes
2016
Moonlight  United States Barry Jenkins
Hunt for the Wilderpeople  New Zealand Taika Waititi
Manchester by the Sea  United States Kenneth Lonergan
Mustang  France/ Turkey Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Toni Erdmann  Austria/ Germany Maren Ade
2017
Get Out  United States Jordan Peele
The Florida Project  United States Sean Baker
I Am Not Your Negro  United States Raoul Peck
Loveless  Russia Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Square  Sweden Ruben Östlund
2018
Roma  Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
Capernaum  Lebanon Nadine Labaki
Cold War  Poland Paweł Pawlikowski
The Rider  United States Chloé Zhao
Shoplifters  Japan Hirokazu Kore-eda
2019
Parasite  South Korea Bong Joon-ho
Ash Is Purest White  China Jia Zhangke
Marriage Story  United States Noah Baumbach
Monos  Colombia Alejandro Landes
Portrait of a Lady on Fire  France Céline Sciamma

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