Cinema'r Byd

By: Aflwydd

Discovering World Cinema – Ally the Manic Listmaker

I thought I would join in the challenge to view a film from every country in this great planet of ours. What I hope will come from this is the inevitability of visiting countries to view their cinema! However, I will only acknowledge a film if I think it’s actually good. Boasting about watching a mainstream trash film from Burundi defeats the object of this entire challenge, so standards will be applied:

“Abkhazia”
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina: La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
Armenia: Color of Pomegranates (1968, Sergei Parajanov)
Australia: Samson and Delilah (2009, Warwick Thornton)
Austria
Azerbaijan
The Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium: Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada: Goin’ Down the Road (1970, Donald Shebib)
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China: Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin)
Colombia
Comoros
Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Costa Rica
Cote d’Ivoire
Croatia: Slow Days (2006, Matija Klukovic)
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic: Marketa Lazarová (1967, František Vláčil)
Denmark: Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
[England]: Archipelago (2010, Joanna Hogg)
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
[Faroe Islands]
Fiji
Finland
France: The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
Gabon
The Gambia
Georgia: Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970, Otar Iosseliani)
Germany: The Last Laugh (1924, F.W. Murnau)
Greece: Landscape in the Mist (1988, Theodoros Angelopoulos)
[Greenland]
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
[Hong Kong]: 2046 (2004, Wong Kar-Wai)
Hungary: Sátántangó (1994, Béla Tarr)
Iceland
India: The World of Apu (1959, Satyajit Ray)
Indonesia
Iran: Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)
Iraq
Ireland
“Israel”
Italy: Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittoria De Sica)
Jamaica
Japan: Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
“Kosovo”
“Kurdistan”
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania: In Memory of the Day Passed By (1990, Sharunas Bartas)
Luxembourg
[Macau]
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali: Baara (1978, Souleymane Cissé)
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania: Waiting for Happiness (2002, Abderrahmane Sissako)
Mauritius
Mexico: Alamar (2009, Pedro González-Rubio)
Federated States of Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
“Nagorno-Karabakh”
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
“Northern Cyprus”
[Northern Ireland]: Four Days in July (1984, Mike Leigh)
North Korea
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
“Palestine”
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
[Puerto Rico]
Philippines
Poland: Everything for Sale (1969, Andrzej Wajda)
Portugal: In Vanda’s Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
Qatar
Romania: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
Russia: Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Rwanda
“Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic”
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
[Scotland]
Senegal: La Noire De … (1966, Ousmane Sembène)
Serbia: Skupljači perja (1967, Aleksandar Petrović)
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
“Somaliland”
South Africa: Come Back, Africa (1959, Lionel Rogosin)
South Korea: The Road to the Racetrack (1991, Jang Sun-woo)
“South Ossetia”
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden: Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
Switzerland
Syria
“Taiwan”: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand: Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Tibet
Togo
Tonga
“Transnistria”
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey: Distant (2002, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine: Chekhov’s Motifs (2002, Kira Muratova)
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Meantime (1983, Mike Leigh)
United States of America: Faces (1968, John Cassavetes)
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam: When the Tenth Month Comes (1984, Đặng Nhật Minh)
[Wales]
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe