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‘The Worst Person In The World’, ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once are among the titles in the 17-strong longlist for best international independent film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa).

Laura Poitras’ Venice Golden Lion winner All The Beauty And The Bloodshed also made the longlist. As did Park Chan-Wook’s Decision To Leave; Colm Bairead’s The Quiet Girl; Lukas Dhont’s Close; Carla Simon’s Alcarras; and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985.

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In best documentary feature, seven out of the 15 titles are directed by women.

This includes Kim Hopkins’ A Bunch Of Amateurs which picked up the audience award at Sheffield DocFest earlier this year.

Kathryn Ferguson’s Sinead O’Connor documentary Nothing Compares has also made the longlist along with Jono McLeod’s My Old School and Ed Perkins’ The Princess about the late Princess Diana.

The categories will be shortlisted to five nominations announced on November 3 with the awards ceremony taking place December 4.

Further longlists are expected to be announced next week.

Best International Independent Film

Alcarras (Sp-It)
Dir. Carla Simon

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (US)
Dir. Laura Poitras

Argentina, 1985 (Arg-UK-US)
Dir. Santiago Mitre

Broker (S Kor)
Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu

Close (Bel-Fr-Neth)
Dir. Lukas Dhont

Decision To Leave (S Kor)
Dir. Park Chan-Wook

Everything Everywhere All At Once (US)
Dirs. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Full Time (Fr)
Dir. Eric Gravel

Hit The Road (Iran)
Dir. Panah Panahi

La Mif (Switz)
Dir. Fred Baillif

More Than Ever (Fr-Lux-Nor-Ger)
Dir. Emily Atef

Murina (Cro-US-Slo)
Dir. Antoneta

Navalny (US)
Dir. Daniel Roher

Playground (Bel)
Dir. Laura Wandel

Return To Dust (China)
Dir. Li Ruijun

The Quiet Girl (Ire)
Dir. Colm Bairead

The Worst Person In The World (Nor-Fr-Den)
Dir. Joachim Trier

Best Feature Documentary

A Bunch Of Amateurs
Dir. Kim Hopkins

A Story Of Bones
Dir. Joseph Curran

Electric Malady
Dir. Marie Liden

Fadia’s Tree
Dir. Sarah Beddington

Fashion Reimagined
Dir. Becky Hunter

Kanaval
Dirs. Leah Gordon and Eddie Hutton Mills

My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years In Afghanistan
Dir. Phil Grabsky

My Old School
Dir. Jono Mcleod

Nascondino (Hide And Seek)
Dir. Victoria Fiore

Nothing Compares
Dir. Kathryn Ferguson

Rebellion
Dir. Elena Sanchez Bellot

The Princess
Dir. Ed Perkins

The Story Of Film: A New Generation
Dir. Mark Cousins

This Much I Know To Be True
Dir. Andrew Dominik

Young Plato
Dirs. Declan McGrath and Neasa Ní Chianain