Curry Barker’s horror hit Obsession and Felipe Bustos Sierra’s Everybody To Kenmure Street are among the titles on the British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) international and documentary longlists.
Obsession – an independently-made feature which was purchased by Universal for worldwide distribution – is one of 16 titles on the best international independent film list, alongside La Bola Negra by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, and Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma by Jane Schoenbrun.
Scroll down for the full international, documentary longlists
The latter two titles premiered at Cannes, and are joined on the international list by Croisette features Club Kid, Coward, All Of A Sudden, Fatherland, Minotaur, Possible Love, La Gradiva and Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner Fjord.
Everybody To Kenmure Street, about the immigration raid resistance movement in Glasgow in 2021, is one of 14 titles longlisted for best feature documentary. Joining it are features including Ed Sayers’ Super Nature, Jeanie Finlay’s All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea, and Yemi Bamiro’s Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story.
The categories are the latest Bifa longlists revealed this week, after lists for cinema of the year, breakthrough performance and the new talent filmmaker categories.
The five nominations in each category will be announced on Tuesday, November 3, with the winners revealed at the Bifa ceremony on Sunday, December 6 at London’s Camden Roundhouse.
Last year’s best international independent film went to Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, with Myrid Carten’s A Want In Her taking best feature documentary.
Bifa international, documentary longlists 2026
Best international independent film
All Of A Sudden, dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Blue Heron, dir. Sophy Romvari
Cactus Pears, dir. Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
Club Kid, dir. Jordan Firstman
Coward, dir. Lukas Dhont
Fatherland, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
Fjord, dir. Cristian Mungiu
Josephine, dir. Beth De Araújo
La Bola Negra, dirs. Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
La Gradiva, dir. Marine Atlan
Minotaur, dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Obsession, dir. Curry Barker
Possible Love, dir. Lee Chang-dong
Rose, dir. Markus Schleinzer
Silent Friend, dir. Ildikó Enyedi
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, dir. Jane Schoenbrun
Best feature documentary
All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea, dir. Jeanie Finlay
Birds Of War, dirs. Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak
Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, dir. Yemi Bamiro
Everybody To Kenmure Street, dir. Felipe Bustos Sierra
Killing Anna, dir. Sam Benstead
The Last First: Winter K2, dir. Amir Bar-Lev
Life Support, dir. Daniele Rugo
Maverick: The Epic Adventures Of David Lean, dir. Barnaby Thompson
Molly Vs The Machines, dir. Marc Silver
One In A Million, dirs. Itab Azzam, Jack Macinnes
Something Familiar, dir. Rachel Taparjan
Super Nature, dir. Ed Sayers
Ultimate Thunder, dir. Ben G. Brown
We, The Hated, dir. Rich Felgate
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