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 language	L'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 language	Boogie 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 language	All 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 language	Happiness	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 language	Kadosh	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 language	The 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 language	In 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 language	Memento	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 language	Monsoon Wedding	India	Mira Nair
	Talk to Her	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar
	Nine Queens	Argentina	Fabián Bielinsky
	Y Tu Mamá También	Mexico	Alfonso Cuarón
English language	Lantana	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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