AFT Awards: Best Foreign Film

This is the eighteenth category of the 2nd Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in alphabetical order. For this category, I consider eligible only films that were released in their native countries within the past year. Therefore, films like “The Band’s Visit” and “The Counterfeiters,” had I seen them earlier, would have been eligible last year.

The winner:
Waltz with Bashir (Israel) wasn’t just the best foreign film of the year, it was the best film of the year, and proves that Israel really is churning out some great movies these days.

Other nominees:
A Christmas Tale (France)
Lost Islands (Israel)
Reprise (Norway)
Tell No One (France)