Year-End Lists

Nicole Brenez: Favorite Films of 2017, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll and to the annual collection of lists curated by Toronto Film Review

[see also Best Movies of 2025 • Best Films of 2024 • Best Films of 2023 • Best Films of 2022 • Best Films of 2021 • Best Films of 2020 • Top Films of the 2010s • Best Films of 2019 • Best Films of 2018 • Best Films of 2016 • 5 Best Films of 2016 • 10 Best Films of 2015 • Best Films of 2014 • Best Films of 2013 • Top 5 Films of 2012]

• The Ride
  Stéphanie Gillard
• A Feeling Greater Than Love
  Mary Jirmanus Saba
• Sakhisona
  Prantik Narayan Basu
• Rubber Coated Steel
  Lawrence Abu Hamdan
• This Is a War, Baby
  Yuri Pupyrin

superb films I’m not mentioning first because they already received several well-deserved awards

• Barbs, Wastelands
  Marta Mateus
• Les îles
  Yann Gonzalez
• I Don’t Think I Can See an Island
  Christopher Becks and Emmanuel Lefrant
• The Burden
  Niki Lindroth von Bahr

additional entries submitted to Toronto Film Review, in no order

• Des choses comme ça
  Paul Grivas
• Lecture about the impossible adaptation of Ovid by the cinema, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Femis, December 8, 2017

This list contributes to:

• Top 26 Films of 2017 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Movies of 2017 La Internacional Cinéfila Poll