Best Third World Films (1931, 1955-)

1931

"Limite" (Mario Peixoto, Brazil)

1932-1954

1955

"Pather Panchali" (Satyajit Ray, India)

1956

"Child Of Sorrow" (Lamberto V. Avellana, Philippines)

1957

"Aparajito" (Satyajit Ray, India)

1958

"El Trueno entre las hojas" (Armando Bo, Argentina)

1959

"The World Of Apu" (Satyajit Ray, India)

1960

"The Great Mughal" (K. Asif, India)

1961

"Teen Kanya" (Satyajit Ray, India)

1962

"Keeper Of Promises" (Anselmo Duarte, Brazil)

1963

"Barren Lives" (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil)

1964

"Black God White Devil" (Glauber Rocha, Brazil)

1965

"Guide" (Vijay Anand, India)

1966

"Death Of A Bureaucrat" (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba)

1967

"Aventuras de Juan Quinquin" (Julio Garcia Espinosa, Cuba)

1968

1. "Lucia" (Humberto Solas, Cuba)

2. "Memories Of Underdevelopment" (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba)

3. "La Hora de los Hornos" (Fernando Solanas, Argentina)

1969

1. "The Land" (Youssef Chahine, Egypt)

2. "Blood Of The Condor" (Jorge Sanjines, Bolivia)

3. "Antonio das Mortes" (Glauber Rocha, Brazil)

1970

"The Mummy" (Chadi Abdel Salam, Egypt)

1971

"Emitai" (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal)

1972

"The Harder They Come" (Perry Henzell, Jamaica)

1973

"Touki bouki" (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)

1974

"Idi Amin Dada" (Barbet Schroeder, Uganda)

1975

"Chronique des années de braise" (Algeria)

1976

"La Ultima Cena" (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba)

1977

"Ceddo" (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal)

1978

"Vampiros da Miseria" (Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina, Colombia)

1979

"La Isla" (Alejandro Doria, Argentina)

1980

"The Gods Must Be Crazy" (Jamie Uys, South Africa)

1981

"Pixote" (Hector Babenco, Brazil)

1982

"Luz del Fuego" (David Neves, Brazil)

1983

"Up To A Point" (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba)

1984

"The Home And The World" (Satyajit Ray, India)

1985

"The Official Story" (Luis Puenzo, Argentina)

1986

"Born To Defend" (Jet Li, Tsui Siu-Ming, China)

1987

"A Wedding In Galilee" (Michel Khleifi, Palestine)

1988

1. "Salaam Bombay!" (Mira Nair, India)

2. "The Summer Of Aviya" (Eli Cohen, Israel)

3. "Plaff!" (Juan Carlos Tabio, Cuba)

1989

"Yaaba" (Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso)

1990

"Halfaouine l'enfant des terrasses" (Férid Boughedir, Tunesia)

1991

"Raise The Red Lantern" (Zhang Yimou, China)

1992

"The Story Of Qiu Ju" (Zhang Yimou, China)

1993

"The Blue Kite" (Tian Zhuangzhuang, China)

1994

1. "Fresa y Chocolate" (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio, Cuba)

2. "Bandit Queen" (Shekhar Kapur, India)

3. "Les Gens de la riziere" (Rithy Panh, Cambodia)

1995

1. "El Elefante y la bicicleta" (Juan Carlos Tabio,  Cuba)

2. "Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda" (Camilo Luzuriaga, Ecuador)

3. "Muthu" (K. S. Ravikumar, India)

1996

"Brigands Chapter VII" (Otar Iosseliani, Georgia)

1997

1. "12 Storeys" (Eric Khoo, Singapore)

2. "Four Days In September" (Bruno Barreto, Brazil)

3. "Kama Sutra" (Mira Nair, India)

1998

"The Terrorist" (Santosh Sivan, India)

1999

1. "Luna Papa" (Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Tadjikistan)

2. "Life Is To Whistle" (Fernando Perez, Cuba)

3. "Not One Less" (Zhang Yimou, China)

2000

"27 Missing Kisses" (Nana Djordjadze, Georgia)

2001

1. "Late Marriage" (Dover Koshashvili, Israel)

2. "Monsoon Wedding" (Mira Nair, India)

3. "Te Amo Made In Chile" (Sergio M. Castilla, Chile)

2002

1. "Hero" (Zhang Yimou, China)

2. "August A Moment Before The Eruption" (Avi Mograbi, Israel)

3. "Blissfully Yours" (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)

2003

1. "City Of God" (Fernando Meirelles, Brazil)

2. "Osama" (Siddiq Barmak, Afghanistan)

3. "Tan de repente" (Diego Lerman, Argentina)

2004

1. "House Of The Flying Daggers" (Zhang Yimou, China)

2. "Or Mon trésor" (Keren Yedaya, Israel)

3. "Tropical Malady" (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)

2005

1. "Delwende" (S. Pierre Yameogo, Burkina Faso)

2. "Main Hoon Na" (Farah Khan, India)

3. "Tsotsi" (Gavin Hood, South Africa)

2006

1. "Curse Of The Golden Flower" (Zhang Yimou, China)

2. "Yacoubian Building" (Marwan Hamed, Egypt)

3. "Indigènes" (Rachid Bouchareb, Algeria)

2007

1. "XXY" (Lucia Puenzo, Argentina)

2. "Mongol" (Sergei Bodrov, Kazakhstan)

3. "Baixio das bestas" (Claudio Assis, Brazil)

2008

1. "Still Orangutans" (Gustavo Spolidoro, Brazil)

2. "Absurdistan" (Veit Helmer, Azerbaijan)

3. "Like Stars On Earth" (Aamir Khan, India)

2009

1. "Los Canallas" (Ana Cristina Franco, Ecuador)

2. "Kinatay" (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines)

3. "Un Cuerpo desnudo" (Francisco J. Lombardi, Peru)

2010

1. "Viva Riva" (Djo Munga, Congo)

2. "Lisanka" (Daniel Diaz Torres, Cuba)

3. "Portraits In A Sea Of Lies" (Carlos Gaviria, Colombia)

2011

1. "The Raid Redemption" (Gareth Evans, Indonesia)

2. "The Bang Bang Club" (Steven Silver, South Africa)

3. "Eternal Ashes" (Margarita Cadenas, Venezuela)

2012

1. "7 Days In Havana" (Benicio del Toro, Julio Medem, Laurent Cantet, Cuba)

2. "Paraisos artificiais" (Marcos Prado, Brazil)

3. "Virgem Margarida" (Licínio Azevedo, Mozambique)

2013

1. "L'Image manquante" (Rithy Panh, Cambodia)

2. "Wadjda" (Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia)

3. "Ilo Ilo" (Anthony Chen, Singapore)

2014

1. "Timbuktu" (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauretania)

2. "Winter Sleep" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)

3. "Wild Tales" (Damián Szifron, Argentina)

2015

1. "Theeb" (Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan)

2. "Much Loved" (Nabil Ayouch, Morocco)

3. "Mustang" (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Turkey)

2016

1. "Blush" (Michal Vinik, Israel)

2. "The Forest" (Paul Spurrier, Thailand)

3. "Aquarius" (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)

2017

"A Fantastic Woman" (Sebastian Lelio, Chile)

2018

"Capernaum" (Nadine Labaki, Lebanon)

2019

1. "Ema" (Pablo Larrain, Chile)

2. "Atlantique" (Mati Diop, Senegal)

3. "It Must Be Heaven" (Elia Suleiman, Palestine)

2020

"Better Days" (Derek Tsang, China)

2021

"Ahed's Knee" (Nadav Lapid, Israel)

2022

"Argentina 1985" (Santiago Mitre, Argentina)

2023

1. "About Dry Grasses" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)

2. "The Delinquents" (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina)

3. "El Conde" (Pablo Larrain, Chile)

2024

"Dahomey" (Mati Diop, Senegal)