See every Academy Award Winner or Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film since the year 2000. Check back soon as we catalogue more great world cinema.

	Country	Year	Title	Director	Summary
	Japan	2008	Departures	Yojiro Takita	When his Tokyo orchestra disbands, cellist Daigo Kobayashi returns to his home town. Looking for a job he applies to work for a travel agency but instead finds himself working for an undertaker preparing corpses for cremation.
	Austria	2007	The Counterfeiters	Stefan Ruzowitzky	The story of a Jewish counterfeiter forced to forge Allied currencies for the Nazis. He faces the moral dilemma of whether to work on a project that could lengthen the war, or resist and risk death.
	Germany	2006	The Lives of Others	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Set in East Berlin in 1984, Stasi officer Captain Gerd Wiesler is tasked with investigating a playwright and his actress girlfriend. The film follows the intimate relationship that develops between the playwright and his secret observer.
	South Africa	2005	Tsotsi	Gavin Hood	Set in a township of Johannesburg it shows the life of an amoral teenager whose nickname Tsotsi, translates as thug. However when a car-jacking goes wrong Tsotsi is left looking after a baby and this reawakens his humanity.
	Spain	2004	The Sea Inside	Alejandro Amenabar	Based on the true story of Ramón Sampedro a fisherman and part time poet who is left paralysed in a diving accident at the age of 26. He fought a 30 year campaign for the right to end his life in dignity.
	Canada	2003	The Barbarian Invasions	Denys Arcand	The sequel to Director Denys Arcand's international breakthrough The Decline of the American Empire focuses on Remy who is fighting a losing battle against cancer. A reunion is arranged of his friends and family in this dialogue driven character study.
	Germany	2002	Nowhere in Africa	Caroline Link	A Jewish family emigrate in the 1930s to escape from Hitler's Germany and move to Kenya to run a farm. This epic story follows their lives both during and after the Second World War.
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2001	No Mans Land	Danis Tanovic	During the Bosnian war two soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb are trapped in a stalemate in a trench and a UN peace keeping unit is called in to try and resolve the situation. A film which is at times darkly funny, and at other times disturbing.
	Taiwan	2000	Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee	The epic story of two warriors in pursuit of the stolen sword Green Destiny in 19th century China. Featuring amazing martial arts scenes and breathtaking cinematography.