Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The winners of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film are listed below:

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Country	Director(s)	Ref
2002	Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	[1]
	And Your Mother Too	Y Tu Mamá También	Mexico	Alfonso Cuarón	[1]
	Mostly Martha	Bella Martha	Germany	Sandra Nettelbeck	[1]
2003	City of God	Cidade de Deus	Brazil	Fernando Meirelles	[2]
	L'Auberge Espagnole	L'Auberge Espagnole	France/Spain	Cédric Klapisch	[2]
	The Triplets of Belleville	Les Triplettes de Belleville	France/Canada	Sylvain Chomet	[2]
2004	A Very Long Engagement	Un long dimanche de fiançailles	France	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
	Maria Full of Grace	María, llena eres de gracia	Colombia	Joshua Marston
	The Motorcycle Diaries	Diarios de motocicleta	Argentina	Walter Salles
2005	Paradise Now	الجنّة الآن	Palestine	Hany Abu-Assad
	Downfall	Der Untergang	Germany	Oliver Hirschbiegel
	Kung Fu Hustle	功夫	Hong Kong	Stephen Chow
2006	Volver		Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	[3]
	The Child	L'Enfant	Belgium	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne	[3]
	Letters from Iwo Jima	硫黄島からの手紙	United States/Japan	Clint Eastwood	[3]
2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile	Romania	Cristian Mungiu
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Le Scaphandre et le papillon	France	Julian Schnabel
	Persepolis	Persepolis	France	Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
2008	The Edge of Heaven	Auf der anderen Seite	Germany	Fatih Akin	[4]
	Let the Right One In	Låt den rätte komma in	Sweden	Tomas Alfredson	[4]
	Tell No One	Ne le dis à personne	France	Guillaume Canet	[4]
2009	Summer Hours	L'Heure d'été	France	Olivier Assayas
	Broken Embraces	Los abrazos rotos	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar
	The Headless Woman	La mujer sin cabeza / La mujer rubia	Argentina	Lucrecia Martel

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Original title	Country	Director(s)	Ref
2010	Carlos		France	Olivier Assayas
	Mother	마더	South Korea	Bong Joon-ho
	A Prophet	Un prophète	France	Jacques Audiard
	The Secret in Their Eyes	El secreto de sus ojos	Argentina	Juan José Campanella
2011	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین	Iran	Asghar Farhadi
	Poetry	시	South Korea	Lee Chang-dong
	The Kid with a Bike	Le Gamin au vélo	Belgium	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
2012	Holy Motors		France	Leos Carax
	Amour		France/Austria	Michael Haneke
	The Intouchables	Intouchables	France	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
2013	The Hunt	Jagten	Denmark	Thomas Vinterberg
	Blancanieves		Spain	Pablo Berger
	Blue is the Warmest Colour	La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2	France	Abdellatif Kechiche
2014	Force Majeure	Turist	Sweden	Ruben Östlund
	Ida		Poland	Paweł Pawlikowski
	We Are the Best!	Vi är bäst!	Sweden	Lukas Moodysson
2015	The Assassin	刺客聶隱娘	Taiwan	Hou Hsiao-hsien
	Goodnight Mommy	Ich seh, Ich seh	Austria	Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
	Son of Saul	Saul fia	Hungary	László Nemes
2016	Toni Erdmann		Germany	Maren Ade
	Elle		France	Paul Verhoeven
	The Handmaiden	아가씨	South Korea	Chan-wook Park
2017	BPM (Beats per Minute)	120 battements par minute	France	Robin Campillo
	A Fantastic Woman	Una mujer fantástica	Chile	Sebastián Lelio
	The Square		Sweden	Ruben Östlund
2018	Roma		Mexico	Alfonso Cuarón	[5]
	Burning	버닝	South Korea	Lee Chang-dong	[6]
	Shoplifters	万引き家族	Japan	Hirokazu Kore-eda	[6]
2019	Parasite	기생충	South Korea	Bong Joon-ho	[7]
	The Farewell	別告訴她	United States	Lulu Wang	[8]
	Pain and Glory	Dolor y gloria	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	[8]

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Original title	Country	Director(s)	Ref
2020	Minari	미나리	United States	Lee Isaac Chung	[9]
	Another Round	Druk	Denmark	Thomas Vinterberg	[10]
	Dear Comrades!	Dorogie tovarishchi!	Russia	Andrei Konchalovsky
2021	The Worst Person in the World	Verdens verste menneske	Norway	Joachim Trier	[11]
	Flee	Flugt	Denmark	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	[12]
	Riders of Justice	Retfærdighedens Ryttere	Denmark	Anders Thomas Jensen
2022	All Quiet on the Western Front	Im Westen nichts Neues	Germany	Edward Berger	[13]
	Holy Spider	Ankabut-e moqaddas	Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden	Ali Abbasi	[14]
	RRR		India	S. S. Rajamouli
2023	The Zone of Interest		United States, United Kingdom, Poland	Jonathan Glazer	[15]
	Anatomy of a Fall	Anatomie d'une chute	France	Justine Triet	[16]
	Society of the Snow	La sociedad de la nieve	Spain, United States	J. A. Bayona
2024	Flow	Straume	Latvia, France, Belgium	Gints Zilbalodis	[17]
	All We Imagine as Light		France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy	Payal Kapadia	[18]
	Emilia Pérez		France	Jacques Audiard