Challenge: One Film for every Country
I have been toying with this idea for a while now, and a lot of people have attempted this on the web, but -to the best of my knowledge- none has completed it.
The idea is to watch at least one film from every country in the world. Many problems arise, such as the definition of a country, but for this lets go with the UN standard of 197 countries. There is also the obvious problem of some countries not having a film industry and of film availability, but I guess we will figure this out as we go. For now, I am just happy to start this and see how far it takes me. For the purposes of this challenge, we are looking for films produced by, shot in and starring actors from that specific country. I welcome you to join me or suggest films for those more difficult cases. Below is a list of all the UN accepted countries:
Europe
Asia
Africa
North America
South America
Oceania
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Regularly updated list
Europe: 35/47
Asia: 25/47
Africa: 26/54
North America: 13/23
South America: Completed
Oceania: 8/14
Other Territories
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Re: Challenge: One Film for every Country
Couple of suggestions.
Austria - Funny Games Uganda - Who killed Captain Alex? Down here are some good-looking films I've heard of but never seen. Czech Republic - Traps Iceland - Under the Tree |
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For North Korea - Pulgasari (1985) - it is a a fun bad movie. The back story is fascinating:
From IMDB: "Although the film is a North Korean production, director Sang-ok Shin is South Korean. North Korean dictator Jong-Il Kim was a huge fan of Shin's, and since North and South Korea have technically been at war since 1951 and have no diplomatic relations, Kim had him kidnapped. Shin eventually escaped back to South Korea, but not before he had been forced to make this movie for the erratic North Korean leader." |
Thanks for the suggestions guys! @HashtagBrownies for Austria I was thinking of going with Amour because I already have a copy of it, but I didn't know Funny Games was an Austrian and not a German production. Interesting...
@Theophile you saw this in John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, right? |
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Haneke is Austrian.
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@Nemanja thanks for the suggestion. My girlfriend is Croatian and she suggested one of these two for Serbia. What do you think?
Link 1 Link 2 ----------------------- PS. I did some more digging in my watchlist and found 3-4 more countries I've already seen films from. Also, I recently covered Bosnia Herzegovina. |
Originally Posted by Jabs (Post 1943697)
Thanks for the suggestions guys! @HashtagBrownies for Austria I was thinking of going with Amour because I already have a copy of it, but I didn't know Funny Games was an Austrian and not a German production. Interesting...
@Theophile you saw this in John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, right? No, I don't have cable. I watched this in the spring for Bad Movie night. The whole thing was on YouTube. :) |
Originally Posted by Jabs (Post 1943977)
@Nemanja thanks for the suggestion. My girlfriend is Croatian and she suggested one of these two for Serbia. What do you think?
Link 1 Link 2 ----------------------- PS. I did some more digging in my watchlist and found 3-4 more countries I've already seen films from. Also, I recently covered Bosnia Herzegovina. |
Re: Challenge: One Film for every Country
There 193 members of the UN.
Plus 2 non-participating observer states. |
Re: Challenge: One Film for every Country
Argentina- Wild Tales
Armenia- The color of pomegranites Austria- The White Ribbon Belgium- The Brand New Testament Czechia- One night in the City Denmark- Festen France- Water Lilies Germany- M Greece- Dogtooth Hungary- Kontroll Iceland- Rams Ireland- Bloody Sunday Italy- Life is Beautiful Malta-The Boat Netherlands- The Human centipede- First sequence Norway- Troll Hunter Poland- Three colors: white Romania- 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days Russia- Solaris United Kingdom-Notes on a scandal China- The little red flowers Georgia- Tangerines. Israel-Waltz with Bashir Japan- Grave of the Fireflies South Korea- Oldboy Canada- Cube Guatemala-The Golden Dream Mexico- The exterminating Angel United States- A girl walks home alone at night Uganda-Girl in the Yellow Jumper Brazil- City of Gods Australia- Picnic at Hanging Rock New Zealand - King Kong |
I don’t think Cyprus is a European country.
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Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1948373)
I don’t think Cyprus is a European country.
It most certainly is. |
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Many would say it’s in Asia, but, whatever.
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Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1948376)
Many would say it’s in Asia, but, whatever.
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Originally Posted by SpiralHeart (Post 1948361)
Germany- M
Norway- Troll Hunter
Originally Posted by SpiralHeart (Post 1948361)
United Kingdom-Notes on a scandal
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Re: Challenge: One Film for every Country
Love Notes on a Scandal.
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Re: Challenge: One Film for every Country
Updated my post on top to include Three new entries: Norway, Romania and Uganda.
I looked through my movie archives to see which countries I could cover in the near future: Algeria, Austria, Chile, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Lebanon, Mali, Mauritania, Poland, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey, Vanuatu, Zimbabwe. Not much, but enough to keep me going till I find more titles. |
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Do half of those Caribbean islands have a film industry?
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