Our Top 200 Films

Since 1998, trigon-film brings outstanding movies from the south and the east to the cinemas. More than three million visitors experienced encounters with other cultures. The following list of our 200 most successful films shows the rich cultural experiences that trigon-film has made possible. Most of the movies are available on DVD and can be ordered online.

	Film	Directed by	Country	Admissions
1	La vida es silbar	Fernando Pérez	Cuba	121'837
2	Bodhi Dharma	Yong-kyun Bae	South Korea	105'811
3	El viaje	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	104'656
4	Lagaan	Ashutosh Gowariker	India	77'426
5	Sur	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	71'515
6	Le collier perdu	Nacer Khemir	Tunisia	64'538
7	Bab'Aziz	Nacer Khemir	Tunisia	63'042
8	Yi Yi - A One and a Two	Edward Yang	Taiwan	53'839
9	No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas	Eliseo Subiela	Argentina	52'125
10	A Separation	Asghar Farhadi	Iran	48'341
11	Shamt al kushur - Les silences du palais	Moufida Tlatli	Tunisia	45'557
12	Bombón - el perro	Carlos Sorin	Argentina	44'149
13	The Goddess of 1967	Clara Law	Australia	41'049
14	Eu, tu, eles	Andrucha Waddington	Brazil	40'498
15	Suite Habana	Fernando Pérez	Cuba	40'215
16	TGV	Moussa Touré	Senegal	39'372
17	Un lugar en el mundo	Adolfo Aristarain	Argentina	39'247
18	Despabílate amor	Eliseo Subiela	Argentina	38'818
19	Like Father, Like Son	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	35'330
20	Pequeños milagros	Eliseo Subiela	Argentina	34'647
21	Nobody Knows - Dare mo shiranai	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	33'136
22	L'éternité et un jour	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	32'631
23	Historias minimas	Carlos Sorin	Argentina	31'038
24	Life on a String - Bian zou bian chang	Kaige Chen	China	30'732
25	Que tan lejos	Tania Hermida	Ecuador	30'138

26	Timbuktu	Abderrahmane Sissako	Mali	29'581
27	To vlemma tou Odyssea	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	29'488
28	Dunia - Kiss Me Not on the Eyes	Jocelyne Saab	Egypt	29'377
29	Conducta	Ernesto Daranas	Cuba	28'757
30	El lado oscuro del corazón	Eliseo Subiela	Argentina	26'285
31	Cinco dias sin Nora	Mariana Chenillo	Mexico	25'803
32	Russkij kovcheg - Russian Ark	Alexander Sokurow	Russia	23'992
33	Les gens de la rizière - Neak srê	Rithy Panh	Cambodia	23'850
34	Bal - Honey	Semih Kaplanoglu	Turkey	23'624
35	Topio stin omichli	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	23'603
36	Satin Rouge	Raja Amari	Tunisia	23'241
37	Wara mendel - Dance of the Wind	Rajan Khosa	India	23'107
38	Grbavica	Jasmila Zbanic	Bosnia and Herz...	22'714
39	Gori Vatra - Fuse!	Pjer Zalica	Bosnia and Herz...	22'633
40	Domésticas, o filme	Fernando Meirelles	Brazil	22'201
41	Maboroshi no hikari	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	21'513
42	El abrazo partido	Daniel Burman	Argentina	21'414
43	Les baliseurs du désert - El Haimoune	Nacer Khemir	Tunisia	20'216
44	Pequeno dicionário amoroso	Sandra Werneck	Brazil	20'014
45	Le grand voyage	Ismaël Ferroukhi	Morocco	19'936
46	Le pas suspendu de la cigogne	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	18'896
47	El baño del Papa	Enrique Fernández & César Charlone	Uruguay	18'750
48	El entusiasmo	Ricardo Larraín	Chile	18'554
49	Dao ma tse - Dao ma zei	Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan	China	18'526
50	Journey to the Sun - Günese Yolculuk	Yesim Ustaoglu	Turkey	18'474

51	Our Little Sister - Umimachi Diary	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	18'245
52	Bamako	Abderrahmane Sissako	Mali	17'920
53	Beijing Bicycle - Shiqi Sui De Danche	Xiaoshuai Wang	China	17'448
54	La Estrategia del caracol	Sergio Cabrera	Colombia	17'276
55	Intervention divine - Yadon ilaheyya	Elia Suleiman	Palestine	17'087
56	Bab el-Oued City	Merzak Allouache	Algeria	17'080
57	Whisky	Pablo Stoll & Juan Pablo Rebella	Uruguay	16'970
58	Memoria del saqueo	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	16'764
59	Congo River - Beyond Darkness	Thierry Michel	Democratic Repu...	16'356
60	Nemuru otoko - Sleeping Man	Kohei OGURI	Japan	16'205
61	Winter Sleep	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey	15'862
62	Madagascar	Fernando Pérez	Cuba	15'753
63	Una noche	Lucy Mulloy	Cuba	15'548
64	El abrazo de la Serpiente	Ciro Guerra	Colombia	15'535
65	Quiéreme y verás	Daniel Díaz Torres	Cuba	15'473
66	Mossane	Faye Safi	Senegal	15'407
67	Ouaga Saga	Dani Kouyaté	Burkina Faso	15'037
68	Die Tunisreise - Le voyage à Tunis	Bruno Moll	Tunisia	14'991
69	L'enfant endormi	Yasmine Kassari	Morocco	14'761
70	Je chanterai pour toi	Jacques Sarasin	Mali	14'210
71	Un Barrage contre le Pacifique	Rithy Panh	Cambodia	14'160
72	Todas las azafatas van al cielo	Daniel Burman	Argentina	14'004
73	La teta asustada	Claudia Llosa	Peru	13'864
74	Be With Me	Eric Khoo	Singapore	13'839
75	Pandora's Box - Pandoranin kutusu	Yesim Ustaoglu	Turkey	13'832

76	La saison des hommes - Maussim al-riyal	Moufida Tlatli	Tunisia	13'750
77	Birdwatchers	Marco Bechis	Brazil	13'668
78	La nube	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	13'628
79	Rusalka - Mermaid	Anna Melikian	Russia	13'621
80	Twilight Samurai - Tasogare Seibei	Yoji Yamada	Japan	13'587
81	Worlds Apart	Christopher Papakaliatis	Greece	13'427
82	Nostalgie de la campagne	Dang Nhat Minh	Vietnam	13'423
83	Barakah Meets Barakah	Mahmoud Sabbagh	Saudi Arabia	13'399
84	Dôlè	Imunga Ivanga	Gabon	13'320
85	Eleni	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	13'319
86	O Thiasos - O Thiassos	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	12'964
87	Madeinusa	Claudia Llosa	Peru	12'939
88	Na putu - On the Path	Jasmila Zbanic	Bosnia and Herz...	12'869
89	Casa de areia - The House of Sand	Andrucha Waddington	Brazil	12'761
90	West Beyrouth	Ziad Doueiri	Lebanon	12'744
91	Beshkempir	Aktan Abdykalykow - Arym Kubat	Kyrgyzstan	12'548
92	Rashomon	Akira KUROSAWA	Japan	12'542
93	Un amor	Paula Hernández	Argentina	12'492
94	Salvador Allende	Patricio Guzmán	Chile	12'320
95	Nicotina	Hugo Rodríguez	Mexico	12'271
96	Gizli yüz	Ömer Kavur	Turkey	12'217
97	El botón de nácar	Patricio Guzmán	Chile	12'183
98	Medianeras	Gustavo Taretto	Argentina	12'122
99	After Life - Wandafuru Raifu	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	11'477
100	Las aventuras de Dios	Eliseo Subiela	Argentina	11'415

101	Uttara	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	India	11'396
102	Tokyo Godfathers	Satoshi Kon	Japan	11'185
103	Lumumba	Raoul Peck	Democratic Repu...	11'128
104	Once Upon A Time in Anatolia	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey	10'999
105	Nostalgia de la luz	Patricio Guzmán	Chile	10'984
106	En attendant le bonheur - Heremakono	Abderrahmane Sissako	Mauritania	10'977
107	Mendiants et orgueilleux	Asma El Bakri	Egypt	10'800
108	Pizza Bethlehem	Bruno Moll	Switzerland	10'744
109	Durak	Juri Bykow	Russia	10'667
110	Martín (Hache)	Adolfo Aristarain	Argentina	10'477
111	Charachar	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	India	10'386
112	El nido vacío	Daniel Burman	Argentina	10'384
113	Soy Cuba	Michail Kalatosow	Cuba	10'339
114	The Light Thief - Svet-Ake	Aktan Abdykalykow - Arym Kubat	Kyrgyzstan	10'288
115	Mama Africa - Miriam Makeba	Mika Kaurismäki	South Africa	10'136
116	Kosh ba kosh	Bachtiar Chudonasarow	Tajikistan	10'107
117	Still Walking - Aruitemo, aruitemo	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	9'998
118	Amandla!	Lee Hirsch	South Africa	9'945
119	Kekexili - Mountain Patrol	Chuan LU	China	9'829
120	Ndeysaan - Le prix du pardon	Mansour Sora Wade	Senegal	9'699
121	Madrigal	Fernando Pérez	Cuba	9'639
122	Nha Fala	Flora Gomes	Guinea-Bissau	9'305
123	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand	9'233
124	A Peck on the Cheek	Mani Ratnam	India	9'151
125	Una casa con vista al mar	Alberto Arvelo	Venezuela	9'051

126	The Man Who Copied - O homem que copiava	Jorge Furtado	Brazil	8'942
127	The Puppetmaster - Hsimeng rensheng	Hsiao-hsien Hou	Taiwan	8'938
128	Ixcanul	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala	8'923
129	Love Island	Jasmila Zbanic	Croatia	8'846
130	Daratt - Dry Season	Mahamat-Saleh Haroun	Chad	8'788
131	Sanjuro - Tsubaki Sanjûrô	Akira KUROSAWA	Japan	8'699
132	Salt Of This Sea - Milh hadha al-bahr	Annemarie Jacir	Palestine	8'590
133	Les méduses - Meduzot	Etgar Keret	Israel	8'531
134	Djomeh	Hassan Yektapanah	Iran	8'218
135	Turistas	Alicia Scherson	Chile	8'138
136	Cheval de vent - Aoud rih	Daoud Aoulad Syad	Morocco	8'105
137	Theeb - Wolf	Naji Abu Nowar	Jordan	7'930
138	Heavenly Nomadic	Mirlan Abdykalykow	Kyrgyzstan	7'914
139	What Time is it There? - Ni na bian ji dian	Ming-liang Tsai	Taiwan	7'840
140	Elsewhere	Nikolaus Geyrhalter	Namibia	7'817
141	Tokyo Sonata	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan	7'775
142	Días de Santiago	Josué Méndez	Peru	7'752
143	Les yeux bleus de Yonta	Flora Gomes	Guinea-Bissau	7'696
144	Lamb	Yared Zeleke	Ethiopia	7'661
145	I Love Beijing - Xiari Nuanyangyang	Ying Ning	China	7'613
146	Ein blutroter Morgen - Xuese qing chen	Shaohong Li	China	7'514
147	Piravi	Shaji N. Karun	India	7'508
148	Gatos Viejos	Sebastian Silva Pedro Peirano	Chile	7'418
149	Moi et mon blanc	S. Pierre Yameogo	Burkina Faso	7'394
150	The Train of Salt and Sugar	Licínio Azevedo	Mozambique	7'312

151	El corazón de Jesús	Marcos Loayza	Bolivia	7'094
152	Comment j'ai fêté la fin du monde	Catalin Mitulescu	Romania	7'079
153	Ilo ilo	Anthony Chen	Singapore	7'042
154	Romeo And Juliet Get Married	Bruno Barreto	Brazil	7'006
155	Au revoir Taipei - Yi ye Tai bei	Arvin Chen	Taiwan	6'940
156	Okhotnik - The Hunter	Serik Aprimov	Kazakhstan	6'939
157	Po di sangui	Flora Gomes	Guinea-Bissau	6'866
158	Et la vie continue - Zendegi edamé dârad	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran	6'850
159	Mille mois - Alf Chahr	Faouzi Bensaidi	Morocco	6'632
160	Tokyo Family	Yoji Yamada	Japan	6'441
161	Yeelen	Souleymane Cissé	Mali	6'365
162	Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn	Ernest Abdyjaparov	Kyrgyzstan	6'352
163	Mohenjo Daro	Ashutosh Gowariker	India	6'342
164	Ejforija - Euphoria	Ivan Vyrypaev	Russia	6'272
165	Frontier Blues	Babak Jalali	Iran	6'212
166	Season of the Horse - Jifeng Zhong De Ma	Cai NING	Mongolia	6'197
167	Al Leil	Mohamed Malas	Syria	6'141
168	Modest Reception - Paziraie Sadeh	Mani Haghighi	Iran	6'055
169	Melaza	Carlos Lechuga	Cuba	5'990
170	Fatma	Khaled Ghorbal	Tunisia	5'966
171	The Seven Samurai - Shichinin no samurai	Akira KUROSAWA	Japan	5'954
172	Saratan	Ernest Abdyjaparov	Kyrgyzstan	5'883
173	Silent Souls - Ovsyanki	Aleksei Fedorchenko	Russia	5'812
174	I was born, but - Umarete wa mita keredo	Yasujiro OZU	Japan	5'801
175	Lluvia	Paula Hernández	Argentina	5'795

176	Ajami	Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani	Israel	5'733
177	Dignidad de los nadies, La	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	5'701
178	Okaeri	Makoto Shinozaki	Japan	5'642
179	Honeymoons - Medeni Mesec	Goran Paskaljevic	Serbia	5'563
180	As I Open My Eyes	Leyla Bouzid	Tunisia	5'516
181	Tanna	Martin Butler Bentley Dean	Australia	5'516
182	Un soir après la guerre	Rithy Panh	Cambodia	5'514
183	Las vidas posibles	Sandra Gugliotta	Argentina	5'504
184	Swaham	Shaji N. Karun	India	5'427
185	Wolf and Sheep	Shahrbanoo Sadat	Afghanistan	5'301
186	Class Enemy - Razredni Sovraznik	Rok Biček	Slovenia	5'286
187	Hello Hemingway	Fernando Pérez	Cuba	5'280
188	Lugares comunes	Adolfo Aristarain	Argentina	5'266
189	Teza	Haile Gerima	Ethiopia	5'143
190	La mirada invisible	Diego Lerman	Argentina	5'116
191	Snijeg - Snow	Aida Begic	Bosnia and Herz...	5'079
192	L'intrepido	Gianni Amelio	Italy	5'057
193	Stalker	Andrei Tarkowski	Russia	5'010
194	The Woman in the Dunes - Suna no onna	Hiroshi TESHIGAHARA	Japan	4'768
195	Lola	Brillante Mendoza	Philippines	4'762
196	Tokyo monogatari - Tokyo Story	Yasujiro OZU	Japan	4'751
197	Night Train - Ye che	Yinan Diao	China	4'679
198	Barroco	Paul Leduc	Mexico	4'629
199	My Name is Salt	Farida Pacha	India	4'622
200	Sonhos de Peixe	Kirill Mikhanovsky	Brazil	4'620