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	121'687
2	Bodhi Dharma	Yong-kyun Bae	South Korea	105'780
3	El viaje	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	104'616
4	Lagaan	Ashutosh Gowariker	India	77'398
5	Sur	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	71'515
6	Le collier perdu	Nacer Khemir	Tunisia	64'513
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	52'093
10	A Separation	Asghar Farhadi	Iran	48'315
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	41'000
14	Eu, tu, eles	Andrucha Waddington	Brazil	40'498
15	Suite Habana	Fernando Pérez	Cuba	40'165
16	TGV	Moussa Touré	Senegal	39'312
17	Un lugar en el mundo	Adolfo Aristarain	Argentina	39'221
18	Despabílate amor	Eliseo Subiela	Argentina	38'788
19	Like Father, Like Son	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	35'316
20	Pequeños milagros	Eliseo Subiela	Argentina	34'545
21	Nobody Knows - Dare mo shiranai	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	33'136
22	L'éternité et un jour	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	32'581
23	Historias minimas	Carlos Sorin	Argentina	30'939
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	29'468
28	Dunia - Kiss Me Not on the Eyes	Jocelyne Saab	Egypt	29'337
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	25'773
32	Russkij kovcheg - Russian Ark	Alexander Sokurow	Russia	23'943
33	Les gens de la rizière - Neak srê	Rithy Panh	Cambodia	23'798
34	Bal - Honey	Semih Kaplanoglu	Turkey	23'604
35	Topio stin omichli	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	23'590
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...	22'604
40	Domésticas, o filme	Fernando Meirelles	Brazil	22'171
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	19'886
46	Le pas suspendu de la cigogne	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	18'896
47	El baño del Papa	Enrique Fernández & César Charlone	Uruguay	18'720
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	18'425

51	Our Little Sister - Umimachi Diary	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	18'245
52	Bamako	Abderrahmane Sissako	Mali	17'870
53	Beijing Bicycle - Shiqi Sui De Danche	Xiaoshuai Wang	China	17'398
54	La Estrategia del caracol	Sergio Cabrera	Colombia	17'246
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	16'950
58	Memoria del saqueo	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	16'764
59	Congo River - Beyond Darkness	Thierry Michel	Democratic Repu...	16'276
60	Nemuru otoko - Sleeping Man	Kohei OGURI	Japan	16'075
61	Winter Sleep	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey	15'862
62	Madagascar	Fernando Pérez	Cuba	15'713
63	Una noche	Lucy Mulloy	Cuba	15'548
64	Quiéreme y verás	Daniel Díaz Torres	Cuba	15'473
65	El abrazo de la Serpiente	Ciro Guerra	Colombia	15'445
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	14'941
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	Be With Me	Eric Khoo	Singapore	13'839
74	Pandora's Box - Pandoranin kutusu	Yesim Ustaoglu	Turkey	13'832
75	La saison des hommes - Maussim al-riyal	Moufida Tlatli	Tunisia	13'750

76	La teta asustada	Claudia Llosa	Peru	13'744
77	Birdwatchers	Marco Bechis	Brazil	13'668
78	La nube	Fernando Solanas	Argentina	13'628
79	Twilight Samurai - Tasogare Seibei	Yoji Yamada	Japan	13'587
80	Rusalka - Mermaid	Anna Melikian	Russia	13'581
81	Nostalgie de la campagne	Dang Nhat Minh	Vietnam	13'423
82	Barakah Meets Barakah	Mahmoud Sabbagh	Saudi Arabia	13'358
83	Eleni	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	13'319
84	Dôlè	Imunga Ivanga	Gabon	13'297
85	Madeinusa	Claudia Llosa	Peru	12'939
86	O Thiasos - O Thiassos	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece	12'870
87	Na putu - On the Path	Jasmila Zbanic	Bosnia and Herz...	12'849
88	Casa de areia - The House of Sand	Andrucha Waddington	Brazil	12'761
89	West Beyrouth	Ziad Doueiri	Lebanon	12'744
90	Worlds Apart	Christopher Papakaliatis	Greece	12'688
91	Beshkempir	Aktan Abdykalykow - Arym Kubat	Kyrgyzstan	12'548
92	Rashomon	Akira KUROSAWA	Japan	12'492
93	Un amor	Paula Hernández	Argentina	12'459
94	Salvador Allende	Patricio Guzmán	Chile	12'290
95	Nicotina	Hugo Rodríguez	Mexico	12'271
96	Gizli yüz	Ömer Kavur	Turkey	12'217
97	El botón de nácar	Patricio Guzmán	Chile	12'123
98	Medianeras	Gustavo Taretto	Argentina	12'105
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	11'159
103	Lumumba	Raoul Peck	Democratic Repu...	11'078
104	En attendant le bonheur - Heremakono	Abderrahmane Sissako	Mauritania	10'977
105	Nostalgia de la luz	Patricio Guzmán	Chile	10'959
106	Once Upon A Time in Anatolia	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey	10'951
107	Mendiants et orgueilleux	Asma El Bakri	Egypt	10'800
108	Pizza Bethlehem	Bruno Moll	Switzerland	10'744
109	Durak	Juri Bykow	Russia	10'637
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	10'289
114	The Light Thief - Svet-Ake	Aktan Abdykalykow - Arym Kubat	Kyrgyzstan	10'208
115	Mama Africa - Miriam Makeba	Mika Kaurismäki	South Africa	10'136
116	Kosh ba kosh	Bachtiar Chudonasarow	Tajikistan	10'042
117	Still Walking - Aruitemo, aruitemo	Hirokazu KORE-EDA	Japan	9'968
118	Amandla!	Lee Hirsch	South Africa	9'888
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	9'589
122	Nha Fala	Flora Gomes	Guinea-Bissau	9'255
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 Puppetmaster - Hsimeng rensheng	Hsiao-hsien Hou	Taiwan	8'938
127	Ixcanul	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala	8'923
128	The Man Who Copied - O homem que copiava	Jorge Furtado	Brazil	8'919
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	7'890
138	Heavenly Nomadic	Mirlan Abdykalykow	Kyrgyzstan	7'874
139	Elsewhere	Nikolaus Geyrhalter	Namibia	7'817
140	Tokyo Sonata	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan	7'775
141	Días de Santiago	Josué Méndez	Peru	7'752
142	What Time is it There? - Ni na bian ji dian	Ming-liang Tsai	Taiwan	7'719
143	Les yeux bleus de Yonta	Flora Gomes	Guinea-Bissau	7'684
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	7'458
148	Gatos Viejos	Sebastian Silva Pedro Peirano	Chile	7'378
149	Moi et mon blanc	S. Pierre Yameogo	Burkina Faso	7'294
150	The Train of Salt and Sugar	Licínio Azevedo	Mozambique	7'218

151	El corazón de Jesús	Marcos Loayza	Bolivia	7'056
152	Ilo ilo	Anthony Chen	Singapore	7'042
153	Comment j'ai fêté la fin du monde	Catalin Mitulescu	Romania	7'039
154	Romeo And Juliet Get Married	Bruno Barreto	Brazil	6'961
155	Okhotnik - The Hunter	Serik Aprimov	Kazakhstan	6'939
156	Au revoir Taipei - Yi ye Tai bei	Arvin Chen	Taiwan	6'910
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	6'411
161	Yeelen	Souleymane Cissé	Mali	6'349
162	Mohenjo Daro	Ashutosh Gowariker	India	6'342
163	Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn	Ernest Abdyjaparov	Kyrgyzstan	6'327
164	Ejforija - Euphoria	Ivan Vyrypaev	Russia	6'242
165	Frontier Blues	Babak Jalali	Iran	6'212
166	Season of the Horse - Jifeng Zhong De Ma	Cai NING	Mongolia	6'167
167	Al Leil	Mohamed Malas	Syria	6'141
168	Modest Reception - Paziraie Sadeh	Mani Haghighi	Iran	6'055
169	Fatma	Khaled Ghorbal	Tunisia	5'966
170	Melaza	Carlos Lechuga	Cuba	5'960
171	Saratan	Ernest Abdyjaparov	Kyrgyzstan	5'883
172	The Seven Samurai - Shichinin no samurai	Akira KUROSAWA	Japan	5'860
173	I was born, but - Umarete wa mita keredo	Yasujiro OZU	Japan	5'801
174	Silent Souls - Ovsyanki	Aleksei Fedorchenko	Russia	5'793
175	Lluvia	Paula Hernández	Argentina	5'765

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	Un soir après la guerre	Rithy Panh	Cambodia	5'514
182	Las vidas posibles	Sandra Gugliotta	Argentina	5'504
183	Swaham	Shaji N. Karun	India	5'427
184	Tanna	Martin Butler Bentley Dean	Australia	5'394
185	Hello Hemingway	Fernando Pérez	Cuba	5'280
186	Class Enemy - Razredni Sovraznik	Rok Biček	Slovenia	5'275
187	Wolf and Sheep	Shahrbanoo Sadat	Afghanistan	5'264
188	Lugares comunes	Adolfo Aristarain	Argentina	5'236
189	Teza	Haile Gerima	Ethiopia	5'143
190	La mirada invisible	Diego Lerman	Argentina	5'116
191	Stalker	Andrei Tarkowski	Russia	5'010
192	Snijeg - Snow	Aida Begic	Bosnia and Herz...	4'959
193	L'intrepido	Gianni Amelio	Italy	4'862
194	The Woman in the Dunes - Suna no onna	Hiroshi TESHIGAHARA	Japan	4'768
195	Tokyo monogatari - Tokyo Story	Yasujiro OZU	Japan	4'751
196	Lola	Brillante Mendoza	Philippines	4'732
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	Mr. Kaplan	Álvaro Brechner	Uruguay	4'612