Here’s a preliminary ranking of the 31 movies I saw this year at the Vancouver International Film Festival, with links to the write-ups I’ve done for them so far.  I’ll be writing about the rest of these over the next few weeks; the pace has slowed lately due to first a cold then parental responsibilities. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish these by the end of the year.

1. In Another Country

2. Like Someone in Love

3. Mekong Hotel

4. Night Across the Street

5. Romance Joe

6. Walker

7. Something in the Air

8. Tabu

9. When Night Falls

10. The Last Time I Saw Macao

11. Memories Look at Me

12. Thursday Till Sunday

13. Neighboring Sounds

14. Three Sisters

15. Emperor Visits the Hell

16. Reconversão

17. Mystery
18. A Fish
19. The Unlikely Girl
20. East Meets West
21. People’s Park
22. Amour
23. In Search of Haydn
24. 10 + 10
25. Mother
26. Antiviral
27. The Angels’ Share
28. A Mere Life
29. Everybody in Our Family
30. Beautiful 2012
31. Moksha: the World, or I, How Does that Work?Updated Feb. 1, 2013: Rankings updated. Obviously I didn’t finish by the end of the year, but with only six movies left to write about, I hope to finish soon.

Updated July 18, 2015: Only one left. I will finish it someday.