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Desiree Akhavan’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    A Separation

    Asghar Farhadi · 2011

  2. 2

    The Lobster

    Yorgos Lanthimos · 2015

  3. 3

    Black Girl

    Ousmane Sembene · 1966

  4. 4

    Fat Girl

    Catherine Breillat · 2001

  5. 5

    Adaptation.

    Spike Jonze · 2002

  6. 6

    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder · 1974

  7. 7

    When Harry Met Sally…

    Rob Reiner · 1989

  8. 8

    Morvern Callar

    Lynne Ramsay · 2002

  9. 9

    Persepolis

    Marjane Satrapi · 2007

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Ten films selected by Desiree Akhavan for Sight and Sound’s 2022 directors’ poll of the Greatest Films of All Time.

Films appear in the order BFI lists them on the ballot page; the ballot does not rank them.

Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters/desiree-akhavan

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. A Separation (2011)
  2. The Lobster (2015)
  3. Black Girl (1966)
  4. Fat Girl (2001)
  5. Adaptation. (2002)
  6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  7. When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
  8. Morvern Callar (2002)
  9. Persepolis (2007)
  10. The Day I Became a Woman (2000)