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Amjad Abu Alala’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    12 Angry Men

    Sidney Lumet · 1957

  2. 2

    Persona

    Ingmar Bergman · 1966

  3. 3

    Mirror

    Andrei Tarkovsky · 1975

  4. 4

    Cairo Station

    A favorite film · 1958

  5. 5

    Eternity and a Day

    Theo Angelopoulos · 1998

  6. 6

    Dreams

    Akira Kurosawa · 1990

  7. 7

    Taste of Cherry

    Abbas Kiarostami · 1997

  8. 8

    Dancer in the Dark

    Anders Refn · 2000

  9. 9

    A Short Film About Killing

    Krzysztof Kieślowski · 1988

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Ten films selected by Amjad Abu Alala 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/amjad-abu-alala

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  2. Persona (1966)
  3. Mirror (1975)
  4. Cairo Station (1958)
  5. Eternity and a Day (1998)
  6. Dreams (1990)
  7. Taste of Cherry (1997)
  8. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
  9. A Short Film About Killing (1988)
  10. The Turin Horse (2011)