# Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The winners of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film are listed below:

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 2002 | Talk to Her | Hable con ella | Spain | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2002 | And Your Mother Too | Y Tu Mamá También | Mexico | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2002 | Mostly Martha | Bella Martha | Germany | Sandra Nettelbeck |
| 2003 | City of God | Cidade de Deus | Brazil | Fernando Meirelles |
| 2003 | L'Auberge Espagnole | L'Auberge Espagnole | France/Spain | Cédric Klapisch |
| 2003 | The Triplets of Belleville | Les Triplettes de Belleville | France/Canada | Sylvain Chomet |
| 2004 | A Very Long Engagement | Un long dimanche de fiançailles | France | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 2004 | Maria Full of Grace | María, llena eres de gracia | Colombia | Joshua Marston |
| 2004 | The Motorcycle Diaries | Diarios de motocicleta | Argentina | Walter Salles |
| 2005 | Paradise Now | الجنّة الآن | Palestine | Hany Abu-Assad |
| 2005 | Downfall | Der Untergang | Germany | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| 2005 | Kung Fu Hustle | 功夫 | Hong Kong | Stephen Chow |
| 2006 | Volver | Volver | Spain | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2006 | The Child | L'Enfant | Belgium | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 硫黄島からの手紙 | United States/Japan | Clint Eastwood |
| 2007 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile | Romania | Cristian Mungiu |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Le Scaphandre et le papillon | France | Julian Schnabel |
| 2007 | Persepolis | Persepolis | France | Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud |
| 2008 | The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite | Germany | Fatih Akin |
| 2008 | Let the Right One In | Låt den rätte komma in | Sweden | Tomas Alfredson |
| 2008 | Tell No One | Ne le dis à personne | France | Guillaume Canet |
| 2009 | Summer Hours | L'Heure d'été | France | Olivier Assayas |
| 2009 | Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | Spain | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2009 | The Headless Woman | La mujer sin cabeza / La mujer rubia | Argentina | Lucrecia Martel |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 2010 | Carlos | Carlos | France | Olivier Assayas |
| 2010 | Mother | 마더 | South Korea | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2010 | A Prophet | Un prophète | France | Jacques Audiard |
| 2010 | The Secret in Their Eyes | El secreto de sus ojos | Argentina | Juan José Campanella |
| 2011 | A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین | Iran | Asghar Farhadi |
| 2011 | Poetry | 시 | South Korea | Lee Chang-dong |
| 2011 | The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo | Belgium | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne |
| 2012 | Holy Motors | Holy Motors | France | Leos Carax |
| 2012 | Amour | Amour | France/Austria | Michael Haneke |
| 2012 | The Intouchables | Intouchables | France | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| 2013 | The Hunt | Jagten | Denmark | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 2013 | Blancanieves | Blancanieves | Spain | Pablo Berger |
| 2013 | Blue is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | France | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 2014 | Force Majeure | Turist | Sweden | Ruben Östlund |
| 2014 | Ida | Ida | Poland | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| 2014 | We Are the Best! | Vi är bäst! | Sweden | Lukas Moodysson |
| 2015 | The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘 | Taiwan | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| 2015 | Goodnight Mommy | Ich seh, Ich seh | Austria | Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala |
| 2015 | Son of Saul | Saul fia | Hungary | László Nemes |
| 2016 | Toni Erdmann | Toni Erdmann | Germany | Maren Ade |
| 2016 | Elle | Elle | France | Paul Verhoeven |
| 2016 | The Handmaiden | 아가씨 | South Korea | Chan-wook Park |
| 2017 | BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | France | Robin Campillo |
| 2017 | A Fantastic Woman | Una mujer fantástica | Chile | Sebastián Lelio |
| 2017 | The Square | The Square | Sweden | Ruben Östlund |
| 2018 | Roma | Roma | Mexico | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2018 | Burning | 버닝 | South Korea | Lee Chang-dong |
| 2018 | Shoplifters | 万引き家族 | Japan | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| 2019 | Parasite | 기생충 | South Korea | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2019 | The Farewell | 別告訴她 | United States | Lulu Wang |
| 2019 | Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Spain | Pedro Almodóvar |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 2020 | Minari | 미나리 | United States | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2020 | Another Round | Druk | Denmark | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 2020 | Dear Comrades! | Dorogie tovarishchi! | Russia | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| 2021 | The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Norway | Joachim Trier |
| 2021 | Flee | Flugt | Denmark | Jonas Poher Rasmussen |
| 2021 | Riders of Justice | Retfærdighedens Ryttere | Denmark | Anders Thomas Jensen |
| 2022 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Im Westen nichts Neues | Germany | Edward Berger |
| 2022 | Holy Spider | Ankabut-e moqaddas | Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden | Ali Abbasi |
| 2022 | RRR | RRR | India | S. S. Rajamouli |
| 2023 | The Zone of Interest | The Zone of Interest | United States, United Kingdom, Poland | Jonathan Glazer |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | France | Justine Triet |
| 2023 | Society of the Snow | La sociedad de la nieve | Spain, United States | J. A. Bayona |
| 2024 | Flow | Straume | Latvia, France, Belgium | Gints Zilbalodis |
| 2024 | All We Imagine as Light | All We Imagine as Light | France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy | Payal Kapadia |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | France | Jacques Audiard |