Another March Around the World is done, and what a success. We've never had so many people complete the challenge. Last year we had more participants (228) and 38 who finished. This year we had 177 participants with 48 who completed. Amazing!
I hope you all enjoyed your travels and I hope to see you again next year. And of course fingers crossed that we'll all be in a better and safer space by then.
And now we all collectively bow to the following 48 cinephiles who watched and reviewed at least 30 films. In alphabetical order, they are:
_dylarama_ | Aaron | ablackie | Ana321 | Barbara Ann O'Leary | Bas van Stratum | Ben Grimm | Brian Fielder…
Another March Around the World is done, and what a success. We've never had so many people complete the challenge. Last year we had more participants (228) and 38 who finished. This year we had 177 participants with 48 who completed. Amazing!
I hope you all enjoyed your travels and I hope to see you again next year. And of course fingers crossed that we'll all be in a better and safer space by then.
And now we all collectively bow to the following 48 cinephiles who watched and reviewed at least 30 films. In alphabetical order, they are:
_dylarama_ | Aaron | ablackie | Ana321 | Barbara Ann O'Leary | Bas van Stratum | Ben Grimm | Brian Fielder | Carl Sandell | circlesquared | Deckk | DonJohn80 | E.N. | enricioni | evemm | Ewan | Glen Grunau | Graham Williamson | Graham 🍁 | Hutch | J. | Joe Walsh | JR Roughton | kittychat | leroymarko | Lisa Fremont | longosteph | Lowe | Martin | MaxwellCarter | Michael Scott | mone | Murilo H. P. 🎥🍿 | puffin | Rebecca | Rui Gonçalves | sailordanae | Shachar | Shaun | Slig001 | Steve G 🟨🟥 | TheZList | Tom Morton | TOMZOMG | Tyler A. | Tyler Dieckmann | unpunk 🍭 | Wayne Little
Special mention to Chris Campbell and Rowan Sullivan who both watched and reviewed 30 films, and while some of their reviews were too short to qualify, they were exceptionally to the point and informative despite their length.
And congratulations to the following 24 people watched 30 films.
Alvaro D. Ruiz | Calum | Chris Campbell | ConeyBow | David Zavala | ecarsonbelden | EvelinaLucia | Giudy | humanconditions ☕️ | james💫 | Jamie McKinlay | Jhon AP | jrm555 | Logan Austin | Miguel Amaral | Nandhan Manoharan | Nathan? | Niclas | Nokhi | planetispluto | Rowan Sullivan | S | sixtinemm | Steve
A special thanks to those who coloured off the map for us by watching unique countries, especially the following:
sailordanae, with 8 unique countries: Central African Republic, French Guiana, Guinea-Bissau, Kiribati, Liberia, Palau, Reunion Island, Solomon Islands. Michael Scott contributed 4 unique countries: Belize, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Uzbekistan, and thanks to Tyler Dieckmann for Andorra, Bermuda and Virgin Islands (US) as well as Carl Sandell for Benin, El Salvador, and Malta.
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Letterboxd will be 10 years old in October! To celebrate the country that brought us this wonderful site, the featured country this year is New Zealand (Aotearoa).
See updated results in the 2021 March Around the World Spreadsheet. I try to update daily, but don't count on it.
*** The Challenge***
Watch and review 30 feature films from 30 different countries in the month of March including 1 film from New Zealand.
The Rules
1. Feature films only (60+ min)
2. No re-watches.
3. Only films watched, logged and reviewed in March 2021 count.
4. One film must be from New Zealand.
5. Log your films with 2 tags: tag 1: **30 countries 2021** , tag 2: the film's **country*** e.g., New Zealand
And as always, it is less about completing the challenge and more about watching cinema from around the world during the month. Thanks to Berken for creating the original challenge back in 2013.
Participant Film Lists
Participant Films logged
Participant Reviews
* if your list, log or review doesn't show up in these links, it isn't tagged properly and will not count.
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Additional Resources
New Zealand Resources
New Zealand - an exhaustive list (by Benjamin)
Kiriata Māori
Four Lists from fellow Letterboxder Leo Koziol, a Maori film programmer in NZ:
Kiwi Noir
Maori Directors
Pasifika Directors
Maori Writers
Other New Zealand Lists (the films here are not necessarily from New Zealand)
Movies that Mention New Zealand (by Gemma G)
#52FilmsByWomen – The Downunder Edition (by Gemma G)
Moving to New Zealand (by Gemma G)
General Film Resources
Women world film directors (by Rosalind - country is in the list notes)
The 2010s—Top International Feature Films
Danish Die-Hard: The Best non-English Thriller/Action Movies
MundoF's [Best Foreign Language Film Academy Awards Submissions (1947-2015)
Country Resources (from previous challenges)
Brazilian Cinema - A comprehensive List by Gabriel Machado
Chile
Estonia
Iran
Russia
South Korea
Challenge-related Lists
LB List of All previous challenges.
Google Spreadsheets: 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013
