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2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerThe Sea InsideAlejandro AmenábarThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a thirty-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.Amazon2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film NomineesBad EducationPedro AlmodóvarAmazonOasisChang-dong LeeAmazonRed LightsCédric KahnAmazonYesterdayDarrell RoodtAmazon

2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerParadise NowHany Abu-AssadTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.Amazon2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film NomineesDuck SeasonFernando EimbckeAmazonHead-OnFatih AkinAmazonThe Death of Mr. LazarescuCristi PuiuAmazonTony TakitaniJun IchikawaAmazon

2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerThe Lives of OthersFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.Amazon2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film Nominees12:08 East of BucharestCorneliu PorumboiuAmazonChronicle of an EscapeIsrael Adrián CaetanoAmazonDays of GloryRachid BoucharebAmazonThe Blossoming of Maximo OliverosAuraeus SolitoAmazon

2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerOnceJohn CarneyA modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.Amazon2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film Nominees4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 DaysCristian MungiuAmazonLady ChatterleyPascale FerranAmazonPersepolisVincent ParonnaudAmazonThe Band's VisitEran KolirinAmazon

2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerThe ClassLaurent CantetTeacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.Amazon2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film NomineesGomorrahMatteo GarroneAmazonHungerSteve McQueenAmazonSilent LightCarlos ReygadasAmazonThe Secret of the GrainAbdellatif KechicheAmazon

2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerAn EducationLone ScherfigA coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.Amazon2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film NomineesA ProphetJacques AudiardAmazonEverlasting MomentsJan TroellAmazonMotherJoon-ho BongAmazonThe MaidSebastián SilvaAmazon

2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerThe King's SpeechTom HooperThe story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.Amazon2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film NomineesKissesAmazonMademoiselle ChambonAmazonOf Gods and MenAmazonUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past LivesAmazon

2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerA SeparationAsghar FarhadiA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.Amazon2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film NomineesMelancholiaLars von TrierAmazonShameSteve McQueenAmazonThe Kid with a BikeJean-Pierre DardenneAmazonTyrannosaurPaddy ConsidineAmazon

2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerAmourMichael HanekeGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.Amazon2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film NomineesOnce Upon a Time in AnatoliaNuri Bilge CeylanAmazonRust and BoneJacques AudiardAmazonSisterUrsula MeierAmazonWar WitchKim NguyenAmazon

2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film WinnerBlue Is the Warmest ColorAbdellatif KechicheAdèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself tAmazon2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best International Film NomineesA Touch of SinZhangke JiaAmazonGloriaSebastián LelioAmazonThe Great BeautyPaolo SorrentinoAmazonThe HuntThomas VinterbergAmazon