- Strong Island
- Blade Runner 2049
- Detroit
- Wind River
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Manchester by the Sea
- Die Lebenden reparieren (Réparer Les Vivants)
- Dunkirk
- Baby Driver
- I am not your Negro
- Moonlight
- Loveless (Nelyubov)
- Beuys
- Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht
- The Salesman
- 120 BPM
missed + still on my list: Lady Macbeth / Mother! / Die beste aller Welten / Elle / In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts
(NB: As some films are often released later in Germany than in their country of origin, a few of these films may count as 2016 releases to residents of the U.S. or Iran. Also, many films in the run for Academy Awards 2017 have of course not been released in Germany yet. So I can only include films that have been screened in cinemas in Germany this year – or at festivals in Cannes and Berlin.)