The They Shoot Pictures Don't They? website decided to go beyond the 2022 Sight&Sound poll for Greatest Films of All Time by polling cinema critics and cinephiles for the greatest films NOT cited in the aforementionned poll. Great films not appearing on any ballot. So I joined the "Beyond the Sight & Sound Canon" project and contributed my take (with 99 entries on my ballot) for this new alternative canon.
Here is my ballot ranked alphabetically :
| TITLE | DIRECTOR |
| A Few Days in the Life of I.I. Oblomov | MIKHALKOV |
| A Humble Life | SOKUROV |
| After The Rehearsal | BERGMAN |
| Alamar | GONZALEZ-RUBIO |
| Alexandra | SOKUROV |
| Alice | Jan SVANKMAJER |
| Angel's Egg | Mamoru OSHII |
| Arizona Dream | Emir KUSTURICA |
| Ashik Kerib | PARAJANOV |
| Bernie | Albert DUPONTEL |
| Birdsong | Albert SERRA |
| Black Peter | Milos FORMAN |
| Buena Vista Social Club | Wim WENDERS |
| Burnt By The Sun | MIKHALKOV |
| Ce répondeur ne prend pas de messages | Alain CAVALIER |
| Ceux d'en face | Jean-Daniel POLLET |
| Clean, Shaven | Lodge KERRIGAN |
| Cul-de-sac | Roman POLANSKI |
| Cyclo | Anh Hung TRAN |
| Dead Man's Letters | LOPUSHANSKIY |
| Distant Thunder | Satyajit RAY |
| Dossier 51 | Michel DEVILLE |
| Drawing Restraint 9 | Matthew BARNEY |
| Father and Son | SOKUROV |
| Faust | Jan SVANKMAJER |
| Few of Us | Sharunas BARTAS |
| Five Evenings | MIKHALKOV |
| Freedom | Sharunas BARTAS |
| From the life of the Marionettes | BERGMAN |
| God Only Knows | Jean-Daniel POLLET |
| In The Fog | LOZNITSA |
| Inland Sea | Kazuhiro SODA |
| Irezumi | MASUMURA |
| Knife in the Water | Roman POLANSKI |
| La Blessure | Nicolas KLOTZ |
| La Libertad | Lisandro ALONSO |
| La vie moderne | Raymond DEPARDON |
| Ladyhawke | Richard DONNER |
| Le Bal | Ettore SCOLA |
| Le Filmeur | Alain CAVALIER |
| Le Journal d'un suicidé | STANOJEVIC |
| Letter Never Sent | KALATAZOV |
| Liverpool | Lisandro ALONSO |
| Mambo Girl | YI Wen |
| Man Bites Dog | BELVAUX |
| Martyrs of Love | Jan NEMEC |
| Mental | Kazuhiro SODA |
| My American Uncle | Alain RESNIAS |
| My Joy | LOZNITSA |
| Odd Obsession | Kon ICHIKAWA |
| On the Adamant | Nicolas PHILIBERT |
| Our Daily Bread | GEYRHALTER |
| Painted Fire | IM Kwon-taek |
| Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde | Franssou PRENANT |
| Pater | Alain CAVALIER |
| Pharaoh | Jerzy KAWALEROWICZ |
| Poet | OMIRBAYEV |
| Ponette | Jacques DOILLON |
| Profils paysans: l'approche | Raymond DEPARDON |
| Profils paysans: le quotidien | Raymond DEPARDON |
| Quattro Volte | FRAMMARTINO |
| Quest for Fire | ANNAUD |
| Quixotic | Albert SERRA |
| Remembrance | Jean-Daniel POLLET |
| Seisaku's Wife | MASUMURA |
| Seven Invisible Men | Sharunas BARTAS |
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | PARAJANOV |
| Student | OMIRBAYEV |
| Taurus | SOKUROV |
| The Big Road | SUN Yu |
| The Ceremony | Nagisa OSHIMA |
| The Day of the Jackal | ZINNEMANN |
| The Decline of the American Empire | Denys ARCAND |
| The Great Silk Road | Marat SARULU |
| The Illusionist | Jos STELLING |
| The Illusionist | Sylvain CHOMET |
| The Isle | KIM Ki-duk |
| The Joke | Jaromil JIRES |
| The Legend of Suram Fortress | PARAJANOV |
| The Lonely Human Voice | SOKUROV |
| The Masters of Time | René LALOUX |
| The Model Couple | William KLEIN |
| The Name of the Rose | ANNAUD |
| The Road | OMIRBAYEV |
| The Scent of Green Papaya | Anh Hung TRAN |
| The Spanish Prisoner | David MAMET |
| The Sun | SOKUROV |
| The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober | Wojciech HAS |
| The Valley of the Bees | Frantisek VALCIL |
| The Vertical Ray of the Sun | Anh Hung TRAN |
| The Wild Wild Rose | Tian-Lin WANG |
| Three Sisters | WANG Bing |
| Til Madness Do Us Part | WANG Bing |
| Transport From Paradise | BRYNYCH |
| We Won't Grow Old Together | Maurice PIALAT |
| When the Cat Comes | Vojtech JASNY |
| Whispering Pages | SOKUROV |
| Zazie dans le métro | Louis MALLE |
| Zero | Kazuhiro SODA |
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