New York film lovers can rejoice this holiday season: There are some very fine foreign and independent films coming in the weeks ahead.

These include “Behind the Sun” from the wonderful Brazilian director Walter Salles and “No Man’s Land,” a superb satire set in war-torn Bosnia in 1993 that won the best screenplay award at Cannes.

There’s also the Sundance favorite and possible Oscar nominee (for Sissy Spacek) “In the Bedroom” and “Dark Blue World,” a WWII drama about two Czech RAF pilots in love with the same girl, directed by Jan Sverak (who won an Oscar for “Kolya”).

Closer to home is Krutin Patel’s amusing, insightful “ABCD,” a comedy that deals with American-born children of Indian immigrants. I’m also looking forward to “The Independent,” a comic mocumentary about a Roger Corman-like filmmaker (starring Jerry Stiller and Janeane Garofalo), and a timely documentary simply called “B-52.”

And for all those who remember the old Channel J and Al Goldstein’s “Midnight Blue,” there’s “Pornstar,” a documentary about adult-film star Ron Jeremy, a performer so hirsute and unattractive he’s nicknamed “the hedgehog.”