Foreign Oscar submissions are announced

"The Past"

The submission list for the 86th Annual Academy Awards' foreign-language category is complete, with a record 76 countries selecting (last year, a then-record 71 countries submitted in the end).

Full list of submissions is below. 

Afghanistan - Wajma (An Afghan Love Story), directed by Barmak Akram (Dari)



Albania - Agon, directed by Robert Budina

A scene from "Child's Pose."

Argentina - Wakolda, directed by Lucía Puenzo (Spanish, German)

Australia - The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt (Lao)



Austria - The Wall, directed by Julian Polsler (German)

Bangladesh - Television, directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bengali)

Belgium - The Broken Circle Breakdown, directed by Felix van Groeningen (Flemish)



Bosnia and Herzegovina - An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, directed by Danis Tanović (Bosnian, Romany)



Brazil - Neighbouring Sounds, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Portuguese, Mandarin)



Bulgaria - Colour of the Chameleon, directed by Emil Hristov (Bulgarian)

Cambodia - The Missing Picture, directed by Rithy Panh (French)

Canada - Gabrielle, directed by Louise Archambault (French)



Chad - GriGris, directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun 

Chile - Gloria, directed by Sebastian Lelio (Spanish)



China - Back to 1942, directed by Feng Xaiogang (Mandarin)

Colombia - La Playa DC, directed by Juan Andrés Arango (Spanish)



Croatia - Halima's Path, directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić (Bosnian)

Ecuador - Porcelain Horse, directed by Javier Andrade (Spanish)

Czech Republic - Burning Bush, directed by Agnieszka Holland (Czech)



Denmark - The Hunt, directed by Thomas Vinterberg (Danish)



Dominican Republic - Who's The Boss?, directed by Ronni Castillo (Spanish)

Egypt - Winter of Discontent, directed by Ibrahim El- Batout (Arabic)

Estonia - Free Range, directed by Veiko Õunpuu (Estonian)



Finland - Disciple, directed by Ulrika Bengts (Finnish)

France - Renoir, directed by Gilles Bourdos (French)

Georgia - In Bloom, directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß



Germany - Two Lives, directed by Georg Maas (German)

Greece - Boy Eating The Bird's Food, directed by Ektoras Lygizos  (Greek)

Hong Kong - The Grandmaster, directed by Wong Kar-wai (Cantonese, Mandarin)

Hungary - The Notebook, directed by Janosz Szasz (Hungarian)



Iceland - Of Horses and Men, directed by Benedikt Erlingsson (Icelandic)

India - The Good Road, directed by Gyan Correa (Gujarati)



Indonesia - Sang Kiai, directed by Rako Prijanto



Iran - The Past, directed by Asghar Farhadi (French, Persian)



Israel - Bethlehem, directed by Yuval Adler (Hebrew, Arabic)

Italy - The Great Beauty, directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Italian)



Japan - The Great Passage, directed by Yuya Ishii (Japanese)



Kazakhstan - The Old Man, directed by Ermek Tursunov (Russian, Kazakh)

Latvia - Mother I Love You, directed by Janis Nords (Latvian)

Lebanon - Ghadi, directed by Amin Dora (Arabic)

Lithuania - Conversations of Serious Topics, directed by Giedrė Beinoriūtė (Lithuanian)

Nepal - Soongava: Dance of the Orchids, directed by Subarna Thapa (Nepalese)

Luxembourg - Blind Spot, directed by Christophe Wagner (Luxembourgish, French)



Mexico - Heli, directed by Amat Escalante (Spanish)



Moldova - All God's Children, directed by Adrian Popovici



Montenegro - Bad Destiny, directed by Draško Đurović (Serbo-Croatian)



Morocco - God's Horses, directed by Nabil Ayouch (Arabic)

The Netherlands - Borgman, directed by Alex van Warmerdam (Dutch)

New Zealand - White Lies, directed by Dana Rotberg (Maori)

Norway - I Am Yours, directed by Iram Haq (Norwegian, Urdu)

Pakistan - Zinda Bhaag, directed by Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi (Udu, Punjabi)

Palestine - Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad (Arabic)

Peru - The Cleaner, directed by Adrian Saba (Spanish)



Philippines - Transit, directed by Hannah Espia (Filipino, Tagalog, Hebrew)



Poland - Walesa, directed by Andrzej Wajda (Polish)

Portugal - Lines of Wellington, directed by Valeria Sarmiento

Romania - Child's Pose, directed by Calin Peter Netzer (Romanian)

Russia  - Stalingrad, directed by Fedor Bondarchuk (Russian)

Saudi Arabia - Wadjda, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour (Arabic)



Serbia - Circles, directed by Srdan Golubovic  (Serbian)

Singapore - Ilo Ilo, directed by Anthony Chen  (Mandarin, Hokkien, English, Tagalog)

Slovakia - My Dog Killer, directed by Mira Fornay (Slovak)

Slovenia - Class Enemy, directed by Rok Biček (Slovene)

South Africa - Four Corners, directed by Ian Gabriel (Afrikaans, Tsotsitaal)



South Korea - Juvenile Offender, directed by Kang Yi-kwan (Korean)

Spain - 15 Years and One Day, directed by Garcia Querejeta (Spanish)



Sweden - Eat Sleep Die, directed by Gabriela Pichler (Swedish, Croatian)



Switzerland - More Than Honey, directed by Markus Imhoof (German, Mandarin)

Thailand - Countdown, directed by Nattawut Poonpiriya (Thai)

Taiwan - Soul, directed by Chung Mong-Hong (Mandarin)

Turkey - The Butterfly's Dream, directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan (Turkish)

Ukraine - Paradjanov, directed by Serge Avedikian and Olena Fetisova (Russian)



United Kingdom - Metro Manila, directed by Sean Elllis (Filipino, Tagalog)

Uruguay - Anina, directed by Alfredo Soderguit  (Spanish)

Venezuela - Breach in the Silence, directed by Luis Rodríguez and Andrés Rodríguez (Spanish)

 

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