List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Section Title: Submissions
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Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result

Afghanistan	The Black Tulip	The Black Tulip	Dari, Pashto, English	Sonia Nassery Cole	Not Nominated

Albania	East, West, East	Lindje, Perëndim, Lindje	Albanian, Italian	Gjergj Xhuvani	Not Nominated

Algeria	Hors la Loi	Hors-la-loi	French, Arabic	Rachid Bouchareb	Nominated

Argentina	Carancho	Carancho	Spanish	Pablo Trapero	Not Nominated

Austria	La Pivellina	La Pivellina	Italian	Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel	Not Nominated

Azerbaijan	The Precinct	Sahə	Azeri, Russian	Ilgar Safat	Not Nominated

Bangladesh	Third Person Singular Number	Third Person Singular Number	Bengali	Mostofa Sarwar Farooki	Not Nominated

Belgium	Illegal	Illègal	French, Russian, English	Olivier Masset-Depasse	Not Nominated

Bosnia and Herzegovina	Circus Columbia	Cirkus Columbia	Bosnian	Danis Tanović	Not Nominated

Brazil	Lula, the Son of Brazil	Lula, o filho do Brasil	Portuguese	Fábio Barreto	Not Nominated

Bulgaria	Eastern Plays	Eastern Plays	Bulgarian, Turkish, English	Kamen Kalev	Not Nominated

Canada	Incendies	Incendies	French, Arabic	Denis Villeneuve	Nominated

Chile	The Life of Fish	La vida de los peces	Spanish	Matías Bize	Not Nominated

China	Aftershock	唐山大地震	Mandarin Chinese	Feng Xiaogang	Not Nominated

Colombia	Crab Trap	El vuelco del cangrejo	Spanish	Oscar Ruíz Navia	Not Nominated

Costa Rica	Of Love and Other Demons	Del amor y otros demonios	Spanish	Hilda Hidalgo	Not Nominated

Croatia	The Blacks	Crnci	Croatian	Goran Devic & Zvonimir Juric	Not Nominated

Czech Republic	Kawasaki's Rose	Kawasakiho růže	Czech	Jan Hřebejk	Not Nominated

Denmark	In a Better World	Hævnen	Danish, English	Susanne Bier	Won Academy Award

Egypt	Messages from the Sea	رسائل البحر	Arabic	Daoud Abdel Sayed	Not Nominated

Estonia	The Temptation of St. Tony	Püha Tõnu kiusamine	Estonian	Veiko Õunpuu	Not Nominated

Ethiopia	The Athlete	Atletu	English, Amharic	Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew	Not Nominated

Finland	Steam of Life	Miesten vuoro	Finnish	Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen	Not Nominated

France	Of Gods and Men	Des hommes et des dieux	French	Xavier Beauvois	Not Nominated

Georgia	Street Days	ქუჩის დღეები	Georgian	Levan Koguashvili	Not Nominated

Germany	When We Leave	Die Fremde	German, Turkish	Feo Aladag	Not Nominated

Greece	Dogtooth	Κυνόδοντας	Greek	Yorgos Lanthimos	Nominated

Greenland	Nuummioq	Nuummioq	Greenlandic, Danish	Torben Bech, Otto Rosing	Not Nominated

Hungary	Bibliothèque Pascal	Bibliothèque Pascal	Romanian, Hungarian, English	Szabolcs Hajdu	Not Nominated

Hong Kong	Echoes of the Rainbow	歲月神偷	Cantonese	Alex Law	Not Nominated

Iceland	Mamma Gogo	Mamma Gógó	Icelandic	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	Not Nominated

India	Peepli [Live]	Peepli [Live] पीपली लाइव	Hindi	Anusha Rizvi	Not Nominated

Indonesia	How Funny (This Country Is)	Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini)	Indonesian	Deddy Mizwar	Not Nominated

Iran	Farewell Baghdad	بدرود بغداد	Arabic, English	Mehdi Naderi	Not Nominated

Iraq	Son of Babylon	ابن بابل	Arabic, Kurdish	Mohamed Al-Daradji	Not Nominated

Israel	The Human Resources Manager	שליחותו של הממונה על משאבי אנוש	Hebrew, Romanian	Eran Riklis	Not Nominated

Italy	La Prima Cosa Bella	La prima cosa bella	Italian	Paolo Virzì	Not Nominated

Japan	Confessions	告白	Japanese	Tetsuya Nakashima	Made January Shortlist

Kazakhstan	Strayed	Заблудившийся	Russian	Akan Satayev	Not Nominated

Kyrgyzstan	The Light Thief	Svet-Ake	Kyrgyz	Aktan Arym Kubat	Not Nominated

Latvia	Hong Kong Confidential	Amaya	Cantonese, English	Māris Martinsons	Not Nominated

Macedonia	Mothers	Мајки	Macedonian	Milčo Mančevski	Not Nominated

Mexico	Biutiful	Biutiful	Spanish	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated

Netherlands	Tirza	Tirza	Dutch, English	Rudolf van den Berg	Not Nominated

Nicaragua	La Yuma	La Yuma	Spanish	Florence Jaugey	Not Nominated

Norway	Angel	Engelen	Norwegian	Margreth Olin	Not Nominated

Peru	Undertow	Contracorriente	Spanish	Javier Fuentes-León	Not Nominated

Philippines	Noy	Noy	Tagalog	Dondon Santos	Not Nominated

Poland	All That I Love	Wszystko, co kocham	Polish	Jacek Borcuch	Not Nominated

Portugal	To Die Like a Man	Morrer Como Um Homem	Portuguese	João Pedro Rodrigues	Not Nominated

Puerto Rico	Miente	Miente	Spanish	Rafi Mercado	Not Nominated

Romania	If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle	Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier	Romanian	Florin Serban	Not Nominated

Russia	The Edge	Край	Russian	Alexei Uchitel	Not Nominated

Serbia	Besa	Беса	Serbian, Albanian	Srđan Karanović	Not Nominated

Slovakia	Hranica	Hranica	Hungarian	Jaroslav Vojtek	Not Nominated

Slovenia	9:06	9:06	Slovene	Igor Sterk	Not Nominated

South Africa	Life, Above All	Life, Above All	Northern Sotho	Oliver Schmitz	Made January Shortlist

South Korea	A Barefoot Dream	맨발의 꿈	Korean, Tetum	Kim Tae-kyun	Not Nominated

Spain	Even the Rain	También la lluvia	Spanish, Quechua	Icíar Bollaín	Made January Shortlist

Sweden	Simple Simon	I rymden finns inga känslor	Swedish	Andreas Öhman	Made January Shortlist

Switzerland	La petite chambre	La petite chambre	French	Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond	Not Nominated

Taiwan	Monga	艋舺	Mandarin, Min Nan	Doze Niu	Not Nominated

Thailand	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ	Thai	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Not Nominated

Turkey	Bal	Bal	Turkish	Semih Kaplanoglu	Not Nominated

Uruguay	A Useful Life	La vida útil	Spanish	Federico Veiroj	Not Nominated

Venezuela	Hermano	Hermano	Spanish	Marcel Rasquin	Not Nominated

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A Barefoot Dream was selected as the South Korean entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but did not make to the final shortlist.

final_sentence: A Barefoot Dream was selected as the South Korean entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but did not make to the final shortlist.