List of submissions to the 89th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

List of submissions to the 89th 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	Parting	رفتن	Persian, Dari	Navid Mahmoudi	Not on the final list

Albania	Chromium	Krom	Albanian	Bujar Alimani	Not nominated

Algeria	The Well	البئر	French, Arabic	Lotfi Bouchouchi	Not nominated

Argentina	The Distinguished Citizen	El Ciudadano Ilustre	Spanish	Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn	Not nominated

Armenia	Earthquake	երկրաշարժ	Armenian, Russian	Sarik Andreasyan	Disqualified

Australia	Tanna	Tanna	Nauvhal	Martin Butler, Bentley Dean	Nominated

Austria	Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe	Vor der Morgenröte	German	Maria Schrader	Not nominated

Bangladesh	The Unnamed	অজ্ঞাতনামা	Bengali	Tauquir Ahmed	Not nominated

Belgium	The Ardennes	D'Ardennen	Dutch	Robin Pront	Not nominated

Bolivia	Sealed Cargo	Carga Sellada	Spanish	Julia Vargas-Weise	Not nominated

Bosnia and Herzegovina	Death in Sarajevo	Smrt u Sarajevu	Bosnian, French	Danis Tanović	Not nominated

Brazil	Little Secret	Pequeno segredo	Portuguese	David Schurmann	Not nominated

Bulgaria	Losers	Каръци	Bulgarian	Ivaylo Hristov	Not nominated

Cambodia	Before the Fall	មុនពេលបែកបាក់	Khmer, English, French	Ian White	Not nominated

Cameroon	Yahan Ameena Bikti Hai	Yahan Ameena Bikti Hai	Hindi	Kumar Raj	Not on the final list

Canada	It's Only the End of the World	Juste la fin du monde	French	Xavier Dolan	Made December shortlist

Chile	Neruda	Neruda	Spanish	Pablo Larraín	Not nominated

China	Xuan Zang	大唐玄奘	Mandarin	Huo Jianqi	Not nominated

Colombia	Alias Maria	Alias María	Spanish	José Luis Rugeles Gracia	Not nominated

Costa Rica	About Us	Entonces Nosotros	Spanish	Hernán Jiménez	Not nominated

Croatia	On the Other Side	S one strane	Croatian	Zrinko Ogresta	Not nominated

Cuba	The Companion	El acompañante	Spanish	Pavel Giroud	Not nominated

Czech Republic	Lost in Munich	Ztraceni v Mnichově	Czech	Petr Zelenka	Not nominated

Denmark	Land of Mine	Under sandet	Danish, German	Martin Zandvliet	Nominated

Dominican Republic	Sugar Fields	Flor de Azúcar	Spanish	Fernando Baez Mella	Not nominated

Ecuador	Such Is Life in the Tropics	Sin Muertos No Hay Carnaval	Spanish	Sebastián Cordero	Not nominated

Egypt	Clash	اشتباك	Arabic	Mohamed Diab	Not nominated

Estonia	Mother	Ema	Estonian	Kadri Kõusaare	Not nominated

Finland	The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki	Hymyilevä mies	Finnish	Juho Kuosmanen	Not nominated

France	Elle	Elle	French	Paul Verhoeven	Not nominated

Georgia	House of Others	სხვისი სახლი	Georgian	Rusudan Glurjidze	Not nominated

Germany	Toni Erdmann	Toni Erdmann	German, English, Romanian	Maren Ade	Nominated

Greece	Chevalier	Chevalier	Greek	Athina Rachel Tsangari	Not nominated

Hong Kong	Port of Call	踏血尋梅	Cantonese, Mandarin	Philip Yung	Not nominated

Hungary	Kills on Wheels	Tiszta szívvel	Hungarian	Attila Till	Not nominated

Iceland	Sparrows	Þrestir	Icelandic	Rúnar Rúnarsson	Not nominated

India	Interrogation	விசாரணை	Tamil	Vetrimaaran	Not nominated

Indonesia	Letters from Prague	Surat dari Praha	Indonesian	Angga Dwimas Sasongko	Not nominated

Iran	The Salesman	فروشنده	Persian	Asghar Farhadi	Won Academy Award

Iraq	El Clásico	ئێل کلاسیکۆ	Kurdish	Halkawt Mustafa	Not nominated

Israel	Sand Storm	סופת חול	Arabic	Elite Zexer	Not nominated

Italy	Fire at Sea	Fuocoammare	Italian	Gianfranco Rosi	Not nominated

Japan	Nagasaki: Memories of My Son	母と暮せば	Japanese	Yoji Yamada	Not nominated

Jordan	3000 Nights	3000 ليلة	Arabic, Hebrew	Mai Masri	Not nominated

Kazakhstan	Amanat	Аманат	Kazakh, Russian	Satybaldy Narymbetov	Not nominated

Kosovo	Home Sweet Home	Home Sweet Home	Albanian	Faton Bajraktari	Not nominated

Kyrgyzstan	A Father's Will	Атанын керээзи	Kyrgyz	Bakyt Mukul, Dastan Japar Uulu	Not nominated

Latvia	Dawn	Ausma	Latvian	Laila Pakalniņa	Not nominated

Lebanon	Very Big Shot	فيلم كتير كبير	Lebanese Arabic, French, English	Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya	Not nominated

Lithuania	Seneca's Day	Senekos diena	Lithuanian, Russian, Estonian	Kristijonas Vildziunas	Not nominated

Luxembourg	Voices from Chernobyl	La Supplication	French	Pol Cruchten	Not nominated

North Macedonia	The Liberation of Skopje	Ослободување на Скопје	Macedonian, German, Bulgarian	Rade Šerbedžija, Danilo Šerbedžija	Not nominated

Malaysia	Beautiful Pain	Redha	Malay	Tunku Mona Riza	Not nominated

Mexico	Desierto	Desierto	Spanish, English	Jonás Cuarón	Not nominated

Montenegro	The Black Pin	Igla ispod praga	Montenegrin	Ivan Marinovic	Not nominated

Morocco	A Mile in My Shoes	مسافة ميل بحذائي	Arabic	Said Khallaf	Not nominated

Nepal	The Black Hen	कालो पोथी	Nepali	Min Bahadur Bham	Not nominated

Netherlands	Tonio	Tonio	Dutch	Paula van der Oest	Not nominated

New Zealand	A Flickering Truth	A Flickering Truth	Dari	Pietra Brettkelly	Not nominated

Norway	The King's Choice	Kongens nei	Norwegian, Danish, German	Erik Poppe	Made December shortlist

Pakistan	Mah-e-Mir	ماہ میر	Urdu	Anjum Shahzad	Not nominated

Palestine	The Idol	يا طير الطاير	Arabic, Spanish	Hany Abu-Assad	Not nominated

Panama	Salsipuedes	Salsipuedes	Spanish	Ricardo Aguilar Navarro, Manuel Rodríguez	Not nominated

Peru	Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)	Videofilia: y otros síndromes virales	Spanish, English	Juan Daniel Fernández	Not nominated

Philippines	Ma' Rosa	Ma' Rosa	Tagalog	Brillante Mendoza	Not nominated

Poland	Afterimage	Powidoki	Polish	Andrzej Wajda	Not nominated

Portugal	Letters from War	Cartas da Guerra	Portuguese	Ivo M. Ferreira	Not nominated

Romania	Sieranevada	Sieranevada	Romanian	Cristi Puiu	Not nominated

Russia	Paradise	Рай	Russian, German, French, Yiddish	Andrei Konchalovsky	Made December shortlist

Saudi Arabia	Barakah Meets Barakah	بركة يقابل بركة	Arabic	Mahmoud Sabbagh	Not nominated

Serbia	Train Driver's Diary	Дневник машиновође	Serbian	Miloš Radović	Not nominated

Singapore	Apprentice	Apprentice	Malay, English	Boo Junfeng	Not nominated

Slovakia	Eva Nová	Eva Nová	Slovak	Marko Škop	Not nominated

Slovenia	Houston, We Have a Problem!	Houston, imamo problem!	Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, English	Žiga Virc	Not nominated

South Africa	Call Me Thief	Noem My Skollie	Afrikaans	Daryne Joshua	Not nominated

South Korea	The Age of Shadows	밀정	Korean	Kim Jee-woon	Not nominated

Spain	Julieta	Julieta	Spanish	Pedro Almodóvar	Not nominated

Sweden	A Man Called Ove	En man som heter Ove	Swedish	Hannes Holm	Nominated

Switzerland	My Life as a Zucchini	Ma vie de Courgette	French	Claude Barras	Made December shortlist

Taiwan	Hang in There, Kids!	只要我長大	Mandarin, Atayal	Laha Mebow	Not nominated

Thailand	Karma	อาปัติ	Thai	Kanittha Kwanyu	Not nominated

Tunisia	As I Open My Eyes	À peine j'ouvre les yeux	Tunisian Arabic, French	Leyla Bouzid	Not on the final list

Turkey	Cold of Kalandar	Kalandar Soğuğu	Turkish	Mustafa Kara	Not nominated

Ukraine	Ukrainian Sheriffs	Українські шерифи	Ukrainian	Roman Bondarchuk	Not nominated

United Kingdom	Under the Shadow	زیر سایه	Persian	Babak Anvari	Not nominated

Uruguay	Breadcrumbs	Migas de pan	Spanish	Manane Rodriguez	Not nominated

Venezuela	From Afar	Desde allá	Spanish	Lorenzo Vigas	Not nominated

Vietnam	Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass	Tôi thấy hoa vàng trên cỏ xanh	Vietnamese	Victor Vu	Not nominated

Yemen	I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced	أنا نجوم بنت العاشره ومطلقة	Arabic	Khadija al-Salami	Not nominated

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Yemen submitted a film for the first time with I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced, which was directed by Khadija al-Salami.

final_sentence: Yemen submitted a film for the first time with I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced, which was directed by Khadija al-Salami.