List of submissions to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

List of submissions to the 80th 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

Argentina	XXY	XXY	Spanish	Lucía Puenzo	Not Nominated

Australia	The Home Song Stories	The Home Song Stories	Cantonese, English, Mandarin	Tony Ayres	Not Nominated

Austria	The Counterfeiters	Die Fälscher	German	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Won Academy Award

Azerbaijan	Caucasia	Qafqaz	Azerbaijani, Russian	Farid Gumbatov	Not Nominated

Bangladesh	On the Wings of Dreams	স্বপ্নডানায় (Swopnodanay)	Bengali	Golam Rabbany Biplob	Not Nominated

Belgium	Ben X	Ben X	Dutch	Nic Balthazar	Not Nominated

Bolivia	Los Andes no creen en Dios	Los Andes no creen en Dios	Spanish	Antonio Eguino	Disqualified

Bosnia and Herzegovina	It's Hard to be Nice	Teško je biti fin	Serbo-Croatian	Srdan Vuletic	Not Nominated

Brazil	The Year My Parents Went On Vacation	O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias	Portuguese	Cao Hamburger	Made January Shortlist

Bulgaria	Warden of the Dead	Пазачът на мъртвите (Pazachyt na myrtvite)	Bulgarian	Ilian Simeonov	Not Nominated

Canada	Days of Darkness	L'Âge des ténèbres	French	Denys Arcand	Made January Shortlist

Chile	Padre Nuestro	Padre nuestro	Spanish	Rodrigo Sepúlveda	Not Nominated

China	The Knot	云水谣 (Yun shui yao)	Mandarin	Yin Li	Not Nominated

Colombia	Satanás	Satanás	Spanish	Andi Baiz	Not Nominated

Croatia	Armin	Armin	Serbo-Croatian	Ognjen Sviličić	Not Nominated

Cuba	The Silly Age	La Edad de la peseta	Spanish	Pavel Giroud	Not Nominated

Czech Republic	I Served the King of England	Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále	Czech	Jiri Menzel	Not Nominated

Denmark	The Art of Crying	Kunsten at græde i kor	Danish	Peter Schønau Fog	Not Nominated

Egypt	In the Heliopolis Flat	في شقة مصر الجديدة (Fi shaket masr el Gedeeda)	Arabic	Mohamed Khan	Not Nominated

Estonia	The Class	Klass	Estonian	Ilmar Raag	Not Nominated

Finland	A Man's Job	Miehen työ	Finnish	Aleksi Salmenperä	Not Nominated

France	Persepolis	Persepolis	French	Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi	Not Nominated

Georgia	The Russian Triangle	რუსული სამკუთხედი (Rusuli samkudhedi)	Russian	Aleko Tsabadze	Not Nominated

Germany	The Edge of Heaven	Auf der anderen Seite	German, Turkish	Fatih Akin	Not Nominated

Greece	Eduart	Eduart	Albanian, German, Greek	Angeliki Antoniou	Not Nominated

Hong Kong	Exiled	放逐 (Fong juk)	Cantonese	Johnnie To	Not Nominated

Hungary	Taxidermia	Taxidermia	Hungarian	György Pálfi	Not Nominated

Iceland	Jar City	Mýrin	Icelandic	Baltasar Kormakur	Not Nominated

India	Eklavya: The Royal Guard	एकलव्य (Eklavya: The Royal Guard)	Hindi	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Not Nominated

Indonesia	Denias, Singing on the Cloud	Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan	Indonesian	John De Rantau	Not Nominated

Iran	M for Mother	میم مثل مادر (Mim Mesle Madar)	Persian	Rasul Mollagholipour	Not Nominated

Iraq	Jani Gal	Jani Gal	Kurdish	Jamil Rostami	Not Nominated

Ireland	Kings	Kings	Irish, English	Tommy Collins	Not Nominated

Israel	Beaufort	בופור (Beaufort)	Hebrew	Joseph Cedar	Nominated

Italy	La sconosciuta	La sconosciuta	Italian	Giuseppe Tornatore	Made January Shortlist

Japan	I Just Didn't Do It	それでもボクはやってない (Soredemo boku wa yatte nai)	Japanese	Masayuki Suo	Not Nominated

Kazakhstan	Mongol	Монгол (Mongol)	Mongolian	Sergei Bodrov	Nominated

Lebanon	Caramel	سكر بنات (Sukkar banat)	Arabic, French	Nadine Labaki	Not Nominated

Luxembourg	Little Secrets	Perl oder Pica	Luxembourgish	Pol Cruchten	Not Nominated

Macedonia	Shadows	Сенки (Senki)	Macedonian	Milčo Mančevski	Not Nominated

Mexico	Silent Light	Stellet licht	Plautdietsch	Carlos Reygadas	Not Nominated

Netherlands	Duska	Duska	Dutch	Jos Stelling	Not Nominated

Norway	Gone with the Woman	Tatt av Kvinnen	Norwegian	Petter Naess	Not Nominated

Peru	Crossing a Shadow	Una sombra al frente	Spanish	Augusto Tamayo	Not Nominated

Philippines	Donsol	Donsol	Bikol, Tagalog	Adolfo Alix, Jr.	Not Nominated

Poland	Katyń	Katyń	Polish	Andrzej Wajda	Nominated

Portugal	Belle Toujours	Belle Toujours	French	Manoel de Oliveira	Not Nominated

Puerto Rico	Love Sickness	Maldeamores	Spanish	Mariem Perez, Carlitos Ruiz	Not Nominated

Romania	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile	Romanian	Cristian Mungiu	Not Nominated

Russia	12	12	Russian, Chechen	Nikita Mikhalkov	Nominated

Serbia	The Trap	Klopka (Клопка)	Serbo-Croatian	Srdan Golubović	Made January Shortlist

Singapore	881	881	Mandarin, Hokkien	Royston Tan	Not Nominated

Slovakia	Return of the Storks	Návrat bocianov	German, Slovak	Martin Repka	Not Nominated

Slovenia	Short Circuits	Kratki stiki	Slovene	Janez Lapajne	Not Nominated

South Korea	Secret Sunshine	밀양 (Milyang)	Korean	Lee Chang-dong	Not Nominated

Spain	The Orphanage	El orfanato	Spanish	Juan Antonio Bayona	Not Nominated

Sweden	You, the Living	Du levande	Swedish	Roy Andersson	Not Nominated

Switzerland	Late Bloomers	Die Herbstzeitlosen	Swiss German	Bettina Oberli	Not Nominated

Taiwan	Island Etude	練習曲 (Liànxí Qǔ)	Mandarin, Taiwanese	Chen Huai-En	Not Nominated

Thailand	King of Fire	ตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช (Tamnan Somdej Phra Naresuan)	Thai	Chatrichalerm Yukol	Not Nominated

Turkey	A Man's Fear of God	Takva	Turkish	Özer Kızıltan	Not Nominated

Uruguay	The Pope's Toilet	El Baño del Papa	Spanish	Cesar Charlone, Enrique Fernandez	Not Nominated

Venezuela	Postcards from Leningrad	Postales de Leningrado	Spanish	Mariana Rondon	Not Nominated

Vietnam	The White Silk Dress	Áo lụa Hà Đông	Vietnamese	Luu Huynh	Not Nominated

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In 2007, César Charlone directed his feature film, The Pope's Toilet, which was selected by Uruguay as its submission for the 80th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

final_sentence: In 2007, César Charlone directed his feature film, The Pope's Toilet, which was selected by Uruguay as its submission for the 80th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.