List of submissions to the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

List of submissions to the 86th 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	Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)	وژمه	Dari	Barmak Akram	Not Nominated

Albania	Agon	Agon	Albanian, Greek	Robert Budina	Not Nominated

Argentina	The German Doctor	Wakolda	Spanish, German, Hebrew	Lucía Puenzo	Not Nominated

Australia	The Rocket	The Rocket	Lao	Kim Mordaunt	Not Nominated

Austria	The Wall	Die Wand	German	Julian Pölsler	Not Nominated

Azerbaijan	Steppe Man	Çölçü	Azerbaijani	Shamil Aliyev	Not Nominated

Bangladesh	Television	টেলিভিশন	Bengali	Mostofa Sarwar Farooki	Not Nominated

Belgium	The Broken Circle Breakdown	The Broken Circle Breakdown	Dutch	Felix Van Groeningen	Nominated

Bosnia and Herzegovina	An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker	Epizoda u životu berača željeza	Bosnian, Romany	Danis Tanović	Made January Shortlist

Brazil	Neighboring Sounds	O Som ao Redor	Portuguese, Mandarin, English	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Not Nominated

Bulgaria	The Colour of the Chameleon	Цветът на Хамелеона	Bulgarian	Emil Hristov	Not Nominated

Cambodia	The Missing Picture	L'image manquante	French	Rithy Panh	Nominated

Canada	Gabrielle	Gabrielle	French	Louise Archambault	Not Nominated

Chad	GriGris	GriGris	French, Arabic	Mahamat Saleh Haroun	Not Nominated

Chile	Gloria	Gloria	Spanish	Sebastián Lelio	Not Nominated

China	Back to 1942	一九四二	Mandarin, English	Feng Xiaogang	Not Nominated

Colombia	La Playa DC	La Playa DC	Spanish	Juan Andrés Arango	Not Nominated

Croatia	Halima's Path	Halimin put	Bosnian	Arsen Anton Ostojić	Not Nominated

Czech Republic	The Don Juans	Donšajni	Czech	Jiří Menzel	Not Nominated

Denmark	The Hunt	Jagten	Danish	Thomas Vinterberg	Nominated

Dominican Republic	Who's the Boss?	¿Quién Manda?	Spanish	Ronni Castillo	Not Nominated

Ecuador	Porcelain Horse	Mejor No Hablar (de Ciertas Cosas)	Spanish	Javier Andrade	Not Nominated

Egypt	Winter of Discontent	الشتا إللى فات	Arabic	Ibrahim El Batout	Not Nominated

Estonia	Free Range	Free Range: Ballaad maailma heakskiitmisest	Estonian	Veiko Õunpuu	Not Nominated

Finland	Disciple	Lärjungen	Swedish	Ulrika Bengts	Not Nominated

France	Renoir	Renoir	French	Gilles Bourdos	Not Nominated

Georgia	In Bloom	გრძელი ნათელი დღეები	Georgian	Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß	Not Nominated

Germany	Two Lives	Zwei Leben	German	Georg Maas	Made January Shortlist

Greece	Boy Eating the Bird's Food	Το Αγόρι Τρώει το Φαγητό του Πουλιού	Greek	Ektoras Lygizos	Not Nominated

Hong Kong	The Grandmaster	一代宗師	Cantonese, Mandarin	Wong Kar-wai	Made January Shortlist

Hungary	The Notebook	A nagy füzet	Hungarian	János Szász	Made January Shortlist

Iceland	Of Horses and Men	Hross í oss	Icelandic	Benedikt Erlingsson	Not Nominated

India	The Good Road	The Good Road	Gujarati	Gyan Correa	Not Nominated

Indonesia	Sang Kiai	Sang Kiai	Indonesian, Japanese	Rako Prijanto	Not Nominated

Iran	The Past	گذشته	French, Persian	Asghar Farhadi	Not Nominated

Israel	Bethlehem	בית לחם	Hebrew, Arabic	Yuval Adler	Not Nominated

Italy	The Great Beauty	La grande bellezza	Italian	Paolo Sorrentino	Won Academy Award

Japan	The Great Passage	舟を編む	Japanese	Yuya Ishii	Not Nominated

Kazakhstan	The Old Man	Шал	Russian, Kazakh	Ermek Tursunov	Not Nominated

Latvia	Mother, I Love You	Mammu, es tevi mīlu	Latvian	Jānis Nords	Not Nominated

Lebanon	Blind Intersections	قصة ثواني	Arabic	Lara Saba	Not Nominated

Lithuania	Conversations on Serious Topics	Pokalbiai rimtomis temomis	Lithuanian	Giedrė Beinoriūtė	Not Nominated

Luxembourg	Blind Spot	Doudege Wénkel	Luxembourgish, French	Christophe Wagner	Not Nominated

Mexico	Heli	Heli	Spanish	Amat Escalante	Not Nominated

Moldova	All God's Children	Toti Copiii Domnului	Romanian, Italian	Adrian Popovici	Not Nominated

Montenegro	Ace of Spades: Bad Destiny	As pik - loša sudbina	Serbo-Croatian	Draško Đurović	Not Nominated

Morocco	Horses of God	يا خيل الله	Arabic	Nabil Ayouch	Not Nominated

Nepal	Soongava: Dance of the Orchids	सुनगाभा	Nepali	Subarna Thapa	Not Nominated

Netherlands	Borgman	Borgman	Dutch	Alex van Warmerdam	Not Nominated

New Zealand	White Lies	Tuakiri Huna	Maori	Dana Rotberg	Not Nominated

Norway	I Am Yours	Jeg er din	Norwegian, Urdu, Swedish	Iram Haq	Not Nominated

Pakistan	Zinda Bhaag	زندہ بھاگ	Punjabi	Meenu Gaur, Farjad Nabi	Not Nominated

Palestine	Omar	عمر	Arabic	Hany Abu-Assad	Nominated

Peru	The Cleaner	El limpiador	Spanish	Adrián Saba	Not Nominated

Philippines	Transit	Transit	Filipino, Tagalog, Hebrew, English	Hannah Espia	Not Nominated

Poland	Walesa. Man of Hope	Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei	Polish	Andrzej Wajda	Not Nominated

Portugal	Lines of Wellington	Linhas de Wellington	Portuguese, French, English	Valeria Sarmiento	Not Nominated

Romania	Child's Pose	Poziţia Copilului	Romanian	Călin Peter Netzer	Not Nominated

Russia	Stalingrad	Сталинград	Russian	Fedor Bondarchuk	Not Nominated

Saudi Arabia	Wadjda	وجدة	Arabic	Haifaa al-Mansour	Not Nominated

Serbia	Circles	Кругови	Serbian	Srdan Golubović	Not Nominated

Singapore	Ilo Ilo	爸妈不在家	Mandarin, Hokkien, Filipino, Tagalog, English	Anthony Chen	Not Nominated

Slovakia	My Dog Killer	Môj pes Killer	Slovak	Mira Fornay	Not Nominated

Slovenia	Class Enemy	Razredni sovražnik	Slovene	Rok Biček	Not Nominated

South Africa	Four Corners	Four Corners	Afrikaans, Tsotsitaal	Ian Gabriel	Not Nominated

South Korea	Juvenile Offender	범죄소년	Korean	Kang Yi-kwan	Not Nominated

Spain	15 Years and One Day	15 años y un día	Spanish	Gracia Querejeta	Not Nominated

Sweden	Eat Sleep Die	Äta sova dö	Swedish, Croatian	Gabriela Pichler	Not Nominated

Switzerland	More than Honey	More than Honey	German, Mandarin, English	Markus Imhoof	Not Nominated

Taiwan	Soul	失魂	Mandarin	Chung Mong-Hong	Not Nominated

Thailand	Countdown	เคาท์ดาวน์	Thai, English	Nattawut Poonpiriya	Not Nominated

Turkey	The Butterfly's Dream	Kelebeğin Rüyası	Turkish	Yılmaz Erdoğan	Not Nominated

Ukraine	Paradjanov	Параджанов	Ukrainian	Serge Avedikian, Olena Fetisova	Not Nominated

United Kingdom	Metro Manila	Metro Manila	Filipino, Tagalog	Sean Ellis	Not Nominated

Uruguay	Anina	Anina	Spanish	Alfredo Soderguit	Not Nominated

Venezuela	Breach in the Silence	Brecha en el silencio	Spanish	Luis Rodríguez, Andrés Rodríguez	Not Nominated

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Lebanon was selected in Lara Saba's Blind Intersections.

final_sentence: Lebanon was selected in Lara Saba's Blind Intersections.