List of submissions to the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

List of submissions to the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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Submitting country	Title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result

Afghanistan	A Few Cubic Meters of Love	چند متر مکعب عشق (Chand Metre Moka'ab Eshgh)	Persian	Jamshid Mahmoudi	Not nominated

Argentina	Wild Tales	Relatos salvajes	Spanish	Damián Szifrón	Nominated

Australia	Charlie's Country	Charlie's Country	Yolngu Matha, English	Rolf de Heer	Not nominated

Austria	The Dark Valley	Das finstere Tal	German	Andreas Prochaska	Not nominated

Azerbaijan	Nabat	Nabat	Azerbaijani	Elchin Musaoglu	Not nominated

Bangladesh	Glow of the Firefly	জোনাকির আলো (Jonakir Alo)	Bengali	Khalid Mahmud Mithu	Not nominated

Belgium	Two Days, One Night	Deux jours, une nuit	French	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne	Not nominated

Bolivia	Forgotten	Olvidados	Spanish	Carlos Bolado	Not nominated

Bosnia and Herzegovina	With Mum	Sa mamom	Bosnian	Faruk Lončarević	Not nominated

Brazil	The Way He Looks	Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho	Portuguese	Daniel Ribeiro	Not nominated

Bulgaria	Bulgarian Rhapsody	Българска Рапсодия	Bulgarian	Ivan Nitchev	Not nominated

Canada	Mommy	Mommy	French	Xavier Dolan	Not nominated

Chile	To Kill a Man	Matar a un hombre	Spanish	Alejandro Fernández Almendras	Not nominated

China	The Nightingale	夜莺 (yè yīng), Le promeneur d'oiseau	Mandarin	Philippe Muyl	Not nominated

Colombia	Mateo	Mateo	Spanish	Maria Gamboa	Not nominated

Costa Rica	Red Princesses	Princesas rojas	Spanish	Laura Astorga	Not nominated

Croatia	Cowboys	Kauboji	Croatian	Tomislav Mršić	Not nominated

Cuba	Conducta	Conducta	Spanish	Ernesto Daranas	Not nominated

Czech Republic	Fair Play	Fair Play	Czech	Andrea Sedláčková	Not nominated

Denmark	Sorrow and Joy	Sorg og glæde	Danish	Nils Malmros	Not nominated

Dominican Republic	Cristo Rey	Cristo Rey	Spanish	Leticia Tonos	Not nominated

Ecuador	Silence in Dreamland	Silencio en la tierra de los sueños	Spanish	Tito Molina	Not nominated

Egypt	Factory Girl	فتاة المصنع (Fatat el masnaa)	Arabic	Mohamed Khan	Not nominated

Estonia	Tangerines	Mandariinid	Estonian, Russian	Zaza Urushadze	Nominated

Ethiopia	Difret	Difret	Amharic	Zeresenay Berhane Mehari	Not nominated

Finland	Concrete Night	Betoniyö	Finnish	Pirjo Honkasalo	Not nominated

France	Saint Laurent	Saint Laurent	French	Bertrand Bonello	Not nominated

Georgia	Corn Island	სიმინდის კუნძული (simindis k'undzuli)	Georgian, Abkhaz, Russian	Giorgi Ovashvili	Made January shortlist

Germany	Beloved Sisters	Die geliebten Schwestern	German, French	Dominik Graf	Not nominated

Greece	Little England	Μικρά Αγγλία	Greek	Pantelis Voulgaris	Not nominated

Hong Kong	The Golden Era	黃金時代 (huǎng jīn shí dài)	Mandarin	Ann Hui	Not nominated

Hungary	White God	Fehér isten	Hungarian	Kornél Mundruczó	Not nominated

Iceland	Life in a Fishbowl	Vonarstræti	Icelandic	Baldvin Zophoníasson	Not nominated

India	Liar's Dice	लायर्स डाइस (Liar's Dice)	Hindi	Geetu Mohandas	Not nominated

Indonesia	Soekarno	Soekarno	Indonesian	Hanung Bramantyo	Not nominated

Iran	Today	Emrooz (امروز)	Persian	Reza Mirkarimi	Not nominated

Iraq	Mardan	Mardan	Kurdish	Batin Ghobadi	Not nominated

Ireland	The Gift	An Bronntanas	Irish	Tommy Collins	Not nominated

Israel	Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem	גט - המשפט של ויויאן אמסאלם	Hebrew, French, Arabic	Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz	Not nominated

Italy	Human Capital	Il capitale umano	Italian	Paolo Virzì	Not nominated

Japan	The Light Shines Only There	そこのみにて光輝く (Soko nomi nite hikari kagayaku)	Japanese	Mipo O	Not nominated

Kosovo	Three Windows and a Hanging	Tri Dritare dhe një Varje	Albanian	Isa Qosja	Not nominated

Kyrgyzstan	Kurmanjan Datka: Queen of the Mountains	Курманжан Датка (Kurmanjan Datka)	Kyrgyz	Sadyk Sher-Niyaz	Not nominated

Latvia	Rocks in My Pockets	Akmeņi manās kabatās	Latvian	Signe Baumane	Not nominated

Lebanon	Ghadi	غدي	Arabic	Amin Dora	Not nominated

Lithuania	The Gambler	Lošėjas	Lithuanian	Ignas Jonynas	Not nominated

Luxembourg	Never Die Young	Never Die Young	French	Pol Cruchten	Not nominated

North Macedonia	To the Hilt	До балчак	Macedonian	Stole Popov	Not nominated

Malta	Simshar	Simshar	Maltese	Rebecca Cremona	Not nominated

Mauritania	Timbuktu	Timbuktu	Arabic, French, Tamashek	Abderrahmane Sissako	Nominated

Mexico	Cantinflas	Cantinflas	Spanish	Sebastian del Amo	Not nominated

Moldova	The Unsaved	La limita de jos a cerului	Romanian	Igor Cobileanski	Not nominated

Montenegro	The Kids from the Marx and Engels Street	Dječaci iz Ulice Marksa i Engelsa	Montenegrin	Nikola Vukčević	Not nominated

Morocco	The Red Moon	القمر الأحمر	Arabic	Hassan Benjelloun	Not nominated

Nepal	Jhola	झोला	Nepali	Yadavkumar Bhattarai	Not nominated

Netherlands	Accused	Lucia de B.	Dutch	Paula van der Oest	Made January shortlist

New Zealand	The Dead Lands	The Dead Lands	Māori	Toa Fraser	Not nominated

Norway	1001 Grams	1001 Gram	Norwegian	Bent Hamer	Not nominated

Pakistan	Dukhtar	دختر، بیٹی	Urdu	Afia Nathaniel	Not nominated

Palestine	Eyes of a Thief	عيون الحراميه	Arabic	Najwa Najjar	Not nominated

Panama	Invasion	Invasión	Spanish	Abner Benaim	Not nominated

Peru	The Gospel of the Flesh	El evangelio de la carne	Spanish	Eduardo Mendoza de Echave	Not nominated

Philippines	Norte, the End of History	Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan	Tagalog, English	Lav Diaz	Not nominated

Poland	Ida	Ida	Polish	Paweł Pawlikowski	Won Academy Award

Portugal	What Now? Remind Me	E Agora? Lembra-me	Portuguese	Joaquim Pinto	Not nominated

Romania	The Japanese Dog	Câinele japonez	Romanian	Tudor Cristian Jurgiu	Not nominated

Russia	Leviathan	Левиафан	Russian	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Nominated

Serbia	See You in Montevideo	Montevideo, vidimo se!	Serbian	Dragan Bjelogrlić	Not nominated

Singapore	Sayang Disayang	Sayang Disayang	Malay, Indonesian	Sanif Olek	Not nominated

Slovakia	A Step into the Dark	Krok do tmy	Slovak	Miloslav Luther	Not nominated

Slovenia	Seduce Me	Zapelji me	Slovene	Marko Šantić	Not nominated

South Africa	Elelwani	Elelwani	Venda	Ntshavheni wa Luruli	Not nominated

South Korea	Haemoo	해무 (Haemoo)	Korean	Shim Sung-bo	Not nominated

Spain	Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed	Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados	Spanish	David Trueba	Not nominated

Sweden	Force Majeure	Turist	Swedish	Ruben Östlund	Made January shortlist

Switzerland	The Circle	Der Kreis	German	Stefan Haupt	Not nominated

Taiwan	Ice Poison	冰毒 (bīng dú)	Southwestern Mandarin, Mandarin	Midi Z	Not nominated

Thailand	Teacher's Diary	คิดถึงวิทยา (Kid tueng wittaya)	Thai	Nithiwat Tharathorn	Not nominated

Turkey	Winter Sleep	Kış Uykusu	Turkish	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Not nominated

Ukraine	The Guide	Поводир	Ukrainian	Oles Sanin	Not nominated

United Kingdom	Little Happiness	Uzun Yol	Turkish	Nihat Seven	Not nominated

Uruguay	Mr. Kaplan	Mr. Kaplan	Spanish	Álvaro Brechner	Not nominated

Venezuela	The Liberator	Libertador	Spanish	Alberto Arvelo	Made January shortlist

Sentence(s)

87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film was Argentina's Wild Tales, directed by Damián Szifron, Estonia's Tangerines, directed by Zaza Urushadze, Mauritania's Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, Poland's Ida, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, and Russia's Leviathan, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.

final_sentence: 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film was Argentina's Wild Tales, directed by Damián Szifron, Estonia's Tangerines, directed by Zaza Urushadze, Mauritania's Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, Poland's Ida, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, and Russia's Leviathan, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.