List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

List of submissions to the 72nd 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	Manuelita	Manuelita	Spanish	Manuel García Ferré	Not Nominated

Austria	Northern Skirts	Nordrand	German	Barbara Albert	Not Nominated

Belgium	Rosetta	Rosetta	French	Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne	Not Nominated

Bhutan	The Cup	Phörpa	Tibetan	Khyentse Norbu	Not Nominated

Brazil	Orfeu	Orfeu	Portuguese	Carlos Diegues	Not Nominated

Canada	Set Me Free	Emporte-moi	French	Léa Pool	Not Nominated

China	Lover's Grief over the Yellow River	Huanghe juelian (黄河绝恋)	Mandarin	Feng Xiaoning	Not Nominated

Colombia	Time Out	Golpe de estadio	Spanish	Sergio Cabrera	Not Nominated

Croatia	Red Dust	Crvena prašina	Croatian	Zrinko Ogresta	Not Nominated

Czech Republic	The Idiot Returns	Návrat idiota	Czech	Saša Gedeon	Not Nominated

Denmark	Mifune	Mifunes sidste sang	Danish	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Not Nominated

Finland	The Tough Ones	Häjyt	Finnish	Aleksi Mäkelä	Not Nominated

France	East-West	Est-Ouest	French, Russian	Régis Wargnier	Nominated

Georgia	Here Comes the Dawn	Ak tendeba (აქ თენდება)	Georgian	Zaza Urushadze	Not Nominated

Germany	Aimée & Jaguar	Aimée und Jaguar	German	Max Färberböck	Not Nominated

Greece	From the Edge of the City	Apo tin akri tis polis (Από την άκρη της πόλης)	Greek, Russian	Constantinos Giannaris	Not Nominated

Hong Kong	Ordinary Heroes	Qian yan wan yu (千言萬語)	Cantonese	Ann Hui	Not Nominated

Hungary	The Lord's Lantern in Budapest	Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten	Hungarian	Miklós Jancsó	Not Nominated

Iceland	The Honour of the House	Ungfrúin góða og húsið	Icelandic	Guðný Halldórsdóttir	Not Nominated

India	Earth	Earth (अर्थ)	Hindi, English, Parsee, Punjabi, Urdu	Deepa Mehta	Not Nominated

Indonesia	Sri	Sri	Indonesian	Marselli Sumarno	Not Nominated

Iran	The Colours of Paradise	Rang-e khoda (رنگ خدا)	Persian	Majid Majidi	Not Nominated

Israel	Yana's Friends	Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana (החברים של יאנה)	Hebrew, Russian, English	Arik Kaplun	Not Nominated

Italy	Not of this World	Fuori dal mondo	Italian	Giuseppe Piccioni	Not Nominated

Japan	Railroad Man	Poppoya (鉄道員)	Japanese	Yasuo Furuhata	Not Nominated

Lebanon	Around the Pink House	Autour de la maison rose (البيت الزهري)	French, Arabic	Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige	Not Nominated

Mexico	El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba	El coronel no tiene quien le escriba	Spanish	Arturo Ripstein	Not Nominated

Nepal	Caravan	Himalaya (हिमालय)	Tibetan	Éric Valli	Nominated

Netherlands	Scratches in the Table	Madelief, krassen in het tafelblad	Dutch	Ineke Houtman	Not Nominated

Norway	The Prompter	Suffløsen	Norwegian	Hilde Heier	Not Nominated

Peru	Captain Pantoja and the Special Services	Pantaleón y las visitadoras	Spanish	Francisco J. Lombardi	Not Nominated

Philippines	The Kite	Saranggola	Filipino, Tagalog	Gil Portes	Not Nominated

Poland	Pan Tadeusz	Pan Tadeusz	Polish	Andrzej Wajda	Not Nominated

Portugal	The Mutants	Os Mutantes	Portuguese	Teresa Villaverde	Not Nominated

Romania	The Famous Paparazzo	Faimosul paparazzo	Romanian	Nicolae Margineanu	Not Nominated

Russia	Moloch	Molokh (Молох)	German	Alexander Sokurov	Not Nominated

Serbia	The White Suit	Belo odelo (Бело одело)	Serbian	Lazar Ristovski	Not Nominated

Slovakia	All My Loved Ones	Vsichni moji blízcí	Czech	Matej Mináč	Not Nominated

Spain	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Spanish	Pedro Almodóvar	Won Academy Award

Sweden	Under the Sun	Under solen	Swedish	Colin Nutley	Nominated

Switzerland	Beresina, or The Last Days of Switzerland	Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz	German	Daniel Schmid	Not Nominated

Tajikistan	Luna Papa	Luna Papa (Лунный папа)	Russian	Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov	Not Nominated

Taiwan	March of Happiness	Tian ma cha fang (天馬茶房)	Mandarin	Lin Cheng-sheng	Not Nominated

Turkey	Mrs. Salkim's Diamonds	Salkım Hanımın Taneleri	Turkish	Tomris Giritlioğlu	Not Nominated

United Kingdom	Solomon and Gaenor	Solomon a Gaenor	Welsh, Yiddish	Paul Morrison	Nominated

Venezuela	Glue Sniffer	Huelepega: Ley de la calle	Spanish	Elia Schneider	Not Nominated

Vietnam	Three Seasons	Ba mùa	English, Vietnamese	Tony Bui	Not Nominated

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The Famous Paparazzo was Romania's Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not receive a nomination.

final_sentence: The Famous Paparazzo was Romania's Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not receive a nomination.