List of submissions to the 76th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

List of submissions to the 76th 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	Osama	أسامة	Dari	Siddiq Barmak	Not Nominated

Argentina	Valentín	Valentín	Spanish	Alejandro Agresti	Not Nominated

Armenia	Vodka Lemon	Vodka Lemon	Kurdish, Russian, Armenian	Hiner Saleem	Not Nominated

Austria	Free Radicals	Böse Zellen	German	Barbara Albert	Not Nominated

Belgium	Sea of Silence	Verder dan de maan	Dutch	Stijn Coninx	Not Nominated

Bolivia	Sexual Dependency	Dependencia Sexual	Spanish, English	Rodrigo Bellott	Not Nominated

Bosnia and Herzegovina	Fuse	Gori vatra	Serbo-Croatian	Pjer Žalica	Not Nominated

Brazil	Carandiru	Carandiru	Portuguese	Héctor Babenco	Not Nominated

Bulgaria	Journey to Jerusalem	Пътуване към Йерусалим	Bulgarian	Ivan Nitchev	Not Nominated

Canada	The Barbarian Invasions	Les Invasions barbares	French	Denys Arcand	Won Academy Award

Chile	Los Debutantes	Los Debutantes	Spanish	Andrés Waissbluth	Not Nominated

China	Warriors of Heaven and Earth	天地英雄	Mandarin	He Ping	Not Nominated

Colombia	The First Night	La Primera Noche	Spanish	Luis Alberto Restrepo	Not Nominated

Croatia	Witnesses	Svjedoci	Serbo-Croatian	Vinko Brešan	Not Nominated

Cuba	Suite Habana	Suite Habana	No dialogue	Fernando Pérez	Not Nominated

Czech Republic	Želary	Želary	Czech	Ondřej Trojan	Nominated

Denmark	Reconstruction	Reconstruction	Danish	Christoffer Boe	Not Nominated

Egypt	Sleepless Nights	سهر الليالى	Arabic	Hany Khalifa	Not Nominated

Finland	Elina: As If I Wasn't There	Elina - Som om jag inte fanns (Swedish) Näkymätön Elina (Finnish)	Swedish, Finnish	Klaus Härö	Not Nominated

France	Bon Voyage	Bon Voyage	French	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	Not Nominated

Germany	Good Bye, Lenin!	Good Bye, Lenin!	German	Wolfgang Becker	Not Nominated

Greece	Think It Over	Θα το Μετανιώσεις	Greek	Katerina Evangelakou	Not Nominated

Hong Kong	Infernal Affairs	無間道	Cantonese	Andrew Lau and Alan Mak	Not Nominated

Hungary	Forest	Rengeteg	Hungarian	Benedek Fliegauf	Not Nominated

Iceland	Noi the Albino	Nói Albínói	Icelandic	Dagur Kári	Not Nominated

Indonesia	The Stringless Violin	Biola tak berdawai	Indonesian	Sekar Ayu Asmara	Not Nominated

Iran	Deep Breath	نفس عمیق	Persian	Parviz Shahbazi	Not Nominated

Israel	Nina's Tragedies	האסונות של נינה	Hebrew	Savi Gabizon	Not Nominated

Italy	I'm Not Scared	Io non ho paura	Italian	Gabriele Salvatores	Not Nominated

Japan	The Twilight Samurai	たそがれ清兵衛	Japanese	Yoji Yamada	Nominated

South Korea	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄	Korean	Kim Ki-duk	Not Nominated

Lebanon	The Kite	Le Cerf-Volant (French) طيّارة من ورق (Arabic)	Arabic	Randa Chahal	Not Nominated

Luxembourg	I Always Wanted To Be a Saint	J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte	French	Geneviève Mersch	Not Nominated

Mexico	Aro Tolbukhin	Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino	Spanish	Isaac Pierre Racine, Lydia Zimmermann and Agustí Villaronga	Not Nominated

Mongolia	The Story of the Weeping Camel	Ингэний нулимс	Mongolian	Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni	Not Nominated

Nepal	Muna Madan	मुनामदन	Nepal	Gyanendra Bahadur Deuja	Not Nominated

Netherlands	Twin Sisters	De Tweeling	Dutch, German	Ben Sombogaart	Nominated

Norway	Kitchen Stories	Salmer fra kjøkkenet	Norwegian, Swedish	Bent Hamer	Not Nominated

Palestine	Divine Intervention	يد إلهية	Arabic, Hebrew	Elia Suleiman	Not Nominated

Peru	Paper Dove	Paloma de Papel	Spanish	Fabrizio Aguilar	Not Nominated

Philippines	Dekada '70	Dekada '70	Filipino	Chito S. Roño	Not Nominated

Poland	Pornography	Pornografia	Polish	Jan Jakub Kolski	Not Nominated

Portugal	A Talking Picture	Um Filme Falado	Portuguese, French, Italian, Greek, English	Manoel De Oliveira	Not Nominated

Russia	The Return	Возвращение	Russian	Andrei Zvyagintsev	Not Nominated

Serbia and Montenegro	The Professional	Професионалац	Serbian	Dušan Kovačević	Not Nominated

Slovakia	King of Thieves	König der Diebe	German, Russian	Ivan Fíla	Not Nominated

Slovenia	Spare Parts	Rezervni deli	Slovene	Damjan Kozole	Not Nominated

Sri Lanka	Mansion by the Lake	Wekande Walauwa	Sinhala	Lester James Peries	Not Nominated

Spain	Soldados de Salamina	Soldados de Salamina	Spanish	David Trueba	Not Nominated

Sweden	Evil	Ondskan	Swedish	Mikael Håfström	Nominated

Taiwan	Goodbye, Dragon Inn	不散	Mandarin, Taiwanese	Tsai Ming-Liang	Not Nominated

Thailand	Last Life in the Universe	เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล	Thai, Japanese	Pen-ek Ratanaruang	Not Nominated

Turkey	Distant	Uzak	Turkish	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Not Nominated

Ukraine	Mamay	Мамай	Ukrainian	Oles Sanin	Not Nominated

Uruguay	Seawards Journey	El Viaje hacia el mar	Spanish	Guillermo Casanova	Not Nominated

Venezuela	Sangrador	Sangrador	Spanish	Leonardo Henríquez	Not Nominated

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Želary received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

final_sentence: Želary received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.