# List of submissions to the 48th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 48th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.
For the 48th Academy Awards, twenty-one films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland and the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union won for the second time with Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Algeria | Chronicle of the Years of Fire | وقائع سنين الجمر | Algerian Arabic, French | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Not nominated |
| Argentina | Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf | Nazareno Cruz y el lobo, las palomas y los gritos | Spanish, Quechua | Leonardo Favio | Not nominated |
| Brazil | Ogum's Amulet | O Amuleto de Ogum | Brazilian Portuguese | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Not nominated |
| Canada | Orders | Les Ordres | French | Michel Brault | Not nominated |
| Czechoslovakia | Circus in the Circus | Cirkus v cirkuse | Czech, Russian | Oldřich Lipský | Not nominated |
| Denmark | Per | Per | Danish | Hans Kristensen | Not nominated |
| Egypt | I Want a Solution | أريد حلاً | Egyptian Arabic | Said Marzouk | Not nominated |
| France | India Song | India Song | French | Marguerite Duras | Not nominated |
| West Germany | Every Man For Himself and God Against All | Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | German, English | Werner Herzog | Not nominated |
| Greece | The Travelling Players | Ο Θίασος | Greek | Theodoros Angelopoulos | Not nominated |
| Hungary | Adoption | Örökbefogadás | Hungarian | Márta Mészáros | Not nominated |
| Israel | My Michael | מיכאל שלי | Hebrew | Dan Wolman | Not nominated |
| Italy | Scent of a Woman | Profumo di donna | Italian | Dino Risi | Nominated |
| Japan | Sandakan No. 8 | サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 | Japanese | Kei Kumai | Nominated |
| Mexico | Letters from Marusia | Actas de Marusia | Spanish | Miguel Littín | Nominated |
| Netherlands | Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies | Dokter Pulder zaait papavers | Dutch | Bert Haanstra | Not nominated |
| Poland | Land of Promise | Ziemia obiecana | Polish, German | Andrzej Wajda | Nominated |
| Soviet Union | Dersu Uzala | Дерсу Узала / デルス·ウザーラ | Russian, Mandarin, Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin | Akira Kurosawa | Won Academy Award |
| Spain | Poachers | Furtivos | Spanish | José Luis Borau | Not nominated |
| Switzerland | Confrontation | Konfrontation | Swiss German, German | Rolf Lyssy | Not nominated |
| Yugoslavia | The Day That Shook the World | Sarajevski atentat | Czech, Serbo-Croatian, English, German | Veljko Bulajić | Not nominated |