Question: What country submitted an entry for Best Foreign Language Film that had a director who was born on 9 February 1957 ?

text: List of submissions to the 64th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

34 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 64th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films (highlighted in bold) came from Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Sweden and the eventual winner, Mediterraneo, from Italy. Hong Kong and Iceland received their first-ever nominations, while Czechoslovakia received its final nomination as a unified state. Germany caused controversy when it took the unusual step not to submit any film to the competition. Europa, Europa by Agnieszka Holland was one of the pre-selection favorites to win the award. Although the film was made in German and about Germany, the country's National Film Board said that because they considered the film to be a majority-French production, and because the director was Polish, they did not consider it qualified to represent Germany. This is the only time since 1977 that Germany failed to be represented. Other countries notable by their absence included Brazil, Egypt, Finland, Greece and Romania. In spite of a rule requiring films to be in the language of the submitting country, AMPAS decided to accept a submission from the United Kingdom that was mostly in Russian, marking the UK's first-ever participation in the competition. AMPAS acknowledged that they had received four submissions from new Eastern European republics, Armenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia, which had each declared independence in mid-to-late 1991. Since none of the countries had yet been recognized internationally, the films were disqualified and not screened, although representatives from their parent states- the USSR and Yugoslavia- were allowed to compete. AMPAS did not announce the titles, but based on the small size of these republic's film industries at the time it appears certain that Macedonia chose Stole Popov's Tetoviranje, the most celebrated Yugoslavian film of 1991, and that Croatia, Slovenia and Armenia likely chose family drama Fragments, black comedy The Cartier Operation and surreal religious drama The Voice in the Wilderness respectively.
Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language ( s ) Director ( s ) Result
Algeria Cheb Cheb French , Arabic Rachid Bouchareb Not Nominated
Argentina The Tombs Las tumbas Spanish Javier Torre Not Nominated
Austria I Love Vienna I Love Vienna German , Persian Houchang Allahyari Not Nominated
Belgium Toto the Hero Toto le héros French Jaco Van Dormael Not Nominated
Bulgaria The Well Кладенецът Bulgarian Docho Bodzhakov Not Nominated
Canada A Bullet in the Head A Bullet in the Head Invented Attila Bertalan Not Nominated
Chile La Frontera La Frontera Spanish Ricardo Larraín Not Nominated
China The Spring Festival 过年 Mandarin Chinese Huang Jianzhong Not Nominated
Colombia Confessing to Laura Confesión a Laura Spanish Jaime Osorio Gómez Not Nominated
Cuba Hello Hemingway Hello Hemingway Spanish Fernando Perez Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia The Elementary School Obecná skola Czech Jan Svěrák Nominated
Denmark The Great Day on the Beach Den store badedag Danish Stellan Olsson Not Nominated
France Van Gogh Van Gogh French Maurice Pialat Not Nominated
Hong Kong Raise the Red Lantern 大紅燈籠高高掛 Mandarin Chinese Zhang Yimou Nominated
Hungary Brats Félálom Hungarian János Rózsa Not Nominated
Iceland Children of Nature Börn náttúrunnar Icelandic Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Nominated
India Henna हिना Hindi , Urdu Randhir Kapoor Not Nominated
Israel Beyond the Sea מעבר לים Hebrew Jacob Goldwasser Not Nominated
Italy Mediterraneo Mediterraneo Italian Greek Gabriele Salvatores Won Academy Award
Japan Rhapsody in August 八月の狂詩曲 Japanese Akira Kurosawa Not Nominated