Question: Are the directors of both films Porkkaalam and Wolf Totem (Film) from the same country?

He is a three time National Film Award winner for" Vetri Kodi Kattu"( 2000)," Autograph"( 2004) and" Thavamai Thavamirundhu"( 2005). He has also won five Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and six South Filmfare Awards. Cheran initially made a breakthrough as a director by making village- based drama films focusing on human relationships, and achieved critical acclaim for his work in" Bharathi Kannamma"( 1997) and" Porkkaalam"( 1997). He later moved on to work on themes exploring how globalisation affects the Indian middle class, and told the story of scam job offers in" Vetri Kodi Kattu"( 2000) and village- to- city emigration in" Pandavar Bhoomi"( 2001). His most renowned film till date," Autograph"( 2004), is a semi-autobiographical tale of a man at four stage of his life. Cheran is an Indian film director and actor known for his works in Tamil cinema. He later also experienced success with the family drama film" Thavamai Thavamirundhu"( 2005) and as an actor in films such as" Pirivom Santhippom"( 2008) and" Yuddham Sei"( 2011). <SEP> Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including five César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Jean- Jacques Annaud( born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing" Quest for Fire"( 1981)," The Name of the Rose"( 1986)," The Bear"( 1988)," The Lover"( 1992)," Seven Years in Tibet"( 1997)," Enemy at the Gates"( 2001) and" Wolf Totem"( 2015). Annaud's first film," Black and White in Color"( 1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. <SEP> I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> The film has Murali, Meena, Sanghavi, Rajeshwari and Vadivelu in key roles. It was later remade in Telugu, Kannada and Hindi." Porkaalam" was one among 1997 Deepavali releases and became a huge success. Porkaalam is a 1997 Indian Tamil drama film written and directed by Cheran. <SEP> Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor. He has appeared in both films and television series. <SEP> Wolf Totem (French: "Le Dernier Loup") is a 2015 drama film based on the 2004 Chinese semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Jiang Rong. The Beijing Forbidden City Film Corporation initially sought to hire a Chinese director, but filming humans with real wolves was considered too difficult. New Zealand director Peter Jackson was approached, but production did not take place. Annaud, whose 1997 film "Seven Years in Tibet" is banned in China, had his personal ban lifted and was hired to direct "Wolf Totem". The film was produced under China Film Group and French-based Reperage. The French director, who had worked with animals on other films, acquired a dozen wolf pups in China and had them trained for several years by Andrew Simpson, a Canadian-based animal trainer. Directed by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, the Chinese-French co-production features a Chinese student who is sent to Inner Mongolia to teach shepherds and instead learns about the wolf population, which is under threat by a government apparatchik. With a production budget of , Annaud filmed "Wolf Totem" in Inner Mongolia, where the book is set, for over a year. The film premiered at the European Film Market on , 2015. It was released in China on , 2015, for the start of the Chinese New Year, and it was released in France on , 2015. It was originally reported that the film had been selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. However, when the final list was announced by the Academy, China's submission was listed as "Go Away Mr. Tumor" by Han Yan.