Final List of Foreign Language Academy Award Submissions
The submission list for the 84th Annual Academy Awards‘ foreign-language category has been officially announced, with 63 countries selecting films. The selection includes high profile entries on this year’s festival circuit, including Wim Wenders’s “Pina” (Germany), Aki Kaurismaki’s “Le Havre” (Finland), Béla Tarr’s “The Turin Horse” (Hungary), Joseph Cedar’s “Footnote” (Israel), Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” (Iran) and Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award winner “Where Do We Go Now?,” directed by Nadine Labaki.
Labaki is part of a notable trend in the submissions, with a significant amount of countries submitting female-directed films, including France (Valérie Donzelli’s “Declaration of War”), Hong Kong (Ann Hui’s “A Simple Life”), Norway (Anne Sewitsky’s “Happy Happy”), Poland (Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness”), The Netherlands (Maria Peters’s “Sonny Boy”) and multiple others.
Last year, the category ended up being won by Denmark (in another female-directed example, Susanne Bier’s “In a Better World”). The list of announced submissions is below. The deadline for all countries to send in their submissions was October 3, 2011. The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2011.
Albania – Amnesty[, directed by Bujar Alimani
Argentina – Aballay, directed by Fernando Spiner
Austria – Breathing, directed by Karl Markovics
Belgium – Bullhead, directed by Michaël R. Roskam
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Belvedere, directed by Ahmed Imamović
Brazil – Tropa de Elite 2, directed by José Padilha
Bulgaria – Tilt, directed by Viktor Chouchkov
Canada – Monsieur Lazhar, directed by Philippe Falardeau
Chile – Violeta, directed by Andres Wood
China – Flowers of War, directed by Zhang Yimou
Colombia – The Colors of the Mountain, directed by Carlos César Arbeláez
Croatia – 72 Days, directed by Danilo Šerbedžija
Cuba – Habanastation, directed by Ian Padrón
Czech Republic – Alois Nebel, directed by Tomás Lunák
Denmark – SuperClásico, directed by Ole Christian Madsen
Dominican Republic – Love Child, directed by Leticia Tonos
Egypt – Lust, directed by Khaled El Hagar
Estonia – Letters to Angel, directed by Sulev Keedus
Finland – Le Havre, directed by Aki Kaurismaki
France – Declaration of War, directed by Valérie Donzelli
Georgia – Chantrapas, directed by Otar Iosseliani
Germany – Pina, directed by Wim Wenders
Greece – Attenberg, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Hong Kong – A Simple Life, directed by Ann Hui
Hungary – The Turin Horse, directed by Bela Tarr
Iceland – Volcano, directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson
India – Adaminte Makan Abu, directed by Salim Ahamed
Indonesia – Under the Protection of Ka’Bah, directed by Hanny R. Saputra
Iran – A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi
Ireland – As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson
Israel – Footnote, directed by Joseph Cedar
Italy – Terraferma, directed by Emanuele Crialese
Japan – Postcard, directed by Kaneto Shindō
Kazakhstan – Returning to the ‘A’, directed by Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Lebanon – Where Do We Go Now?, directed by Nadine Labaki
Lithuania – Back to Your Arms, directed by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas
Macedonia – Punk’s Not Dead, directed by Vladimir Blazevski
Mexico – Miss Bala, directed by Gerardo Naranjo
Morocco – Omar Killed Me, directed by Roschdy Zem
Netherlands – Sonny Boy, directed by Maria Peters
New Zealand – The Orator, directed by Tusi Tamasese
Norway – Happy, Happy, directed by Anne Sewitsky
Peru – October, directed by Daniel Vega Vidal
Phillippines – The Woman in the Septic Tank, directed by Marlon Rivera
Poland – In Darkness, directed by Agnieszka Holland
Portugal – Jose and Pilar, directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Romania – Morgen, directed by Marian Crisan
Russia – Burnt By The Sun 2: Citadel, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Serbia – Montevideo, God Bless You!, directed by Dragan Bjelogrlić
Singapore – Tatsumi, directed by Eric Khoo
Slovakia – Gypsy, directed by Martin Sulik
Slovenia – Silent Sonata, directed by Janez Burger
South Africa – Beauty, directed by Oliver Hermanus
South Korea – The Front Line, directed by Jang Hun
Spain – Black Bread, directed by Agustí Villaronga
Sweden – Beyond, directed by Pernilla August
Switzerland – Summer Games, directed by Rolando Colla
Taiwan – Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, directed by Wei Te-Sheng
Thailand – Kon Khon, directed by Sarunyu Wongkrachang
Turkey – Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
United Kingdom – Patagonia, directed by Marc Evans
Uruguay – The Silent House, directed by Gustavo Hernández
Venezuela – The Rumble of the Stones, directed by Alejandro Bellame Palacios
Vietnam – Thang Long Aspiration, directed by Lưu Trọng Ninh
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