The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has published the chosen films from their respective country to be shortlisted for Best International Feature Film. Though they did miss one off their “official” list – can you spot it?
Formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, the International Feature Film Award Committee will mull over the selections over the coming weeks, before ten finalists are announced on 16th December 2019 – with the five official nominees coming in January 2020 with the rest of the pack.
Check out the 93 Best International Feature Film submissions here:
AFGHANISTAN – Hava, Maryam, Ayesha / حوا، مریم، عایشه (Sahraa Karimi)
ALBANIA – Delegation / Delegacioni (Bujar Alimani)
ALGERIA – Papicha (Mounia Meddour)
ARGENTINA – Heroic Losers / La odisea de los giles (Sebastián Borensztein)
ARMENIA – Lengthy Night / Էրկեն Կիշեր / Erken Kisher (Edgar Baghdasaryan)
AUSTRALIA – Buoyancy (Rodd Rathjen)
AUSTRIA – Joy (Sudabeh Mortezai)
BANGLADESH – Alpha / আলফা (Nasiruddin Yousuff)
BELARUS – Debut / Дебют (Anastasiya Miroshnichenko)
BELGIUM – Our Mothers / Nuestras madres (César Díaz)
BOLIVIA – I Miss You / Tu me manques (Rodrigo Bellott)
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – The Son (Ines Tanović)
BRAZIL – Invisible Life / A vida invisível (Karim Aïnouz)
BULGARIA – Ága (Milko Lazarov)
CAMBODIA – In the Life of Music / តន្រ្តីជីវិត (Caylee So, Sok Visal)
CANADA – Antigone (Sophie Deraspe)
CHILE – Spider / Araña (Andrés Wood)
CHINA – Ne Zha / 哪吒之魔童降世 / Nézhā zhī Mótóng Jiàngshì (MandarinJiaozi)
COLOMBIA – Monos (Alejandro Landes)
COSTA RICA – The Awakening of the Ants / El despertar de las hormigas (Antonella Sudasassi)
CROATIA – Mali (Antonio Nuić)
CUBA – A Translator / Un Traductor (Rodrigo Barriuso, Sebastián Barriuso)
CZECH REPUBLIC – The Painted Bird / Nabarvené ptáče (Václav Marhoul)
DENMARK – Queen of Hearts / Dronningen (May el-Toukhy)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – The Projectionist / El proyeccionista (José María Cabral)
ECUADOR – The Longest Night / La mala noche (Gabriela CalvacJos
EGYPT – Poisonous Roses / ورد مسموم (Fawzi Saleh)
ESTONIA – Truth and Justice / Tõde ja õigus (Tanel Toom)
ETHIOPIA – Running Against the Wind / የንፋሱ ፍልሚያ / Yenifasu Filmya (Jan Philipp Weyl)
FINLAND – Stupid Young Heart / Hölmö nuori sydän (Selma Vilhunen)
FRANCE – Les Misérables (Ladj Ly)
GEORGIA – Shindisi / შინდისი (Dito Tsintsadze)
GERMANY – System Crasher / Systemsprenger (Nora Fingscheidt)
GHANA – Azali (Kwabena Gyansah)
GREECE – When Tomatoes Met Wagner / Όταν ο Βάγκνερ Συνάντησε τις Ντομάτες / Otan o Wagner Sinantise tis Ntomates (Marianna Economou)
HONDURAS – Blood, Passion and Coffee / Café con Sabor a mi Tierra (Carlos Membreño)
HONG KONG – The White Storm 2 – Drug Lords / 掃毒2天地對決 / So duk 2: Tin dei duei kuet (Herman Yau)
HUNGARY – Those Who Remained / Akik maradtak (Barnabás Tóth)
ICELAND – A White, White Day / Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur (Hlynur Pálmason)
INDIA – Gully Boy / गली बॉय (Zoya Akhtar)
INDONESIA – Memories of My Body / Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku (Garin Nugroho)
IRAN – Finding Farideh / در جستجوی فریده (Kourosh Ataee, Azadeh Moussavi)
IRELAND – Gaza (Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell)
ISRAEL – Incitement / ימים נוראים / Yamim Noraim (Yaron Zilberman)
ITALY – The Traitor / Il traditore (Marco Bellocchio)
JAPAN – Weathering with You / 天気の子 / Tenki no Ko (Makoto Shinkai)
KAZAKHSTAN – Kazakh Khanate – Golden Throne / қазақ хандығының алтын тесігі (Rustem Abdrashev)
KENYA – Subira (Ravneet Sippy Chadha)
KOSOVO – Zana (Antoneta Kastrati)
KYRGYZSTAN – Aurora (Bekzat Pirmatov)
LATVIA – The Mover / Tēvs Nakts (Dāvis Sīmanis)
LEBANON – 1982 (Oualid Mouaness)
LITHUANIA – Bridges of Time / Laiko tiltai (Kristine Briede, Audrius Stonys)
LUXEMBOURG – Tel Aviv on Fire / תל אביב על האש / Tel Aviv Al Ha’Esh (Sameh Zoabi)
MALAYSIA – M for Malaysia (Dian Lee, Ineza Roussille)
MEXICO – The Chambermaid / La camarista (Lila Avilés)
MONGOLIA – The Steed / Хийморь / Khiimori (Erdenebileg Ganbold)
MONTENEGRO – Neverending Past / Između dana i noći (Andro Martinovic)
MOROCCO – Adam / آدم (Maryam Touzani)
NEPAL – Bulbul बुलबुल (Binod Paudel)
NETHERLANDS – Instinct (Halina Reijn)
NIGERIA – Lionheart (Genevieve Nnaji)
NORTH MACEDONIA – Honeyland / Медена земја (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov)
NORWAY – Out Stealing Horses / Ut og stjæle hester (Hans Petter Moland)
PAKISTAN – Laal Kabootar / لال کبوتر (Kamal Khan)
PALESTINE – It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
PANAMA – Everybody Changes / Todos Cambiamos (Arturo Montenegro)
PERU – Retablo (Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio)
PHILIPPINES – Verdict (Raymund Ribay Gutierrez)
POLAND – Corpus Christi / Boże Ciało (Jan Komasa)
PORTUGAL – The Domain / A Herdade (Tiago Guedes)
ROMANIA – The Whistlers / La Gomera (Corneliu Porumboiu)
RUSSIA – Beanpole / Дылда / Dylda (Kantemir Balagov)
SAUDI ARABIA – The Perfect Candidate / المرشح المثالي (Haifaa al-Mansour)
SENEGAL – Atlantics / Atlantique (Mati Diop)
SERBIA – King Petar of Serbia / Краљ Петар Први / Kralj Petar Prvi (Petar Ristovski)
SINGAPORE – A Land Imagined / 幻土 / Huan tu (Yeo Siew Hua)
SLOVAKIA – Let There Be Light / Nech je svetlo (Marko Škop)
SLOVENIA – History of Love /Zgodovina ljubezni (Sonja Prosenc)
SOUTH AFRICA – Knuckle City (Jahmil X.T. QubeBon
SOUTH KOREA – Parasite / 기생충 / Gisaengchung (Bong Joon-ho)
SPAIN – Pain and Glory / Dolor y gloria (Pedro Almodóvar)
SWEDEN – And Then We Danced (Levan Akin)
Switzerland – Wolkenbruch’s Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa / Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse (Michael Steiner)
TAIWAN – Dear Ex / 誰先愛上他的 (Mag Hsu, Hsu Chih-yen)
THAILAND – Krasue: Inhuman Kiss / แสงกระสือ / Saeng Krasue (Sitisiri Mongkolsiri)
TUNISIA – Dear Son / ولدي / Weldi (Mohamed Ben Attia)
TURKEY – Commitment / Bağlılık Aslı (Semih Kaplanoğlu)
UKRAINE – Homeward / Додому / Evge (Nariman Aliev)
UNITED KINGDOM – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Chiwetel Ejiofor)
URUGUAY – The Moneychanger / Así habló el cambista (Federico Veiroj)
UZBEKISTAN – Hot Bread / Issiq non (Umid Khamdamov)
VENEZUELA – Being Impossible / Yo, imposible (Patricia Ortega)
VIETNAM – Furie / Hai Phượng (Lê Văn Kiệt)
