95th Academy Awards: Submissions for Best International Feature Film

Much like the last few years, it’s another incredibly strong list of contenders for this year’s race for Best International Feature Film. Once again, picking just five nominees will be a tough task. We’ve collated all 92 official submissions below.

The shortlist of fifteen finalists will be revealed on December 21 and the final five nominees will be announced with the full 95th Academy Awards nominations announcement on January 24.

Check out the full list of the Best International Feature Film submissions for the 95th Academy Awards below and be sure to seek these films out when you can.

ALBANIA – A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes O / Një Filxhan Kafe dhe Këpucë të Reja Veshur (Gentian Koçi)

ALGERIA – Our Brothers / Nos frangins (Rachid Bouchareb)

ARGENTINA – Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)

ARMENIA – Aurora’s Sunrise / Արշալույսի լուսաբացը (Inna Sahakyan)

AUSTRALIA – You Won’t Be Alone (Goran Stolevski)

AUSTRIA – Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)

AZERBAIJAN – Creators / Yaradanlar (Shamil Aliyev)

BANGLADESH – Hawa / হাওয়া (Mejbaur Rahman Sumon)

BELGIUM – Close (Lukas Dhont)

BOLIVIA – Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi)

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – A Ballad / Balada (Aida Begić)

BRAZIL – Mars One / Marte Um (Gabriel Martins)

BULGARIA – In the Heart of the Machine / В сърцето на машината (Martin Makariev)

CAMBODIA – Return to Seoul / Retour à Séoul (Davy Chou)

CAMEROON – The Planter’s Plantation (Dingha Young Eystein)

CANADA – Eternal Spring / 長春 (Jason Loftus)

CHILE – Blanquita (Laura Mora Ortega)

CHINA – Nice View / 奇迹·笨小孩 (Qi ji ben xiao hai) (Wen Muye)

COLOMBIA – The Kings of the World / Los reyes del mundo (Laura Mora Ortega)

COSTA RICA – Domingo and the Mist / Domingo y la niebla (Ariel Escalante)

CROATIA – Safe Place / Sigurno mjesto (Juraj Lerotić)

CZECH REPUBLIC – Il Boemo (Petr Václav)

DENMARK – Holy Spider / عنکبوت مقدس (Ali Abbasi)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Bantú Mama (Ivan Herrera)

ECUADOR – Lo invisible (Javier Andrade)

ESTONIA – Kalev (Ove Musting)

FINLAND – Girl Picture / Tytöt tytöt tytöt (Alli Haapasalo)

FRANCE – Saint Omer (Alice Diop)

GEORGIA – A Long Break / დიდი შესვენება (Davit Pirtskhalava)

GERMANY – All Quite on the Western Front / Im Westen Nichts Neues (Edward Berger)

GREECE – Magnetic Fields / Μαγνητικά Πεδία (Yorgos Goussis)

GUATEMALA – The Silence of the Mole / El silencio del topo (Anäis Taracena)

HONG KONG – Where the Wind Blows / 風再起時 (Philip Yung)

HUNGARY – Blockade / Blokád (Ádám Tõsér)

ICELAND – Beautiful Beings / Berdreymi (Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson)

INDIA – Last Film Show / છેલ્લો શો (Pan Nalin)

INDONESIA – Missing Home / Ngeri-Ngeri Sedap (Bene Dion Rajagukguk)

IRAN – World War III / جنگ جهانی سوم (Houman Seyyedi)

IRAQ – The Exam / ئەزموون (Ezimûn) (Shawkat Amin Korki)

IRELAND – The Quiet Girl / An Cailín Ciúin (Colm Bairéad)

ISRAEL – Cinema Sabaya (Orit Fouks Rotem)

ITALY – Nostalgia (Mario Martone)

JAPAN – Plan 75 (Chie Hayakawa)

JORDAN – Farha / فرحة (Darin J. Sallam)

KAZAKHSTAN – Life / Жизнь (Emir Baigazin)

KENYA – TeraStorm (Andrew Kaggia)

KOSOVO – Looking for Venera / Në kërkim të Venerës (Norika Sefa)

KYRGYZSTAN – Home for Sale / Продается дом (Taalaibek Kulmendeev)

LATVIA – January / Janvāris (Viestur Kairish)

LEBANON – Memory Box / دفاتر مايا (Joana Hadjithomas)

LITHUANIA – Pilgrims / Piligrimai (Laurynas Bareiša)

LUXEMBOURG – Icarus / Icare (Carlo Vogele)

MEXICO – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths / Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

MOLDOVA – Carbon (Ion Borș)

MONTENEGRO – The Elegy of Laurel / Elegija lovora (Dušan Kasalica)

MOROCCO – The Blue Caftan / Le bleu du caftan (Maryam Touzani)

NEPAL – Butterfly on the Windowpane / ऐना झ्यालको पुतली (Sujit Bidari)

NETHERLANDS – Narcosis (Martijn de Jong)

NEW ZEALAND – Muru (Tearepa Kahi)

NORTH MACEDONIA – The Happiest Man in the World / Најсреќниот човек на светот (Teona Strugar Mitevska)

NORWAY – War Sailor / Krigsseileren (Gunnar Vikene)

PAKISTAN – Joyland (Saim Sadiq)

PALESTINE – Mediterranean Fever / حمى البحر المتوسط (Maha Haj)

PANAMA – Birthday Boy / Cumpleañero (Arturo Montenegro)

PARAGUAY – Eami (Paz Encina)

PERU – Moon Heart / El corazón de la luna (Aldo Salvini)

POLAND – EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)

PORTUGAL – Alma Viva (Cristèle Alves Meira)

ROMANIA – Immaculate / Imaculat (Monica Stan, George Chiper)

SAUDI ARABIA – Raven Song / أغنية الغراب (‘Ughniat alghurab) (Mohamed Al-Salman)

SENEGAL – Xalé (Moussa Sene Absa)

SERBIA – Darkling / Mrak (Dušan Milić)

SINGAPORE – Ajoomma (He Shuming)

SLOVAKIA – Victim / Oběť (Michal Blaško)

SLOVENIA – Orchestra / Orkester (Matevž Luzar)

SOUTH KOREA – Decision to Leave / 헤어질 결심 (Park Chan-wook)

SPAIN – Alcarràs (Carla Simón)

SWEDEN – Boy from Heaven (Tarik Saleh)

SWITZERLAND – A Piece of Sky / Drii Winter (Michael Koch)

TAIWAN – Goddamned Asura / 該死的阿修羅 (Lou Yi-an)

TANZANIA – Tug of War / Vuta N’Kuvute (Amil Shivji)

THAILAND – One for the Road / วันสุดท้าย..ก่อนบายเธอ (Nattawut Poonpiriya)

TUNISIA – Under the Fig Trees / Sous les figues (Erige Sehiri)

TURKEY – Kerr (Tayfun Pirselimoğlu)

UGANDA – Tembele (Morris Mugisha)

UKRAINE – Klondike / Клондайк (Maryna Er Gorbach)

UNITED KINGDOM – Winners / برنده‌ها (Hassan Nazer)

URUGUAY – The Employer and the Employee / El empleado y el patrón (Manolo Nieto)

VENEZUELA – The Box / La caja (Lorenzo Vigas)

VIETNAM – 578 Magnum / 578: Phát đạn của kẻ điên (Lương Đình Dũng)


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.