International Contenders: Sudan's First Submission, North Macedonia's Follow Up
Monday, November 16, 2020 at 7:30PM 
We now have a total of 53 submissions for Oscar's Best International Feature competition with 7 additional countries like Bangladesh, Belarus, Colombia, Denmark, France, Italy, and Uruguay scheduled to announce their submissions within the next week. This year we might see a record number of African films submitted. For instance, we're getting our first submission from Sudan, You Will Die at 20, about a 19 year old who a village holy man had predicted at birth would die at 20. North Macedonia, which was nominated last year for Honeyland, has submitted a drama about three women struggling to control their own fates around pregnancy and motherhood called Willow.
Here are the new submissions since our last overview roundup!
- Israel - Asia (Israel's Oscar stats)
- Lithuania - Nova Lithuania
- Mexico - I'm No Longer Here (other finalists / Ariel Award Winner)
- Montenegro - Breasts
- North Macedonia - Willow
- Norway - Hope (Norway's Oscar stats)
- Portugal - Listen (other finalists)
- Russia - Dear Comrades! (Russia's Oscar stats)
- South Africa - Toorbos
- Sudan - You Will Die at 20
WHERE TO SEE THE MOVIES?
If you want to get a jump on some of the submissions 8 of the 52 titles are currently streaming. Netflix has five of them: Austria's What We Wanted, Mexico's I'm No Longer Here, Spain's The Endless Trench, Taiwan's A Sun, and Turkey's Miracle in Cell No 7. You can also stream Guatemala's La Llorona on Amazon, Indonesia's Impetigore is on Shudder or Roku, and South Korea's Man Standing Next on Amazon, YouTube, or iTunes. You can follow the list as it grows at our Oscar charts or on our Letterboxd list.
Reader Comments (6)
Nathaniel, Impetigore is Indonesia's submission, not Malaysia.
Really glad the Mexican Academy took that choice, mostly for value for the oppresed groups, painted them as evil cartoons in "New Order". Choosing the Michel Franco's movie, after his series of stupid and classist statements, would have been painful to see his movie as submission.
I prefer losing a nom than supporting a film which means a pseudo-intellectual stereotypical anti-critique with zero nuance and repulsive taste.
"Miracle in Cell No. 7", Turkey's selection is also streaming in Netflix, at least in Mexico, don't know other regions...
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The Endless Trench and A Sun are fantastic. I also liked What We Wanted.
The Man Standing Next (South Korea) is also on iTunes.
Portugal just changed their submission to "Vitalina Varela", because "Listen" is more than a half in English language.
Same happened with Canadian entry, it's not "Funny boy" anymore, but "14 days, 12 nights". Really keeping my fingers crossed, that Tunisia's submission stays the same, although, that one is right about 50/50 in English, but I think it's the best of any country's submission that I've seen so far this year...
Also you have missed Cambodia. They submitted "Fathers".