Since the last roundup the following countries have been added to the list of contenders for this year's Best International Feature Film race bringing our total to 77 contenders.
- Argentina -The Sleepwalkers
- Armenia - Songs of Solomon
- Bolivia - Chaco
- Egypt - When We're Born (a musical!)
- Hungary - Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Hungary & Oscar)
- India - Jallikattu (streaming on Prime)
- Ireland - Arracht
- Italy - Notturno (Reviewed | Italy & Oscar)
- Lebanon - Broken Keys (more on this one below)
- Philippines - Mindanao
- Thailand - Happy Old Year (streaming on Netflix)
You can follow the list as it grows at our Oscar charts or on our Letterboxd list.
Jimmy Keyrouz. Photographed by Christophe Meireis.
One of fun trivia items about this new batch is that Jimmy Keyrouz, the 32 year old behind Lebanon's Broken Keys actually has Oscar history. He won a Student Academy Award for his short Nocturne in Black four years ago. That short didn't end up getting Oscar-nominated, but he made the finalist list. Now his first feature, about a pianist struggling to repair his piano in a town where terrorists have banned music, is submitted by his home country. How about that? Congratulations!
If you want to watch the submissions, 12 of the 77 titles are streaming.
India's Jallikattu is on Amazon Prime, Guatemala's La Llorona is on Amazon, Indonesia's Impetigore is on Shudder or Roku, Lithuania's Nova Lituania is on MUBI, South Korea's Man Standing Next is on Amazon, YouTube, or iTunes, and Chile's The Mole Agent on Hulu. Netflix has the other six currently available titles: Austria's What We Wanted, Mexico's I'm No Longer Here, Spain's The Endless Trench, Taiwan's A Sun, Turkey's Miracle in Cell No 7, and Thailand's Happy Old Year.