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THE OFFICIAL LIST OF 83 FILMS
Chart Official as of 10/09/14
Pt. 1 Afghanistan through Estonia
Pt. 3 The Netherlands through Venezuela
Finland through Nepal
30 Official Submissions on this page
Most Recent Update: 10/10/14
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FINLAND 96 minutes This black-and-white drama is about a teenager in the Helsinki slums whose brother is leading him toward a life of crime. It won the National Film Awards Not Selected: "Grumpy" about an old man moving in with his daughter for his convalescence which is currently on the festival circuit |
FRANCE * REVIEWED * US RELEASE 150 minutes A biopic of the designer - not to be confused with the competing biopic Yves Saint Laurent. This one stars Gaspard Ulliel and will be released next year |
GEORGIA 100 minutes This film about a farmer and his daughter on the border of Georgia and Abhazia building a shelter took the top prize at the Karlovy Vary film festival Not Selected: We thought it would be “Blind Dates”, a gentle comedy about a 40-something nagged by his parents into an unending series of blind dates |
GERMANY * REVIEWED * US RELEASE Disputed Running Time a sprawling period drama about a rising poet and two very intimate sisters who both love him. Premiered at Berlinale and is playing NYFF this year in its 3 hour form. For some reason IMDb says it's 138 minutes so perhaps there are two versions floating around? |
GREECE 160 minutes Two sisters are in love with the same man on an island in Greece. Based on the bestselling novel |
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HONG KONG 177 minutes As predicted it's this glossy 3 hour biopic starring Lust, Caution's Tang Wei. It played at TIFF and was the Closing Night Film in Venice. |
HUNGARY US RELEASE 119 minutes The first country to announce their submission! They've gone with Cannes sensation about rampaging dogs. Think The Birds apparently - critics love it. |
ICELAND * REVIEWED* 130 min A waiter/prostitute, a banker, and a poet's lives collide in this drama |
INDIA 104 minutes A young woman leaves her village with daughter in tow in search of her missing husband. An army deserter helps them but can he be trusted? |
INDONESIA ??? minutes A biopic of Indonesia's president, Ir. Soekarno in the 1940s and Indonesia's struggle with colonization and eventual Declaration of Independence |
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IRAN 88 minutes a taxi driver takes a pregnant woman to the hospital in Mirkarimi's latest (Trivia Note: Last year when Iran decided to boycott the Oscars, he was also supposed to be their representing director) Not Selected: Iran had a ten film short list |
IRAQ 110 minutes A debut film about a police officer recalling traumatic childhood memories while searching for a missing man in the mountains |
IRELAND 113 minutes I believe this is a movie compiled from a longer TV series of the same name so I'm surprised that it's eligible. It's a crime thriller about a lifeboat crew on the West coast of Ireland |
ISRAEL US RELEASE 115 minutes Though The Farewell Party (reviewed) and Zero Motivation (reviewed) won more Ophir Awards, it was the biopic Gett, which took Best Picture to become Israel's submission |
ITALY ??? minutes a drama about the aftermath of a hit-and-run accident. “Capital” even beat last year's Oscar winner “Great Beauty” at the Donatello Awards Not Selected: “The Wonders” (Jury Prize, Cannes), a quirky family drama reviewed here. |
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JAPAN ??? minutes An young depressed unemployed man romances his friend's sister. He sees something special in her. based on a novel. Not Selected: Yoji Yamada’s “The Little House” had seemed like a possibility |
KOSOVO ??? minutes Set in 2000 a year after the war, a school teacher tells a journalist that she and other women were raped by Serbian forces.
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KYRGYZSTAN An easy choice: a national epic about a powerful 19th century queen, their biggest most expensive domestic release ever. |
LATVIA US Release
Sept 3rd (Zeitgeist Films) ??? minutes
Latvian Billed as "a crazy quest for sanity" this animated film looks at the genetics and the history of madness in the director's family
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LEBANON 100 minutes As predicted they sent this Amelie-esque comedy about a boy who people think is an angel. (They had intended to send it last year but it moved back its release date at home.)
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LITHUANIA
never nominated THE GAMBLER Ignas Jonynas 109 minutes As predicted it's a thriller about a paramedica forced to extreme measures by gambling debts. It dominated the Silver Crane awards |
LUXEMBOURG
never nominated NEVER DIE YOUNG Pol Cruchten 66 minutes
French Documentary about a disabled 50 year old man who has been struggling with a heroin addiction since his teenage years
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MACEDONIA
1 nomination TO THE HILT Stole Popov
OFFICIAL SITE ??? minutes
Macedonian As predicted it's this period piece set during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Director Stole Popov is considered one of the country’s great filmmakers.
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MALTA
FIRST SUBMISSION! SIMSHAR Rebecca Cremona 105 minutes A shipwreck leaves a young man stranded in the mediterannean - politics between countries complicate the rescue |
MAURITANIA FIRST SUBMISSION!
TIMBUKTU Abdeerrahmane Sissako * REVIEWED *
97 minutes
Hassaniya, Arabic,
Tamazight,French
In this significant festival hit from Cannes and TIFF a cattle herder runs into trouble with fundamentalists after a jihadist takeover
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MEXICO US Release 106 minutes It's the biopic about the international star "Cantinflas" who already has an Oscar connection: he was in the cast of Best Picture winner Around the World in Eighty Days |
MOLDOVA 80 minutes A young man in a small town in the Republic of Moldova gets mixed up in drug dealing |
MONTENEGRO ??? minutes The lives of two brothers, the much older, who kills a man, and the much younger who is losing his virginity, cross on the same day |
MOROCCO 117 minutes A biopic of the singer/songwriter Abdeslam Amer, whose life was beset by health problems and political opposition to his "subversive" songs |
NEPAL
1 nomination JHOLA Yadav Kumar Bhattari 90 min
Nepali a period film of sorts which looks back at the inhuman practice of wives having to set themselves on fire when their husband dies. A widow with a young son enters a dazed state when she has to prepare for it
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Submission Commentary by Nathaniel R & A.D.
DID NOT SUBMIT THIS YEAR:
Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Cambodia, Kazakshtan, Malaysiam, Vietnam
THANK YOU FOR THE TIPS:
Ali, Brenda, Evan, Irvin, Ivan, Matheus, Michael, Murtada, Shane, Yonatan
SUBMISSION CHARTS
83 official submissions - a record by 7 films
Pt. 1 Afghanistan through Ethiopia
Pt. 2 Finland through Nepal
Pt. 3 The Netherlands through Vietnam