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Official Oscar Submissions
Pg. 2 Kenya through Vietnam
Chart is an ongoing project but all 71 semi-finalists represented
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KENYA
never nominated
Nairobi Half Life
David 'Tosh' Gitonga |
KYRGYZSTAN
never nominated
The Empty Home
Nurbek Egen |
LATVIA
never nominated
Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg
Yevgeni Pashkevich |
LITHUANIA
never nominated
Ramin
Audrias Stonys |
MACEDONIA
1 nomination
The Third Half
Darko Mitrevski |
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Based on a true story about a football team in WW II that was coached by a Jew in Bulgaria. It's stirred up some controversy with the Bulgarian government.
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MALAYSIA
never nominated
Bunohan
Dain Iskandar Said
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MEXICO
8 nominations
After Lucia
Michel Franco
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MOROCCO
never nominated
Death For Sale
Faouzi Bensaïdi
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THE NETHERLANDS
7 noms | 3 wins
Kauwboy
Boudewijn Koole
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NORWAY
5 nominations
Kon-Tiki
Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg
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This one, a Cannes champ, is about bullying
INTERVIEW
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A drama about three unemployed young men in a city wracked by poverty who decide to rob a jewelry store
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A coming of age story about a ten year old boy who adopts a baby bird
Made the EFA long list
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True story of explorer Thor Heyerdah (played by hot young star Pal Sverre Hagen). From the director of Max Manus.
The other finalists were The Ornheim Company and I Belong.
The first Norwegian film nominated for a Golden Globe!
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PALESTINE TERRITORIES
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When I Saw You
Annemarie Jacir
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PERU
1 nomination
The Bad Intentions
Rosario Garcia-Montero
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THE PHILIPPINES
never nominated
Bwakaw
Jun Lana
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POLAND
8 nominations
80 Million
Waldemar Krzystek
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PORTUGAL
never nominated
Blood of My Blood
Joao Canijo
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A family of refugees flee to Jordan from the West Bank during the 1967 Six Day War. Told from the viewpoint of the family's young boy.
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This terrific festival hit is about a grumpy elderly gay man and his love for his dog.
REVIEW
Not selected: Captive, The Dance of Two Left Feet, Busong, Graceland, Manila Kingpin, Segunda Mano, A Mother Story,Those Little Secrets, and The Witness
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A patriotic heist film? Solidarity activists plot to rescue 80 million from the Communist government.
Polan was nominated last year for "In Darkness"
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Portugal had a major critical hit in Miguel Gomes' Tabu but didn't submit it. Will their gamble pay off? Strangely, they've yet to be nominated.
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ROMANIA
never nominated
Beyond The Hills
Cristian Mungiu
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RUSSIA
13 noms | 4 wins
White Tiger
Karen Shakhnazarov
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SERBIA
never nominated
When Day Breaks (or: When the Day Comes)
Goran Paskaljevica
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SINGAPORE
never nominated
Already Famous
Michelle Chong
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SLOVAK REPUBLIC
never nominated
Made in Ash
Iveta Grofova
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A critical hit from Cristian Mungiu who was infamously snubbed in the category for the new classic 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
CAPSULE REVIEW
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A WW II film set at the very end of the war. A russian tank commander is obsessed with defeating a ghostly white German tank.
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Holocaust themed. A man discovers he's Jewish and that his parents gave him away to Serbs to save him.
Other finalists were The Parade (a gay comedy) and Redemption Street
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A gritty look at a border town. Ash refers to the town itself.
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SLOVENIA
never nominated
A Trip
Nejc Gazvoda
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SOUTH AFRICA
2 noms | 1 win
Little One
Darrell Rood
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SOUTH KOREA
never nominated
Piéta
Kim Ki-Duk
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SPAIN
19 noms | 4 wins
Blancanieves
Pablo Berger
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SWEDEN
14 noms | 3 wins
The Hypnotist
Lasse Hallström
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Three former high school friends (a gay man, straight man, and straight girl) reunite for a road trip and discover how much they've changed.
Other finalists were: State of Shock, Good Night Missy, Archeo, Bread and Games, Love, Tractor and Rockn’roll, and three documentaries: Long Holidays, The Alexandrians, and Sphinx
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A violent shark meets a woman who claims to be his mother.
Won the Venice Golden Lion! Other finalists for the Korean submission were: A Taste of Money, In Another Country, Nameless Gangster, and Masquerade
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This silent film is a clever bullfighting milieu spin on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Maribel Verdu plays the evil stepmother. The year's best Snow White picture by far.
REVIEW
Other finalists were: The Artist and the Model, and Group 7
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Former Oscar darling Lasse Halström returns with a Swedish thriller about a detective, a famous psychologist, and a traumatized crime witness. Starring Hallström's muse and wife, Oscar nominee Lena Olin.
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SWITZERLAND
5 noms | 2 wins
Sister
Ursula Meier
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TAIWAN
3 noms | 1 win
Touch of the Light
Chang Rong-ji
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THAILAND
never nominated
Headshot
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
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TURKEY
never nominated
Where the Fire Burns
Ismail Günes
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UKRAINE
never nominated
Firecrosser
Mykhallo Illienko
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Starring Lea Seydoux! This film is from Ursula Meier's whose debut "Home" starred Isabelle Huppert a few years back. Sister made the EFA Long List
Runners Up for submission: Someone Like Me, Lullaby Ride, The Foster Boy and Operation Libertad
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A Soviet hero becomes a Gulag prisoner and then an Indian chief in this biopic
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AFGHANISTAN through ITALY - 38 more submissions from all over the world.
Friends of The Film Experience.
Thank You For Your Help: Cinelamour, Dani, Daniel, Dusan, Dzong, Guy, Ivan, Patrick, Tiago and Yonatan
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URUGUAY
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The Delay
Rodrigo Piá
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VENEZUELA
never nominated
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Hernan Jabes
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VIETNAM
1 nomination
The Scent of Burning Grass
Nguyen Huru Muroi
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Families on a collision course. Twitch believes the director will be dealing with lots of Innaritu comparisons.
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