Albania
never nominated | 
submitting since 1996

Algeria
5 noms | 1 win | submitting since 1969

Argentina
7 noms | 2 wins |  submitting since 1961

Armenia
never nominated | 
submitting spottily since 2001

Austria
4 noms | 2 wins | +1 finalist | submitting since 1961

PEACOCK
dir Bernhard Wenger
no US Distribution Yet

102 minutes
German & English

A dramedy starring Albrecht Schuch (a nominee here and at BAFTA for All Quiet on the Western Front)

3 key submissions
2022 - Corsage
2021 - Great Freedom
2012 - Amour

Bangladesh
never nominated | submitting since 2002

Belgium
8 noms | 0 wins | + 2 finalists | submitting since 1967

Bhutan
noms

Bolivia
never nominated
| submitting spottily since 1995

Bosnia & Herzegovina
2 noms | 1 win | + 1 finalist | submitting since 1994

Brazil
5 noms | 1wins | + 1 finalist | submitting since 1960

TBD

FINALISTS? Brazil finally won the category last year with I'm Still Here. For the follow up submission they will select six finalists but we know that 16 films are eligible including LGBTQ gem Baby and Cannes Best Actor winner The Secret Agent.

3 underappreciated submissions
2019 - Invisible Life
2014 - The Way He Looks
2007 - The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Bulgaria
never nominated | 1 finalist |  submitting since 1971

TARIKA
dir Milko Lazarov
no US distribution yet

86 minutes
Bulgarian

A drama with supernatural elements about a father and his unusual daughter who are shunned by the local townsfolk. The director was previously submitted for Aga (2019)

3 key submissions
2019 - Aga
2009 -The World is Big...
2004 - Mila from Mars

Burkina Faso
noms

Cambodia
1 nomination

Cameroon
never nominated | submitting infrequently since 1980

Canada
7 noms | 1 win | + 4 finalists | submitting since 1971

Chad

Chile
2 noms | 1 win | + 1 finalist | submitting since 1990

TBD

Finalists: Chile will decide between these six inalists: Bitter Gold , Designation of Origin, The Hyperboreans, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, The Wave, and A Yard of Jackals

3 must-see snubbed submissions
2016 -Neruda
2015 - The Club
2013 - Gloria

Colombia
1 nomination | + 1 finalist |

Costa Rica
never nominated | 
submitting since 2005

Croatia
never nominated | 
submitting since 1992

Czech Republic
3 noms | 1 wins* | + 3 finalists

I'M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE
dir Klára Tasovská 
no US distribution yet

90 minutes
Czech

A documentary about "the Czech Nan Goldin" who photographed the undergroud queer scene in 1970s Czechoslovokia

Not Selected
The other two finalists for the submission honor were Broken Voices a period drama about sisters and their stern choirmaster and Caravan, a celebrated debut about a mother and disabled son on holiday in Italy.

3 that just-missed the nomination 
2024- Waves
2020-Charlatan
2019 - The Painted Bird

Dominican Republic
never nominated |  submitting since 1983

Ecuador
never nominated | submitting since 2000unt Everest.

Egypt
never nominated | submitting since 1958

Estonia
1 nomination | 
submitting since 1992

Finland
1 nomination | + 3 finalists
| submitting since 1973

 Georgia
1 nom | 0 wins | 
submitting since 1996 4th
2020 - Beginning
2018 - Namme
2014 - Corn Island

Germany
23 noms | 4 wins | + 5 finalists | submitting since 1956

SOUND OF FALLING
dir Mascha Schilinski
no US distribution yet

OUR REVIEW

149 minutes
German

Schillings directorial debut which looks at four women in different time periods on the same farm. It won the Jury Prize at Cannes. Germany has been nominated three years consecutively. Can they make it four? 

Not Selected:
The other four finalists were the memory piece Amrun, the choreographer biopic John Kranko, the documentary Reifenstahl, and the war drama Der Tiger

3 classic Oscar-snubbed submissions
2003 - Goodbye Lenin!
1998 - Run Lola Run
1982 - Fitzarraldo

Greece
5 noms | 0 wins |  submitting since 1957

Guatemala
never nominated | + 1 finalist | submitting since 1994 

Current International Feature Predictions

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