Albania
never nominated | 
submitting since 1996

🇦🇱

WATERDROP
dir Robert Budina
No US Release News

90 minutes
Albanian & Italian

A city hall manager's teen son is involved in a rape scandal.

recent key submissions
2021 -Two Lions
2020 -Open Door
2017 - Daybreak
2016 - Chromium

Algeria
5 noms | 1 win | submitting since 1969

ALGIERS
dir Chakib Taleb-Bendiab
No US Release News

93 minutes
Arabic & French

A thriller about a psychiatrist and policeman trying to solve a kidnapping. This is a feature length debut for Taleb-Bendiab. It will go by "196 Metres" when it opens in Canada in late 2024.

recent key submissions
2019 - Papicha
2010 - Outside the Law
2007 - Days of Glory

Argentina
7 noms | 2 wins |  submitting since 1961

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KILL THE JOCKEY
dir. Luis Ortega
No US Release News

Venice Review
TIFF Review

96 minutes
Spanish

Nahuel Perez Biscayart and Ursula Corbero play jockeys who are involved and racing for the same man (Daniel Gimenez Cacho).

Ortega was previously submitted for the queer drama El Angel. 

recent key submissions
2021 The Intruder
2018 - El Angel
2017 - Zama
2015 - The Clan
2014 - Wild Tales

Armenia
never nominated | 
submitting spottily since 2001

🇦🇲

YASHA AND LEONID BREZHNEV
dir Edgar Baghdasaryan
No US Release News

100 minutes
Armenian & Russian

An elderly man refuses to accept the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

recent key submissions
2021 Should the Wind...

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

🇦🇹

THE DEVIL'S BATH
dir Severin Fiala & Veronica Franz
Now Streaming in US

121 minutes
German

A horrific drama set in 18th Century Austria

recent key submission
2022 - Corsage
2021 - Great Freedom
2017 - Happy End
2015 - Goodnight Mommy
2012 - Amour

Bangladesh
never nominated | submitting since 2002

🇧🇩

THE WRESTLER
dir Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury
No US Release News

91 minutes
Bengali

An elderly man challenges a wrestling champion.

recent key submissions
2022 - Hawa
2018 - No Bed of Roses

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

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JULIE KEEPS QUIET
dir Leonardo Van Dijl
No US Release News

97 minutes
Dutch, French

At an elite tennis academy a coach is under investigation but one student won't speak up.

recent key submissions
2022 - Close
2021 -Playground
2014 -Two Days One Night
2011 - Bullhead

Bolivia
never nominated
| submitting spottily since 1995

🇧🇴

OWN HAND
dir Gory Patino
No US Release News

99 minutes
Spanish

A mob lynching thriller in which a prosecutor and father and son try to survive.

Patino was previously submitted for The Goalkeeper (2018)

recent key submissions
2021 - Great Movement
2019  - Tu Me Manques
2009 - Zona Sur
2003 - Sexual Dependency

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

🇧🇦

MY LATE SUMMER
dir Danis Tanovic
No US Release News

98 minutes
Croatian and Bosnian

A woman travels to a remote island to deal with a family inheritance.

Tanovic is Bosnia's most submitted director (this is the 5th time) and he previously won the Oscar for No Man's Land  and was a finalist for An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker

most recent nominee
2020 - Quo Vadis Aida

recent key submissions
2021 - The White Fortress
2016 - Death in Sarajevo
2006 Grbavica: Land of Dreams

Brazil
4 noms | 0 wins | + 1 finalist | submitting since 1960

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I'M STILL HERE
dir. Walter Salles
SPC in US, November 

TIFF Review

136 minutes
Portugueuse

A political family drama set in 1971 Brazil. 

This is the fourth submission from Salles after Exposure (1991), Central Station (1998 - a nominee), and Behind the Sun (2001) putting him in "second most submitted director" place for Brazil.

Not Selected
There were 12 films considered and 5 other finalists. See the list here.

recent key submissions
2023 - Pictures of Ghosts
2022 - Mars One
2019 - Invisible Life
2014 - The Way He Looks
2007 -The Year My Parents

Bulgaria
never nominated | 1 finalist |  submitting since 1971

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TRIUMPH
dir Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
No US Release News

TIFF Review

98 minutes
Bulgarian

A comedy about the fall of communism and a secret military operation. Oscar nominated Maria Bakalova is in the cast

Cambodia
1 nomination

MEETING WITH POL POT
dir Rithy Panh
No US Release News

112 minutes
French & Khmer

Though Rithy Panh usually makes documentaries (including the Oscar-nominated Missing Picture) this one is a drama starring Irene Jacob, Cyril Guei, and Gregoire Colin about French journalists in 1978

recent key submissions
2023 - Return to Seoul
2021 - White Building
2013 - The Missing Picture

Cameroon
never nominated | submitting infrequently since 1980

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KISMET
dir Ngang Romanus
No US Release News

138 minutes
Cameroonian, Pidgin English

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recent key submissions
2021 - Hidden Dreams

Canada
7 noms | 1 win | + 3 finalists | submitting since 1971

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UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
dir Matthew Rankin
Oscilloscope in US, Feb 2025

89 minutes
French and Persian

A comedy with interweaving stories while a tour guide leads confused tourists through Winnipeg.

recent key submissions
2016 It's Only the End...
2014 - Mommy
2012 - War Witch
2010 - incendies

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

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iN HER PLACE
dir. Maite Alberdi
Streaming on Netflix Oct 11

89 minutes
Spanish

A drama about a writer who murders her lover in 1955 Chile and the trial.

Not Selected: The other five films they looked at for submission were: 
 Analogues
History and Geography, 
Malas costumbres,  
Maybe It's True What They Say About Us , and
 Prison in the Andes 

recent key submission
2020 - The Mole Agent
2017 - A Fantastic Woman
2016 - Neruda
2013 - Gloria
2012 - No

Colombia
1 nomination | + 1 finalist | submitting since 1980

🇨🇴

LA SUPREMA
dir Felipe Holguin

83 minutes
Spanish
No US Release News

The story revolves around a teenager whose uncle will compete in a televised boxing match.

recent key submissions
2021 - Memoria
2018 -Birds of Passage
2015 -Embrace of Serpent

Costa Rica
never nominated | 
submitting since 2005

🇨🇷

MEMORIES OF A BURNING BODY
dir Antonella Sudasassi
No US Release News

90 minutes
Spanish

A drama about sexual repression and past experiences

recent key submissions
2021 - Clara Sola
2020 - Land of Ashes

Croatia
never nominated | 
submitting since 1992

🇭🇷

BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY
dir Ivona Juka
No US Release News

unknown minutes
Croatian

A feature about filmmakers in 1950s Croatia

recent key submissions
2021 - Tereza37
2020 - Extracurricular
2017 -Quit Staring at...
2015 - The High Sun

Czech Republic
3 noms | 1 wins* | + 2 finalists | submitting since 1994 as Czech Republic

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WAVES
dir. Jiri Madl
No US Release News

131 minutes
Czech

The actor turned director's third feature is a journalism drama set during the Prage Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovokia. 

Not Selected:
There were 12 other titles considered. You can see the list here. 

recent key submissions
2020 - Charlatan
2019 - The Painted Bird
2017 - Ice Mother

Denmark
14 noms | 4 wins | + 2 finalists |  submitting since 1956

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THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE
dir. Magnus Van Horn
MUBI in US, TBA

TIFF Review

115 minutes
Danish

A period drama involving a pregnant girl and an underground adoption agency. Vic Carmen Sonne and the great Trine Dyrholm headline.

Not Selected:
The other Danish finalists were  Echo  of You (Zara Zerny) and Sons ( Gustav Möller). 

recent key submissions
2023 -The Promised Land
2022 - Holy Spider
2021 - Flee
2020 - Another Round
2016 - Land of Mine

Dominican Republic
never nominated |  submitting since 1983

🇩🇴

AIRE: JUST BREATHE
dir Leticia Tonos
No US Release News

98 minutes
Spanish

A sci-fi thriller about a biologist, a mysterious traveler and AI. 

Leticia Tonos is DR's most submitted director. This is her fourth time after Love Child (2011), Cristo Rey (2014) and A State of Madness (2020)

recent key submissions
2022 - Bantu Mama
2021 - Holy Beasts
2015 - Sand Dollars

Ecuador
never nominated | submitting since 2000

BEHIND THE MIST
dir Sebastian Cordero
No US Release News

80 minutes
Spanish, English, Nepali

A 3D Documentary about two men on a trip to Nepal to summit Mount Everest.

Sebastian Cordero is Ecuador's most submitted director. They also sent him for  Chronicles (2004) and Such is Life in the Tropics (2016).

recent key submissions
2022 - Lo Invisible
2019 -The Longest Night

Egypt
never nominated | submitting since 1958

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FLIGHT 404
dir Hani Khalifa
No US Release News

104 minutes
Arabic

A drama about a woman in desperate need of a large sum of money before traveling to Mecca. Egyptian movie star Mona Zaki headlines.

Khalifa was previously submitted for Sleepless Nights (2003) which also starred Zaki.

recent key submissions
2018 -Yomeddine
2017 - Sheikh Jackson
2006 - Yacoubian Building

Estonia
1 nomination | 
submitting since 1992

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8 VIEWS OF LAKE BIWA
dir Marko Raat
No US Release News

126 minutes
Estonian

Revolves around two teenage girls and a fishing village that has recently had a disaster. 

recent key submissions
2023 - Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
2019 - Truth and Justice
2017 - November
2014 - Tangerines

Finland
1 nomination | + 3 finalists
| submitting since 1973

🇫🇮

FAMILY TIME
dir Tia Kouvo
No US Release News

116 minutes
Finnish

An observational drama about an annual Christmas gathering

recent key submissions
2023 - Fallen Leaves
2022 - Girl Picture
2021 - Compartment No 6
2015 -The Fencer

France
3 Honoraries | 37 noms | 9 wins | + 3 finalists | submitting since 1956

🇫🇷

EMILIA PEREZ
dir Jacques Audiard
Netflix in US, November

TIFF Review

minutes
Spanish

a trans musical about a drug cartel boss transitioning

Not Selected:
France had four finalists. The other well liked possibilities were  The Count of Monte Cristo, Misericordia, and All We Imagine Is Light

recent key submissions
2022 - Saint Omer
2021 -Titane
2020 - Two of Us
2019 - Les Miserables
2017 - BPM
2016 - Elle

 Georgia
1 nom | 0 wins | 
submitting since 1996

🇬🇪

THE ANTIQUE
dir. Rusudan Glurjidze
No US Release News

132 minutes
Georgian, Russian

A woman in Saint Petersburg is pursued by Russian authorities hoping to deport her.

Not Selected:
Formerly submitted director Dea Kulumbegashvili (Beginning) had  a new film called April premiering in Venice but perhaps it wasn't yet eligible.

recent key submissions
2021 -Brighton 4th
2020 - Beginning
2018 - Namme
2014 - Corn Island

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

🇩🇪

THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
dir Mohammad Rasoulof
NEON in US, Date TBA

TIFF Review

168 minutes
Persian

A political drama about a judge and nationwide political protests in Tehran.

recent key submissions
2022 - All Quiet On...
2021 -I'm Your Man
2018 - Never Look Away
2016 - Toni Erdmann
2015 - Labyrinth of Lies

Greece
5 noms | 0 wins |  submitting since 1957

🇬🇷

MURDERESS
dir Eva Nathena
No US Release News

97 minutes
Greek

Mother daughter drama set in a remote island in 1900. Based on the novel by Papadiamantis.

Not Selected:
Murderess was the only film that did not withdraw itself from consideration during a power struggle between the Greek Culture of Ministry and the initial selection committee.

recent key submissions
2021 - Digger
2018 - When Tomatoes
2011 - Attenberg
2010 Dogtooth

Current International Feature Predictions

Pt 2 GUATEMALA to  NORWAY 

Pt 3 PAKISTAN to VIETNAM 

Announced submission but disqualified or absent from list
China
Haiti
Jordan
Uruguay

Did not submit this time
Afghanistan
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bhutan
Burkina Faso
Chad
Cuba
Kosovo
Luxembourg
Moldova
Namibia
North Macedonia
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Uzbekistan
Yemen