Twenty-one Official Submissions for the 2015 Foreign Language Film Oscar race have been announced! That's just under a third of the list given the usual amount of submissions but things are already weird and wild with a colorful LGBT drama (Xenia from Greece), a disaster movie (The Wave from Norway), more documentaries than usual already including animated and 3D offerings (Palestine, Switzerland, and Panama), alongside your more usual type of competitor like World War II focused entries (Germany and Hungary, which I'm currently predicting for nominations) and historical epics (South Korea)
The foreign film charts are a major project each year behind the scenes and we're so proud to have raised the profile of this awards category over the past 15 years. The Film Experience was literally the first website to cover it in detail (all the way back to our humble beginnings) and slowly but surely the fever spread. As did all things Oscar. Now, everyone does it! It's no longer "ours" so to speak -- not that one can own an Oscar topic -- but we're still justified in feeling the pride of original adoption. And if we don't pat ourselves on the back who will since we get no damn respect from the larger online film culture. Ahem.
Greece's XENIA and South Korea's THE THRONE
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SUBMISSION CHARTS
• Afghanistan through Estonia
Will Brazil send The Second Mother? Will Argentina send festival-premiering crime drama The Clan? Info on Official entries from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, and Croatia.
• Ethiopia through The Netherlands
Mexico has a 14 film shortlonglist. Info on official entries from Finland, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Luxembourg
• New Zealand through Vietnam
Speculation on The Philippines. Info on official entries from Norway, Palestine, Panama, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela
AFTER THE JUMP... TRAILERS FOR 16 OF THE 21 SUBMISSIONS (THE ONES I COULD FIND) IF YOU'RE INTERESTED
AUSTRIA'S GOODNIGHT MOMMY
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA'S OUR EVERYDAY LIFE
CHINA'S WOLF TOTEM
CROATIA'S THE HIGH SUN
FINLAND'S THE FENCER
GREECE'S XENIA
HUNGARY'S SON OF SAUL
SON OF SAUL / SAUL FIA - Trailer from laokoon on Vimeo.
IRAQ'S MEMORIES ON STONE
LUXEMBOURG'S BABY (A) LONE
NORWAY'S THE WAVE
PALESTINE'S THE WANTED 18
PANAMA'S BOX 25
SOUTH KOREA'S THE THRONE
SWEDEN'S A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE
SWITZERLAND'S IRAQI ODYSSEY
Iraqi Odyssey Trailer ENGLISH from Iraqi Odyssey on Vimeo.
VENEZUELA'S GONE WITH THE RIVER
Lo que lleva el río (Gone with the river) from mario crespo.filmaker.cubano on Vimeo.