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Tuesday
Oct112016

Foreign Film Race Pt 1: All the Trailers (Albania to Italy)

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Foreign Language Film Category... *But Were Afraid to Ask

It's official. 85 countries will compete for this year's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The 85 films will be narrowed down to 9 finalist in December with the actual nominations announced in January.

Are they any changes from our previous elaborate chart tracking? Yes. There are always a few surprises. Previously announced titles that are not on the list for reasons we're not sure about yet are Afghanistan's Parting , Armenia's The Earthquake and Tunisia's As I Open My Eyes.  Titles that we didn't have advanced notice about that are on the list are Cambodia's Before the Fall and Yemen's I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced which is Yemen's very first submission. 

Here are all the trailers in one place. We're helpful that way...

Tis the season of wondering what the Academy's Foreign Language Film committees might take a shine to. While you enjoy this we'll be polishing up the Official Submission Charts to make them cleaner now that the Academy has made things official. 

Which of these 85 films are you eager to see? Which do you think Oscar might also warm to? 

Albania to Finland
(see the chart for more on these films)

 

ALBANIA Chromium

ALGERIA The Well

The Well Official Trailer from The Well, Le Puits on Vimeo.

 

ARGENTINA The Distinguished Citizen

AUSTRALIA Tanna

AUSTRIA Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

BANGLADESH The Unnamed

The Unnamed Trailer (Oggatonama) from Tauquir Ahmed on Vimeo.

 

BELGIUM The Ardennes

BOLIVIA Sealed Cargo

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Death in Sarajevo

BRAZIL Little Secret

Little Secret (Pequeno Segredo) trailer. English Subtitles from schurmann on Vimeo.

 

BULGARIA Losers

(searching for an embeddable video)

CAMBODIA Before the Fall

CANADA It's Only the End of the World

CHILE Neruda

CHINA Xuan Zang

COLOMBIA Alias Maria

COSTA RICA About Us

CROATIA On the Other Side

CUBA The Companion

CZECH REPUBLIC Lost in Munich

DENMARK Land of Mine

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Sugar Fields

ECUADOR Such is the Life in the Tropics

(searching for a trailer)

EGYPT Clash

ESTONIA Mother

FINLAND The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki

France to the Netherlands
(for more on these films see the chart) 

FRANCE Elle

GEORGIA House of Others

GERMANY Toni Erdmann

GREECE Chevalier

HONG KONG Port of Call

HUNGARY Kills on Wheels

KILLS ON WHEELS - Trailer (16) from laokoon on Vimeo.

 

ICELAND Sparrows

INDIA Interrogation

INDONESIA Letters from Prague

IRAN The Salesman

IRAQ El Clasico

ISRAEL Sand Storm

ITALY Fire at Sea

CLICK TO CONTINUE TO JAPAN THROUGH YEMEN 

 

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Reader Comments (2)

thank you so much for your work to put them all together. This is amazing!

October 13, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterIvonne

I hope that the academy considers The Well from Algeria.

October 13, 2016 | Unregistered Commenterp.yerba
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