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95th Oscars. Predictions for the Films of 2023 / CEREMONY: March 10th, 2024
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SUBMISSION CHARTS
most recent update 12/08/23
CHART 3: PAKISTAN through YEMEN
31 Official Submissions
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Pakistan 🇵🇰 IN FLAMES 98 minutes A horror film about a widow and her daughter after the family patriarch's passing. recent key submissions
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Palestine 🇵🇸 BYE BYE TIBERIAS 82 minutes A documentary about the actress Hiam Abbass (Succession) returning to the Palestinian village she left for an acting career in France recent key submissions
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Panama 🇵🇦 TITO, MARGOT & ME 92 minutes A documentary about the relationship of the Panamian Tito Arias and the ballerina Margot Fonteyn. recent key submissions
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Paraguay 🇵🇾 THE LAST RUNWAY 2 COMMANDO YAGUARETE 92 minutes An action sequel about a group of commandos aiming to free a prisoner. Not Selected recent key submissions: |
Peru 🇵🇪 THE ERECTION OF TORIBIO BARDELLI 82 minutes A dramedy about an older father who wants to have an erection again. Saba was previously submitted for his film The Cleaner (2013) Not Selected: recent key submissions: |
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Philippines 🇵🇭 THE MISSING 90 minutes An animated film about an alien and a mouthless boy. recent key submissions
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Poland 🇵🇱 THE PEASANTS 116 minutes Painted animated drama adaptation of a novel about a peasant woman who creates a scandal marrying a rich older man. This team previously directed the Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent. recent key submissions |
Portugal 🇵🇹 BAD LIVING 127 minutes Five women struggle to maintain a hotel they inherited. Not Selected recent key submissions |
Romania 🇷🇴 DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD 163 minutes
This is the fourth time Romania has submitted a Radu Jude film. This one's a political comedy. Germany's Nina Hoss appears! recent key submissions |
SAUDI ARABIA 🇸🇦 ALHAMOUR H.A. 120 minutes A comedy about a con artist security guard making billions off of suspicious investments recent key submissions |
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Senegal 🇸🇳 BANEL & ADAMA 87 minutes A romantic drama about a young couple facing disapproval from their village. recent key submissions |
Serbia 🇷🇸 THE DUKE AND THE POET (also known as BECAUSE MY THOUGHTS ARE STRUGGLING) 140 minutes A historical thriller about an assassination that follows two Princes. Not Selected recent key submissions |
Singapore 🇸🇬 THE BREAKING ICE 97 minutes A romantic triangle drama from the director of Ilo Ilo and Wet Season! recent key submissions |
Slovakia 🇸🇰 PHOTOPHOBIA 70 minutes A documentary about two preteens hiding from the war at a metro station. It just premiered at Venice. recent key submissions * One Slovak language movie won the prize (Shop on Main Street) back when the country was part of Cszechoslovakia
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Slovenia 🇸🇮 RIDERS 110 minutes A road trip movie about two friends and their mopeds in the spring of 1999.
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South Africa 🇿🇦 MUSIC IS MY LIFE: DR JOSEPH SHABALALA & LADYSMITH BLACKMAMBAZO 90 minutes A full life biographical documentary about Joseph Shabalala (1940-2020) and the legendary band Ladysmith Black Mambazo recent key submissions
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South Korea 🇧🇱 CONCRETE UTOPIA 130 minutes Disaster movie dealing with an earthquake and its aftermath in Seoul. Lee Byung hun (Joint Security Area, Magnificent Seven) and Park Seo-joon (Parasite) star. not selected recent key submissions
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Spain 🇪🇸 SOCIETY OF THE SNOW 144 minutes A true story survival thriller about a rugy team who crash lands on a glacier in the Andes not selected
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Sudan 🇸🇩 GOODBYE JULIA 120 minutes A drama about a singer who hires a widow as her maid from her guilt at the death of the woman's husband. |
Sweden 🇸🇪 OPPONENT 119 minutes not selected recent key submissions |
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Switzerland 🇨🇭 THUNDER 92 minutes A young girl in a convent returns home after her sister mysteriously dies. Thunder played at TIFF 2022. recent key submissions |
Taiwan 🇹🇼 MARRY MY DEAD BODY 130 minutes A comedy about a cop who accidentally marries a ghost husband. Together they solve a crime. recent key submissions |
Thailand 🇹🇭 NOT FRIENDS 130 minutes A dramedy involving a group of filmmaking teenagers. recent key submissions |
Tunisia 🇹🇳 FOUR DAUGHTERS 107 minutes A documentary drama hybrid about a Tunisian woman and her four daughters, two of whom disappear. recent key submissions
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Turkey 🇹🇷 ABOUT DRY GRASSES 197 minutes This is the sixth time Turkey has submitted a Ceylan film. One (Three Monkeys) made the finals. recent key submissions
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Ukraine 🇺🇦 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL 95 minutes A documentary about Ukrainian journalists struggling to document the war's atrocities as the Russians invade. not selected recent key submissions |
United Kingdom 🇬🇧 THE ZONE OF INTEREST 105 minutes The domestic life of a Nazi family during the Holocaust recent key submissions |
Uruguay 🇺🇾 FAMILY ALBUM 91 minutes A comedy about a father and son forming a band. Generational conflicts ensue. Diego Cremonesi stars recent key submissions |
Venezuela 🇻🇪 THE SHADOW OF THE SUN 98 minutes A comic adventure. recent key submissions |
Vietnam 🇻🇳 GLORIOUS ASHES A drama involving three women in a southern seaside village recent key submissions |
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Yemen 🇻🇳 THE BURDENED 91 minutes A couple finds they are pregnant with a fourth child during an economic crisis. They can't afford another child. recent key submissions
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Russia did not submit this year for the second consecutive year due to US sanctions against them. Tajikstan submitted "Melody" but it strangely is not on the AMPAS viewing list • Chart 1 - ALBANIA through GEORGIA • Chart 2 - GERMANY through NORWAY
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TRIVIA TIME Longest Titles This Year About Dry Grasses The Delinquents (Argentina) 189 min Do Not Expect Too...(Romania) 163 min Shortest Titles This Year Photobphobia Thunders Fallen Leaves A Male |
TRIVIA TIME GENRE BREAKDOWN (approx) The vast majority of submissions are always dramas with social issues, family relationships, poltiics, and immigration as common themes. 15% comedy 12% documentaries 3% animated 2% LGBTQ elements 2% horror films 2% westerns 2% sci-fi/fantasy 2% action films |
TRIVIA TIME Directors 30% of the films are by directors who have been submitted at least once in the past 13% of the films are from directors who have been submitted multiple times in this category 5% of the films have been submitted by directors who've previously been nominated in this category
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• Chart 1 - ALBANIA through GEORGIA
• Chart 2 - GERMANY through NORWAY