This is a list of submissions to the 95th Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film. The

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motio ...

(AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...

every year since the award was created in

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. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The International Feature Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. The category was previously called the Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed in April 2019 to Best International Feature Film, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated. For the

95th Academy Awards The 95th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor films released in 2022, and is scheduled to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 12, 2023. Comed ...

, the submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 January 2022 and 30 November 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 3 October 2022, and 93 countries submitted a film.

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submitted a film for the first time, and

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

made a submission for the first time since 2001. After the 15-film shortlist was announced on December 21, 2022, the five nominees were announced on January 24, 2023. ''

All Quiet on the Western Front ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (german: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit=Nothing New in the West) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma du ...

'' by

Edward Berger Edward Berger (born 1970 in Wolfsburg, West Germany) is a German director and screenwriter. Life and work Edward Berger graduated from Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium (Wolfsburg), Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Wolfsburg. He attended the Hochschule für Bi ...

won the award for Germany.

Submissions

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A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On ''A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On'' ( Albanian: ''Një filxhan kafe dhe këpucë të reja veshur'') is a 2022 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Gentian Koçi. It is inspired on a real case where 2 deaf brothers suffer ...

'' , data-sort-value="Një Filxhan Kafe dhe Këpucë të Reja Veshur", , Albanian, Albanian Sign Language , data-sort-value="Koçi, Gentian" ,

Gentian Koçi Gentian Koçi (born 1979) is an Albanian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing the films '' Daybreak'' and ''A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On'', both were selected as the Albanian entry in the Best Foreign ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Algeria" , , '' Our Brothers'' , data-sort-value="Nos frangins", , French , data-sort-value="Bouchareb, Rachid" ,

Rachid Bouchareb Rachid Bouchareb (born 1 September 1953) is a French film director and Film producer, producer. His films are based on the complex history of France and its relationship with its former colony, Algeria. His films also examine racial discriminati ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Argentina", , data-sort-value="Argentina 1985", ''

Argentina, 1985 ''Argentina, 1985'' is a 2022 Argentine historical legal drama film produced and directed by Santiago Mitre. Written by Mitre and Mariano Llinás, it stars Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner and Norman Briski. The film follows ...

'' , data-sort-value="Argentina 1985", ''Argentina, 1985'' , Spanish , data-sort-value="Mitre, Santiago",

Santiago Mitre Santiago Mitre (born 4 December 1980) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. He was named as a member of the jury of the International Critics' Week section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Mitre won the Havana Star Prize f ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Armenia", , data-sort-value="Aurora's Sunrise", '' Aurora's Sunrise'' , () , Armenian, English, Turkish, Kurdish, German , data-sort-value="Sahakyan, Inna" ,

Inna Sahakyan Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu (born 16 October 1986), known professionally as Inna (stylized in all caps), is a Romanian singer. Born in Mangalia and raised in Neptun, she studied political science at Ovidius University before meeting the Ro ...

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, ''

You Won't Be Alone ''You Won't Be Alone'' is a 2022 horror film written and directed by Goran Stolevski in his directorial debut. It stars Sara Klimoska, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Félix Maritaud, Carloto Cotta, and Noomi Rapace. in the movie, a naive p ...

'' , ''You Won't Be Alone'' , Macedonian ,

Goran Stolevski Goran Stolevski, born 1985/1986, is a Macedonian Australian film director and screenwriter. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2022 film '' You Won't Be Alone'', which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. His second fe ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Austria", , ''

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'' , data-sort-value="Corsage", ''Corsage'' , German, French, English, Hungarian , data-sort-value="Kreutzer, Marie" ,

Marie Kreutzer Marie Kreutzer is an Austrian filmmaker. She studied at Vienna Film Academy with Walter Wippersberg. Her films have been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival, 2022 Cannes Film Fest ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Azerbaijan", , '' Creators'' , data-sort-value="Yaradanlar", , Azerbaijani, Russian , data-sort-value="Aliyev, Shamil" ,

Shamil Aliyev Shamil (Arabic: شَامِل ''shāmil'') is a lesser common masculine Arabic name. The name is usually from the adjective which have several correlated meanings from the Arabic "complete, comprehensive, universal" but could also mean "embodying, pr ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Bangladesh", , data-sort-value="Hawa", '' Hawa'' , data-sort-value="Hawa", () , Bengali , data-sort-value="Rahman Sumon, Mejbaur", Mejbaur Rahman Sumon , , - , data-sort-value="Belgium", , ''

Close Close may refer to: Music * ''Close'' (Kim Wilde album), 1988 * ''Close'' (Marvin Sapp album), 2017 * ''Close'' (Sean Bonniwell album), 1969 * "Close" (Sub Focus song), 2014 * "Close" (Nick Jonas song), 2016 * "Close" (Rae Sremmurd song), 201 ...

'' , data-sort-value="Close", ''Close'' , French, Dutch , data-sort-value="Dhont, Lukas" ,

Lukas Dhont Lukas Dhont (born 1991) () is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019. Early life Dhont was born in Gent (in English Ghent), Belgium. His mother, Hilbe is a fashion teacher at an art ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Bolivia", , '' Utama'' , data-sort-value="Utama", ''Utama'' , Quechua, Spanish , data-sort-value="Loayza Grisi, Alejandro" ,

Alejandro Loayza Grisi Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander. Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander (Czech, Polish), Alexandre ( French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsander (Irish), Alessandro (Italian), Aleksandr (Rus ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Bosnia", , data-sort-value="Ballad, A", '' A Ballad'' , data-sort-value="Balada", , Bosnian , data-sort-value="Begic, Aida",

Aida Begić Aida Begić (born 9 May 1976) is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter. Education and career She graduated in Film and Theater Directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo in 2000. Her graduation film "The First Death Experience ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Brazil", , ''

Mars One Mars One was a small private Dutch organization that received money from investors by claiming it would use it to land the first humans on Mars and leave them there to establish a permanent human colony. From its announcement in 2012 to its ...

'' , data-sort-value="Marte Um", , Portuguese , data-sort-value="Martins, Gabriel" , Gabriel Martins , , - , data-sort-value="Bulgaria", , data-sort-value="In the Heart of the Machine", '' In the Heart of the Machine'' , data-sort-value="In the Heart of the Machine", () , Bulgarian , data-sort-value="Makariev, Martin", Martin Makariev , , - , data-sort-value="Cambodia" , , data-sort-value="Return to Seoul" , '' Return to Seoul'' , data-sort-value="Retour à Séoul" , , French, Korean, English , data-sort-value="Chou, Davy" ,

Davy Chou Davy Chou ( km, ដេវី ជូ; born 13 August 1983) is a Cambodian-French filmmaker. He has written, directed and produced several films. Chou made his feature length debut with '' Diamond Island'' (2016) and made his follow-up with the fi ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Cameroon", , data-sort-value="Planter's Plantation, The", '' The Planter's Plantation'' , data-sort-value="Planter's Plantation, The", ''The Planter's Plantation'' , Cameroonian Pidgin English , data-sort-value="Young Eystein, Dingha" , Dingha Young Eystein , , - , data-sort-value="Canada", , data-sort-value="Eternal Spring" , '' Eternal Spring'' , data-sort-value="Eternal Spring, () , Mandarin, English , data-sort-value="Loftus, Jason" , Jason Loftus , , - , data-sort-value="Chile", , data-sort-value="Blanquita" , ''

Blanquita ''Blanquita'' is a 2022 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Fernando Guzzoni, starring Alejandro Goic, Amparo Noguera, Marcelo Alonso, Daniela Ramírez and Ariel Grandón. The film had its premiere on September 4, 2022 at the ...

'' , data-sort-value="Blanquita, , Spanish , data-sort-value="Guzzoni, Fernando" ,

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, '' Nice View'' , () , Mandarin , Wen Muye , , - , data-sort-value="Colombia", , data-sort-value="Kings of the World, The" , '' The Kings of the World'' , data-sort-value="Reyes del mundo, Los", , Spanish , data-sort-value="Ortega, Laura Mora" , Laura Mora Ortega , , - , data-sort-value="Costa Rica", , data-sort-value="Domingo and the Mist", '' Domingo and the Mist'' , data-sort-value="Domingo y la niebla", , Spanish , data-sort-value="Escalante, Ariel", Ariel Escalante , , - , data-sort-value="Croatia", , data-sort-value="Safe Place", '' Safe Place'' , data-sort-value="Sigurno mjesto", , Croatian , data-sort-value="Lerotić, Juraj", Juraj Lerotić , , - , data-sort-value="Czech Republic", , data-sort-value="Il Boemo", ''

Il Boemo ''Il Boemo'' () is a 2022 feature film about the life and career of the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781), directed by Petr Václav. Mysliveček was one of the most acclaimed and prolific composers of opera seria in Italy in the sec ...

'' , data-sort-value="Il Boemo", , Italian, German, Czech , data-sort-value="Václav, Petr",

Petr Václav Petr Václav (born 11 June 1967) is a Czech film director and screenwriter whose films have received many awards, both in the Czech Republic and internationally. He has lived in Paris since 2003 and holds both French and Czech citizenship. Li ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Denmark", , data-sort-value="Holy Spider", ''

Holy Spider ''Holy Spider'' ( fa, عنکبوت مقدس, Ankabut-e moqaddas) is a 2022 Persian-language crime thriller film directed by Ali Abbasi (director), Ali Abbasi, starring Mehdi Bajestani and Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei ...

'' , data-sort-value="Eankbut muqadas", () , Persian , data-sort-value="Abbasi, Ali", Ali Abbasi , , - , data-sort-value="Dominican Republic", , data-sort-value="Bantú Mama", '' Bantú Mama'' , data-sort-value="Bantú Mama", , French, Spanish , data-sort-value="Herrera, Ivan", Ivan Herrera , , - , data-sort-value="Ecuador", , '' Lo Invisible'' , data-sort-value="Invisible, Lo", , Spanish , data-sort-value="Andrade, Javier" , Javier Andrade , , - , data-sort-value="Estonia", , '' Kalev'' , data-sort-value="Kalev", , Estonian, Russian , data-sort-value="Musting, Ove" , Ove Musting , , - , data-sort-value="Finland", , data-sort-value="Girl Picture" , '' Girl Picture'' , data-sort-value="Tytöt tytöt tytöt", , Finnish, French , data-sort-value="Haapasalo, Alli" , Alli Haapasalo , , - , data-sort-value="France", , data-sort-value="Saint Omer", '' Saint Omer'' , data-sort-value="Saint Omer", , French , data-sort-value="Diop, Alice",

Alice Diop Alice Diop (b. 1979) is a French filmmaker, who makes films about contemporary French society. Early life and education Born in Aulnay-sous-Bois in 1979, daughter of Senegalese parents, Alice Diop was raised in the Cité des 3000 housing project I ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Georgia", , data-sort-value="Long Break" , '' A Long Break'' , data-sort-value="Didi shesveneba", () , Georgian , data-sort-value="Pirtskhalava, Davit" , Davit Pirtskhalava , , - , data-sort-value="Germany", , data-sort-value="All Quiet on the Western Front" , ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' , data-sort-value="Im Westen Nichts Neues", , German, French, English , data-sort-value="Berger, Edward" ,

, , - , data-sort-value="Greece", , data-sort-value="Magnetic Fields" , ''

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'' , data-sort-value="Magnitika pedia", () , Greek , data-sort-value="Gousis, Yorgos" , Yorgos Goussis , , - , data-sort-value="Guatemala", , data-sort-value="Silence of the Mole, The" , '' The Silence of the Mole'' , data-sort-value="El silencio del topo", , Spanish , data-sort-value="Taracena, Anäis" , Anäis Taracena , , - , data-sort-value="Hong Kong", , data-sort-value="Where the Wind Blows", ''

Where the Wind Blows ''Where the Wind Blows'' (Chinese: 風再起時), previously known as ''Theory of Ambitions'', is a 2022 Hong Kong crime thriller film written and directed by Philip Yung and starring Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Chiu-wai respectively as Lui Lok a ...

'' , data-sort-value="Fung joi hei si", () , Cantonese , data-sort-value="Yung, Philip",

Philip Yung Philip Yung Tsz-kwong () is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and critic. Yung won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards for his film ''Port of Call'' (2015). Early life Philip Yung Tsz-kwong g ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Hungary", , data-sort-value="Blockade" , ''

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'' , data-sort-value="Blokad", , Hungarian , data-sort-value="Toser, Adam" , Ádám Tõsér , , - , data-sort-value="Iceland", , data-sort-value="Beautiful Beings", '' Beautiful Beings'' , data-sort-value="Berdreymi", , Icelandic , data-sort-value="Arnar Guðmundsson, Guðmundur", Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson , , - , data-sort-value="India", , data-sort-value="Last Film Show", '' Last Film Show'' , data-sort-value="Chhello Show", () ,

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, data-sort-value="Nalin, Pan",

Pan Nalin Nalin Kumar Pandya or Pan Nalin is a filmmaker of Indian origin. Nalin is best known for directing award-winning movies like Samsara, Valley of Flowers, and Angry Indian Goddesses. His debut feature SAMSARA (Miramax) was worldwide critical a ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Indonesia", , data-sort-value="Missing Home", '' Missing Home'' , , Toba Batak, Indonesian , data-sort-value="Rajagukguk, Bene Dion", Bene Dion Rajagukguk , , - , data-sort-value="Iran", , data-sort-value="World War III", ''

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'' , data-sort-value="Jang-e jahāni-e sevvom", () , Persian , data-sort-value="Seyyedi, Houman",

Houman Seyyedi Houman Seyyedi ( fa, هومن سيدی , born November 29, 1980) is an Iranian actor, director, screenwriter and editor. He has received various accolades, including six Crystal Simorghs–making him the only director to have three wins in Spec ...

, , - , , data-sort-value="Exam, The", '' The Exam'' , () , Kurdish , data-sort-value="Korki, Shawkat Amin",

Shawkat Amin Korki Shawkat (variations include Shaukat, Shavkat, or Şevket, ar, شوكت) is a masculine Arabic given name of a Perso-Turkish origin, it is also used as a surname. It may refer to: People *Alia Shawkat, American actress best known from her role in t ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Ireland", , data-sort-value="Quiet Girl, The", ''

The Quiet Girl ''The Quiet Girl'' ( ) is a 2022 Irish Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Colm Bairéad. The dialogue is mostly in Irish language, Irish. Set in 1981, the film follows a withdrawn ni ...

'' , data-sort-value="An Cailín Ciúin", , Irish , data-sort-value="Bairéad, Colm" ,

Colm Bairéad Colm Bairéad (born 1981) is an Irish film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the film ''The Quiet Girl'' (2022). Career Born in Dublin in 1981, Bairéad grew up speaking English and Irish language, Irish at home. ''The Quiet Gir ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Israel", , data-sort-value="Cinema Sabaya", '' Cinema Sabaya'' , data-sort-value="Sinema Sabaya", () , Hebrew, Arabic , data-sort-value="Fouks Rotem, Orit", Orit Fouks Rotem , , - , data-sort-value="Italy", , data-sort-value="Nostalgia", ''

Nostalgia Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The word ''nostalgia'' is a learned formation of a Greek language, Greek compound, consisting of (''nóstos''), meaning "homecoming", ...

'' , data-sort-value="Nostalgia", , Italian, Arabic , data-sort-value="Martone, Mario",

Mario Martone Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His film '' L'amore molesto'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film ''Noi credevamo'' c ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Japan", , data-sort-value="Plan 75", '' Plan 75'' , data-sort-value="Plan 75", ''Plan 75'' , Japanese, Filipino , data-sort-value="Hayakawa, Chie" , Chie Hayakawa , , - , data-sort-value="Jordan", , data-sort-value="Farha", ''

Farha Farha or Farhah (Arabic: فَرْحَة, ''farḥah'') is an Arabic female given name and a surname, meaning "delight, pleasure, luckier, good luck, good fortune". The name is the female form of the name Farhat and also stems from the name Farah. ...

'' , data-sort-value="Farha", () , Arabic, Hebrew, English , data-sort-value="J. Sallam, Darin" , Darin J. Sallam , , - , data-sort-value="Kazakhstan", , data-sort-value="Life", ''

Life Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energ ...

'' , data-sort-value="Zhizn′", () , Russian, Kazakh , data-sort-value="Baigazin, Emir" ,

Emir Baigazin Emir Kenzhegazyuly Baigazin ( kk, Эмир Кенжеғазыұлы Байғазин, ''Emir Kenjeğazyūly Baiğazin''; born 19 July 1984) is a Kazakh actor and film director, active in the genres of auteur cinema and art-house. Emir Kenzhega ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Kenya", , data-sort-value="TeraStorm", '' TeraStorm'' , data-sort-value="TeraStorm", ''TeraStorm'' , Swahili, English , data-sort-value="Kaggia, Andrew", Andrew Kaggia , , - , data-sort-value="Kosovo", , data-sort-value="Looking for Venera", '' Looking for Venera'' , data-sort-value="Në kërkim të Venerës", , Albanian , data-sort-value="Sefa, Norika" , Norika Sefa , , - , data-sort-value="Kyrgyzstan", , data-sort-value="Home for Sale", '' Home for Sale'' , data-sort-value="Prodayetsya dom", () , Kyrgyz , data-sort-value="Kulmendeev, Taalaibek", Taalaibek Kulmendeev , , - , data-sort-value="Latvia", , ' , data-sort-value="Janvāris", , Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian , data-sort-value="Kairiss, Viesturs" ,

Viestur Kairish Viestur Kairish ( lv, Viesturs Kairišs; born 30 January 1971) is a Latvian opera, movie and theatre director. He has made a successful career in Latvia and Germany as an acclaimed director of operas. The movies and plays of Kairish have toured i ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Lebanon", , data-sort-value="Memory Box", '' Memory Box'' , data-sort-value="Dafatir maya", () , French, Lebanese Arabic, English , data-sort-value="Hadjithomas, Joana" , Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige , , - , data-sort-value="Lithuania", , data-sort-value="Pilgrims", '' Pilgrims'' , data-sort-value="Piligrimai", , Lithuanian , data-sort-value=" Bareiša, Laurynas" , Laurynas Bareiša , , - , data-sort-value="Luxembourg", , data-sort-value="Icarus", ''

Icarus In Greek mythology, Icarus (; grc, Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspe ...

'' , data-sort-value="Icare", , French, English, Luxembourgish, Flemish , data-sort-value="Vogele, Carlo", Carlo Vogele , , - , data-sort-value="Malta", , data-sort-value="Carmen", ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

'' , data-sort-value="Carmen", ''Carmen'' , Maltese, English , data-sort-value="Buhagiar, Valerie",

Valerie Buhagiar Valerie Buhagiar (born May 12, 1964) is a Maltese-Canadian actress, film director and television host. She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1986. Her debut as a filmmaker was ''The Passion of Rita Camill ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Mexico", , data-sort-value="Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths", ''

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths ''Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths'' ( es, Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades), or simply ''Bardo'', is a 2022 Mexican epic black comedy -drama film co-written, co-composed, edited, produced, and directed by Alejandro ...

'' , data-sort-value="Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades", , Spanish, English , data-sort-value="Iñárritu, Alejandro González",

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, , - , data-sort-value="Moldova", , data-sort-value="Carbon", ''

Carbon Carbon () is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent In chemistry, the valence (US spelling) or valency (British spelling) of an element is the measure of its combining capacity with o ...

'' , data-sort-value="Carbon", ''Carbon'' , Romanian, Russian , data-sort-value="Borș, Ion", Ion Borș , , - , data-sort-value="Mongolia", , data-sort-value="Harvest Moon", ''

Harvest Moon The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon (when the ecliptic coordinate system, ecliptic longitudes of the Sun and Moon opp ...

'' , data-sort-value="Harvest Moon", () , Mongolian , data-sort-value="Baljinnyam, Amarsaikhan", Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam , , - , data-sort-value="Montenegro", , data-sort-value="Elegy of Laurel, The", '' The Elegy of Laurel'' , data-sort-value="Elegija lovora", , Serbian , data-sort-value="Kasalica, Dušan", Dušan Kasalica , , - , data-sort-value="Morocco" , , data-sort-value="Blue Caftan, The" , '' The Blue Caftan'' , data-sort-value="Bleu du caftan, Le" , , Arabic , data-sort-value="Touzani, Maryam" ,

Maryam Touzani Maryam Touzani (born 17 September 1980) is a Moroccan filmmaker and actress. She is best known as the director of the critically acclaimed film ''Adam (2019)'', Morocco's entry for the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film, an ...

, , - , data-sort-value="Nepal", , data-sort-value="Butterfly on the Windowpane", '' Butterfly on the Windowpane'' , data-sort-value="Ainaa Jhyal Ko Putali", () , Nepali , data-sort-value="Bidari, Sujit", Sujit Bidari , , - , data-sort-value="Netherlands", , data-sort-value="Narcosis", ''

Narcosis Narcosis may refer to: In science * Carbon dioxide narcosis, carbon dioxide retention leading to a reduction in the hypoxic drive * Hydrogen narcosis, an effect of diving deep with hydrogen * Nitrogen narcosis, an effect of diving deep with nit ...

'' , data-sort-value="Narcosis", , Dutch , data-sort-value="de Jong, Martijn",

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Notes

* Bulgaria originally announced ''Mother'' by Zornitsa Sophia as their submission in September 2022. After asking the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to confirm the film's eligibility, it was rejected for having more than 50% of its dialogue in English. Later the same month, they submitted a second film, '' In the Heart of the Machine''. * Egypt's Oscar Selection Committee announced a shortlist of five films: ''The Crime'' by

Sherif Arafa Sherif Arafa ( ar, شريف عرفة) (born on December 25, 1960) is an Egyptian director, writer and producer. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in 1982. Sharif Arafa participated in the making of many of the movies in the histor ...

, ''Full Moon'' by Hadi El Bagoury, ''Kira & El Gin'' by

Marwan Hamed Marwan Hamed ( ar, مروان حامد; born May 29, 1977) is a young Egyptian film director.Adil M. Asgarov, 'Hamed, Marwan (1977–)', Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa'. He is the son of author Wahid Hamed an ...

, ''2 Talaat Harb'' by Magdy Ahmed Ali and ''Villa 19-B'' by

Ahmad Abdalla Ahmad Abdalla El Sayed Abdelkader ( ar, أحمد عبد الله السيد) (born on December 19, 1979, Cairo) is an Egyptian film director, editor and screenwriter. His debut feature film is ''Heliopolis (2009 film), Heliopolis'' (2009); his s ...

., although Ahmed Ali withdrew his film prior to the vote. On 29 September, it was announced that a majority of the committee voted not to send any film and that Egypt would be absent for the first time since 2015; ''Kira & El Gin'' obtained the highest number of votes of those who voted for sending a film, however, it was lower than those who selected against sending any submission.

Mohamed Hefzy Mohamed Hefzy (born 13 March 1975), is an Egyptian film producer and screenwriter. One of the leading film producers in Middle East and Africa, Screen International named him as the only Arab among 30 future leaders in film production in 2013. I ...

explained, "The committee that made the decision included more than 30 filmmakers, and it is clear that the films presented to them did not live up to their expectations to be nominated for the Oscars." * Malta's submission was originally reported to be ''

'' directed by

. However, it was not included on any of the assignment lists sent to Academy members who volunteered to participate in that first round of voting. * Nigeria's Oscar Selection Committee (NOSC) announced they received three Yoruba-language submissions: ''

Aníkúlápó ''Aníkúlápó'' is a 2022 Nigerian epic fantasy film produced by Kunle Afolayan and distributed by Netflix. Released on 30 September 2022, it stars Kunle Remi, Bimbo Ademoye, Sola Sobowale,Hakeem Kae-Kazim and Taiwo Hassan. The film was shot i ...

'' by

Kunle Afolayan Kunle Afolayan (born 30 September 1975) is a Nigerian actor, producer and director. He is widely credited for elevating the quality of Nollywood movies though larger budgets, shooting on 35mm, releasing in cinemas, and improving cliché Nollywo ...

, ''

Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman ''Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman'' is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on ''Death and the King's Horseman'', a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was ...

'' by

Biyi Bandele Biyi Bandele (born Biyi Bandele-Thomas; 13 October 1967 – 7 August 2022Micah L. Issitt Contemporary Black Biography, 2009. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 12 October 2015.) was a Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker. He was the author of s ...

and '' King of Thieves'' by Tope Adebayo and Adebayo Tijani. They announced they would not enter because a majority of the committee voted that "no film is eligible"; eight out of the fifteen members considered all the three films as “non-eligible” for submission for Oscar considerations, meanwhile, five voted in favour of ''Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman'' and one voted for each of the remaining two options. Chairperson Chineze Anyaene-Abonyi urged Nigerian filmmakers to become better acquainted with previous Oscar-nominated films in the category "to achieve the needed international recognition and put our films in its acclaimed level of creative discourse." The decision to not select a film sparked criticism and complaints about NOSC processes, leading the Academy's International Feature Film Executive Committee to grant the NOSC an extension until 21 October 2022 to revote and submit a film. The majority of the committee again chose not to send a film, and several committee members resigned in protest. * Russia's Oscar Committee, headed by

Pavel Chukhray Pavel Grigoryevich Chukhray (russian: Па́вел Григо́рьевич Чухра́й; Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, October 14, 1946) is a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He is the son of the prominent Russian film directo ...

, confirmed its intention to submit a film on 23 September 2022. However, on 26 September, the Russian Film Academy announced they would not enter. On 27 September, Chukhray resigned in protest and said he was not consulted about the decision.

Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the ...

, alluding to the United States' reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, had previously said, "The way I see it, choosing a film that will represent Russia in a country that, in fact, now denies the existence of Russia, is simply pointless." * Zambia formed an approved Oscar Selection Committee for the first time. Zambia's Oscar Committee invited filmmakers to submit their films for consideration by 16 September 2022. Their submission was scheduled to be announced on 26 September. This would have been the country's first time competing for the award. * The Oscar Selection Committees for Ghana, Malaysia and South Africa invited filmmakers to make submissions, but did not end up sending films. South Africa was absent from the competition for the first time since 2007.

References

External links

Official list of films eligible for consideration in the International Feature Film Category, 95th Academy Awards
{{DEFAULTSORT:List of submissions to the 95th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film 2022 in film 95