2022 - Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 95th Academy Awards Held in 2023 to Compete for an Oscar Nomination or Win in the Best International Feature Film Category

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1. A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On
20221h 39m
6.9 (333)
Two identical deaf-mute twin brothers discover they suffer from a genetic disease that will also progressively and irreversibly make them blind.
DirectorGentian KoçiStarsEdgar MoraisRafael MoraisDrita Kabashi
░░░░║► ALBANIA ◄║░░░░
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STATUS: submitted

╚▷ Language: Albanian
╚▷ Continent: Europe

◾ 15th submission from Albania
◾ 1st submission for the director Gentian Koçi [♂]

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Other films by the same director that have also been submitted:

● 2017/90th: Daybreak [ALBANIA]

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2. Nos frangins
20221h 32m
6.2 (218)
Based on the story of 22-year-old Malik Oussekinean, whose death is believed was caused by an affair of police violence after several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill.
DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsReda KatebLyna KhoudriRaphaël Personnaz
░░░░║► ALGERIA ◄║░░░░
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STATUS: submitted

╚▷ Language: French, Arabic
╚▷ Continent: Africa

◾ 24th submission from Algeria
◾ 8th submission for Rachid Bouchareb [♂]

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Other films by the same director that have also been submitted:

● 2017/90th: Road to Istanbul [ALGERIA]
● 2010/83rd: Outside the Law [ALGERIA] ➜ nom
● 2009/82nd: London River [ALGERIA] ➜ disq
● 2006/79th: Days of Glory [ALGERIA] ➜ nom
● 2000/73rd: Little Senegal [ALGERIA]
● 1995/68th: Dust of Life [ALGERIA] ➜ nom
● 1993/64th: Cheb [ALGERIA]

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3. Argentina, 1985
20222h 20mR
7.6 (33K)
78Metascore
A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.
DirectorSantiago MitreStarsRicardo DarínGina MastronicolaFrancisco Bertín
ARGENTINA
4. Aurora's Sunrise
20221h 36mTV-MA
7.9 (1K)
79Metascore
DirectorInna SahakyanStarsAurora MardiganianAnzhelika HakobyanArpi Petrossian
░░░░║► ARMENIA ◄║░░░░
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STATUS: submitted

╚▷ Language: Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, German
╚▷ Continent: Asia

◾ 11th submission from Armenia
◾ 1st submission for the director Inna Sahakyan [♀]

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Other films by the same director that have also been submitted: none

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5. You Won't Be Alone
20221h 48mR
6.4 (12K)
82Metascore
In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit.
DirectorGoran StolevskiStarsNoomi RapaceAnamaria MarincaAlice Englert
AUSTRALIA
6. Corsage
20221h 54m
6.5 (10K)
76Metascore
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth Of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
DirectorMarie KreutzerStarsVicky KriepsFlorian TeichtmeisterKatharina Lorenz
░░░░║► AUSTRIA ◄║░░░░
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STATUS: submitted

╚▷ Language: German, French, Hungarian
╚▷ Continent: Europe

◾ 46th submission from Austria
◾ 1st submission for the director Marie Kreutzer [♀]

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Other films by the same director that have also been submitted: none

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7. Yaradanlar
20211h 1m
DirectorShamil AliyevStarsAkif AlizadehElbay QasimzadehRasim Aliyev
AZERBAIJAN
8. Hawa
20222h 11m
7.6 (6.7K)
Miracles about the life story of fishermen.
DirectorMejbaur Rahman SumonStarsChanchal ChowdhuryMoyen UddinNasir Uddin Khan
BANGLADESH
9. Close
20221h 44mPG-13
7.8 (40K)
81Metascore
The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.
DirectorLukas DhontStarsEden DambrineGustav De WaeleÉmilie Dequenne
BELGIUM
10. Utama
20221h 27m
7.2 (2.2K)
74Metascore
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
DirectorAlejandro Loayza GrisiStarsJosé CalcinaLuisa QuispeCandelaria Quispe
░░░░║► BOLIVIA ◄║░░░░
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STATUS: submitted

╚▷ Language: Quechua, Spanish
╚▷ Continent: Americas

◾ 14th submission from Bolivia
◾ 1st submission for the director Alejandro Loayza Grisi [♂]

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Other films by the same director that have also been submitted: none

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11. Balada
20222h
5.6 (70)
Merjem-Meri, an unambitious, 30-year-old homemaker and mother to 8-year-old girl Mila, moves back to her parental home after 10 years of marriage. Soon after, Meri realizes she is stuck in a circle of provincial rules and expectations and a complex relationship with her ambitious mother and spoiled younger brother. Her hope to get the custody of her daughter wanes from day to day because she has no chance of finding a permanent job. The only thing that makes her happy, but also makes everyone else look down on her, is participation in an audition for a film role in her neighborhood.
DirectorAida BegicStarsMarija PikicJasna ZalicaSlaven Vidak
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
12. Mars One
20221h 55m
7.4 (2.3K)
82Metascore
A lower middle class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.
DirectorGabriel MartinsStarsCícero LucasCarlos FranciscoCamilla Damião
░░░░║► BRAZIL ◄║░░░░
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STATUS: submitted

╚▷ Language: Portuguese
╚▷ Continent: Americas

◾ 52nd submission from Brazil
◾ 1st submission for the director Gabriel Martins [♂]

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Other films by the same director that have also been submitted: none

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13. In the Heart of the Machine
20221h 55m
7.3 (2.8K)
Humanity hides in the deepest, darkest places.
DirectorMartin MakarievStarsAlexander SanoJulian VergovIgor Angelov
BULGARIA (2)
14. Mother
20221h 57m
7.3 (187)
Elena, a theatre director, finds out at the age of 32 that she cannot conceive in a natural way. Trying therapies and failing to convince her husband Leon, to stay with her in Bulgaria, Elena develops a theatre program for orphans.
DirectorZornitsa SophiaStarsDaria SimeonovaLeon LucevZvezdomira Bozhana
BULGARIA (1)
15. Return to Seoul
20221h 59mR
7.0 (9.4K)
87Metascore
A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.
DirectorDavy ChouStarsPark Ji-minOh Gwang-RokGuka Han
CAMBODIA
16. The Planters Plantation
20222h 9m
9.7 (30)
In a west African Plantation in the 60s, A young determined girl must battle family and society to preserve her late father's legacy; A colonial plantation; amid Disagreements , betrayal and secrets. A dramatic musical , An allegory of Neo colonization.
DirectorDingha Eystein YoungStarsNimo LovelineNkem OwohStephanie Tum
CAMEROON
17. Eternal Spring
20221h 26m
6.9 (1.7K)
71Metascore
Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted in China, they tried to tell the truth but they were kidnapped, some Falun Gong practitioners died.
DirectorJason LoftusStarsHenry GuoShi JianYu Feng
CANADA
18. Blanquita
20221h 34m
6.3 (364)
77Metascore
Blanca lives in a foster home for minors run by father Manuel. A sexual scandal involving businessmen and politicians puts Blanca and Manuel in the eye of the press, turning Blanca into a feminist martyr and key witness of the case.
DirectorFernando GuzzoniStarsLaura LópezAlejandro GoicAriel Grandón
CHILE
19. Nice View
20221h 46m
6.7 (1.3K)
20-year-old Jing Hao came to Shenzhen to live with his young sister alone. The siblings live a warm yet straitened life. In an effort to pay for his sister's expensive surgery, Jing Hao gets an opportunity by chance, thinking that a better life is coming, but unexpectedly encounters a serious setback. Under the pressure of both time and money, Jing Hao, who has no way out, decides to take a desperate gamble. Can this ignite the spark of hope for his troubled ordinary life?
DirectorMuye WenStarsJackson YeeYu TianHalin Chen
CHINA
20. The Kings of the World
20221h 43mTV-MA
7.0 (2.6K)
Follows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.
DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsCarlos Andrés CastañedaDavison FlorezBrahian Acevedo
COLOMBIA
21. Domingo y la niebla
20221h 26m
5.8 (140)
The town Domingo lives in is being threatened by thugs hired by a developer to expel its inhabitants and pave the way for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret-the ghost of his wife who visits him within the mist.
DirectorAriel EscalanteStarsCarlos UreñaSylvia SossaEsteban Brenes Serrano
COSTA RICA
22. Safe Place
20221h 43m
7.2 (1.7K)
Follows Damir, who's trying to take his own life while his family wants to save him. Everything happens over a period of just 24 hours.
DirectorJuraj LeroticStarsJuraj LeroticSnjezana SinovcicGoran Markovic
CROATIA
23. The Bohemian
20222h 23m
6.7 (712)
Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Josef gets an incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo.
DirectorPetr VáclavStarsVojtech DykElena RadonicichBarbara Ronchi
CZECHIA
24. Holy Spider
20221h 58m
7.3 (28K)
66Metascore
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
DirectorAli AbbasiStarsAlice RahimiDiana Al HussenSoraya Helli
DENMARK
25. Bantú Mama
20211h 17m
6.3 (218)
80Metascore
After being arrested in the Dominican Republic, an Afropean woman escapes and is sheltered by three minors in a dangerous district of Santo Domingo. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she sees her destiny change inexorably.
DirectorIvan HerreraStarsClarisse AlbrechtEuris JavielJohnny Morales
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC