76 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2013 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR® BEVERLY HILLS, CA – A record 76 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 86th Academy Awards®. Moldova and Saudi Arabia are first-time entrants; Montenegro is submitting for the first time as an independent country. The 2013 submissions are: Afghanistan, "Wajma – An Afghan Love Story," Barmak Akram, director; Albania, "Agon," Robert Budina, director; Argentina, "The German Doctor," Lucía Puenzo, director; Australia, "The Rocket," Kim Mordaunt, director; Austria, "The Wall," Julian Pölsler, director; Azerbaijan, "Steppe Man," Shamil Aliyev, director; Bangladesh, "Television," Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, director; Belgium, "The Broken Circle Breakdown," Felix van Groeningen, director; Bosnia and Herzegovina, "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker," Danis Tanovic, director; Brazil, "Neighboring Sounds," Kleber Mendonça Filho, director; Bulgaria, "The Color of the Chameleon," Emil Hristov, director; Cambodia, "The Missing Picture," Rithy Panh, director; Canada, "Gabrielle," Louise Archambault, director; Chad, "GriGris," Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, director; Chile, "Gloria," Sebastián Lelio, director; China, "Back to 1942," Feng Xiaogang, director; Colombia, "La Playa DC," Juan Andrés Arango, director; Croatia, "Halima’s Path," Arsen Anton Ostojic, director; Czech Republic, "The Don Juans," Jiri Menzel, director; Denmark, "The Hunt," Thomas Vinterberg, director; Dominican Republic, "Quien Manda?" Ronni Castillo, director; Ecuador, "The Porcelain Horse," Javier Andrade, director; Egypt, "Winter of Discontent," Ibrahim El Batout, director; Estonia, "Free Range," Veiko Ounpuu, director; Finland, "Disciple," Ulrika Bengts, director; France, "Renoir," Gilles Bourdos, director; Georgia, "In Bloom," Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross, directors; Germany, "Two Lives," Georg Maas, director; Greece, "Boy Eating the Bird’s Food," Ektoras Lygizos, director; Hong Kong, "The Grandmaster," Wong Kar-wai, director; Hungary, "The Notebook," Janos Szasz, director; Iceland, "Of Horses and Men," Benedikt Erlingsson, director; India, "The Good Road," Gyan Correa, director; Indonesia, "Sang Kiai," Rako Prijanto, director; Iran, "The Past," Asghar Farhadi, director; Israel, "Bethlehem," Yuval Adler, director; Italy, "The Great Beauty," Paolo Sorrentino, director; Japan, "The Great Passage," Ishii Yuya, director; Kazakhstan, "Shal," Yermek Tursunov, director; Latvia, "Mother, I Love You," Janis Nords, director; Lebanon, "Blind Intersections," Lara Saba, director; Lithuania, "Conversations on Serious Topics," Giedre Beinoriute, director; Luxembourg, "Blind Spot," Christophe Wagner, director; Mexico, "Heli," Amat Escalante, director; Moldova, "All God’s Children," Adrian Popovici, director; Montenegro, "Ace of Spades - Bad Destiny," Drasko Djurovic, director; Morocco, "Horses of God," Nabil Ayouch, director; Nepal, "Soongava: Dance of the Orchids," Subarna Thapa, director; Netherlands, "Borgman," Alex van Warmerdam, director; New Zealand, "White Lies," Dana Rotberg, director; Norway, "I Am Yours," Iram Haq, director; Pakistan, "Zinda Bhaag," Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi, directors; Palestine, "Omar," Hany Abu-Assad, director; Peru, "The Cleaner," Adrian Saba, director; Philippines, "Transit," Hannah Espia, director; Poland, "Walesa. Man of Hope," Andrzej Wajda, director; Portugal, "Lines of Wellington," Valeria Sarmiento, director; Romania, "Child’s Pose," Calin Peter Netzer, director; Russia, "Stalingrad," Fedor Bondarchuk, director; Saudi Arabia, "Wadjda," Haifaa Al Mansour, director; Serbia, "Circles," Srdan Golubovic, director; Singapore, "Ilo Ilo," Anthony Chen, director; Slovak Republic, "My Dog Killer," Mira Fornay, director; Slovenia, "Class Enemy," Rok Bicek, director; South Africa, "Four Corners," Ian Gabriel, director; South Korea, "Juvenile Offender," Kang Yi-kwan, director; Spain, "15 Years Plus a Day," Gracia Querejeta, director; Sweden, "Eat Sleep Die," Gabriela Pichler, director; Switzerland, "More than Honey," Markus Imhoof, director; Taiwan, "Soul," Chung Mong-Hong, director; Thailand, "Countdown," Nattawut Poonpiriya, director; Turkey, "The Butterfly’s Dream," Yilmaz Erdogan, director; Ukraine, "Paradjanov," Serge Avedikian and Olena Fetisova, directors; United Kingdom, "Metro Manila," Sean Ellis, director; Uruguay, "Anina," Alfredo Soderguit, director; Venezuela, "Breach in the Silence," Luis Alejandro Rodríguez and Andrés Eduardo Rodríguez, directors. The 86th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 16, 2014, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 03:22:21 +0000
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