LOS ANGELES: A record 92 countries have submitted films for the best foreign-language Oscar to be handed out at the Academy Awards in March.
Below is a list of the submissions along with the names of the directors.
- Afghanistan: A Letter to the President — Roya Sadat
- Albania: Daybreak — Gentian Koçi
- Algeria: Road to Istanbul — Rachid Bouchareb
- Argentina: Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- Armenia: Yeva — Anahit Abad
- Australia: The Space Between — Ruth Borgobello
- Austria: Happy End — Michael Haneke
- Azerbaijan: Pomegranate Orchard — Ilgar Najaf
- Bangladesh: The Cage — Akram Khan
- Belgium: Racer and the Jailbird — Michaël R. Roskam
- Bolivia: Dark Skull — Kiro Russo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Men Don’t Cry — Alen Drljevic
- Brazil: Bingo – The King of the Mornings — Daniel Rezende
- Bulgaria: Glory — Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva
- Cambodia: First They Killed My Father — Angelina Jolie
- Canada: Hochelaga, Land of Souls — François Girard
- Chile: A Fantastic Woman — Sebastian Lelio
- China: Wolf Warrior 2 — Wu Jing
- Colombia: Guilty Me — Ivan D. Gaona
- Costa Rica: The Sound of Things — Ariel Escalante
- Croatia: Quit Staring at My Plate — Hana Jusic
- Czech Republic: Ice Mother — Bohdan Slama
- Denmark: You Disappear — Peter Schonau Fog
- Dominican Republic: Woodpeckers — Jose Maria Cabral
- Ecuador: Alba — Ana Cristina Barragan
- Egypt: Sheikh Jackson — Amr Salama
- Estonia: November — Rainer Sarnet
- Finland: Tom of Finland — Dome Karukoski
- France: BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
- Georgia: Scary Mother — Ana Urushadze
- Germany: In the Fade — Fatih Akin
- Greece: Amerika Square — Yannis Sakaridis
- Haiti: Ayiti Mon Amour — Guetty Felin
- Honduras: Morazan” — Hispano Duron
- Hong Kong: Mad World — Wong Chun
- Hungary: On Body and Soul — Ildiko Enyedi
- Iceland: Under the Tree — Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson
- India: Newton — Amit V Masurkar
- Indonesia: Turah — Wicaksono Wisnu Legowo
- Iran: Breath — Narges Abyar
- Iraq: Reseba – The Dark Wind — Hussein Hassan
- Ireland: Song of Granite — Pat Collins
- Israel: Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
- Italy: A Ciambra — Jonas Carpignano
- Japan: Her Love Boils Bathwater — Ryota Nakano
- Kazakhstan: The Road to Mother — Akhan Satayev
- Kenya: Kati Kati — Mbithi Masya
- Kosovo: Unwanted — Edon Rizvanolli
- Kyrgyzstan: Centaur — Aktan Arym Kubat
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Dearest Sister — Mattie Do
- Latvia: The Chronicles of Melanie — Viestur Kairish
- Lebanon: The Insult — Ziad Doueiri
- Lithuania: Frost — Sharunas Bartas
- Luxembourg: Barrage — Laura Schroeder
- Mexico: Tempestad — Tatiana Huezo
- Mongolia: The Children of Genghis — Zolbayar Dorj
- Morocco: Razzia — Nabil Ayouch
- Mozambique: The Train of Salt and Sugar — Licinio Azevedo
- Nepal: White Sun — Deepak Rauniyar
- Netherlands: Layla M. — Mijke de Jong
- New Zealand: One Thousand Ropes — Tusi Tamasese
- Norway: Thelma — Joachim Trier
- Pakistan: Saawan — Farhan Alam
- Palestine: Wajib — Annemarie Jacir
- Panama: Beyond Brotherhood — Arianne Benedetti
- Paraguay: Los Buscadores — Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori
- Peru: Rosa Chumbe — Jonatan Relayze
- Philippines: Birdshot — Mikhail Red
- Poland: Spoor — Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik
- Portugal: Saint George — Marco Martins
- Romania: Fixeur — Adrian Sitaru
- Russia: Loveless — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Senegal: Félicité — Alain Gomis
- Serbia: Requiem for Mrs. J. — Bojan Vuletic
- Singapore: Pop Aye — Kirsten Tan
- Slovakia: The Line — Peter Bebjak
- Slovenia: The Miner — Hanna A. W. Slak
- South Africa: The Wound — John Trengove
- South Korea: A Taxi Driver — Jang Hoon
- Spain: Summer 1993 — Carla Simon
- Sweden: The Square — Ruben Östlund
- Switzerland: The Divine Order — Petra Volpe
- Syria: Little Gandhi — Sam Kadi
- Taiwan: Small Talk — Hui-Chen Huang
- Thailand: By the Time It Gets Dark — Anocha Suwichakornpong
- Tunisia: The Last of Us — Ala Eddine Slim
- Turkey: Ayla: The Daughter of War — Can Ulkay
- Ukraine: Black Level — Valentyn Vasyanovych
- United Kingdom: My Pure Land — Sarmad Masud
- Uruguay: Another Story of the World — Guillermo Casanova
- Venezuela: El Inca — Ignacio Castillo Cottin
- Vietnam: Father and Son — Luong Dinh Dung
