October 3, 2008

One of these films will win the Oscar for Foreign Film!

-The following is the list of films in contention for the Foreign Film award:
Algeria, “Masquerades” (Lyes Salem)
Argentina, “Lion’s Den” (Pablo Trapero)
Austria, “Revanche” (Gotz Spielmann)
Bangladesh, “Aha!” (Enamul Karim Nirjhar)
Belgium, “Eldorado” (Bouli Lanners)
Bosnia-Herzegovina, “Snow” (Aida Begic)
Brazil, “Last Stop 174” (Bruno Barreto)
Bulgaria, “Zift” (Javor Gardev)
Canada, “Necessities of Life” (Benoit Pilon)
Chile, “Tony Manero” (Pablo Larrain)
China, “Dream Weavers” (Yu Gun)
Colombia, “Dog Eat Dog” (Carlos Moreno)
Croatia, “No One’s Son” (Arsen Anton Ostojic)
Czech Republic, “The Karamazovs” (Petr Zelenka)
Denmark, “Worlds Apart” (Niels Arden Oplev)
Estonia, “I Was Here” (Rene Vilibre)
Finland, “Home of Dark Butterflies” (Dome Karukoski)
France, “The Class” (Laurent Cantet)
Germany, “The Baader-Meinhof Complex” (Uli Edel)
Greece, “Correction” (Thanos Anastopoulos)
Hong Kong, “Painted Skin” (Donnie Yen)
Hungary, “Iska’s Journey” (Csaba Bollok)
Iceland, “White Night Wedding” (Baltasar Kormakur)
India, “Taare Zameen Par” (Aamir Khan)
Iran, “The Song of Sparrows” (Majid Majidi)
Israel, “Waltz With Bashir” (Ari Folman)
Italy, “Gomorrah” (Matteo Garrone)
Japan, “Departures” (Yojiro Takita)
Jordan, “Captain Abu Raed” (Amin Matalqa)
Kyrgyzstan, “Tengri” (Marie-Jaoul de Ponchville)
Luxembourg, “Arabian Nights” (Paul Kieffer)
Macedonia, “I Am From Titov Veles” (Teona Strugar-Mitevska)
Mexico, “Tear Up My Life” (Roberto Sneider)
Morocco, “Goodbye Mothers” (Mohamed Ismail)
The Netherlands, “Dunya and Desie” (Dana Nechushtan)
Norway, “O’ Horten” (Bent Hamer)
Palestine, “Salt of This Sea” (Annemarie Jacir)
The Philippines, “Ploning” (Dante Nico Garcia)
Poland, “Tricks” (Andrzej Jakimowski)
Portugal, “Our Beloved Month of August” (Miguel Gomes)
Romania, “The Rest is Silence” (Nae Caranfil)
Russia, “The Mermaid” (Anna Melikyan)
Serbia, “The Tour” (Goran Markovic)
Singapore, “My Magic” (Eric Khoo)
Slovakia, “Blind Loves” (Juraja Lehotskeho)
Slovenia, “Rooster’s Breakfast” (Marko Nabersnik)
South Korea, “Crossing” (Kim Tae-Gyun)
Spain, “The Blind Sunflowers” (Jose Luis Cuerda)
Sweden, “Everlasting Moments” (Jan Troell)
Switzerland, “The Friend” (Micha Lewinsky)
Taiwan, “Cape No. 7” (Wei Te-Sheng)
Turkey, “Three Monkeys” (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Venezuela, “The Taint of Fame” (Alejandro Bellame)

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