These are the films so far submitted for consideration, so keep in mind, more films are still to come (in fact, just hours ago France decided on A Prophet as their submission, so that's not on the list, but is in play).
Here they are:
- Armenia, A Magician’s Autumn (dir. Ruben Gevorkyants and Vahe Gevorkyants)
- Austria, For a Moment, Freedom (dir. Arash T. Riahi)
- Bulgaria, The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (dir. Stephan Komandarev)
- Chile, Dawson, Isla 10 (dir. Miguel Littin)
- Finland, Letters from Father Jacob (dir. Klaus Hero)
- Germany, The White Ribbon (dir. Michael Haneke)
- Hong Kong, Prince of Tears (dir. Yonfan)
- Hungary, Chameleon (dir. Krisztina Goda)
- Japan, Nobody to Watch Over Me (dir. Ryoichi Kimizuka)
- Kazakhstan, Kelin (dir. Ermek Tursunov)
- Korea, Mother (dir. Bong Joon-Ho)
- Lithuania, Waterhole (dir. Gytis Luksas)
- Morocco, Casanegra (dir. Nour Eddine Lakhmari)
- Netherlands, The Silent Army (dir. Jean van de Velde)
- Portugal, Doomed Love (dir. Mário Barroso)
- Romania, Police, Adjective (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
- Serbia, Here and There (dir. Darko Lungulov)
- Slovenia, Landscape No. 2 (dir. Vinko Moderndorfer)
- Sri Lanka, Flowers in the Sky (dir. Prasanna Vithanage)
- Sweden, Involuntary (dir. Ruben Östlund)
- Taiwan, No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (dir. Leon Dai)
- Venezuela, Libertador Morales, El Justiciero (dir. Efterpi Charalambidis)
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These are the films so far submitted for consideration, so keep in mind, more films are still to come (in fact, just hours ago France decided on A Prophet as their submission, so that's not on the list, but is in play). Here they are:
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There's so many of them that we have no access to. I think that's the biggest problem with the foreign film category. Even if you wanted to follow the films, you probably will find it difficult to gain access to them. I really want to see the White Ribbon, but I'm in Durham, which is a weak market for the distribution of foreign films.
ReplyDeleteAs for your question, I can't really say. I know little to nothing about most of them. White Ribbon is getting some buzz, but other than that, I haven't heard much. Also, only five of those films will make it. Its almost impossible to adequately review all of those films in the face of probability (i.e. low likelihood that a film makes it to the top five).
Indeed, I think I've heard of maybe 3 of these films...
ReplyDeleteI just added A Prophet to the beginning, since France picked it after the article originally went up
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