List of submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length

Feature length

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motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English

English language

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dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Nine shortlisted contenders will be revealed a week before the announcement of the Oscar nominations.

The deadline for all countries to send in their submissions was October 3, 2011. The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2011.

On October 13, AMPAS announced that 63 countries had been accepted to participate in the competition for the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, including a first-time submission from New Zealand

New Zealand

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Submissions

Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
Amnesty Amnesty (film) Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian drama film written and directed by Bujar Alimani. The film has been selected as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-See also:...	Amnistia	Albanian Albanian language Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...	Bujar Alimani
Aballay Aballay (film) Aballay is a 2010 Argentine drama film directed by Fernando Spiner. The film has been selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Pablo Cedrón as Aballay* Nazareno Casero as Julián...	Aballay, el hombre sin miedo	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Fernando Spiner
Breathing Breathing (film) Breathing is a 2011 Austrian art house drama film directed and written by Karl Markovics. The film, about a 19-year-old ex-convict who attempts to build a new life amidst his guilt, stars Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka and Gerhard Liebmann. It was screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival...	Atmen	German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....	Karl Markovics Karl Markovics Karl Markovics is an Austrian actor and film director.He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year...
Bullhead Bullhead (film) Bullhead is a 2011 Belgian drama film written and directed by Michaël R. Roskam and starring Matthias Schoenaerts. It tells the story of the young Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille who is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious West-Flemish beef...	Rundskop	Dutch Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second... , French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... , Limburgish	Michaël R. Roskam
Belvedere Belvedere (film) Belvedere is a 2010 drama film from Bosnia & Herzegovina, directed by Ahmed Imamovic. The film has been selected as the Bosnian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Plot:...	Belvedere	Bosnian Bosnian language Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....	Ahmed Imamović
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within The Elite Squad 2 Elite Squad 2 is a 2010 Brazilian film directed and produced by José Padilha, starring Wagner Moura. It is a sequel of the 2007 film The Elite Squad...	Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro	Portuguese Portuguese language Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...	José Padilha José Padilha José Padilha is an award-winning Brazilian film director and producer.Padilha emerged onto the Brazilian movie scene with his first feature film Bus 174. In 2007, Padilha directed The Elite Squad , his first fictional film. The film was a commercial and critical success, seen by more than 11...
Tilt Tilt (2011 film) Tilt is a 2011 Bulgarian drama film directed by Viktor Chouchkov. The film has been selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Plot:...	Тилт	Bulgarian Bulgarian language Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...	Viktor Chouchkov
Monsieur Lazhar Monsieur Lazhar Monsieur Lazhar is a 2011 Canadian drama film directed by Philippe Falardeau. The film has been selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards and it won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.-Cast:*...	Monsieur Lazhar	French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...	Philippe Falardeau Philippe Falardeau Philippe Falardeau is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.His first feature film, La Moitié gauche du frigo won "Best Canadian First Feature" at the Toronto International Film Festival and a Best Screenplay nomination at the Quebec-based Jutra Awards...
Violeta Went to Heaven Violeta Violeta is a 2011 Chilean biopic about singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, directed by Andrés Wood. The film has been selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Francisca Gavilán as Violeta Parra...	Violeta se fue a los cielos	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Andrés Wood
The Flowers of War The Flowers of War The Flowers of War , previously called Nanjing Heroes and 13 Flowers of Nanjing, is an upcoming historical drama war film directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Christian Bale and Shigeo Kobayashi...	金陵十三钗	Mandarin, English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....
The Colors of the Mountain The Colors of the Mountain The Colors of the Mountain is a 2010 Colombian drama film directed by Carlos César Arbeláez. The film has been selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Genaro Aristizábal* Natalia Cuéllar...	Los colores de la montaña	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Carlos César Arbeláez
72 Days 72 Days 72 Days is a 2010 Croatian black comedy film starring Rade Šerbedžija and directed by his son Danilo Šerbedžija.The film was selected as the Croatian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Rade Šerbedžija – Mane...	Sedamdeset i dva dana	Croatian Croatian language Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...	Danilo Šerbedžija
Havanastation Habanastation Habanastation is a 2011 Cuban drama film directed by Ian Padrón. The film has been selected as the Cuban entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Claudia Alvariño as Maestra Claudia* Rubén Araujo as Compinche del ñato...	Habanastation	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Ian Padrón
Alois Nebel Alois Nebel Alois Nebel is a 2011 Czech animated drama film directed by Tomáš Luňák, based on the comic-book trilogy by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99. It is set in the late 1980s in a small village in the Jeseník Mountains, close to the Polish border, and tells the story of a train dispatcher who begins to...	Alois Nebel	Czech Czech language Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...	Tomás Lunák
SuperClásico SuperClásico SuperClásico is 2011 a Danish comedy film directed by Ole Christian Madsen. The film has been selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Paprika Steen as Anna* Anders W...	SuperClásico	Danish Danish language Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language... , Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Ole Christian Madsen Ole Christian Madsen Ole Christian Madsen is a Danish film director and script writer, responsible for several movies and TV series that has achieved success in Denmark. Among the most successful projects are the movies Flammen og Citronen, Prague, Nordkraft and the TV series Rejseholdet and Edderkoppen...
Love Child La hija natural La hija natural is a 2011 Dominican Republic drama film written and directed by Leticia Tonos. The film has been selected as the Dominican Republic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Julietta Rodriguez as Maria...	La hija natural	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Leticia Tonos Leticia Tonos Leticia Tonos Paniagua is a film director.Born in Santo Domingo. Advertising Graduate Degree in 1992 from the University APEC. Started as a production assistant in Claudio Chea Films. Produced TV commercials and feature films for national and international companies such as Vega Film , CineSon ,...
Lust Lust (film) Lust is a 2011 Egyptian drama film directed by Khaled El Hagar. The film has been selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-See also:...	الشوق	Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...	Khaled El Hagar Khaled El Hagar Multi award winning Egyptian film director, Khaled El Hagar is one of Egypt's most controversial movie makers.He studied law at Cairo University and has worked in film since 1985. His first short film, You Are My Life , won best film award at the Oberhausen festival...
Letters to Angel Letters to Angel Letters to Angel is a 2010 Estonian comedy film directed by Sulev Keedus. The film has been selected as the Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Roman Baskin* Ketter Habakukk as Fee* Alina Karmazina...	Kirjad Inglile	Estonian Estonian language Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities...	Sulev Keedus
Le Havre Le Havre (film) Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...	Le Havre	French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...	Aki Kaurismaki Aki Kaurismäki -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...
Declaration of War Declaration of War (film) Declaration of War is a 2011 French film directed by Valérie Donzelli, and written by her and Jérémie Elkaïm. It was released on the 31 August 2011 and received very positive reviews; Allocine, a review aggregation website gave it an average of 4.3 stars out of five. Le Monde gave it a full five...	La guerre est déclarée	French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...	Valérie Donzelli Valerie Donzelli 7 Years is a 2007 French drama film starring Bruno Todeschini, Valerie Donzelli and Cyril Troley. It is written and directed by Jean-Pascal Huttu. The movie explores the sexual tension between a wife and a husband serving a long jail sentence...
Chantrapas Chantrapas Chantrapas is a 2010 Georgian drama film written and directed by Otar Iosseliani. The film has been selected as the Georgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Dato Tarielachvili as Nicolas...	შანტრაპა	French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... , Georgian Georgian language Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...	Otar Iosseliani Otar Iosseliani - Filmography :* Akvarel * Sapovnela * April / Ap'rili* Tudzhi * Falling Leaves, / Giorgobistve* Georgian Ancient Songs / Dzveli qartuli simgera...
Pina Pina (film) Pina is a 2011 German 3D dance film directed by Wim Wenders. The film premiered Out of Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. The trailer features the song "Lilies in the Valley" by Jun Miyake...	Pina – Tanzt, tanzt sonst sind wir verloren	German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....	Wim Wenders Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
Attenberg Attenberg Attenberg is a Greek drama film directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and Ariane Labed won the Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress. It was filmed in the Aspra Spitia village of Boeotia...	Attenberg	Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...	Athina Rachel Tsangari
A Simple Life A Simple Life A Simple Life, also known as Sister Peach, is an upcoming Hong Kong drama film directed by Ann Hui and starring Andy Lau and Deanie Ip...	桃姐	Cantonese Cantonese Cantonese is a dialect spoken primarily in south China.Cantonese may also refer to:* Yue Chinese, the Chinese language that includes Cantonese* Cantonese cuisine, the cuisine of Guangdong province...	Ann Hui Ann Hui Ann Hui On-Wah is a Hong Kong film director, film producer and occasional screenwriter, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave.-Early life:...
The Turin Horse The Turin Horse The Turin Horse is a 2011 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the whipping of a horse in the Italian city Turin which is rumoured to have caused the...	A Torinói ló	Hungarian Hungarian language Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....	Béla Tarr Béla Tarr -Life:Tarr was born in Pécs, but grew up in Budapest. Both of his parents were close to theatre and film: his father was a scenery designer, while his mother has been working as a prompter at a theater for more than 50 years now...
Volcano Volcano (2011 film) Volcano is a 2011 Icelandic drama film directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson. The film has been selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Auður Drauma Bachmann as Tinna* Þorsteinn Bachmann as Ari...	Eldfjall	Icelandic Icelandic language Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...	Rúnar Rúnarsson
Abu, Son of Adam Adaminte Makan Abu Adaminte Makan Abu is a 2011 Indian drama film written, directed and co-produced by Salim Ahamed in his debut film. It stars Salim Kumar and Zarina Wahab in the lead roles along with Mukesh, Nedumudi Venu, Kalabhavan Mani, and Suraj Venjarammoodu in other supporting roles. The cinematography was...	ആദാമിന്റെ മകൻ അബു	Malayalam Malayalam language Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...	Salim Ahamed
Under the Protection of Ka'Bah Under the Protection of Ka'Bah Under the Protection of Ka'Bah is a 2011 Indonesian drama film directed by Hanny Saputra. The film has been selected as the Indonesian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Plot:...	Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah	Indonesian Indonesian language Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....	Hanny Saputra Hanny Saputra Hanny R. Saputra is an Indonesian director. One of his films, Under the Protection of Ka'Bah, is Indonesia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the 84th Academy Awards.-Biography:...
Nader and Simin, A Separation Nader and Simin, A Separation A Separation is a 2011 Iranian drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, starring Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat and Sarina Farhadi. It focuses on an Iranian middle-class couple who separate, and the intrigues which follow when the husband hires a lower-class...	جدایی نادر از سیمین	Persian Persian language Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...	Asghar Farhadi Asghar Farhadi -Career:Asghar Farhadi is a graduate of Theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from Tehran University and Tarbiat Modarres University. Farhadi made short 8mm and 16mm films in Isfahan branch of Iranian Young Cinema Society before moving on to writing plays and screenplays for...
As If I Am Not There As If I Am Not There As If I Am Not There is a 2010 Irish drama film directed by Juanita Wilson. The film is set in the Balkans and is shot in the Serbo-Croatian language...	As If I Am Not There	Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...	Juanita Wilson Juanita Wilson Juanita Wilson is an Irish director and writer from Dublin. Her short film The Door received an Irish Film and Television Award in 2009 and an Academy Award nomination in 2010...
Footnote Footnote (film) Footnote is a 2011 Israeli drama film written and directed by Joseph Cedar, starring Shlomo Bar Aba and Lior Ashkenazi. The plot revolves a power struggle between a father and his son who both teach at the Talmud department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The film won the Best Screenplay...	הערת שוליים	Hebrew	Joseph Cedar Joseph Cedar Yossef Cedar is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has won a Silver Bear and an Ophir Award for Best Director, and an Ophir Award for writing a Best Screenplay. He also won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. for his film Footnote .-Biography:Cedar was born in...
Terraferma Terraferma (film) Terraferma is a 2011 Italian drama film directed by Emanuele Crialese. The film premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The film has been selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:...	Terraferma	Italian	Emanuele Crialese Emanuele Crialese Emanuele Crialese is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome. He studied filmmaking in New York City...
Postcard Postcard (film) is a 2010 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film has been selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Etsushi Toyokawa as Keita Matsuyama* Shinobu Ōtake as Tomoko Morikawa...	一枚のハガキ	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	Kaneto Shindō Kaneto Shindo , Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb...
Returning to the 'A' Returning to the 'A' Returning to the 'A' is a 2011 Kazakhstani drama film directed by Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky. The film has been selected as the Kazakhstani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-See also:...	Возвращение в «А»	Russian Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...	Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Where Do We Go Now? Where Do We Go Now? Where Do We Go Now? is a 2011 film by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki. The film premiered during the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as part of Un Certain Regard . The film was selected to represent Lebanon for the 84th Academy Awards...	وهلّأ لوين؟	Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...	Nadine Labaki Nadine Labaki Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director. She is one of the well known directors in the Arabic music video industry...
Back to Your Arms Back to Your Arms Back to Your Arms is a 2010 Lithuanian drama film directed by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas. The film has been selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Giedrius Arbaciauskas...	Kai apkabinsiu tave	Lithuanian Lithuanian language Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they... , Russian Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics... , German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....	Kristijonas Vildžiūnas
Punk is Not Dead Punk's Not Dead (2011 film) Punk's Not Dead is a 2011 Macedonian comedy film written and directed by Vladimir Blazevski. The film has been selected as the Macedonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Jordanco Cevrevski...	Панкот не е мртов	Macedonian Macedonian language Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora... , Albanian Albanian language Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...	Vladimir Blazevski
Miss Bala Miss Bala Miss Bala is a 2011 Mexican drama film written and directed by Gerardo Naranjo. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival...	Miss Bala	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Gerardo Naranjo
Omar Killed Me Omar Killed Me Omar Killed Me is a 2011 drama film directed by Roschdy Zem. The film has been selected as the Moroccan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Sami Bouajila as Omar Raddad...	Omar m'a tuer	French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... , Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...	Roschdy Zem Roschdy Zem Roschdy Zem is a French actor of Moroccan descent. He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in the film "Days of Glory" at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival....
Sonny Boy Sonny Boy (2011 film) Sonny Boy is a 2011 Dutch film directed by Mary Peters, after the book of Annejet van der Zijl, based on a true story. The film was produced by Shooting Star Filmcompany. The film has been selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Plot:In the year...	Sonny Boy	Dutch Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...	Maria Peters
The Orator The Orator The Orator is a 2011 Samoan and New Zealand film written and directed by Tusi Tamasese. It is the first ever Samoan feature film, "entirely shot in Samoa, in the Samoan language, with a Samoan cast and story"...	O Le Tulafale	Samoan Samoan language Samoan Samoan Samoan (Gagana Sāmoa, is the language of the Samoan Islands, comprising the independent country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa. It is an official language—alongside English—in both jurisdictions. Samoan, a Polynesian language, is the first language for most...	Tusi Tamasese Tusi Tamasese Tusi Tamasese is a Samoan New Zealander film director.He is of high chiefly descent, of the Tupua Tamasese lineage....
Happy, Happy Happy, Happy Happy, Happy is a 2010 Norwegian comedy film directed by Anne Sewitsky. The film has been selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Agnes Kittelsen as Kaja* Henrik Rafaelsen as Sigve...	Sykt lykkelig	Norwegian Norwegian language Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...	Anne Sewitsky
October October (film) October is a 2010 Peruvian drama film directed by brothers Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival...	Octubre	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Daniel Vega Vidal
The Woman in the Septic Tank The Woman in the Septic Tank The Woman in the Septic Tank is a 2011 Philippine independent film starring Eugene Domingo. The film is the Philippines' official entry for the 2011 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film, and was an entry for the 2011 Cinemalaya Festival. It was produced by Martinez-Rivera Films and Quantum Films...	Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank	Tagalog	Marlon Rivera
In Darkness In Darkness (2011 film) In Darkness is a 2011 Polish drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The film has been selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards...	W ciemności	Polish Polish language Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries... , German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....	Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.-Personal life:...
José and Pilar José and Pilar José and Pilar is a Portuguese documentary directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes following the last years of the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, chiefly through his relationship with his resolute wife, Pilar del Río...	José e Pilar	Portuguese Portuguese language Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...	Miguel Gonçalves Mendes Miguel Gonçalves Mendes Miguel Gonçalves Mendes is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He has directed four feature films and eight short films since 2002, a filmography that took him to renowned film festivals around the globe...
America America (2011 film) America is a 2011 Puerto Rican drama film directed by Sonia Fritz. The film was selected as the Puerto Rican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but was disqualified.-Cast:* Lymari Nadal as America* Yancey Arias as Correa...	America	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Sonia Fritz	align="center"
Morgen Morgen (film) Morgen is a 2010 Romanian drama film written and directed by Marian Crișan, "a low-key satire that takes a droll approach to the serious subject of illegal immigration".-Plot:...	Morgen	Romanian Romanian language Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova... , Hungarian Hungarian language Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....	Marian Crisan
Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel Burnt by the Sun 2 Burnt by the Sun 2 is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by and starring Nikita Mikhalkov. The film concists of two parts: : Exodus and Citadel . It is the sequel to Mikhalkov's 1994 film Burnt by the Sun, set in the Eastern Front of World War II...	Утомлённые солнцем 2: Цитадель	Russian Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...	Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...
Montevideo, God Bless You! Montevideo, God Bless You! Montevideo, God Bless You! is a 2010 Serbian film directed by Dragan Bjelogrlić about the events leading to the participation of the Yugoslavia national football team at the first FIFA World Cup in Montevideo, Uruguay in July 1930...	Монтевидео, Бог те видео	Serbian Serbian language Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....	Dragan Bjelogrlić
Tatsumi Tatsumi (film) Tatsumi is a 2011 Singaporean animated drama film directed by Eric Khoo. It is based on the manga memoir A Drifting Life and five earlier short stories by the Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi...	Tatsumi	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	Eric Khoo Eric Khoo Eric Khoo is a film director from Singapore. He was introduced to the world of cinema at a very early age. He was educated at United World College of South East Asia before attending City Art Institute in Sydney, Australia where he pursued cinematography...
Gypsy Gypsy (2011 film) Gypsy is a 2011 Slovakian drama film directed by Martin Šulík. The film has been selected as the Slovak entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Miroslav Gulyas as Uncle* Martina Kotlarova as Julka...	Cigán	Slovak Slovak language Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people... , Romany	Martin Šulík Martin Šulík Martin Šulík is a Slovak film director. He studied film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava from which he graduated in 1986...
Silent Sonata Silent Sonata Silent Sonata is a 2011 Slovenian drama film directed by Janez Burger and has no dialogue. The main producers are the Slovene Stara Gara and the Irish Fastnet Films. Silent Sonata is the first official Slovene-Irish-Swedish-Finnish co-production and was shot in 35 days in Slovenia and Ireland. The...	Circus Fantasticus	No dialogue	Janez Burger Janez Burger Janez Burger, a Slovene director, screenwriter and producer.-Life and career:Born on 21 March 1965 in Kranj, Slovenia. He grew up in Železniki, now lives and works in Ljubljana . In 1986 started his studies on Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, but in 1990 quit this studies and moved to study at...	align="center"
Beauty Beauty (2011 film) Beauty is a 2011 South African film directed by Oliver Hermanus. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival...	Skoonheid	Afrikaans Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape... , English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	Oliver Hermanus
The Front Line The Front Line (2011 film) The Front Line is a 2011 South Korean action film set during the 1953 ceasefire. It was selected as South Korea's submission to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. It also won four Grand Bell Awards including Best Film....	고지전	Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...	Jang Hun Jang Hun (director) Jang Hun is a South Korean film director. He has worked primarily with director Kim Ki-duk first with the production department, then as an assistant director, to getting a script from Mr. Kim; Rough Cut. In 2010 he directed Secret Reunion selling over 5,000,000 tickets making it the second...
Black Bread Black Bread Black Bread is a 2010 Catalan-language Catalan drama film written and directed by Agustí Villaronga. The screenplay is based on the homonymous novel by Emili Teixidor, with elements of two other works by him, Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson.The film won nine Goya...	Pa negre	Catalan Catalan language Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...	Agustí Villaronga Agustí Villaronga Agustí Villaronga Riutort is a Balearic Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He has directed eleven films since 1976. His film El niño de la luna was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival....
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale	賽德克．巴萊 / Seediq Bale	Seediq Seediq language Seediq is an Atayalic language spoken in the mountains of Northern Taiwan by the Seediq and Truku people. There are 4,750 speakers out of a total of 25,000 ethnic members .-Subdivisions:Seediq consists of three main dialects... , Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an... , Taiwanese	Wei Te-Sheng Wei Te-Sheng Wei Te-Sheng , Taiwan) is the director of Cape No. 7, the 2nd top-selling film in Taiwanese history.-Career:Wei’s film career began when he got a job in a small production house. Then he became an assistant in Edward Yang's film studio in 1995. When Yang was filming Mahjong , he was promoted to...
Kon Khon Kon Khon Kon Khon is 2011 Thai film by Sarunyu Wongkrachang is about love tragilie between three rival Khon dancers The film was selected as the Thai entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards-Plot:...	คนโขน	Thai Thai language Thai , also known as Central Thai and Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Historical linguists have been unable to definitively...	Sarunyu Wongkrachang
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a 2011 Turkish drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe...	Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da	Turkish Turkish language Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...	Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....
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The Silent House	La casa muda	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Gustavo Hernández
The Rumble of the Stones The Rumble of the Stones The Rumble of the Stones is a 2011 Venezuelan drama film directed by Alejandro Bellame Palacios. The film has been selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Rossana Fernández Díaz as Delia...	El rumor de las piedras	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Alejandro Bellame Palacios
The Prince and the Pagoda Boy The Prince and the Pagoda Boy The Prince and the Pagoda Boy is a 2010 Vietnamese drama film directed by Lưu Trọng Ninh. The film has been selected as the Vietnamese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-See also:...	Khát vọng Thăng Long	Vietnamese Vietnamese language Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...	Lưu Trọng Ninh

Other countries

Luxembourg announced that they had no eligible films, and would not be participating in the competition this year.

Ukraine announced that they had convened an Oscar selection committee, but decided that no Ukrainian film met all the AMPAS requirements, meaning that they would sit out the competition for the third year in a row.

Controversies and changes

Albania originally submitted The Forgiveness of Blood
The Forgiveness of Blood
The Forgiveness of Blood is 2011 Albanian-American drama film directed by Joshua Marston. The film premiered In Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and competed for the Golden Bear...

, but it was rejected due to protest of Bujar Alimani, the director of Amnesty. He argued that The Forgiveness of Blood shouldn't be eligible to represent Albania due to its American director, Joshua Marston
Joshua Marston
Joshua Jacob Marston is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace.Born in California, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Marston worked in Paris as an intern for Life, then for ABC News during the Gulf War...

, and key American crew members. AMPAS disqualified it and Albania instead submitted Alimani's film.

The Dominican Republic's submission was initially rejected because of the country's failure to submit the names of its selection committee members on time, but they appealed and won.

Puerto Rico, which had been invited to participate in the Foreign Oscar race since 1986, tried to submit a film (Sonia Fritz's America) but was rejected, because of a new rule that doesn't allow films from US territories to compete in the Foreign Language Film category. The Puerto Rico Film Commission, which selects the Puerto Rican Oscar nominee, appealed to AMPAS to change its mind, citing its previous Oscar nomination in the category and the presence of non-independent territories like Greenland, Hong Kong and Palestine, but AMPAS refused to change its mind.

The Slovenian entry Silent Sonata
Silent Sonata
Silent Sonata is a 2011 Slovenian drama film directed by Janez Burger and has no dialogue. The main producers are the Slovene Stara Gara and the Irish Fastnet Films. Silent Sonata is the first official Slovene-Irish-Swedish-Finnish co-production and was shot in 35 days in Slovenia and Ireland. The...

was disqualified because the Society of Slovene filmmakers (Društvo slovenskih filmskih ustvarjalcev, DSFU) neglected to officially submit the entry in time because of a misunderstanding within the organization. Therefore it wasn't included in the final list of entries.

External links

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Controversies and changes

See also

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