89th Academy Awards Foreign Language Film Submissions
Finally today, August 5, we have the first submission to #Oscars2017 and to my surprise came from Switzerland that for the first time announces its selection at the festival; which by-the-way makes sense as Locarno is one of the most famous festivals in the world and gets a lot more attention than the previous fest were the Swiss submission was announced. Great.Will not hide my approval as the Swiss film was premiered in Cannes and more interesting was written by one of my most favorite contemporary directors Céline Sciamma!
As most of you know been commenting about fresh news from several countries and the links are in my Pinterest, now most of the info will be in this post, but will continue to leave links at Pinterest. Yes, links take you to several languages news; my best suggestion is to use Chrome for auto-translation.
The deadline for submissions this year is October 3, 2016. Female directors are in Blue.
Armenia: երկրաշարժ Zemletryasenie (Earthquake), Sarik Andreasyan
Australia: Tanna, Martin Butler and Bentley Dean (2015 Biennale-Settimana della Critica)
Austria: Vor der Morgenröte (Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe), Maria Schrader (Locarno)
Belgium: D'Ardennen (The Ardennes), Robin Pront
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Smrt u Sarajevu (Death in Sarajevo), Danis Tanović (Berlinale)
Croatia: S One Strane (On the Other Side), Zrinko Ogresta, Croatia and Serbia (Berlinale Panorama)
Cuba: El Acompañante (The Companion), Pavel Giroud
Egypt: اشتباك Eshtebak (Clash), Mohamed Diab (Cannes UCR)
Finland: Hymyilevä mies (The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki), Juho Kuosmanen (Cannes UCR)
Georgia: სხვისი სახლი (The House of Others), Rusudan Glurdjidze (Karlovy Vary)
Germany: Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade (Cannes)
Hungary: Tiszta szívvel (Kills on Wheels), Attila Till (Karlovy Vary)
Iraq: El Clásico, Halkawt Mustafa (Tribeca)
Japan: 母と暮せば Haha to Kuraseba (Living with My Mother), Yôji Yamada
Nepal: कालो पोथी Kalo Pothi (The Black Hen), Min Bahadur Bham (2015 Biennale Settimana)
Netherlands: Tonio, Paula van der Oest
Romania: Sieranevada, Cristi Puiu (Cannes)
Saudi Arabia: بركة يقابل بركة Barakah yoqabil Barakah (Barakah Meets Barakah), Mahmoud Sabbagh, (Berlinale Forum)
Serbia: Dnevnik mašinovođe (Train Driver's Diary), Miloša Radovića (MoscowIFF)
South Korea: 밀정 Miljung (The Age of Shadows), Kim Jee-Woon (Biennale)
Sweden: En man som heter Ove (A Man Called Ove), Hannes Holm
Switzerland: Ma Vie de Courgette (My Life as a Courgette), Claude Barras (Cannes)
Tunisia: زهرة حلب La Fleur d'Alep (The Flower of Aleppo), Ridha Béhi
Venezuela: Desde Allá (From Afar), Lorenzo Vigas (2015 Biennale)
Check info and trailers here.
Check submitted films posters here.
News
Argentina: Registration deadline was August 1st.
Brazil: Announcement on Monday, September 12 at 11:00am local time.
Canada: Will make a decision in September and announce the results by October 1st.
Chile: Deadline for inscriptions was yesterday, August 4. No news about announcement date.
Colombia: Shortlist on September 2; Selection on September 12.
Costa Rica: Registration deadline is September 9.
Denmark: Shortlist with three (3) films. Check films here. Selection on September 19.
France: Announcement on September 26. Shortlist on Sept 13???
Israel: Ophir Awards nominations are out, Best Film winner will represent Israel. There are five films that you can checkhere.
Italy: Deadline is September 15.
Kosovo: Considering Home Sweet Home and Engjujt janë larg; expect one more by deadline on September 10.
Lithuania: Announcement on September 20.
Mexico: Announcement on September 14.
Montenegro: Application deadline September 15.
Norway: Will select its entry from 3 films. Announcement on September 7.
Pakistan: Deadline is August 22nd. Announcement on September 16.
Slovenia: Deadline is August 31.
Spain: Shortlisted 3 films by Bollain, Ortiz and yes! Almodovar. Check press release here. Selection on September 7th.
Ukraine: Announcement on September 9.
Uruguay: Announcement on or after September 15.
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