List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.

For the 90th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2016 and 30 September 2017. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 2 October 2017. 92 countries submitted films and were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. Haiti, Honduras, Laos, Mozambique, Senegal, and Syria submitted films for the first time. After the 9-film shortlist was announced on 14 December 2017, the five nominees were announced on 23 January 2018.

Chile won the award for the first time with A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result A Letter to the President نامه‌ای به رییس‌جمهور DariRoya Sadat Daybreak Dita zë fill AlbanianGentian Koçi Road to Istanbul La route d'Istanbul French, English, Turkish, ArabicRachid Bouchareb Zama Spanish, Toba Qom, Pilagá, Mbyá Guaraní, Brazilian PortugueseLucrecia Martel Yeva Եվա Armenian The Space Between Italian, English Ruth Borgobello Happy End French, EnglishMichael Haneke Pomegranate Orchard Nar bağı Azerbaijani The Cage খাঁচা BengaliAkram Khan Racer and the Jailbird Le fidèle French, Flemish, AlbanianMichaël R. Roskam Dark Skull Viejo calavera Spanish, Aymara Men Don't Cry Muškarci ne plaču Bosnian, Serbian, CroatianAlen Drljević Bingo: The King of the Mornings Bingo: O Rei das Manhãs Brazilian PortugueseDaniel Rezende Glory Слава BulgarianKristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov First They Killed My Father មុនដំបូងខ្មែរក្រហមសម្លាប់ប៉ារបស់ខ្ញុំ Khmer, English, French, VietnameseAngelina Jolie Hochelaga, Land of Souls Hochelaga, terre des âmes French, English, Mohawk, Algonquin, Latin, Arabic, Haitian CreoleFrançois Girard A Fantastic Woman Una mujer fantástica SpanishSebastián Lelio Wolf Warrior 2战狼2 Mandarin, English, French Wu Jing Guilty Men Pariente SpanishIván Gaona The Sound of Things El sonido de las cosas Quit Staring at My Plate Ne gledaj mi u pijat CroatianHana Jušić Ice Mother Bába z ledu CzechBohdan Sláma You Disappear Du forsvinder Danish, Swedish, EnglishPeter Schønau Fog Woodpeckers Carpinteros Spanish, Carpinteo Sign LanguageJosé María Cabral Alba SpanishAna Cristina Barragán Sheikh Jackson شيخ جاكسون ArabicAmr Salama November Estonian, German, ItalianRainer Sarnet Tom of Finland Finnish, English, GermanDome Karukoski BPM (Beats per Minute) 120 battements par minute FrenchRobin Campillo Scary Mother საშიში დედა Georgian In the Fade Aus dem Nichts German, English, Turkish, GreekFatih Akin Amerika Square Πλατεία Αμερικής Greek, English, ArabicYannis Sakaridis Ayiti Mon Amour Haitian Creole, French, English, Japanese Morazán Spanish Hispano Durón Mad World 一念無明 CantoneseWong Chun On Body and Soul Testről és lélekről HungarianIldikó Enyedi Under the Tree Undir trénu IcelandicHafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson Newton न्यूटन Hindi, GondiAmit V Masurkar LeftoversTurah Breath نفس Persian Narges Abyar Reseba: The Dark Wind العاصفة السوداء / Reṣeba Northern Kurdish, Arabic Hussein Hassan Song of Granite Irish, English Pat Collins Foxtrot פוֹקְסטְרוֹט HebrewSamuel Maoz A Ciambra Reggino Calabrian, Italian, English, Twi Jonas Carpignano Her Love Boils Bathwater 湯を沸かすほどの熱い愛 Japanese, Japanese Sign Language Ryōta Nakano The Road to Mother Анаға апарар жол Kazakh, Russian Akan Satayev Kati Kati Swahili, English, Sheng Mbithi Masya Unwanted T'padashtun Dutch, Albanian Edon Rizvanolli Centaur Кентавр Kyrgyz, Russian Sign Language Aktan Abdykalykov Dearest Sister ນ້ອງຮັກ Lao, Estonian, Thai, English Mattie Do The Chronicles of Melanie Melānijas hronika Latvian, Russian, GermanViestur Kairish The Insult قضية رقم ٢٣ Arabic, FrenchZiad Doueiri Frost Šerkšnas Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Russian, English, FrenchŠarūnas Bartas Barrage FrenchLaura Schroeder Tempestad SpanishTatiana Huezo The Children of Genghis Чингисийн хүүхдүүд Mongolian Zolbayar Dorj Razzia غزية Arabic, French, Central Atlas Tamazight, EnglishNabil Ayouch The Train of Salt and Sugar Comboio de Sal e Açúcar PortugueseLicínio Azevedo White Sun सेतो सूर्य NepaliDeepak Rauniyar Layla M. Dutch, Arabic, EnglishMijke de Jong One Thousand Ropes Maea e afe Samoan, EnglishTusi Tamasese Thelma Norwegian, SwedishJoachim Trier Saawan ساون UrduFarhan Alam Wajib واجب ArabicAnnemarie Jacir Beyond Brotherhood Más que hermanos Spanish, EnglishArianne Benedetti The Gold Seekers Los buscadores Spanish, GuaraniJuan Carlos Maneglia and Rosa Chumbe SpanishJonatan Relayze Birdshot FilipinoMikhail Red Spoor Pokot PolishAgnieszka Holland Saint George São Jorge Portuguese, Brazilian PortugueseMarco Martins Fixeur Romanian, FrenchAdrian Sitaru Loveless Нелюбовь RussianAndrey Zvyagintsev Félicité Lingala, French Alain Gomis Requiem for Mrs. J. Реквијем за госпођу Ј. SerbianBojan Vuletić Pop Aye Thai, IsanKirsten Tan The Line Čiara / Межа Slovak, UkrainianPeter Bebjak The Miner Rudar Slovene, BosnianHanna Slak The Wound Inxeba Xhosa, Afrikaans, EnglishJohn Trengove A Taxi Driver 택시운전사 Korean, English, German, JapaneseJang Hoon Summer 1993 Estiu 1993 CatalanCarla Simón The Square Swedish, English, DanishRuben Östlund The Divine Order Die göttliche Ordnung Swiss German, German, English, ItalianPetra Biondina Volpe Little Gandhi Arabic, English Sam Kadi Small Talk 日常對話 Taiwanese Hokkien, MandarinHuang Hui-zhen By the Time It Gets Dark ดาวคะนอง ThaiAnocha Suwichakornpong The Last of Us اخر واحد فينا No dialogue Ayla: The Daughter of War Ayla Turkish, Korean, English, Mandarin Black Level Рівень чорного No dialogueValentyn Vasyanovych My Pure Land میری پاک زمین UrduSarmad Masud Another Story of the World Otra historia del mundo Spanish, Uruguayan Portuguese El Inca El Inca Spanish Father and Son Cha cõng con Vietnamese

Notes Macedonia decided not to submit a film for consideration this year. According to the committee, two films were submitted to their consideration: by Goran Trenchovski and When the Day Had No Name by Teona Strugar Mitevska. However, they found that neither of the submitted films fulfilled the aesthetic or narrative criteria to be the Macedonian Oscar nominee. Ghana and the United Arab Emirates were scheduled to submit a film for the first time, but neither country sent a film for consideration.

References

External links Official website of the Academy Awards