List of submissions to the 94th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film

This is a list of submissions to the 94th Academy Awards for the Best International Feature 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 International Feature 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 International Feature Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. The category was previously called the Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed in April 2019 to Best International Feature Film, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.

For the 94th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 1 November 2021. 93 countries submitted films and were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. Somalia submitted a film for the first time, and Algeria, Bhutan, and Uzbekistan resubmitted their films disqualified from last year's list. Jordan withdrew their film on 9 December 2021, leaving 92 eligible entries. After the 15-film shortlist was announced on 21 December 2021, the five nominees were announced on 8 February 2022.

Japan won the award for the fifth time with Drive My Car by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, which was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Two Lions to Venice Dy luanë drejt Venecias Albanian, ItalianJonid Jorgji Héliopolis هيليوبوليس Arabic, FrenchDjafar Gacem The Intruder El prófugo Spanish Should the Wind Drop Si le vent tombe / Երբ որ քամին հանդարտվի French, Armenian, Karabakh Armenian, English, Russian When Pomegranates Howl Pashto, PersianGranaz Moussavi Great Freedom Große Freiheit German The Island Within Daxildəki ada AzerbaijaniRu Hasanov Rehana রেহানা মরিয়ম নূর BengaliAbdullah Mohammad Saad Playground Un monde FrenchLaura Wandel Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom ལུང་ནག་ན Dzongkha, EnglishPawo Choyning Dorji The Great Movement El gran movimiento Spanish The White Fortress Tabija Bosnian, EnglishIgor Drljaca Private Desert Deserto Particular Brazilian Portuguese Fear Страх Bulgarian, English White Building ប៊ូឌីញ ស Khmer Hidden Dreams Rêves cachés Cameroonian Pidgin English, English, FrenchNgang Romanus Drunken Birds Les oiseaux ivres French, Spanish, English, MandarinIvan Grbovic Lingui, The Sacred Bonds Lingui, les liens sacrés French, ArabicMahamat-Saleh Haroun White on White Blanco en blanco Spanish, English Cliff Walkers 悬崖之上 Mandarin, Northeastern MandarinZhang Yimou Memoria Spanish, EnglishApichatpong Weerasethakul Clara Sola SpanishNathalie Álvarez Mesén Tereza37 CroatianDanilo Šerbedžija Zátopek Czech, English, German, Finnish, FrenchDavid Ondříček Flee Flugt Danish, Dari, Russian, Swedish, French, EnglishJonas Poher Rasmussen Holy Beasts La fiera y la fiesta Spanish, French, EnglishLaura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas Submersible Sumergible SpanishAlfredo León León Souad سعاد ArabicAyten Amin On the Water Vee peal Estonian, VõroPeeter Simm Compartment No. 6 Hytti nro 6 Finnish, Russian, EnglishJuho Kuosmanen Titane FrenchJulia Ducournau Brighton 4th მეოთხე ბრაიტონი Georgian, English, Russian, KazakhLevan Koguashvili I'm Your Man Ich bin dein Mensch GermanMaria Schrader Digger GreekGeorgis Grigorakis Freda Haitian Creole, FrenchGessica Généus Zero to Hero 媽媽的神奇小子 Cantonese, EnglishJimmy Wan Post Mortem Hungarian, German Lamb Dýrið IcelandicValdimar Jóhannsson Pebbles கூழாங்கல் Tamil P. S. Vinothraj Yuni Serang Javanese, Banten Sundanese, IndonesianKamila Andini A Hero قهرمان PersianAsghar Farhadi Europa أوروبا Arabic, Bulgarian, EnglishHaider Rashid ShelterFoscaḋ IrishSeán Breathnach Let It Be Morning ויהי בוקר / ليكن صباحا Arabic, HebrewEran Kolirin The Hand of God È stata la mano di Dio Italian, NeapolitanPaolo Sorrentino Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー Japanese, English, Korean Sign Language, German, Mandarin, Tagalog, Korean, IndonesianRyusuke Hamaguchi Amira ʾأميرة Arabic, HebrewMohamed Diab Yellow Cat Сары мысық Kazakh, Russian Mission to Rescue Swahili, English, SomaliGilbert Lukalia Hive Zgjoi AlbanianBlerta Basholli Шамбала Kyrgyz, English The Pit Bedre LatvianDace Pūce Costa Brava, Lebanon كوستابرافا ArabicMounia Akl Isaac Izaokas Lithuanian, German, RussianJurgis Matulevičius Io sto bene Italian, French, Luxembourgish, English Fatsani: A Tale of Survival Fatsani Chewa, EnglishGift Sukez Sukali Hail, Driver! Prebet Sapu Malay, MandarinMuzzamer Rahman Luzzu Maltese Prayers for the Stolen Noche de fuego SpanishTatiana Huezo After the Winter Poslije zime Montenegrin, Serbian Casablanca Beats علّي صوتك Arabic, FrenchNabil Ayouch Do Not Hesitate Dutch, English, Arabic SisterhoodСестри Macedonian The Worst Person in the World Verdens verste menneske NorwegianJoachim Trier The Stranger الغريب Arabic, HebrewAmeer Fakher Eldin Plaza Catedral SpanishAbner Benaim Nothing but the Sun Apenas el sol Ayoreo, SpanishArami Ullón Powerful Chief Manco Cápac Spanish, Puno QuechuaHenry Vallejo Leave No Traces Żeby nie było śladów PolishJan P. Matuszyński The Metamorphosis of Birds A Metamorfose dos Pássaros PortugueseCatarina Vasconcelos Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc Romanian, Czech, French, RussianRadu Jude Unclenching the Fists Разжимая кулаки Ossetian, RussianKira Kovalenko The Tambour of Retribution حد الطار Arabic Oasis Оаза Serbian Precious Is the Night 今宵多珍重 Mandarin, EnglishWayne Peng 107 Mothers Cenzorka Russian, Ukrainian, SlovakPeter Kerekes Sanremo SloveneMiroslav Mandić The Gravedigger's Wife SomaliKhadar Ayderus Ahmed Barakat Barakat Kaaps, Afrikaans, EnglishAmy Jephta Escape from Mogadishu 모가디슈 Korean, English, Somali, ArabicRyoo Seung-wan The Good Boss El buen patrón SpanishFernando León de Aranoa Tigers Tigrar Swedish, Italian, English Olga French, Ukrainian, Russian, German The Falls 瀑布 MandarinChung Mong-hong The Medium ร่างทรง Isan, ThaiBanjong Pisanthanakun Golden Butterfly فرططو الذهب Arabic, FrenchAbdelhamid Bouchnak Commitment Hasan Bağlılık Hasan TurkishSemih Kaplanoğlu Bad Roads Погані дороги Russian, UkrainianNataliia Vorozhbyt Dying to Divorce Turkish, EnglishChloe Fairweather The Broken Glass Theory La teoría de los vidrios rotos SpanishDiego Fernández 2000 Songs of Farida Faridaning ikki ming qoʻshigʻi Uzbek, RussianYalkin Tuychiev The Inner Glow Un destello interior SpanishAndrés Eduardo and Luis Alejandro Rodríguez Dad, I'm Sorry Bố già VietnameseTrấn Thành and

Notes Jordan submitted Amira by Mohamed Diab, but it was withdrawn by the Royal Film Commission of Jordan due to controversy surrounding the film's subject matter. The film, which centers on a Palestinian girl who learns her real father was an Israeli prison guard rather than a Palestinian prisoner, was criticized by prisoners' rights organisations and withdrawn "out of respect to the feelings of the prisoners and their families." In the past, AMPAS has refused to accept withdrawals for political reasons, and there was no official announcement whether Amira was actually withdrawn from Oscar consideration. Lithuania initially reported that The Jump by Giedrė Žickytė was their selection, but Isaac by Jurgis Matulevičius was ultimately submitted. Namibia formed an approved Oscar Selection Committee for the first time. On 14 December 2021, the Namibia Film Commission issued a press release noting that they had received four submissions but that they "did not meet the qualifying criteria as set out by the Academy." However, The White Line by Desiree Kahikopo-Meiffret ran their Oscar campaign independently, without success. Nigeria launched an open call for submissions but later announced that they would not enter the race "due to the fact that the films received so far for screening failed the eligibility rule test set by the Academy". The Film Academy of the Philippines did not submit a film for the first time since 2005, citing funding issues and problems due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Directors' Guild of the Philippines, Inc. publicly expressed "great disappointment" that the Film Academy of the Philippines made no submission. The guild noted the eligible titles Fan Girl by Antoinette Jadaone, Hayop Ka! by Avid Liongoren, On the Job: The Missing 8 by Erik Matti and Tagpuan by Mac Alejandre. The Oscar Selection Committees for Ghana, Nepal, and Pakistan all invited filmmakers to make submissions, but no films were sent. Cinemas were closed in all three countries for most or all of the eligibility period due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

External links Official website of the Academy Awards