Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 78th Academy Awards held in 2006 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
54 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2005 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorFabián BielinskyStarsRicardo DarínManuel RodalDolores FonziA deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsDaniel AuteuilJuliette BinocheMaurice BénichouA married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.AUSTRIA | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMeher Afroz ShaonRiazSwadhin KhosruTwelve people are passengers on board.The boatmen are taking them to safety, far away from the fierce clutches of war. All the people on board are devastated by the horrors of war. As the story advances, different events unravel.BANGLADESH | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsJérémie RenierDéborah FrançoisJérémie SegardBruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFernando VargasStarsIsabel SantosJorge Ortiz SánchezPaola RíosBeggining in La Higuera, 1967 where the body of Ernesto Che Guevara is laid out and later secretly buried, Di buen dia a papa returns to this location over ten year intervals to focus on three generations of women affected by the event.BOLIVIA | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorNedzad BegovicStarsNaida BegovicNedzad BegovicSabrina Begovic CoricTotally Personal creates a historical document both droll and touching out of Begovic and his family's memories, meditations, and observations. The history begins in the communist era, continues through the war that ravaged the former Yougoslavia and into today's post-war period.BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBreno SilveiraStarsÂngelo AntônioDira PaesMárcio KielingThe story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.BRAZIL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRadoslav SpassovStarsVesela KazakovaValeri YordanovNejat IslerThis is a story of strange, impossible, inexplicable love between a Muslim Turk woman and a non-Muslim Bulgarian man. Ivan (the Bulgarian) is a pure and romantic young fellow, who gets caught up in the so-called "regeneration process" (when ethnic Turks' names were forcibly changed to Bulgarian ones).BULGARIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMichel CôtéMarc-André GrondinDanielle ProulxA young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.CANADA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAlicia SchersonStarsViviana HerreraAndres UlloaAline KüppenheimA couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.CHILE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKaige ChenStarsCecilia CheungJang Dong-gunHiroyuki SanadaEmpowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.CHINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCiro GuerraStarsLowin AllendeCésar BadilloJulián DíazTwo men meet in downtown Bogotá; one is missing a leg, the other is a "silletero," a man who carries people around for money. Each character bears the burden of a bitter past life.COLOMBIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEsteban RamírezStarsJorge PerugorríaCuca EscribanoMaya ZapataPassion: of people for the land and sea, of corporations for riches, and of men and women for each other. Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail knew nothing, comes to introduce herself. She is 21 and beautiful. Meanwhile, banana prices fall, threatening the plantation's finances. An oil company works with the government to get off-shore drilling rights, over local objection. Vicente is at the center of each cross-current. Will he fall for Irene, can he save the plantation, will he sell out to corporate offers? What of the coast: can its beauty be saved?COSTA RICA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsDino DvornikMladen VulicCoolioDuring last two hours of the year, the three stories are happening in the dark and deserted streets of coastal town of Split, separated from the wild New Year's Eve parties.CROATIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJuan Carlos Cremata MalbertiIraida Malberti CabreraStarsMalú Tarrau BrocheJorge MiloLuisa María Jiménez RodríquezIn a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.CUBA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBohdan SlámaStarsTatiana DykováPavel LiskaAnna GeislerováThree young adults in Most sort out feelings and responsibilities: Monika's boyfriend has left for the States, her mother wants her to join him there, and if the invitation does come, what should she do? Toník is a nice guy, his love for Moni is unrequited. He's trying to rebuild his family's crumbling house; a nearby factory has made an offer to buy the land. With Moni, he watches out for the two young sons of Dasha, their friend who's in a hopeless long-term affair with a married man: Dasha is at once unstable, unrealistic, neglectful of her boys, and cruel to those who help. For whom is this something like happiness?CZECH REPUBLIC | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsUlrich ThomsenMads MikkelsenNicolas BroA neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devoted minister.DENMARK | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPeeter UrblaStarsMaarja JakobsonAnne ReemannEvelin VõigemastThree women start a costume renting company after losing their jobs.ESTONIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVilsoni HerenikoStarsSapeta TaitoRena OwenVoi FesaituA coming of age story about a young woman, Viki, attempting to escape the stifling conformity of island culture. Inspired by the myth of the Warrior Woman, Viki recovers from the death of her father and fights for justice and freedom.FIJI | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKlaus HäröStarsTopi MajaniemiMarjaana MaijalaMaria LundqvistDuring World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "Mother of Mine" tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.FINLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorChristian CarionStarsDiane KrugerBenno FürmannGuillaume CanetIn December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.FRANCE | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLevan ZakareishviliStarsGiorgi MaskharashviliEka NijaradzeRusiko KobiashviliA young filmmaker named Dato has no money to make a movie, so he hangs out drinking and brooding all day in the capital of the former Soviet republic, Georgia. He is also writing a screenplay. Excerpts from his script, shot in black-and-white, are cut into his story. All the stories, including the framing story about Dato and his friends, are interwoven so that they become one long narrative about contemporary life in Georgia.GEORGIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarc RothemundStarsJulia JentschFabian HinrichsAlexander HeldA dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.GERMANY | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsDamian LewisVictoria HaralabidouAndréa FerréolSet in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.GREECE | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPeter Ho-Sun ChanStarsTakeshi KaneshiroXun ZhouJacky CheungA love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.HONG KONG | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLajos KoltaiStarsMarcell NagyBéla DóraBálint Péntek14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorÁgúst GuðmundssonStarsGísli Marteinn BaldurssonBurkni BirgissonHelga Braga JónsdóttirIn tune with the time, mostly from the same characters as appeared in the film, on top (1982), except what are those characters 22 years older.ICELAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAmol PalekarStarsShah Rukh KhanRani MukerjiAnupam KherA folk tale - supernatural love story about a ghost who falls in love with a newlywed woman.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRiri RizaStarsNicholas SaputraJonathan MuliaThomas NawilisSoe Hok Gie is an activist who lived in the sixties. Set in the darkest era of Indonesian modern history, "Gie" is an interpretation of what happened based on his journal.INDONESIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsAlireza PhoenixMasoud RayeganAfshin HashemiDr. Alam, a very profiled specialist in neurology and a successful surgeon, is drowned in his professional and social work, in a way that he has totally forgotten all about his son Saman. Samantha the beautiful nights of desert with it starfull sky attracts Saman to itself and the young boy falls in love with night sky and observation of stars. Due to an event the doctor leaves his profession and work behind and goes through the desert to find his son.IRAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJamil RostamiStarsAbdollah AhmadiAnvar FarajpourDelnia FarajpourPeople are praying for rainfall... a Land parched in drought... the illusion of snow... Rozhin is engulfed in reveries of flight from an undesirable marriage... Rozhin seeks support from a stranger... and this is not the end of the story.IRAK | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEyal HalfonStarsUri GavrielEvelyn KaplunAvi OriahSergey works for Franko and is responsible for the girls, Franko pays him to watch the girls. Sergey does not treat them very well.ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniSabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. But nightmares start disturbing her, at almost the same time she discovers that she's pregnant. Little by little she remembers her childhood in a severe middle-class family, but a big secret is still hidden in her heart. Determined to bring clarity and serenity to her life, she considers contacting her brother, a University teacher in the U.S.A., to try to understand what happened in their past. What is the secret? Will Sabina finally manage to free herself from the "beast inside her heart"?ITALY | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorYôichi SaiStarsTakeshi KitanoHirofumi AraiTomoko TabataIn 1923, the Korean teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees. He makes fortune, abuses and destroys the lives of his wife and family, having many mistresses and children and showing no respect to anybody. Later he closes the factory, lending the money with high interests and becoming a loan shark. His hatred behavior remains until his last breath, alone in North Korea.JAPAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorThierry SchielStarsFrédéric DiefenthalLorànt DeutschMarc BretonnièreRenart is a sly fox who can always chit-chat his way out of sticky situations. In his quest for an elusive treasure, Renart has ample opportunity to demonstrate how a quick mind can triumph over brute strength.LUXEMBOURG | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGustavo LozaStarsCarmen MauraHéctor SuárezVanessa BaucheThree separate stories of children from different places seeking to find their missing fathers.MEXICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorByambasuren DavaaStarsBatchuluun UrjindorjBuyandulam DaramdadiNansal BatchuluunThe little Nansal finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend against all rejections of her parents.MONGOLIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMijke de JongStarsElske RotteveelKees ScholtenElsie de BrauwMerel, a talented young girl, is suddenly getting bullied at school.NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSara JohnsenStarsAnnika HallinKristoffer JonerFridtjov SåheimAfter her son is hospitalized, a doctor cheats on her husband with a snow plow driver who is a suspect in her investigation of the recent death of a young Arab boy.NORWAY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsKais NashifAli SulimanLubna AzabalTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.PALESTINE | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJosué MéndezStarsPietro SibilleMilagros VidalMarisela PuicónSantiago, a retired soldier who fought for his country, Peru, find it hard to adjust back to society while dealing with PTSD and family problems.PERU | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFeliks FalkStarsAndrzej ChyraMalgorzata KozuchowskaKinga PreisLucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.POLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJoão CanijoStarsFernando LuísRita BlancoBeatriz Batarda"Noite Escura" is a disturbing movie about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVicente JuarbeStarsCarlos Esteban FonsecaKamar de los ReyesGerardo RodríguezIvan, Julia and Kike were born and grew up in Culebra where they shared a close friendship. Ivan and Julia are a couple but Kike is in love with Julia. They are separated when Ivan is drafted and sent to Vietnam. When Ivan is reported MIA for several years, Julia becomes closer with Kike. Ivan returns, takes Julia to New York and marries her, leaving Kike behind. Much later, Ivan is diagnosed with cancer, and this time it is he who decides to return to Culebra with Julia. With her help, he begins to participate in Culebra's social needs. He even ventures in a small boat and that is when he stumbles on Cayo, a small island closeby. Here he finds peace of mind, and the island has a healing effect on him. When federal authorities try to keep Ivan away from Cayo, they find themselves face to face with a community that will defend Ivan's need to visit the island. Based on a true story of love and friendship that will touch your heart, this wrenching drama was filmed in the beautiful natural scenery of Culebra, Puerto Rico.PUERTO RICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCristi PuiuStarsDoru AnaMonica BarladeanuAlina BerzunteanuMr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.ROMANIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsNikolay SpiridonovMariya KuznetsovaNikolay ReutovSet in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.RUSSIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsLazar RistovskiJasna ZalicaJovana MiticA simple story of an ex-convict who comes home after 10 years, only to find two squatters in the form of a woman and her autistic daughter. Though Lazar initially plans to kick out Jasna and Jovana, he changes his mind after seeing the squalid conditions of the shelter they are to move into. It is an allegory of the Balkan wars. When first released in Serbia, it caused some public outrage because of the sharp criticism of Serbia's role in the war.SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEric KhooStarsTheresa Poh Lin ChanChiew Sung ChingLawrence Yong"Be with Me" consists of three stories of love vs. solitude : 1) An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't believe in life anymore, ever since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by reading an autobiographical book and meeting its author, a deaf and blind woman of his own age. 2) Fatty, a security guard in his fifties, lives for two things: good food and love for a pretty executive living in his block of flats. But, if it is easy to satisfy his first need, winning the heart of the distant belle is a horse of another color. 3) Two teenage schoolgirls get to know each other on the Internet. Soon they fall in love.SINGAPORE | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMartin SulíkStarsOldrich NavrátilIvan MartinkaLubo KostelnýSet in the present, the four ordinary men in this story find themselves at crossroads in their lives. Karel, Tomas, Milan, and Vinc were once seduced by the possibility of making money in Ostrava's cosmopolitan melting pot. But times are changing - the company has offered their jobs to foreign workers. The friends try to solve their job loss by going into business themselves. But instead of the success they expected, they only sink deeper into debt and go through a number of unpleasant events that testify to their inexperience and naivety. Even their private lives become complicated. Personal crises and an inability to adapt to new conditions are the hallmarks of life in the real world, an environment scarred by existential uncertainty in a once rich industrial city...SLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJanez BurgerStarsDarko RundekNatasa MatjasecMatjaz TribusonA successful stage director plans to put on an outdoor production of a previously unknown play by a famous writer, but is haunted by his past in the form of the actors and crew with whom he has to work.SLOVENIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGavin HoodStarsPresley ChweneyagaeMothusi MaganoIsrael Matseke-ZuluSix days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.SOUTH AFRICA | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKwang-Hyun ParkStarsJeong Jae-yeongShin Ha-kyunKang Hye-jeongSoldiers from both sides of the Korean divide live among villagers who know nothing of the war.SOUTH KOREA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMontxo ArmendárizStarsPilar López de AyalaJuan Diego BottoBárbara LennieA rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.SPAIN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJosef FaresStarsImad CreidiAntoinette TurkElias GergiA Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.SWEDEN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGreg ZglinskiStarsAurélien RecoingMarie MatheronGabriela MuskalaSix months after losing their five years old daughter in a fire in the barn of their little farm, Jean and his wife Laure are facing troubles in their relationship and financial problems. Laure grieves the loss of their daughter and blames herself for her absence and Jean for his negligence for the fire; Jean is trying to rise from the ashes and somehow rebuild his life; and the insurance company refuses to pay the prize for the accident. Jean asks for a job in a mill to a friend to make money and support the psychiatric treatment of Laure. In his new job, he meets and becomes friend of the Kosovo refugee's siblings Kastriot and Labinota, while the Laure's sister Valérie separates them. Jean feels the passion of love and sense of life in his relationship with Labinota, who had her life destroyed with the war.SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeShiang-chyi ChenYi-ching LuHsiao-Kang, now working as a pornographic actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.TAIWAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsDaler NazarovMariam GaibovaFarzona BeknazarovaOn his fortieth birthday, a man engineers a revolt against himself. He telephones his lovers -- all four of them -- and arranges to meet them at his dance school that afternoon. The women are shocked to discover that they have been sharing the affections of the same man. He arrives and tries to explain his actions. He has realized that time is limited for each of us. Total honesty is the only answer. One by one we review the beginning of each affair. The man and his lovers discuss passion, possession, time. How love blossoms from even the smallest seed. He gives each woman a parting gift -- a stopwatch -- and asks them to measure each minute of true love that they experience from now on. The women leave. The man is alone. Later, the fourth woman calls him and they arrange to meet at her house, where he finds the tables turned: he is now one of four lovers. Unable to handle the new situation, the men argue and depart. The man is left alone again...TAJIKISTAN | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJira MaligoolStarsPijaya VachajitpanDonlaya MudchaSonthaya ChitmaneeSet in 1950 and based on the series of autobiographical short stories by Archin Panjabhan, the beginning finds Archin (Pijaya Vachajitpan) expelled from Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University in his sophomore year. He is packed off to southern Thailand, where he has supposedly has a job waiting for him. It's in a remote, mountainous jungle that doesn't even "rate a spot on the map", a place that is little but all-consuming red mud and seemingly endless, torrential downpours. Archin arrives, letter of recommendation in hand, at the mining company office, only to be told that there are no jobs. The company's superintendent, Sam, a stern Australian veteran of the Death Railway who asks Archin if he is willing to do manual labor. Archin answers to the affirmative and he's hired. He's even given a house of his own, (which happens to haunted). Everyone, from the lowliest Malaysian laborers to John, the burly chief of the mining staff, derides Ajin as a "Bangkok boy" who isn't fit for hard work and Archin is constantly put to the test. Eventually, he becomes a trusted, integral member of the company, working as a surveyor.THAILAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsMeltem CumbulSener SenTimuçin EsenA single mother with a child meets a retired teacher who tries to keep pace with his new life and to protect them from her ex-husband.TURKEY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorÁlvaro BuelaStarsRoxana BlancoNicolás BecerraWalter Reyno34-year-old Pamela is a small and shy woman. She works at the cash register of a supermarket. She attends a religious temple led by a Brazilian minister. She periodically visits her autistic mother. She is an anonymous character, leading a meaningless life. Suddenly, a miracle occurs. Messages of a marvelous destiny start to reach Pamela in unusual ways: a client, a gentle and charismatic transvestite, her own mother, dreams, bar codes, real and imaginary signals. The Savior of the Next Millennium is apparently on his way and everything indicates that she, being a virgin, is carrying him on her entrails. Impelled to face herself, Pamela undertakes an inner voyage. A paradoxical voyage: the more mystic she grows to be, the more human she becomes.URUGUAY | Status: submitted, but not finally listed
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAlfredo AnzolaStarsMarco VillarubiaKristin PardoRonnie Nordenflycht"1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of The Santa Isabel" is a whimsical adventure fantasy about a tired Jules Verne, fleeing from Paris and a bored wife, who joins Italian explorer Stradelli in an expedition on the Orinoco river. Along the way they pickup a young stranger- a woman disguised as a man, searching for her lost father.VENEZUELA | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMinh Nguyen-VoStarsThe Lu LeThi Kieu Trinh NguyenHuu Thanh NguyenSet along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.VIETNAM | Status: submitted
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