Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards held in 2000 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
47 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1999 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorManuel García FerréStarsPelusa SueroRosario Sánchez AlmadaEnrique ConlazoBased on the popular children's song by María Elena Walsh, a young female turtle goes on an adventure where she becomes a fashion model in Paris while missing home and longing for the love of her best friend.░░░░║► ARGENTINA ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: Spanish
╚▷ Continent: America
◾ 26th submission from Argentina
◾ 1st submission for Manuel García Ferré
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Other submitted Films by this Director: none
[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBarbara AlbertStarsNina ProllEdita MalovcicAstrit AlihajdarajJasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.░░░░║► AUSTRIA ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: German
╚▷ Continent: Europe
◾ 23rd submission from Austria
◾ 1st submission for Barbara Albert
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Other submitted Films by this Director:
⚫ 2003/76th: Free Radicals [AUSTRIA]
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsÉmilie DequenneFabrizio RongioneAnne YernauxYoung and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.░░░░║► BELGIUM ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: French
╚▷ Continent: Europe
◾ 24th submission from Belgium
◾ 1st submission for Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
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Other submitted Films by this Directors:
⚫ 2002/75th: The Son [BELGIUM]
⚫ 2005/78th: The Child [BELGIUM]
⚫ 2014/87th: Two Days, One Night [BELGIUM]
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKhyentse NorbuStarsOrgyen TobgyalNeten ChoklingJamyang LodroWhile the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha in a rapidly changing world.░░░░║► BHUTAN ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: Tibetan
╚▷ Continent: Asia
◾ 1st submission from Bhutan
◾ 1st submission for Khyentse Norbu
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Other submitted Films by this Director: none
[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsToni GarridoPatrícia FrançaMurilo BenícioIn a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.░░░░║► BRAZIL ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: Portuguese
╚▷ Continent: America
◾ 27th submission from Brazil
◾ 6th submission for Carlos Diegues
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Other submitted Films by this Director:
⚫ 1976/49th: Xica [BRAZIL]
⚫ 1980/53rd: Bye Bye Brazil [BRAZIL]
⚫ 1987/60th: Subway to the Stars [BRAZIL]
⚫ 1989/62nd: Better Days Ahead [BRAZIL]
⚫ 1996/69th: Tieta of Agreste [BRAZIL]
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLéa PoolStarsKarine VanassePascale BussièresPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicIn the year 1963, an awkward thirteen-year-old girl comes of age during her escapism into the world of cinema, with potentially dangerous results.░░░░║► CANADA ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: French
╚▷ Continent: America
◾ 25th submission from Canada
◾ 1st submission for Léa Pool
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Other submitted Films by this Director: none
[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorXiaoning FengStarsJing NingPaul KerseyXinjun WangThe film tells the story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese poeple when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese army after an emergency landing near the Great Wall. On the way to the Communist base, the pilot falls in love with a girl soldier whose lingering memory of being raped by the Japanese makes her a determined fighter. Half a century later, the American pilot returns to the Yellow River to pay his respects to the native people who rescued him.░░░░║► CHINA ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: Mandarin
╚▷ Continent: Asia
◾ 14th submission from China
◾ 1st submission for Feng Xiaoning
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Other submitted Films by this Director: none
[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSergio CabreraStarsEmma SuárezNicolás MonteroCésar MoraAn oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that has been named New Texas so it becomes the target of the guerrillas. The confrontation is altered in the interest of the sides of continuing the transmission of the World Cup qualifiers of U.S. 94 on the only TV working in the town.░░░░║► COLOMBIA ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: Spanish
╚▷ Continent: America
◾ 9th submission from Colombia
◾ 2nd submission for Sergio Cabrera
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Other submitted Films by this Director:
⚫ 1994/67th: The Strategy of the Snail [COLOMBIA]
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsJosip KuchanMarko MatanovicIvo GregurevicWistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.░░░░║► CROATIA ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: Croatian
╚▷ Continent: Europe
◾ 9th submission from Croatia
◾ 3rd submission for Zrinko Ogresta
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Other submitted Films by this Directors:
⚫ 1991/64th: Fragments [CROATIA]
⚫ 1995/68th: Washed Out [CROATIA]
⚫ 2016/89th: On the Other Side [CROATIA]
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSasa GedeonStarsPavel LiskaAnna GeislerováTatiana DykováFrantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as an idiot. He becomes involved in various love and family conflicts. It is because he hasn't experienced much of the "real" life that he is able to perceive human relationships in their genuineness.░░░░║► CZECH REPUBLIC ◄║░░░░
STATUS: submitted
╚▷ Language: Czech
╚▷ Continent: Europe
◾ 5th submission from Czech Republic
◾ 1st submission for Saša Gedeon
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Other submitted Films by this Director: none
[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsIben HjejleAnders W. BerthelsenJesper AsholtKresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.DENMARK | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLazar RistovskiStarsLazar RistovskiRadmila ShegolevaDragan NikolicA sergeant officer lives a life of a loner, reads literary classics and dreams about acting. On his journey by train, he madly falls in love with a prostitute, but her pimp - another passenger on a train - is not willing to let her go, which makes their destiny tragic.FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannJuha VeijonenTeemu LehtiläHäjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.FINLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRégis WargnierStarsOleg MenshikovSandrine BonnaireCatherine DeneuveIn June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Aleksei Golovin, his French wife Marie and their young son. Marie is accused to be a spy, her French passport is torn up and Aleksei accepts to move to Kyiv with his family to save her. They are sent to a room in a communal house and soon Marie befriends the super, an old woman who speaks French. But she is denounced and killed by the government agents. Marie feels guilty and brings her grandson Sasha Vasilyev, who will be evicted, to live in her room with her family. Marie wants to return to her family in France, but Aleksei explains that they are imprisoned in Russia. Marie tries a contact with the leftist French actress Gabrielle Develay to ask for help to leave the USSR. While Marie gets distant from her husband, she gets closer to Sacha, who is a great swimmer and the only chance to Marie contact her family.FRANCE | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsZura BegalishviliNino KoberidzeNino LejavaThe head of the security service is faced with a choice: to continue serving the state or to give up everything in order to save his sick son.GEORGIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMax FärberböckStarsMaria SchraderJuliane KöhlerJohanna WokalekIn 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.GERMANY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsStathis PapadopoulosCostas KotsianidisPanagiotis ChartomatsidisA group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.GREECE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAnn HuiStarsKang-sheng LeeAnthony Chau-Sang WongKwan-Ho TseOrdinary Heroes is a 1999 Cantonese-language film directed by Ann Hui. It was co-produced by Hong Kong and China. It concerns social reform activists in Hong Kong. The film's Chinese title refers to a popular song by Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng.HONG KONG | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsZoltán MucsiPéter SchererJózsef SzarvasA portrait of the wild capitalism after the regime change in Hungary, in which the characters show with a continuous change of identity how interests override everything. But in the end, everyone ends up in the same place and the same way.HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGuðný HalldórsdóttirStarsTinna GunnlaugsdóttirRagnhildur GísladóttirAgneta EkmannerA hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger sister by hiding the shame of her pregnancy.ICELAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsAamir KhanNandita DasRahul KhannaIt's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl witnesses tragedy as her ayah (nanny) is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarselli SumarnoStarsRini AriyantiSardono W. KusumoR.M.T. RonosuriptoSri is a village girl married to Hendro, a 70-year old Javanese aristocrat. When Hendro falls ill, she has to nurse him back to health and negotiates with the God of Death not to take him away.INDONESIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMajid MajidiStarsHossein MahjoubMohsen RamezaniSalameh FeyziThe story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.IRAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorArik KaplunStarsEvelyn KaplunNir LevyShmil Ben AriThree parallel strories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsMargherita BuySilvio OrlandoCarolina FreschiThe rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.ITALY | Status: submitted
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