British and Irish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
This list includes nine films from the UK and one from Ireland, tagged at the end.
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- DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsAnthony AndrewsVladimir IlinElena MayorovaA political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia.
- DirectorPaul TurnerStarsHuw GarmonCatrin FychanCeri CunningtonA young poet living in the North Wales countryside competes for the most coveted prize of all in Welsh Poetry - that of the chair of the National Eisteddfod, a tradition dating back a hundred years. Before the winner is announced Hedd Wyn gets sent to fight with the English in the trenches of the First World War
- DirectorCeri SherlockStarsMorfudd HughesRichard LynchJ.O. RobertsA poignant drama set in both the Wales and Northern Ireland of 1990. Loosely based on the story of the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, one of the Welsh myths.
- DirectorCeri SherlockStarsDaniel EvansSimon FisherAneirin Hughes1942. Delme Davies, a wayward idealistic young man, joins the army in a quest for excitement and adventure. One night he returns home unexpectedly to his widowed mother, Iwanna and brother, Elfed Davies. Absent without leave, he hides in the lofts of Temple Row, the terrace of drab Victorian cottages in Delme's home village in South Wales where his family lives. Despite regular raids from military police, he remains undetected as he has discovered that the attic links all six houses in Temple Row. Delme is able to keep himself hidden by moving from house to house. He spends time with each household, sharing their homes, adapting to each family's ways...
- DirectorPaul MorrisonStarsIoan GruffuddNia RobertsSue Jones-DaviesA tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish.
- DirectorEmlyn WilliamsStarsCaroline BerryRomolo BruniCatrin DafyddMaureen has her hands full at home and can't take care of her father William, who may be suffering from Alzheimer's. Her brothers - Alun, an alcoholic trumpet player, and John, an insensitive businessman - don't really want to help. William, a lifelong socialist, feels angry and resentful towards the British government which has abandoned him in his old age. Having been persuaded by his children to buy a council house in the booming 80s, he discovers that this selfsame government, which made such a virtue of home ownership some ten years earlier, now expects him to sell the property in order to pay for his care. Isolated in old age, Williams secretly decides to put into action a plan to get back at the system.
- DirectorTimothy LynStarsIona JonesRhys RichardsLeisa MereridA gypsy girl arrives in Bethesda to stay with her grandparents.
- DirectorKarl FrancisStarsChristine Rochat GenoudRichard HarringtonLusungu MunthaliAfter the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
- DirectorHavana MarkingStarsRafi NaabzadaLima SaharHameed SakhizadaA documentary about the simultaneously unifying and divisive effects of Afghanistan's version of the TV talent show format on its society. It focuses on "Afghan Star" which airs on the Tolo TV channel in Afghanistan.
- DirectorTom CollinsStarsColm MeaneyDonal O'KellyBrendan ConroyA group of men reunite for a friend's funeral.Ireland