Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 67th Academy Awards held in 1995 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
45 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1994 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorMalik Lakhdar-HaminaStarsMalik Lakhdar-HaminaNina KoritzMerwan Lakhdar-HaminaThe story of a family in the instability and violence that shook Algeria during the riots of October 1988 in the midst of the rise of fundamentalism and intolerance, disappointments and prohibitions, corruption, nepotism and abuse of power. On October 5, 1988, young Algerians occupied the streets... Afterwards, Algeria would plunge into the chaos of the Black Decade which would last more than ten years and leave more than 150,000 dead.ALGERIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsMiguel Ángel SoláPepe SorianoMartín CoriaA computer programmer who, after his train breaks down, takes to wandering aimlessly through remote regions of La Pampa, Viedma and Carhue. he meets a succession of equally lost souls, including a globe-trotting gambler, a circus owner whose performers left him "because the whole country was a circus: and a tarot card reader with large gaps in her knowledge of the future.ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsChristoph DostalAndreas LustAndreas SimmaIn a small army base at the Eastern border of Austria a young recruit is trained to be a soldier to protect his country in case of war. He has to stay for 8 months and during this time he escapes in his own fantasy world...AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorYolande ZaubermanStarsRoma AlexandrovitchAleksandr YakovlevVladimir MashkovThe action of the movie takes place in the thirties before the Jewish pogrom in the border town of Poland, which became a kind of emigration zone. Two teenagers - Ivan and Abram - run away from the dictates of adults into a big life.BELARUS | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGérard CorbiauStarsStefano DionisiEnrico Lo VersoElsa ZylbersteinThe story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.BELGIUM | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorNenad DizdarevicStarsDrasko TrninicSedin KahrimanIgor BjelanAdaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII.BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRithy PanhStarsPeng PhanMom SothChhim NalineIn Cambodian refugee camps, when children are asked where rice comes from, they answer, "from UN lorries". They have never seen a rice field. One day, these children will have to learn to live in Cambodia, i.e., they will have to learn to cultivate, to plough, to work the land. Rice people tries to share this way of life, to demonstrate the fragile equilibrium on which it lies and the freedom it represents.CAMBODIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMichel BraultStarsGeneviève BujoldMarthe KellerJohanne McKayCatherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?CANADA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGonzalo JustinianoStarsJulio JungPedro VicuñaJosé SecallShortly after the return to democracy in Chile, the memories of a traumatised man who unwillingly participated in human rights abuses as a soldier in the Atacama Desert are stirred up when he sees his sadistic old commanding officer in the street.CHILE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSergio CabreraStarsFausto CabreraFrank RamírezDelfina GuidoA group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken, but decide to unite and come up with a strategy.COLOMBIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsGoran NavojecSanja MarinHorst JansonThe story follows a group of Croatian refugees who have been forced to leave their hometown of Vukovar by Serbian forces during Croatia's struggle for independence. The people are settled at a railway station in a village near Vukovar, where they live in a train which is adapted to serve as a temporary accommodation.The situation grows dim as the date of their return proves to be uncertain, and the lives of the survivors and refugees becomes more and more complicated being burdened by PTSP and strong feelings of hope to return to their homestead.CROATIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaJuan Carlos TabíoStarsJorge PerugorríaVladimir CruzMirta IbarraStory of two men who are opposites: one gay, the other straight; one a fierce communist, the other a fierce individualist; one suspicious, the other accepting; and how they come to love each other.CUBA | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPetr CepekJan KrausVladimír KudlaAn ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.CZECH REPUBLIC | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorErik ClausenStarsMorten GundelAnders ForchhammerNikolaj Lie KaasCarl Nielsen's life from drummer with the village's playmates to regimentation musician and composer on the throne of world renown.DENMARK | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsFaten HamamahYehia El-FakharanyHesham SelimNargis is a mother who just got an opportunity to travel to America within 24 hours. Her son and daughter persuaded her and motivated her to immigrate to the Land of dream (America). Tonight is New Year's Eve and Nargis lost her passport and ticket. As she was looking for her passport everywhere, she meets Raouf who works a Magician that entertain many tricks with Nargis. After a long night between Nargis and Raouf, she finds out that the Land of Dreams is the Land where you can find them and they become true. She decided to stay in Egypt and did not travel.EGYPT | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBoro DraskovicStarsMirjana JokovicBoris IsakovicSvetlana BojkovicThis movie describes the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnicly mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphore.FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsÉlodie BouchezGaël MorelStéphane RideauThe fates of two partners are divided.FRANCE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsCorinna HarfouchMeret BeckerAugust ZirnerEast-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.GERMANY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLuis ArguetaStarsOscar AlmengorPablo ArenalesHector ArguetaA boy struggles against his stifling family life during the 1954 Guatemala coup.GUATEMALA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHo YimStarsSiqin GaowaChung-Hua TouJingwu MaGuan Jian wants to report the murder of his father who died 10 years ago. The alleged murderer whom Guan Jian accuses of the crime is his own mother.HONG KONG | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJános SzászStarsLajos KovácsDiana VacaruÉva IgóEverything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, and full of energy.HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsÖrvar Jens ArnarssonRúrik HaraldssonSigrún HjálmtýsdóttirThe story of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s. Tomas loves the movies and is highly influenced by them.ICELAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorShekhar KapurStarsSeema BiswasNirmal PandeyRajesh VivekThe story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarhad KheradmandZarifeh ShivaA depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).IRAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorShmuel HasfariStarsGila AlmagorRonit ElkabetzEti AdarA Westernized teenager struggles to come to terms with the white magic practiced by members of her family.ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGianni AmelioStarsEnrico Lo VersoMichele PlacidoPiro MilkaniImmediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.ITALY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorIsao TakahataStarsShinchô KokonteiMakoto NonomuraYuriko IshidaA community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.JAPAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.MACEDONIA | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsErnesto LaguardiaJulieta EgurrolaBlanca GuerraThe film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually.MEXICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTheo van GoghStarsAriane SchluterAd van KempenSarah, 30, single, well educated, likes art, places a voice ad for phone sex, inviting replies from men under 35, sturdy and sensual.NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarius HolstStarsMartin Dahl GarfalkTrond HalboJan Devo KornstadThe young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60s Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.NORWAY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsDiego BertieAdriana DávilaJorge ChiarellaBased on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment': Ramón is a lonely laws student that lives in a rented room and thinks he has committed the perfect crime, but can't stand the consequences. A story of irrationality, anxiety and suffering.PERU | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsZbigniew ZamachowskiJulie DelpyJanusz GajosAfter his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.POLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsTeresa RobyPedro HestnesRita Lopes AlvesLisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJacobo MoralesStarsDaniel LugoJohanna RosalyJacobo MoralesFacing financial ruin, four siblings decide to sell the valuables within their mother's house, without telling her and by embellishing their history.PUERTO RICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDan PitaStarsCristian IacobIrina MovilaLiliana BicleaA story set in Romania around the time after the revolution. An invalid befriends two brothers, Pepe and Fifi, who dream of becoming famous and rich, but neither of them manages to escape the tentacles of the mob.ROMANIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNikita MikhalkovIngeborga DapkunaiteOleg MenshikovIn the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.RUSSIA | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMiloslav LutherStarsIngrid TimkováJuraj SimkoJosef VajnarThe story about events during the First World War. The wife of an officer of the Austrian army decides to surprise her husband and to visit him in his unit at Christmas time. She is disappointed to find only a cruel soldier. Fate makes her be present at the time when he is suffering from pain and slowly dying. She asks a therapeutic, a prisoner in a near-by camp, to rid her husband of his pain.SLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAles VerbicStarsTanja DimitrievskaDamjana GrasicUrska HlebecA group of nine friends go to the mountains of Triglav in seek of Morana, goddess of death. And end up being killed one by one.SLOVENIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJeong Ji-yeongStarsYoung Jae Dok-GoKim Hye-suHuh Joon-hoThe story of film director Yun Myoggil and his best friend Lim Byoungsuk whom has obsessive with watching American film. Lim gave his playscript to Yun to make a film. Yun begins to realise that the most of script was replicated.SOUTH KOREA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsFiorella FaltoyanoAmparo LarrañagaMaribel VerdúIn this latest Spanish-language remake of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic sentimental drama, a group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent.SPAIN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorColin NutleyStarsHelena BergströmReine BrynolfssonEwa FrölingBlackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.SWEDEN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsIrène JacobJean-Louis TrintignantFrédérique FederA model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAng LeeStarsSihung LungKuei-Mei YangWang Yu-wenA senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.TAIWAN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorOrhan OguzStarsTalat BulutSerap SaglarPinar AfsarAhmet Bedevi, also known as Tarzan of Manisa, was born in 1900 in Baghdad to become a soldier, fighting in the War of Independence and honored with a medal. He returned to a ruined and destroyed Manisa in 1923. Bedevi started working at the Municipality as a fireman and a gardener. He became the pioneer and symbol of planting activities.TURKEY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAlejandro SadermanStarsVerónica OddóElba EscobarJuan Carlos GenéA fugitive bursts into the home of two Catholic nuns. In an attempt to save his life, they hide him from the marauding military patrols, despite the danger they face if they are caught.VENEZUELA | Status: submitted
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