Submissions to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Azim, an afghan refugee, who works at the municipality at night, lives in Tehran along with his family. Being the head of entire family and as the eldest brother, he arranges for his brother Faroogh, and his family along with their mother to be smuggled into Germany.

Alí, un enterrador, conoce a Johar, una viuda, cuando esta visita la tumba de su hermana por primera vez desde la muerte de su marido. Johar quiere descansar junto a su hermana, y pide a Alí que la ayude a organizar su propio funeral.

La angélica máscara de Carlos, un joven de 17 años, esconde una cara de robos, mentiras y asesinatos.

Gor is trying to fly to Armenia from Moscow to search for his family stuck at the very epicentre of the earthquake. Once there, Gor rushes through what's left from the town in search of his small house. On his way, he meets various characters, each one of them with his or her personal tragedy and challenge. The locals strive to find their loved ones - alive or dead, where dead is almost as good as alive because it means that people can get a proper burial. Medics try to help those who survived, working day and night despite the shortage of the medicaments and performing surgeries with the materials on hand. Soldiers and volunteers risk their lives to clear the debris. As Gor doesn't give up looking for his family, his wife and small daughter are still alive under the debris. But as long as there is love, there is hope.

Former Australian soldier, Mike Wheeler, returns to Afghanistan, seeking redemption from the family of a civilian man he killed during the war.

A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II .

A story surrounding a person named Javed Hasan and about his family, love, fallout and reunion.

In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

Lara, quien sueña con ser bailarina, va a cumplir 15 años en el cuerpo de un chico.

Trying to save his son, an alcoholic bus driver gets involved in a human trafficking case.

This is a story about pain, search for meaning in life and friendship of orphaned. Syrian boys - Isa, Ahmed and Muataz - who live a difficult life as refugees in the magical, mythical Turkish city of Sanliurfa. In their search for recovery from traumatic past, the children will cross the path from destructiveness and hostility to meaningfulness and love.

Follows a century in the lives of the Knieps, an Austrian family of circus owners.

Emil, un escritor y dueño de una agencia de publicidad, se obsesiona con espiar a sus conocidos con cámaras. Lo que empieza como inapropiado acaba en desastre, y Emil descubre que algunos secretos están mejor ocultos.

Panh explora los duraderos efectos del genocidio de Camboia.

JP and Vincent, two brothers from a dysfunctional family, get involved in their uncle's drug cartel. Things quickly start spiraling out of control for Vincent, the younger and more unstable of the two.

An author comes back to his hometown in Patagonia, four decades after fleeing it during the repressive Pinochet regime.

A young swordsman in 1930's China returns home to try and solve a five-year-old murder case. Described as the third installment of the gangster trilogy that includes "Let The Bullets Fly" and "Gone With The Bullets."

Durante la época de prosperidad de la marihuana, una década violenta que vio los orígenes del narcotráfico en Colombia, Rapayet y su familia indígena se ven envueltos en una guerra por el control del negocio que acaba destruyendo sus vidas y su cultura.

María José is 25. Her life moves back and forth between the monotony of class at the university, her eternally distant parents, and a couple of alternative spaces where she can explore her own and others' limits. One day, she meets Javier, a boy she really likes and tries to have a relationship with, but her behavior starts changing radically. In fact, she's a few months into her pregnancy and no one knows.

Sinisa Mesjak is an ambitious politician who gets involved in a scandal. In order to keep him away from the public eye, the government sends him to Trecic, an isolated Croatian island with no telephone or internet signal.

Un cosmonauta Rusa queda atrapado en la estación espacial Mir tras el colapso de la Unión Soviética.

Una cómica aventura en carretera que celebra la indulgencia en la impulsividad de la juventud.

Un agente de policía al que se le asigna el servicio de despacho de alarmas entra en una carrera contra el tiempo cuando responde a una llamada de emergencia de una mujer secuestrada.

An Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.

Pipe is invited to join his mysterious father on a quest for the lost Inca gold. But as they journey deeper into the jungle, he understands that they cannot escape the family demons that are traveling with them.