Best Foreign Language Film 2018 (Oscar Submissions)

Soraya, a low-level government official, is imprisoned when she defends a woman from village lords. Behind bars, she writes the Afghan President for help.

Leta has not been able to pay the rent for several months. When she and her one-year-old son are thrown out of their apartment, they move in with Sophie, an old woman confined to bed, whose daughter has just employed Leta as a caretaker. In order to keep her job and a roof over their head, Leta has to keep Sophie alive at any cost.

Elisabeth lives with her daughter Elodie in Belgium. When the police inform her that her daughter has left the country to join the ranks of Islamic State in Syria, she begins to investigate.

Tratto dal romanzo di Antonio Di Benedetto scritto nel 1956 su Don Diego de Zama, narra di un ufficiale spagnolo del diciassettesimo secolo, residente ad Asunción, che attende il suo trasferimento a Buenos Aires.

Yeva is a young woman who escapes her influential in-laws with her daughter Nareh, after her husband's tragic death and takes refuge in one of the villages of Karabakh, Azerbaijan - Yeva is a complete stranger in this village and is obliged to live her daily life in disguise.

Marco is a 35-year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father.

Un dramma su una famiglia ambientato a Calais, con la crisi dei rifugiati in Europa sullo sfondo.

Gabil returns home to the humble family farmstead, surrounded by an orchard of venerable pomegranate trees; since his sudden departure twelve years ago he was never once in contact. However, the deep emotional scars he left behind cannot be erased from one day to the next.

Based on 1947's book 'Ekoi Namer Golpo' by Hasan azizul Haque.

Una brutale banda di criminali di Bruxelles fa da sfondo alla tragica storia d'amore tra Gigi, un ambizioso gangster, e Bibi, una giovane pilota di auto da corsa che proviene dai quartieri alti.

One day, Elder's father dies. He goes on to live with his grandmother in a mining town and manages to get a job thanks to his godfather. It doesn't take long until Elder screws up, which leads him to find out a secret about his father.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, fifteen years after the war. A group of middle-aged Yugoslav War veterans gather in a remote mountain hotel for an extended group-therapy session that unravels the complexities of their pasts.

When Augusto Mendes gets the role of Bingo, he goes through dilemmas such as the fact that he is an anonymous celebrity and that he can't reconcile his work and his family.

A reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry's head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use him as a diversion from a corruption scandal, his simple life falls victim to the grinder of bureaucracy.

Loung Ung, autrice cambogiana e attivista per i diritti umani, racconta gli orrori che ha subito da bambina sotto il dominio dei mortali Khmer rossi.

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.

Marina, una donna transessuale che lavora come cameriera e ha un secondo lavoro in nero come cantante in un nightclub, rimane sconcertata dalla morte del suo compagno più anziano di lei.

China's deadliest special forces operative settles into a quiet life on the sea. When sadistic mercenaries begin targeting nearby civilians, he must leave his newfound peace behind and return to his duties as a soldier and protector.

Willington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to his cousin. While Willington tries to get her back, the rumor of a thief in town and a series of violent murders remind them of a fearful past, that will endanger Mariana.

A young and dedicated nurse is trying to avoid the pain left by her dear cousin's suicide.

Quando il padre dominante di Marijana si ammala gravemente, lei assume il ruolo di capofamiglia. La nuova costellazione di potere le dà anche una nuova libertà che deve trovare un modo per affrontare.

Le dinamiche familiari hanno schiacciato Hana, una madre ceca all'antica e rispettabile, da poco vedova. L'arrivo di Brona e del suo pollo, a volte depresso, cambia la vita di tutti, compresa quella di Brona.

A teachers' world is turned upside down when her husband, a successful headmaster, is caught embezzling from their own school. Did he do this of his own free will - or has his personality been altered by the tumor lurking in his brain? As the teacher is assisting an attorney in providing a legal defense, recent neuroscience forces her to rethink who her husband really is.

Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.

Alba, an 11 year old girl, has to move to her father's house due to her mother's illness. She barely knows him and sharing time with him at home feels weird. Both are shy, both feel lonely but they can't find a way to approach each other.