Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards held in 2000 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category

Based 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.

Jasmin, 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.

La giovane e impulsiva Rosetta vive con la madre alcolizzata. Spinta dalla disperazione, farà di tutto per mantenere un lavoro.

In northern India, in 1998. Palden and Nyima, two young Tibetans in exile, find refuge in Chokling Monastery, where they will soon receive their ordination.

In a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.

In the year 1963, an awkward thirteen-year-old girl comes of age during her escapism into the world of cinema, with potentially dangerous results.

The story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese people when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese army after an emergency landing near the Great Wall.

An 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.

Wistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.

Frantisek, 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.

Kresten'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.

A 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.

Häjyt 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.

Nel giugno 1946, Stalin invita i russi esiliati dalla Rivoluzione del 1917 a tornare a casa. Quando le navi sbarcano a Odessa, i passeggeri vengono divisi in due gruppi e uno di loro viene giustiziato.

The 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.

In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.

A 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.

Ordinary 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.

A 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.

A hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger sister by hiding the shame of her pregnancy.

Nel 1947, durante la Partizione dell'India, una bambina vede la sua tata divisa tra due amanti mentre il conflitto religioso travolge le loro vite.

Sri 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.

The 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.

Three parallel strories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.