2018 - Best International Film
List of submissions to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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- DirectorJamshid MahmoudiStarsMohsen TanabandehMojtaba PirzadehFatemeh HosseiniAzim, 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. But at the last moments Faroogh, shamefully makes his decision known to Azim that he's not going to take their mother who is very attached to her grandchildren. Azim who feels lonely and is furious, accidentally finds out that his mother is in dire need of a kidney transplant, otherwise she'll die in 2 months. During his search for a donor, he discovers that Iranians are not legally permitted to donate their organs to foreigners and he is the only donor although the doctor recommends him seriously not to do so. Now, he has to choose between his own life and his mother's whom he has always claimed as the most important one in his life.Afeganistão
- DirectorYasmine ChouikhStarsDjillali BoudjemaaJamila ArresMohamed TakiretIn the remote cemetery of Sidi Boulekbour, Ali, an elderly gravedigger, meets 60-year-old widow Johar, who is visiting her sister's grave for the first time after the death of her husband. Johar wants her final resting place to be next to her sister, so she decides to organize her own funeral and asks Ali to help her. But preparations for the final journey go awry when Ali and Johar unexpectedly start to realize they have feelings for each other.Argélia
- DirectorLuis OrtegaStarsLorenzo FerroCecilia RothLuis GneccoThe angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.Argentina
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsLernik HarutyunyanHermine StepanyanAleksandra PolitikGor 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.Armênia
- DirectorBenjamin GilmourStarsSam SmithMohammad MosamKefayat Lag HumaniFormer Australian soldier, Mike Wheeler, returns to Afghanistan, seeking redemption from the family of a civilian man he killed during the war.Austrália
- DirectorRuth BeckermannStarsKurt WaldheimRuth BeckermannYasser ArafatA 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 .Áustria
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsIrrfan KhanNusrat Imrose TishaParno MittraA story surrounding a person named Javed Hasan and about his family, love, fallout and reunion.Bangladesh
- DirectorDarya ZhukStarsAlina NasibullinaIvan MulinYura BorisovIn 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.Bielorrússia
- DirectorLukas DhontStarsVictor PolsterArieh WorthalterOliver BodartA promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.Bélgica
- DirectorRodrigo PatinoStarsFernando Arze EchalarCristian MercadoPablo EcharriTrying to save his son, an alcoholic bus driver gets involved in a human trafficking case.Bolivia
- DirectorAida BegicStarsIsmail Hakki ÜrünCarol AbboudMotaz Faez BashaThis 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.Bósnia
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsVincent CasselNuno LopesDawid OgrodnikFollows a century in the lives of the Knieps, an Austrian family of circus owners.Brasil
- DirectorIlian DjevelekovStarsVelislav PavlovTeodora DuhovnikovaVesela BabinovaThe story of OMNIPRESENT is centered around Emil, writer and owner of advertising agency who gradually becomes obsessed with spying on his family, friends and employees via hidden spy cameras. What starts as an innocent hobby ends up as a total disaster, as in the process he abuses his new power and eventually comes to realize that some secrets should be left uncovered.Bulgária
- DirectorRithy PanhStarsRandal DoucIn Rithy Panh's latest exploration of the lasting effects of the Cambodian genocide, a 13-year-old boy who loses most of his family begins a search for their graves.Cambodian-born, France-based filmmaker Rithy Panh has dedicated much of his career to investigating the campaign of genocide undertaken by the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian Civil War and memorializing its victims.Camboja
- DirectorSophie DupuisStarsThéodore PellerinJean-Simon LeducPaul AhmaraniJP 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.Canadá
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsJulio JungÁngel ToledoGabino CarihuentroAn author comes back to his hometown in Patagonia, four decades after fleeing it during the repressive Pinochet regime.Chile
- DirectorWen JiangStarsEddie PengFan LiaoYun ZhouA 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."China
- DirectorCristina GallegoCiro GuerraStarsCarmiña MartínezJosé AcostaNatalia ReyesDuring the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.Colômbia