Best Foreign Language Film submissions for the 90th Academy Awards in March 2018 are due at the beginning of October. The Foreign Film Shortlist is announced in January.
2018 Best Foreign Language Film Submissions
Submissions closed October 2, 2017.
The Foreign Film Shortlist will be announced in early January.
Nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.
Spanish-language Entries
Argentina
Zama
Lucrecia Martel
Spanish
Bolivia
Viejo Calavera
(Dark Skull)
Kiro Russo
Spanish
Chile
Una mujer fantástica
(A Fantastic Woman)
Sebastián Lelio
Spanish
Colombia
Pariente
(Guilty Men)
Iván Gaona
Spanish
Costa Rica
El Sonido de las Cosas
(The Sound of Things)
Ariel Escalante
Spanish
Dominican Republic
Carpinteros
(Woodpeckers)
José María Cabral
Spanish
Ecuador
Alba
Ana Cristina Barragán
Spanish
Honduras
https://youtu.be/jggEOVETGO8
Morazán
Hispano Durón
Spanish
Mexico
Tempestad
Tatiana Huezo
Spanish
Panama
Más que hermanos
(Beyond Brotherhood)
Arianne Benedetti
Spanish
Paraguay
Los Buscadores
Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori
Spanish, Guarani
Peru
Rosa Chumbe
Jonatan Relayze
Spanish
Uruguay
Otra historia del mundo
(Another Story of the World)
Guillermo Casanova
Spanish
Venezuela
El Inca
Ignacio Castillo Cottin
Spanish
Catalan-language Entries
Spain
Estiu 1993
(Summer 1993)
Carla Simón
Catalan
Portuguese-language Entries
Brazil
Bingo: O Rei Das Manhãs
(Bingo: The King of Mornings)
Daniel Rezende
Portuguese
Mozambique
Comboio de Sal e Açúcar
(The Train of Salt and Sugar)
Licínio Azevedo
Portuguese
Portugal
São Jorge
(Saint George)
Marco Martins
Portuguese
Italian-language Entries
Italy
A Ciambra
Jonas Carpignano
Italian
Australia
https://youtu.be/8sYLibWZrRs
The Space Between
Ruth Borgobello
Italian, English
French-language Entries
Algeria
La Route d’Istanbul
(Road to Istanbul)
Rachid Bouchareb
French
Austria
Happy End
Michael Haneke
French, English
Belgium
Le Fidèle
(Racer and the Jailbird)
Michaël R. Roskam
French
French Canada
Hochelaga terre des âmes
(Hochelaga, Land of Souls)
François Girard
French, English, Mohawk, Algonquin
France
120 battements par minute
BPM (Beats per Minute)
Robin Campillo
French
Haiti
Ayiti mon amour
Guetty Felin
French
Lebanon
https://youtu.be/lwVCaD971Eo
L’insulte
(The Insult)
Ziad Doueiri
Arabic, French
Luxembourg
Barrage
DIRECTOR Laura Schroeder
STARRING Isabelle Huppert
French
Senegal
Félicité
Alain Gomis
Lingala, French
Romanian-language Entries
Romania
https://youtu.be/4c7R3GzrXFI
Fixeur
Adrian Sitaru
Romanian
Hebrew-language Entries
Israel
פוֹקְסטְרוֹט
Foxtrot
Samuel Maoz
Hebrew