List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result  Afghanistan The Black Tulip[7] The Black Tulip, لاله سیاه Dari, Pashto, English, Arabic, Italian Sonia Nassery Cole Not nominated[8]  Albania East, West, East[9] Lindje, Perëndim, Lindje Albanian, Italian, Slovene, Serbian Gjergj Xhuvani Not nominated  Algeria Hors la Loi[10] Hors-la-loi, خارجون عن القانون French, Arabic Rachid Bouchareb Nominated[5]  Argentina Carancho[11] Carancho Spanish Pablo Trapero Not nominated  Austria La Pivellina[12] La Pivellina Italian Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel Not nominated  Azerbaijan The Precinct[13] Sahə Azeri, Russian Ilgar Safat Not nominated  Bangladesh Third Person Singular Number[14] থার্ড পারসন সিঙ্গুলার নাম্বার (Thārḍa pārasana siṅgulāra nāmbāra) Bengali Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Not nominated  Belgium Illegal[15] Illègal French, Russian, English Olivier Masset-Depasse Not nominated  Bosnia and Herzegovina Circus Columbia[16] Cirkus Columbia Bosnian, English Danis Tanović Not nominated  Brazil Lula, the Son of Brazil[17] Lula, o filho do Brasil Portuguese Fábio Barreto Not nominated  Bulgaria Eastern Plays[18] Eastern Plays Bulgarian, Turkish, English Kamen Kalev Not nominated  Canada Incendies[3] Incendies French, Arabic Denis Villeneuve Nominated[5]  Chile The Life of Fish[19] La vida de los peces Spanish Matías Bize Not nominated  China Aftershock[20] 唐山大地震 (Tángshān Dà Dìzhèn) Mandarin Feng Xiaogang Not nominated  Colombia Crab Trap[21] El vuelco del cangrejo Spanish Oscar Ruíz Navia Not nominated  Costa Rica Of Love and Other Demons[22] Del amor y otros demonios Spanish Hilda Hidalgo Not nominated  Croatia The Blacks[23] Crnci Croatian Goran Devic & Zvonimir Juric Not nominated  Czech Republic Kawasaki’s Rose[24] Kawasakiho růže Czech Jan Hřebejk Not nominated  Denmark In a Better World[25] Hævnen Danish, Swedish, English, Arabic, Catalan, Spanish Susanne Bier Won Academy Award[6]  Egypt Messages from the Sea[26] رسائل البحر (Rassayel El Bahr) Arabic Daoud Abdel Sayed Not nominated  Estonia The Temptation of St. Tony[27] Püha Tõnu kiusamine Estonian Veiko Õunpuu Not nominated  Ethiopia The Athlete[3] Atletu Amharic, English, Oromo, Norwegian Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew Not nominated  Finland Steam of Life[28] Miesten vuoro Finnish Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen Not nominated  France Of Gods and Men[3] Des hommes et des dieux French, Arabic Xavier Beauvois Not nominated  Georgia Street Days[29] ქუჩის დღეები (Kuchis dgeebi) Georgian Levan Koguashvili Not nominated  Germany When We Leave[3] Die Fremde German, Turkish Feo Aladag Not nominated  Greece Dogtooth[30] Κυνόδοντας (Kynodontas) Greek Yorgos Lanthimos Nominated[5]  Greenland Nuummioq[31] Nuummioq Greenlandic, Danish Torben Bech, Otto Rosing Not nominated  Hungary Bibliothèque Pascal[32] Bibliothèque Pascal Romanian, Hungarian, English Szabolcs Hajdu Not nominated  Hong Kong Echoes of the Rainbow[33] 歲月神偷 (Seoi jyut san tau) Cantonese Alex Law Not nominated  Iceland Mamma Gogo[34] Mamma Gógó Icelandic Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Not nominated  India Peepli [Live][35] पीपली लाइव, Peepli [Live] Hindi Anusha Rizvi Not nominated  Indonesia How Funny (This Country Is)[36] Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini) Indonesian Deddy Mizwar Not nominated  Iran Farewell Baghdad[3] بدرود بغداد (Khodahafez Baghdad) Arabic, English, Persian Mehdi Naderi Not nominated  Iraq Son of Babylon[37] ابن بابل (Abn Babil) Arabic, Kurdish Mohamed Al-Daradji Not nominated  Israel The Human Resources Manager[38] שליחותו של הממונה על משאבי אנוש (Shliḥuto shel Ha’Memuneh al Mash’abey Enosh) Hebrew, Romanian, English Eran Riklis Not nominated  Italy La Prima Cosa Bella[39] La prima cosa bella Italian Paolo Virzì Not nominated  Japan Confessions[40] 告白 (Kokuhaku) Japanese Tetsuya Nakashima Made shortlist[4]  Kazakhstan Strayed[41] Заблудившийся (Zabludivshiysya) Russian Akan Satayev Not nominated  Kyrgyzstan The Light Thief[31] Свет-аке (Svet-Ake) Kyrgyz Aktan Arym Kubat Not nominated  Latvia Hong Kong Confidential[42] Amaya Cantonese, Japanese, English Māris Martinsons Not nominated Macedonia Mothers[43] Мајки (Majki) Macedonian Milčo Mančevski Not nominated  Mexico Biutiful[44] Biutiful Spanish, Chinese, Wolof Alejandro González Iñárritu Nominated[5]  Netherlands Tirza[45] Tirza Dutch, English Rudolf van den Berg Not nominated  Nicaragua La Yuma[46] La Yuma Spanish Florence Jaugey Not nominated  Norway Angel[47] Engelen Norwegian Margreth Olin Not nominated  Peru Undertow[48] Contracorriente Spanish Javier Fuentes-León Not nominated  Philippines Noy[49] Noy Filipino, English Dondon Santos Not nominated  Poland All That I Love[50] Wszystko, co kocham Polish Jacek Borcuch Not nominated  Portugal To Die Like a Man[51] Morrer Como Um Homem Portuguese João Pedro Rodrigues Not nominated  Puerto Rico Miente[52] Miente Spanish Rafi Mercado Not nominated  Romania If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle[53] Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier Romanian Florin Șerban Not nominated  Russia The Edge[54] Край (Kray) Russian Alexei Uchitel Not nominated  Serbia Besa[55] Беса (Besa) Serbian, Albanian Srđan Karanović Not nominated  Slovakia Hranica[56] Hranica Slovak, Hungarian Jaroslav Vojtek Not nominated  Slovenia 9:06[56] 9:06 Slovene Igor Sterk Not nominated  South Africa Life, Above All[3] Life, Above All Northern Sotho Oliver Schmitz Made shortlist[4]  South Korea A Barefoot Dream[3] 맨발의 꿈 (Maenbalui Kkum) Korean, Tetum Kim Tae-kyun Not nominated  Spain Even the Rain[57] También la lluvia Spanish, Quechua, English Icíar Bollaín Made shortlist[4]  Sweden Simple Simon[58] I rymden finns inga känslor Swedish Andreas Öhman Made shortlist[4]  Switzerland La petite chambre[59] La petite chambre French Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond Not nominated  Taiwan Monga[60] 艋舺 (Báng-kah) Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien Doze Niu Not nominated  Thailand Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives[61] ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ (Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat) Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul Not nominated  Turkey Bal[61] Bal Turkish Semih Kaplanoglu Not nominated  Uruguay A Useful Life[61] La vida útil Spanish Federico Veiroj Not nominated  Venezuela Hermano[62] Hermano Spanish Marcel Rasquin Not nominated