2009 Foreign Academy Award Submissions

Country

Title

Director

Afghanistan

Opium War

Siddiq Barmak

Albania

The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider

Piro Milkani and Eno Milkani

Algeria

Masquerades

Lyes Salem

Argentina

Lion’s Den

Pablo Trapero

Austria

Revanche

Gotz Spielmann

Azerbaijan

Fortress

Shamil Nacafzada

Bangladesh

Aha!

Enamul Karim Nirjhar

Belgium

Eldorado

Bouli Lanners

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Snow

Aida Begic

Brazil

Last Stop 174

Bruno Barreto

Bulgaria

Zift

Javor Gardev

Canada

The Necessities of Life

Benoit Pilon

Chile

Tony Manero

Pablo Larrain

China

Dream Weavers

Jun Gu

Colombia

Dog Eat Dog

Carlos Moreno

Croatia

No One’s Son

Arsen Anton Ostojic

Czech Republic

The Karamazovs

Petr Zelenka

Denmark

Worlds Apart

Niels Arden Oplev

Egypt

The Island

Sherif Arafa

Estonia

I Was Here

Rene Vilbre

Finland

The Home of Dark Butterflies

Dome Karukoski

France

The Class

Laurent Cantet

Georgia

Mediator

Dito Tsintsadze

Germany

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Uli Edel

Greece

Correction

Thanos Anastopoulos

Hong Kong

Painted Skin

Gordon Chan

Hungary

Iska’s Journey

Csaba Bollok

Iceland

White Night Wedding

Baltasar Kormakur

India

Taare Zameen Par

Aamir Khan

Iran

The Song of Sparrows

Majid Majidi

Israel

Waltz with Bashir

Ari Folman

Italy

Gomorra

Matteo Garrone

Japan

Departures

Yojiro Takita

Jordan

Captain Abu Raed

Amin Matalqa

Kazakhstan

Tulpan

Sergey Dvortsevoy

Korea

Crossing

Tae-kyun Kim

Kyrgyzstan

Heavens Blue

Marie Jaoul de Poncheville

Latvia

Defenders of Riga

Aigars Grauba

Lebanon

Under the Bombs

Philippe Aractingi

Lithuania

Loss

Maris Martinsons

Luxembourg

Nuits d’Arabie

Paul Kieffer

Macedonia

I’m from Titov Veles

Teona Strugar Mitevska

Mexico

Tear This Heart Out

Roberto Sneider

Morocco

Goodbye Mothers

Mohamed Ismail

The Netherlands

Dunya & Desie

Dana Nechushtan

Norway

O’Horten

Bent Hamer

Palestine

Salt of This Sea

Annemarie Jacir

Philippines

Ploning

Dante Nico Garcia

Poland

Tricks

Andrzej Jakimowski

Portugal

Our Beloved Month of August

Miguel Gomes

Romania

The Rest Is Silence

Nae Caranfil

Russia

Mermaid

Anna Melikyan

Serbia

The Tour

Goran Markovic

Singapore

My Magic

Eric Khoo

Slovakia

Blind Loves

Juraj Lehotsky

Slovenia

Rooster’s Breakfast

Marko Nabersnik

South Africa

Jerusalema

Ralph Ziman

Spain

The Blind Sunflowers

Jose Luis Cuerda

Sweden

Everlasting Moments

Jan Troell

Switzerland

The Friend

Micha Lewinsky

Taiwan

Cape No. 7

Te-Sheng Wei

Thailand

Love of Siam

Chookiat Sakveerakul

Turkey

3 Monkeys

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Ukraine

Illusion of Fear

Aleksandr Kiriyenko

United Kingdom

Hope Eternal

Karl Francis

Uruguay

Kill Them All

Esteban Schroeder

Venezuela

The Color of Fame

Alejandro Bellame Palacios