The deadline to submit films in the international feature Oscar category was Oct. 3, but the Academy has not yet announced the full list of accepted titles, so it is a provisional report. AMPAS will release a shortlist of 15 movies on Dec. 21 and the nominations will be announced Jan. 24. The Oscar ceremony will take place March 12 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
ALBANIA
A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On
Director: Gentian Koçi
LOGLINE: Deaf-mute twins in Tirana discover they have a genetical disease that will take away their sight slowly. They have a decision to make.
INTERNATIONAL SALES: M-Appeal
ALGERIA
Our Brothers
Director. Rachid Bouchareb
LOGLINE: Mixing documentary and fiction, pic explores police violence and the deaths of student Malik Oussekine and bar patron Abdel Benyahia.
INTL. SALES: Wild Bunch
ARGENTINA
Director: Santiago Mitre
LOGLINE: Lawyers battle Argentina’s military junta in the 1980s.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Amazon Prime Video
ARMENIA
Aurora’s Sunrise
Director: Inna Sahakyan
LOGLINE: Based on Aurora Madriganian’s bestselling autobiography, the animated film details her escape from genocide as a teen and rise to stardom.
INTL. SALES: Bars Media
AUSTRIA
Director: Maria Kruetzer
LOGLINE: Fictional story on a year in the life of Austria’s Empress Elisabeth.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: IFC Films
BANGLADESH
Director: Mejbaur Rahman Sumon
LOGLINE: When fisherman catch a beautiful woman in their net, mistrust and murder follow.
INTL. SALES: MUBI
BELGIUM
Director: Lukas Dhont
LOGLINE: Cannes grand prix winner about two teenage friends whose bond is suddenly shattered.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: A24
BOLIVIA
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
LOGLINE: An unusually harsh drought causes a dilemma for longtime couple Virginio and Sisa: Do they continue as they were or resist?
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 
Director: Aida Begić
LOGLINE: Meri returns home after her marriage falls apart but things are not going well, so she auditions for a film role.
INTL. SALES: Film House, Sarajevo
BRAZIL
Director: Gabriel Martins
LOGLINE: Members of a working-class family pursue dreams of escaping the lives laid out for them by society.
INTL. SALES: Magnolia Pictures
BULGARIA
In the Heart of the Machine
Director: Martin Makariev
LOGLINE: Prisoners doing forced labor in a steel plant find their lives changed one day.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Amazon Prime Video
CAMBODIA
Director: Davy Chou
LOGLINE: Twenty-five-year-old woman adopted by a French couple seeks out her birth parents during a trip to South Korea.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Classic Pictures
CAMEROON
The Planter’s Plantation
Director: Dingha Young Eystein
LOGLINE:A young girl fights to preserve her father’s legacy on a West African plantation in the 1960s.
PRODCO: Extrafix, BGC Melody Story, Inn Amore Pictures
CANADA
Eternal Spring
Director: Jason Loftus
LOGLINE: Animated documentary on Falun Gong’s takeover of a Chinese state broadcaster.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Lofty Sky Pictures
CHILE
Blanquita
Director: Fernando Guzzoni
LOGLINE: Venice player based on the real-life “Spiniak Case” revolving around businessmen trafficking in foster-care children
INTL. SALES: New Europe Sales
COLOMBIA
The Kings of the World
Director: Laura Mora Ortega
LOGLINE: San Sebastian competition pic on street kids from Medillin who leave the city to live on
and one of them inherited from his grandmother.
INTL. SALES: Film Factory
COSTA RICA
Domingo and the Mist
Director: Ariel Escalante
LOGLINE: Cannes’ Un Certain Regard entry centers on a Costa Rican man who fights attempts to destroy his home for a highway.
INTL. SALES: Films Boutique
CROATIA
Director: Juraj Lerotić
LOGLINE: Locarno and Sarajevo fest winner is an autobiographical story about one brother trying help the other in the wake of his suicide attempt.
INTL. SALES: Pipser
CZECHIA
Director: Petr Václav
LOGLINE: San Sebastian competition player is about conductor Josef Mysliveček, nicknamed the Bohemian, who was a mentor
of Mozart’s.
INTL. SALES: Loco Films
DENMARK
Director: Ali Abbasi
LOGLINE: Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the actress prize at Cannes for this story of a journo who investigates a serial killer in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad.
INTL. SALES: Utopia
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Bantu Mama
Director: Ivan Herrera
LOGLINE: An Afro-European woman is sheltered by three kids in dangerous area of Santo Domingo.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Array Releasing
ECUADOR
Lo Invisible
Director: Javier Andrade
LOGLINE: 2021 Toronto entry about a woman who is expected to keep her postpartum depression invisible and descends into madness.
INTL. SALES: Trópico Cine
ESTONIA
Kalev
Director: Ove Musting
LOGLINE: Celebrated Estonian basketball team Kalev must decide whether to participate in championship games in 1990 when the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.
INTL. SALES: Film New Europe
FINLAND
Girl Picture
Director: Alli Haapasalo
LOGLINE: Portrait of Gen Y trio growing up in Helsinki, which unspooled in TIFF digital screenings.
INTL. SALES: Nordisk Film
FRANCE
Director: Alice Diop
LOGLINE: Venice prizewinner centers around a real-life infanticide court case in which the mother, a doctoral student, claims sorcery as the culprit.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Neon/Super
GEORGIA
A Long Break
Director: Davit Pirtskhalava
LOGLINE: A harmless reunion turns into a gathering about holding a former bully to task. Unspooled at TIFF.
INTL. SALES: Syndicado
GERMANY
All Quiet on the Western Front
Director: Edward Berger
LOGLINE: Teen soldier faces the terrifying facts of trench warfare during World War I; based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix
GREECE
Magnetic Fields
Director: Yorgis Gousi
LOGLINE: Comic-book arts Gousi’s debut feature, which premiered at Thessaloniki last year, centers around two strangers who meet on a Greek island.
INTL. SALES: Heretic
GUATEMALA
The Silence of the Mole
Director: Anäis Taracena
LOGLINE: In the 1970s, journalist Elías Barahona infiltrated the repressive government; doc traces the effects of this mole in cracking Guatemala’s hidden history.
PRODCO: Asombro Producciones
HONG KONG
Where the Wind Blows
Director: Philip Yung
LOGLINE: Crime thriller centering around corrupt Hong Kong cops.
INTL. SALES: Mei Ah Entertainment
HUNGARY
Blockade
Director: Ádám Tősé
LOGLINE: Set in the 1990 taxi blockade of Budapest, film shows the struggle for democracy as high gas prices consume the country.
INTL. SALES: Intercom
ICELAND
Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
LOGLINE: Berlin Panorama player is a coming-of-age tale of boys who feel left out.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Altered Innocence
INDIA
Last Film Show
Director: Pan Nalin
LOGLINE: Nine-year-old Samay discovers the magic of movies and pursues 35mm film.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: The Samuel Goldwyn Co.
INDONESIA
Ngeri Ngeri Sedap
Director: Bene Dionysius
LOGLINE: Batak tribe parents pretend to fight so that their children will come home.
INTL. SALES: Netflix
IRAN
World War III
Director: Houman Seyyedi
LOGLINE: Venice Horizons player centers around a day laborer who gets the chance of a lifetime when he’s cast in a movie.
INTL. SALES: Iranian Independents
IRAQ
Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
LOGLINE: Older sister helps the younger one cheat so she can pass a university exam in order to better her life.
INTL. SALES: ArtHood Entertainment
IRELAND
Director: Colm Bairéad
LOGLINE: Berlin Generation Kplus winner centers around a neglected girl sent to relatives for the summer.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Neon/Super
ISRAEL
Cinema Sabaya
Director: Orit Fouks Rotem
LOGLINE: A group of Jewish and Arab women take part in a workshop and as they learn about each other their beliefs are challenged.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount+
ITALY
Director: Mario Martone
LOGLINE: Based on a 2016 novel by Ermanno Rea about childhood friends who are separated when one leaves for Egypt while the other rises to become a Mafia boss.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Breaking Glass Pictures
JAPAN
Director: Chie Hayakawa
LOGLINE: Cannes-bowing social drama is set in the future in which the government offers incentives to senior citizens who euthanize themselves.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: KimStim
JORDAN
Farha
Director: Darin J. Sallam
LOGLINE: 2021 TIFF player centers around a 14-year-old girl who watches the violence in her Palestinian village from her kitchen.
INTL. SALES: Picture Tree Intl.
KAZAKHSTAN
Life
Director: Emir Baigazin
LOGLINE: A company that digitizes memories loses data; pic unspooled in TIFF.
PRODCO: Emir Baigazin Production
KENYA
Terastorm
Director: Andrew Kaggia
LOGLINE: Animated pic on African superheroes who unite to fight an ancient wizard who threatens the world with a powerful artifact.
INTL. SALES: Africana Digital
KOSOVO
Looking for Venera
Director: Norika Sefa
LOGLINE: Teen who lives in the village with three generations of her family has no privacy and longs for some freedom. Film won the IFFR special jury award.
PRODCO: Circle Production
KYRGYZSTAN
Home for Sale
Director: Taalaibek Kulmendeev
LOGLINE: World premiering at Busan fest, pic centers around a couple being harassed by loan sharks.
PRODCO: Kyrgyzfilm
LATVIA
Director: Viesturs Kairiss
LOGLINE: As Latvia tries to free itself from a collapsing Soviet Union, one student first joins the Russian military then films the battling sides. Pic unspooled at Tribeca.
INTL. SALES: The Yellow Affair
LEBANON
Director: Joana Hadjithomas
LOGLINE: Montreal teen finds her mother’s mementos from her youth in war-torn Lebanon.
INTL. SALES: Playtime
LITHUANIA
Pilgrims
Director: Laurynas Bareiša
LOGLINE: This Venice player centers on an odd couple trying to find out what happened to their loved ones in a traumatic past.
INTL. SALES: Reason8 Films
LUXEMBOURG
Icare
Director: Carlo Vogele
LOGLINE: Animated story about young Icarus who tries to rescue his imprisoned friend.
PRODCO: Iris Productions
MALTA
Carmen
Director: Valerie Buhagiar
LOGLINE: When her priestly brother dies, a 50-year-old woman is finally free of having to care for him.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Good Deed Entertainment
MEXICO
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
LOGLINE: Existential comedy follows a journalist who goes home to receive a prestigious award. The filmmaker cut 22 minutes after the Venice premiere.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix
MOLDOVA
Carbon
Director: Ion Borș
LOGLINE: San Sebastian fest winner sees two enlistees who stumble on a carbonized body and try to identify and bury the remains.
INTL. SALES: Film Freeway
MONTENEGRO
The Elegy of Laurel
Director: Dusan Kasalica
LOGLINE: World-premiering at the Sarajevo fest, this is the story of a professor in marital crisis who escapes to the wilderness where he falls for a girl who was once a snake.
PRODCO: Meander Film
MOROCCO
Director: Maryam Touzani
LOGLINE: A wife watches her husband, a closeted tailor, fall for his handsome apprentice.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Strand Releasing
NEPAL
Butterfly on a Windowpane
Director: Sujit Bidari
LOGLINE: Busan entry about a brother who doesn’t want his sister to give up her dreams.
PRODCO: Icefall Productions
NETHERLANDS
Narcosis
Director: Martijn de Jong
LOGLINE: Close-knit family suffers when the patriarch fails to surface from a dive.
PRODCO: Oak Motion Pictures
NEW ZEALAND
Muru
Director: Te Arepa Kah
LOGLINE: Drama about the 2007 police raids on the Ngāi Tūhoe community of Rūātoki in New Zealand.
INTL. SALES: Arclight Films Intl.
NORTH MACEDONIA
The Happiest Man in the World
Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska
LOGLINE: In the aftermath of the war in Bosnia, a soldier seeks forgiveness from his victim.
INTL. SALES: Pyramide Intl.
NORWAY
War Sailor
Director: Gunnar Vikene
LOGLINE: Alfred is in the middle of the Atlantic when World War II breaks out and neither he nor any of the other sailors have any weapons.
INTL. SALES: Beta Cinema
PAKISTAN
Director: Saim Sadiq
LOGLINE: Queer Palme winner centers on the effect in a traditional family when the youngest son joins a trans dancer.
INTL. SALES: WME
PALESTINE
Mediterranean Fever
Director: Maha Haj
LOGLINE: Middle-age neighbors in Haifa share a frenemity; screenplay winner at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
INTL. SALES: Luxbox
PANAMA
Birthday Boy
Director: Arturo Montenegro
LOGLINE: Celebrating his 45th birthday at a beach house, Jimmy tells his friends to whoop it up because he is going to commit suicide after the party.
PRODCO: Q Films
PARAGUAY
Eami
Director: Paz Encina
LOGLINE: Tiger Award winner about an Ayoreo-Totobiegosode girl who turns into a bird and wanders in the forest after her village and all the people are destroyed.
INTL. SALES: MPM Premium
PERU
Moon Heart
Director: Aldo Salvini
LOGLINE: Poor and homeless woman is friendless until a “mechanical angel” comes to her rescue.
PRODCO: Universidad de Lima
PHILIPPINES
Director: Erik Matti
LOGLINE: Venice player is a sequel about a journolist who investigates the disappearance of his colleague.
INTL. SALES: Warner Media
POLAND
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
LOGLINE: Inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film “Au Hasard Balthazar,” Cannes competition title follows a donkey’s life through multiple owners.
U.S. DIST: Janus Films/Sideshow
PORTUGAL
Alma Viva
Director: Cristèle Alves Meira
LOGLINE: Cannes Critics’ Week entry about a little girl who is haunted by the spirit of her recently deceased grandmother, who was considered a witch.
INTL. SALES: Kinology
ROMANIA
Immaculate
Directors: Monica Stan and George Chiper
LOGLINE: While her perceived innocence protects a drug addict from the men in rehab, Daria discovers that it comes at a price.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI
SENEGAL
Director: Moussa Sene Absa
LOGLINE: The arranged marriage of their aunt results in bad consequences for twins and their family.
INTL. SALES: Sudu Connexion
SERBIA
Darkling
Director: Dušan Milić
LOGLINE: A thriller about the life of a Serb family outside Kosovo.
INTL. SALES: Wide Management
SINGAPORE
Director: He Shuming
LOGLINE: Widowed housewife follows her passion for Korean soap operas with a visit to Seoul.
INTL. SALES: Rediance
SLOVAKIA
Director: Michal Blasko
LOGLINE: Teenage gymnast’s lies about how he got injured starts a chain of events that spirals
out of control in this Venice Horizons entry.
INTL. SALES: Pluto Sales
SLOVENIA
Orchestra
Director: Matevž Luzar
LOGLINE: B&W film about a brass band touring Austria on a bus.
PRODCO: Gustav Film
SOUTH KOREA
Director: Park Chan-wook
LOGLINE: Detective investigating a death meets the widow of the deceased.
INTL. SALES: MUBI
SWITZERLAND
Director: Michael Koch
LOGLINE: Berlin competition player centering on a couple’s travails when mental illness takes over the man.
INTL. SALES: New Europe Film Sales
SWEDEN
Director: Tariq Saleh
LOGLINE: Country boy manages to get into a prestigious Islamic school where he becomes embroiled in its politics.
INTL. SALES: Memento Intl.
SPAIN
Director: Carla Simón
LOGLINE: When the owner of a peach orchard dies, his heir wants to sell off the land on which the Solé family has been growing fruit for generations.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI
TAIWAN
Goddamned Asura
Director: Lou Yi-An
LOGLINE: Deadly night-market shooting is viewed from different characters’ viewpoints, along with varying outcomes; based on real events.
INTL. SALES: Hope Marketing Entertainment
TANZANIA
Tug of War
Director: Amil Shivji
LOGLINE: Adaptation of Adam Shafi’s novel about an Indian-Zanzibari girl fleeing an arranged marriage, set against the background of Zanzibar’s fight for independence.
PRODCO: Big World Cinema
THAILAND
One for the Road
Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya
LOGLINE: Dying bartender goes on a road trip with his friend to seek forgiveness from those he had wronged in this Sundance World Dramatic selection.
PRODCO: Jetone Films, Houseton
TUNISIA
Under the Fig Tree
Director: Erige Sehiri
LOGLINE: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player chronicles a day in the life of women who harvest figs.
INTL. SALES: Luxbox
TURKEY
Kerr
Director: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu
LOGLINE: A son who goes to a village for his father’s funeral is trapped there after witnessing a murder; the helmer adapted his own novel.
INTL. SALES: Gataki Films
UGANDA
Tembele
Director: Morris Mugisha
LOGLINE: Garbage man in Kampala grieves the death of his infant son in this inaugural entry from Uganda.
PRODCO: Moideas
UKRAINE
Director: Maryna Er Gorbach
LOGLINE: Family living in Donetsk on the Ukraine-Russia border faces upheaval when flight MH17 crashes near them.
INTL. SALES: ArtHood Entertainment
UNITED KINGDOM
Winners
Director: Hassan Nazer
LOGLINE: When 9-year-old Yahya and his friend find an Oscar statutette in a poor Iranian village, Yahya’s boss helps them search for the origial owners.
PRODCO: Edge City Films
URUGUAY
The Employer and the Employee
Director: Manolo Nieto
LOGLINE: Relations between two young men at the same workplace are strained by an accident.
INTL. SALES: Latido Films
VENEZUELA
The Box
Director: Lorenzo Vigas
LOGLINE: Mystery revolves around fathers, sons and surrogates in Venice competition entry.
INTL. SALES: The Match Factory
VIETNAM
578: Shot of the Madman
Director: Luong Đình Dũng
LOGLINE: Father hunts for his kidnapped daughter and the underground forces that have taken her.
U.S. DISTRIBUTOR: Letterboxd