2019 Best International Feature Film Submissions

It's time for the lists of films submitted for various categories to begin coming out from the Academy and today we start with the list of films submitted for Best International Feature Film.

Folks familiar with the category names may recognize that this is a new category. Well, not really new, but it's under a new name. The Academy changed the name of the Best Foreign Language Film to reflect their position that the word "foreign" was outdated.

Updated 10/7/19 with the full list of films. The full article is also available on the Academy Website.

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Albania – The Delegation (dir. Bujar Alimani)
Algeria – Papicha (dir. Mounia Meddour)
Argentina – Heroic Losers (dir. Sebastián Borensztein)
Armenia – Lengthy Night (dir. Edgar Baghdasaryan)
Australia – Buoyancy (dir. Rodd Rathjen)
Austria – Joy (dir. Sudabeh Mortezai)
Bangladesh – Alpha (dir. Nasiruddin Yousuff)
Belarus – Debut (dir. Anastasiya Miroshnichenko)
Belgium – Our Mothers (dir. César Díaz)
Bolivia – Tu me manques (dir. Rodrigo Bellott)
Bosnia and Herzegovina – The Son (dir. Ines Tanović)
Brazil – Invisible Life (dir. Karim Aïnouz)
Bulgaria – Ága (dir. Milko Lazarov)
Cambodia – In the Life of Music (dir. Caylee So and Sok Visal)
Canada – Antigone (dir. Sophie Deraspe)
Chile – Spider (dir. Andrés Wood)
China – Ne Zha (dir. Yu Yang)
Colombia – Monos (dir. Alejandro Landes)
Costa Rica – The Awakening of the Ants (dir. Antonella Sudasassi)
Croatia – Mali (dir. Antonio Nuić)
Cuba – A Translator (dir. Rodrigo Barriuso and Sebastián Barriuso)
Czech Republic – The Painted Bird (dir. Václav Marhoul)
Denmark – Queen of Hearts (dir. May el-Toukhy)
Dominican Republic – The Projectionist (dir. José María Cabral)
Ecuador – The Longest Night (dir. Gabriela Calvache)
Egypt – Poisonous Roses (dir. Fawzi Saleh)
Estonia – Truth and Justice (dir. Tanel Toom)
Ethiopia – Running Against the Wind (dir. Jan Philipp Weyl)
Finland – Stupid Young Heart (dir. Selma Vilhunen)
France – Les Misérables (dir. Ladj Ly)
Georgia – Shindisi (dir. Dito Tsintsadze)
Germany – System Crasher (dir. Nora Fingscheidt)
Ghana – Azali (dir. Kwabena Gyansah)
Greece – When Tomatoes Met Wagner (dir. Marianna Economou)
Honduras – Blood, Passion, and Coffee (dir. Carlos Membreño)
Hong Kong – The White Storm 2 - Drug Lords (dir. Herman Yau)
Hungary – Those Who Remained (dir. Banrabás Tóth)
Iceland – A White, White Day (dir. Hlynur Pálmason)
India – Gully Boy (dir. Zoya Akhtar)
Indonesia – Memories of My Body (dir. Garin Nugroho)
Iran – Finding Farideh (dir. Kourosh Ataee and Azadeh Moussavi)
Ireland – Gaza (dir. Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell)
Israel – Incitement (dir. Yaron Zilberman)
Italy – The Traitor (dir. Marco Bellocchio)
Japan – Weathering with You (dir. Makoto Shinkai)
Kazakhstan – Kazakh Khanate - Golden Throne (dir. Rustem Abdrashev)
Kenya – Subira (dir. Ravneet Sippy Chadha)
Kosovo – Zana (dir. Antoneta Kastrati)
Kyrgyzstan – Aurora (dir. Bekzat Primatov)
Latvia – The Mover (dir. Dāvis Sīmanis)
Lebanon – 1982 (dir. Oualid Mouaness)
Lithuania – Bridges of Time (dir. Kristine Briede and Audrius Stonys)
Luxembourg – Tel Aviv on Fire (dir. Sameh Zoabi)
Malaysia – M for Malaysia (dir. Dian Lee and Ineza Roussille)
Mexico – The Chambermaid (dir. Lila Avilés)
Mongolia – The Steed (dir. Erdenebileg Ganbold)
Montenegro – Neverending Past (dir. Andro Martinovic)
Morocco – Adam (dir. Maryam Touzani)
Nepal – Bulbul (dir. Binod Paudel)
Netherlands – Instinct (dir. Halina Reijn)
Nigeria – Lionheart (dir. Genevieve Nnaji)
North Macedonia – Honeyland (dir. Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov)
Norway – Out Stealing Horses (dir. Hans Petter Moland)
Pakistan – Laal Kabootar (dir. Kamal Khan)
Palestine – It Must Be Heaven (dir. Elia Suleiman)
Panama – Everybody Changes (dir. Arturo Montenegro)
Peru – Retablo (dir. Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio)
Philippines – Verdict (dir. Raymund Ribay Gutierrez)
Poland – Corpus Christi (dir. Jan Komasa)
Portugal – The Domain (dir. Tiago Guedes)
Romania – The Whistlers (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
Russia – Beanpole (dir. Kantemir Balagov)
Saudi Arabia – The Perfect Candidate (dir. Haiffa Al Mansour)
Senegal – Atlantics (dir. Mati Diop)
Serbia – King Petar the first (dir. Petar Ristovski)
Singapore – A Land Imagined (dir. Yeo Siew Hua)
Slovakia – Let There Be Light (dir. Marko Škop)
Slovenia – History of Love (dir. Sonja Prosenc)
South Africa – Knuckle City (dir. Jahmil X.T. Qubeka) Second consecutive submission
South Korea – Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-ho) Limited release in the U.S. October 11, 2019.
Spain – Pain and Glory (dir. Pedro Almodóvar) Limited release in the U.S. October 4, 2019.
Sweden – And Then We Danced (dir. Levan Akin)
Switzerland – Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa (dir. Michael Steiner)
Taiwan – Dear Ex (dir. Mag Hsu and Hsu Chih-yen)
Thailand – Krause: Inhuman Kiss (dir. Sitisiri Mongkolsiri)
Tunisia – Dear Son (dir. Mohamed Ben Attia)
Turkey – Commitment Asli (dir. Semih Kaplanoğlu)
Ukraine – Homeward (dir. Nariman Aliev)
United Kingdom – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (dir. Chiwetel Ejiofor)
Uruguay – The Moneychanger (dir. Federico Veiroj)
Uzbekistan – Hot Bread (dir. Umid Khamdamov)
Venezuela – Being Impossible (dir. Patricia Ortego)
Vietnam – Furie (dir. Lê Văn Kiệt)