Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 71st Academy Awards held in 1999 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
45 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1998 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsMiguel Ángel SoláCecilia NarovaMía MaestroMario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.ARGENTINA | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsSimon SchwarzSophie RoisLars RudolphAustria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. Then, something new happens for the first time in history: The farm workers inherit the whole farm together, as the farmer himself was childless. Now, conflicts come up, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPatrice ToyeStarsAranka CoppensSara de RooDirk RoofthooftIn a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but that's their secret. Irene's brother Michel, unemployed, a compulsive gambler, comes to stay with them. Around then, Irene meets Bernard; they come to care for each other. This leaves Rosie without attention, so she puts all her adolescent hopes and romantic fantasies into a relationship with Jimi, a good looking kid she sees on a bus. Is it adventures with Jimi that land her in juvie? Once she's there, why doesn't he answer her letters?BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorWalter SallesStarsFernanda MontenegroVinícius de OliveiraMarília PêraThe emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.BRAZIL | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsPascale BussièresAlexis MartinSerge ThériaultAfter surviving a car wreck virtually unscathed, a young model compels her best friend to impregnate her at the salt flats in Utah.CANADA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMailisiSaifuStarsLiya AiTumenBaasanjav MijidChronicles the first half of Genghis Khan's life, from his lowly beginnings after his father is killed until he rescues his wife and becomes the first Khan of a united Mongol confederation.CHINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsLeidy María 'Lady' TabaresMarta CorreaMileider Gil13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.COLOMBIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMladen JuranStarsMelita JurisicFilip SovagovicAlen LivericA young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.CROATIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVladimír MichálekStarsOlaf LubaszenkoBoguslaw LindaJirí BartoskaBaran, a protestant blacksmith arrives in the little village of Lakotice to kill Sekal, a cruel Nazi collaborator.CZECH REPUBLIC | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.DENMARK | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsAleksandar BercekVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicBogdan DiklicRandom Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsPertti KoivulaSimo KontioEsko NikkariTopi's mother, who is also Tenho's wife dies and Tenho and Topi have to move out from the town because they don't have enough money to pay their rent. Tenho gets a job as a lumberjack (which by the way is the title in Finnish). The movie tells the story about Tenho and his 10 years old son who both have to grow up in the same summer.FINLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorErick ZoncaStarsÉlodie BouchezNatacha RégnierGrégoire ColinThe lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.FRANCE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteMoritz BleibtreuHerbert KnaupAfter a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.GERMANY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsBruno GanzIsabelle RenauldFabrizio BentivoglioFamous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.GREECE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFruit ChanStarsSam LeeNeiky Hui-Chi YimWenders LiAutumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.HONG KONG | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBence GyöngyössyStarsDjoko RosicMihály SzabadosSilvia Pincu"Once upon a time there was an old gypsy. He had never left the hill where he lived. He never went to the inn, nor read the newspaper or watched Dallas. He was a proud man who liked to tell stories. Even though he avoided the church, he knew what the fear of God was. The old gypsy was blessed by three beautiful daughters whom he loved more than anything else. The two older ones soon found husbands, but the youngest Sarolta only walked up hill and down dale. She was the apple of his eye..." This is the beginning of Romani Kris. The film shows the gypsy Lovér and the village idiot Tamáska on their dramatic and adventurous journey through a Hungarian landscape at times lush and at times barren to present a lyrical, magical and unforgettable story.HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAri KristinssonStarsBergþóra AradóttirFreydís KristófersdóttirEdda Heidrún BackmanA little girl "kidnaps" her half-sister in order to get the attention of her father who left her mother years ago for another woman (who gave birth to her half-sister).ICELAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorS. ShankarStarsPrashanthAishwarya Rai BachchanNassarThe father of twin brothers wants to get them married to only twin sisters. But one of the brothers falls in love with a woman does not have a twin sister.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGarin NugrohoStarsSarah AzhariDeni ChristantraChristine HakimThe Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady's eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.INDONESIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad Amir NajiAmir Farrokh HashemianBahare SeddiqiAfter a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.IRAN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEyal HalfonStarsEvgenia DodinaYoram HattabAmos LaviWhen a small, run-down circus comes to a Palestinian town, it changes the lives of the West Bank villagers.ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.ITALY | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHideyuki HirayamaStarsMieko HaradaMaho NonamiFumiyo KohinataA woman with an abusive childhood travels back to taiwan from japan with her daughter in order to find her father's missing ashes, confronting her past along the way, discovering many secrets that were hidden from her throughout her life.JAPAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAktan Arym KubatStarsMirlan AbdykalykovAdir AbilkassimovMirlan CinkozoevIn a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He plays with friends, horsing around, sniggering about sex, going to an outdoor movie. He works, fishing and making bricks of mud. And, he's starting to notice girls. He and his best friend fight, and he learns to his consternation that he's a foundling. A death in the family pushes Beshkempir even faster toward adult roles: he must brush tears from his eyes, lead a funeral procession, and reconcile with his friend. Then, he borrows a bicycle and calls on Aynura: courtship begins.KYRGYZSTAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.LEBANON | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAndy BauschStarsThierry van WervekeEnder FringsOscar Ortega SánchezUnsuccessful Luxembourg bank robber Johnny Chicago is released from prison, and immediately and incompetently he attempts to resume his life of crime. In a few days he manages to get his old partner fired and thrown out of the house and his girlfriend arrested and jailed, all the while scheming to rob a bunch of German pensioners, stop a train, and make some quick money to make a name for himself.LUXEMBOURG | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDarko MitrevskiAleksandar PopovskiStarsLazar RistovskiNikola RistanovskiVlado JovanovskiIn the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman discovers his destiny. As he enters the whirling circles of time, he discovers the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.MACEDONIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsBlanca GuerraMario ZaragozaDaniel AcuñaIn 1930s Mexico, a young boy falls in love with his elementary-school teacher.MEXICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorNabil AyouchStarsRachid El OualiFaouzi BensaïdiAmal ChabliA young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuilds her relationship with her husband on a trip to the south of Morocco.MOROCCO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKarim TraïdiaStarsJaap SpijkersMonic HendrickxRudi FalkenhagenPolish deceived woman hides from pimps on a Dutch farm, and shares an intriguing romance with the farmer.NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTorun LianStarsThea Sofie RustenJan Tore KristoffersenAnneke von der Lippe"Only Clouds..." is a film about eleven year old Maria, who has lost her little brother. Her mother disappears into her own sorrow, then Maria meets Jacob.NORWAY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarilou Diaz-AbayaStarsJomari YllanaElizabeth OropesaChin Chin GutierrezPepito, growing up in a remote fishing village in the Philippines is destined to become the successor of his mother: the only midwife in the whole district, a job given from generation to generation. As Pepito's mother Rosa who is a widow, becomes pregnant she tries everything to abort the baby because of the shame this would bring. This fails and she sees the only way to protect her son is to commit suicide. After a while Pepito falls in love with a teacher from the capitol, Mrs. Santiago. But this relationship cannot have a future.PHILIPPINES | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraJosé PintoIsabel RuthThey are famous, weighed down by honour, celebrated, highly esteemed - aged and ancient. The father, in an attempt to save his son from becoming decrepit tries to drive his son to suicide. He has his work cut out for him. When the curtain falls on this tragic comedy, we have been moved in time to Porto in the thirties. Suzy, a kept woman, who is probably going to die on the operating table, sums up her philosophy on life: "This is but a detail." To comfort the dandy who has just had a very intense affair with this women, a friend tells him the tale of Fisalina. A country girl who discovers that her fingertips are made of gold. She becomes the mother of a river for a thousand years.PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorIván Dariel OrtizStarsJimmy NavarroJorge CastilloAlba Raquel BarrosDeals with the lives of two soldiers from Puerto Rico enlisted to fight during the Vietnam conflict, relating the young soldiers' ambiguity about the war and the tragic consequences their plight holds for them, as well as their families.PUERTO RICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLucian PintilieStarsCostel CascavalDorina ChiriacGheorghe VisuThe Bucharest's suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a one-night stand. It would end with a marriage, if Norica wouldn't want to marry Gili, her 50's boss and boyfriend, and if Mitu wouldn't have to make two years of military service. Mitu's passion for Norica will make him to get in trouble: drove by his obsession for her, he makes something unforgettable. The society's resorts start moving and hunting the couple...ROMANIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsJulia OrmondOleg MenshikovAleksey PetrenkoAt the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.RUSSIA | Status: submitted, but withdrawn
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVlado BalcoStarsAndrej HrycVladimír HajduDiana MórováThis tragicomic parable is about the increasing power of an un-educated, ill-mannered and dishonest stoker working at a hotel in Bratislava. Making advantage of the confused political and social situation in the country after 1989 he gradually becomes the most powerful person in the business.SLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsFernando Fernán GómezRafael AlonsoCayetana Guillén CuervoAfter his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true and which one is bastard.SPAIN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica CarlsonTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.SWEDEN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFrancis ReusserStarsMarion CotillardYann TrégouëtFrançois MarthouretIn the winter of 1797-98, the troops of Napoleon and their revolutionary allies in the Pays de Vaud occupy the latter and begin preparations for a military offensive which will hasten the fall of Berne. On the far side of the snow-blocked passes of their protective mountains, those who reject the ideas of the Enlightenment begins to organise resistance. Caught between these warring ideas two young lovers, David and Julie, are swept away in the whirlwind stirred up by conflict between parents, passionate disharmony, betrayed friendships, the weight of civil and religious customs.SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMichiko HadaMichelle ReisIn the "flower houses" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.TAIWAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorOxide Chun PangStarsSanya KunakornNattarika ThumpridanunSuchao PongwilaiEverything seems to be going well for Jiab and Wan, a young couple looking forward to their impending marriage. All that changes, however, when Wan is struck by a car and is brought to the hospital near death. When Jiab goes to a temple to pray, a mysterious monk tells him that in her past life, Wan murdered five people, and now is fated to die early in this life. To undo her bad karma and save her life, Jiab must even the balance by preventing five other people from being killed. The clock is now ticking, and Wan's life is slipping away...THAILAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCeri SherlockStarsDaniel EvansSimon FisherAneirin Hughes1942. Delme Davies, a wayward idealistic young man, joins the army in a quest for excitement and adventure. One night he returns home unexpectedly to his widowed mother, Iwanna and brother, Elfed Davies. Absent without leave, he hides in the lofts of Temple Row, the terrace of drab Victorian cottages in Delme's home village in South Wales where his family lives. Despite regular raids from military police, he remains undetected as he has discovered that the attic links all six houses in Temple Row. Delme is able to keep himself hidden by moving from house to house. He spends time with each household, sharing their homes, adapting to each family's ways...UNITED KINGDOM | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJulio Sosa PietriStarsJean Carlo SimancasArcelia RamírezLuly BossaVENEZUELA | Status: submitted
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