Finale list of 85 eligible films for Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars
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Academy announced the finale list of 85 eligible films for Best Foreign Language Film. Nine finalists from among the dozens of entries will be shortlisted in December, the final five nominees on 24 January 2017 and the winner on 26 February 2017 at the Oscar ceremony.
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe. Photo: filmsdistribution.com
| Film Title (English) | Language(s) | Director(s) | |
| 1 | Chromium | Albanian | Bujar Alimani |
| 2 | The Well | French, Arabic | Lotfi Bouchouchi |
| 3 | The Distinguished Citizen | Spanish | Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn |
| 4 | Tanna | Nauvhal | Martin Butler, Bentley Dean |
| 5 | Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe | German | Maria Schrader |
| 6 | The Unnamed | Bengali | Tauquir Ahmed |
| 7 | The Ardennes | Dutch | Robin Pront |
| 8 | Sealed Cargo | Spanish | Julia Vargas-Weise |
| 9 | Death in Sarajevo | Bosnian, French | Danis Tanović |
| 10 | Little Secret | Portuguese | David Schurmann |
| 11 | Losers | Bulgarian | Ivaylo Hristov |
| 12 | Before the Fall | Khmer, English, French | Ian White |
| 13 | It’s Only the End of the World | French | Xavier Dolan |
| 14 | Neruda | Spanish | Pablo Larrain |
| 15 | Xuan Zang | Mandarin | Huo Jianqi |
| 16 | Alias Maria | Spanish | José Luis Rugeles Gracia |
| 17 | About Us | Spanish | Hernán Jiménez |
| 18 | On the Other Side | Croatian | Zrinko Ogresta |
| 19 | The Companion | Spanish | Pavel Giroud |
| 20 | Lost in Munich | Czech | Petr Zelenka |
| 21 | Land of Mine | Danish, German | Martin Zandvliet |
| 22 | Sugar Fields | Spanish | Fernando Baez Mella |
| 23 | Such is Life in the Tropics | Spanish | Sebastián Cordero |
| 24 | Clash | Arabic | Mohamed Diab |
| 25 | Mother | Estonian | Kadri Kõusaare |
| 26 | The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Finnish | Juho Kuosmanen |
| 27 | Elle | French | Paul Verhoeven |
| 28 | House of Others | Georgian | Rusudan Glurjidze |
| 29 | Toni Erdmann | German, English, Romanian | Maren Ade |
| 30 | Chevalier | Greek | Athina Rachel Tsangari |
| 31 | Port of Call | Cantonese, Mandarin | Philip Yung |
| 32 | Kills on Wheels | Hungarian | Attila Till |
| 33 | Sparrows | Icelandic | Rúnar Rúnarsson |
| 34 | Interrogation | Tamil | Vetrimaaran |
| 35 | Letters from Prague | Indonesian | Angga Dwimas Sasongko |
| 36 | The Salesman | Persian | Asghar Farhadi |
| 37 | El Clásico | Kurdish | Halkawt Mustafa |
| 38 | Sand Storm | Arabic | Elite Zexer |
| 39 | Fire at Sea | Italian | Gianfranco Rosi |
| 40 | Nagasaki: Memories of My Son | Japanese | Yoji Yamada |
| 41 | 3000 Nights | Arabic, Hebrew | Mai Masri |
| 42 | Amanat | Kazakh, Russian | Satybaldy Narymbetov |
| 43 | Home Sweet Home | Albanian | Faton Bajraktari |
| 44 | A Father’s Will | Kyrgyz | Bakyt Mukul, Dastan Japar Uulu |
| 45 | Dawn | Latvian | Laila Pakalniņa |
| 46 | Very Big Shot | Lebanese Arabic, French, English | Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya |
| 47 | Seneca’s Day | Lithuanian, Russian, Estonian | Kristijonas Vildziunas |
| 48 | Voices from Chernobyl | French | Pol Cruchten |
| 49 | The Liberation of Skopje | Macedonian, German, Bulgarian | Rade Šerbedžija, Danilo Šerbedžija |
| 50 | Beautiful Pain | Malay | Tunku Mona Riza |
| 51 | Desierto | Spanish, English | Jonás Cuarón |
| 52 | The Black Pin | Serbian | Ivan Marinovic |
| 53 | A Mile in My Shoes | Arabic | Said Khallaf |
| 54 | The Black Hen | Nepali | Min Bahadur Bham |
| 55 | Tonio | Dutch | Paula van der Oest |
| 56 | A Flickering Truth | Dari | Pietra Brettkelly |
| 57 | The King’s Choice | Norwegian, Danish, German | Erik Poppe |
| 58 | Mah-e-Mir | Urdu | Anjum Shahzad |
| 59 | The Idol | Arabic, Spanish | Hany Abu-Assad |
| 60 | Salsipuedes | Spanish | Ricardo Aguilar Navarro, Manuel Rodríguez |
| 61 | Videophilia | Spanish, English | Juan Daniel Fernández |
| 62 | Ma’ Rosa | Tagalog | Brillante Mendoza |
| 63 | Afterimage | Polish | Andrzej Wajda |
| 64 | Letters from War | Portuguese | Ivo M. Ferreira |
| 65 | Sieranevada | Romanian | Cristi Puiu |
| 66 | Paradise | Russian, German, French, Yiddish | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| 67 | Barakah Meets Barakah | Arabic | Mahmoud Sabbagh |
| 68 | Train Driver’s Diary | Serbian | Miloš Radović |
| 69 | Apprentice | Malay, English | Boo Junfeng |
| 70 | Eva Nová | Slovak | Marko Škop |
| 71 | Houston, We Have a Problem! | Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, English | Žiga Virc |
| 72 | Call Me Thief | Afrikaans | Daryne Joshua |
| 73 | The Age of Shadows | Korean | Kim Jee-woon |
| 74 | Julieta | Spanish | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 75 | A Man Called Ove | Swedish | Hannes Holm |
| 76 | My Life as a Zucchini | French | Claude Barras |
| 77 | Hang in There, Kids! | Mandarin, Atayal | Laha Mebow |
| 78 | Karma | Thai | Kanittha Kwanyu |
| 79 | Cold of Kalandar | Turkish | Mustafa Kara |
| 80 | Ukrainian Sheriffs | Ukrainian | Roman Bondarchuk |
| 81 | Under the Shadow | Persian | Babak Anvari |
| 82 | Breadcrumbs | Spanish | Manane Rodriguez |
| 83 | From Afar | Spanish | Lorenzo Vigas |
| 84 | Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass | Vietnamese | Victor Vu |
| 85 | I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced | Arabic | Khadija al-Salami |
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