Every Contender for Best Foreign Film at the 2023 Oscars — 93 New Foreign Films to Put on Your Radar

Before the five official nominations for Best Foreign Film at the 2023 Academy Awards are announced in January of next year, let's take a quick look at every single film eligible for those five slots. Each participating county chooses one movie to represent them at the Oscars, and the official nominations are then decided on by the Academy from that pool of 93 country submissions. This is a great way to put a ton of new foreign language films on your radar at a time when they haven't yet seen much attention beyond their own country's borders.

The full list of submissions in alphabetical order by country includes A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On from Albania, Our Brothers from Algeria, Argentina 1985 from Argentina, Aurora's Sunrise from Armenia, You Won't Be Alone from Australia, Corsage from Austria, Creators from Azerbaijan, Hawa from Bangladesh, Close from Belgium, Utama from Bolivia, A Ballad from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mars One from Brazil, In the Heart of the Machine from Bulgaria, Return to Seoul from Cambodia, The Planter's Plantation from Cameroon, Eternal Spring from Canada, Blanquita from Chila, Nice View from China, The Kings of the World from Columbia, Domingo and the Mist from Costa Rica, Safe Place from Croatia, I; Boemo from Czech Republic, Holy Spider from Denmark, Bantú Mama from Dominican Republic, Lo Invisible from Ecuador, Kalev from Estonia, Girl Picture from Finland, Saint Omer from France, A Long Break from Georgia, All Quiet on the Wester Front from Germany, Magnetic Fields from Greece, The Silence of the Mole from Guatemala, Where the Wind Blows from Hong Kong, Blockade from Hungary, Beautiful Beings from Iceland, Last Film Show from India, Missing Home from Indonesia, World War III from Iran, The Exam from Iraq, The Quiet Girl from Ireland, Cinema Sabaya from Isreal, Nostalgia from Italy, Plan 75 from Japan, Farha from Jordan, Life from Kazakhstan, TeraStorm from Kenya, Looking for Venera from Kosovo, Home for Sale from Kyrgyzstan, January from Latvia, Memory Box from Lebanon, Pilgrims from Lithuania, Icarus from Luxembourg, Carmen from Malta, Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths from Mexico, Carbon from Moldova, Harvest Moon from Mongolia, The Elegy of Laurel from Montenegro, The Blue Caftan from Morocco, Butterfly on the Windowpane from Nepal, Narcosis from Netherlands, Muru from New Zealand, The Happiest Man in the World from North Macedonia, War Sailor from Norway, Joyland from Pakistan, Mediterranean Fever from Palestine, Birthday Boy from Panama, Eami from Paraguay, Moon Heart from Peru, On the Job: The Missing 8 from Philippines, EO from Poland, Alma Viva from Portugal, Immaculate from Romania, Raven Song from Suadi Arabia, Xalé for Senegal, Darkling from Serbia, Ajoomma from Singapore, Victim from Slovakia, Orchestra from Slovenia, Decision to Leave from South Korea, Alcarràs from Spain, Boy from Heaven from Sweden, A Piece of Sky from Switzerland, Goddamned Asura from Taiwan, Tug of War from Tanzania, One for the Road from Thailand, Under the Fig Trees from Tunisia, Kerr from Turkey, Tembele from Uganda, Klondike from Ukraine, Winners from the United Kingdom, The Employer and the Employee from Uraguay, The Box from Venezuela, and 578 Magnum from Vietnam.

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