Oscar Entries 2017

Submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Robin Campillo's BPM (120 battements par minute) representing France

Switzerland announced today that The Divine Order (Die göttliche Ordnung) will be their submission to the 90th Academy Awards to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film Award.

The deadline is October 2, 2017. The Academy is scheduled to announce a list of eligible submissions in late October from which nine finalists will be shortlisted in December 2017. The final five nominees will be announced on January 23, 2018. The winner will be announced on March 4, 2018 at the Oscar ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

UPDATE:

Today, October the 5th, The Academy of Motion Pictures announced the 92 submissions. 

Here is the complete list followed by my rating:

• Afghanistan - A Letter to the President
• Albania - Daybreak
• Algeria - Road to Istanbul
• Argentina - Zama ★★★★
• Armenia - Yeva ★★★
• Australia - The Space Between
• Austria - Happy End ★★★★
• Azerbaijan - Pomegranate Orchard
• Bangladesh - The Cage
• Belgium - Racer and the Jailbird ★★★★
• Bolivia - Dark Skull
• Bosnia & Herzegovina - Men Don't Cry
• Brazil - Bingo: the King of the Mornings
• Bulgaria - Glory ★★★
• Cambodia - First They Killed My Father ★★
• Canada - Hochelaga, Land of Souls ★★★★
• Chile - A Fantastic Woman ★★★
• China - Wolf Warrior 2 ★★
• Colombia - Guilty Men
• Costa Rica - The Sound of Things
• Croatia - Quit Staring at My Plate
• Czech Republic - Ice Mother ★★★★
• Denmark - You Disappear ★★★
• Dominican Republic - Woodpeckers ★★★★
• Ecuador - Alba ★★★
• Egypt - Sheikh Jackson ★★★★
• Estonia - November ★★★
• Finland - Tom of Finland ★★★
• France - BPM (Beats Per Minute) ★★★★
• Georgia - Scary Mother ★★★
• Germany - In the Fade ★★★★
• Greece - Amerika Square ★★★
• Haiti - Ayiti Mon Amour ★★
• Honduras - Morazán
• Hong Kong - Mad World ★★★
• Hungary - On Body and Soul ★★★★
• Iceland - Under the Tree ★★★
• India - Newton ★★
• Indonesia - Leftovers (Turah) ★★
• Iraq -  The Dark Wind ★★★
• Iran - Breath ★★★★
• Ireland - Song of Granite ★★★
• Israel - Foxtrot ★★★★
• Italy - A Ciambra ★★★
• Japan - Her Love Boils Bathwater ★★★★
• Kazakhstan - Road to Mother
• Kenya - Kati Kati ★★
• Kosovo - Unwanted
• Kyrgyzstan - Centaur ★★★
• Laos - Dearest Sister ★
• Latvia - The Chronicles of Melanie ★★★
• Lebanon - The Insult ★★★★★
• Lithuania - Frost ★★★
• Luxembourg - Barrage
• Mexico - Tempestad ★★★★
• Mongolia - The Children of Genghis ★
• Morocco - Razzia
• Mozambique - The Train of Salt and Sugar ★★★
• Nepal - White Sun ★
• Netherlands - Layla M. ★★★
• New Zealand - One Thousand Ropes ★★
• Norway - Thelma ★★★★
• Pakistan - Saawan ★★
• Palestine - Wajib ★★★★
• Panama - Beyond Brotherhood ★★
• Paraguay - Los Buscadores
• Peru - Rosa Chumbe ★★★
• Philippines - Birdshot ★★
• Poland - Spoor ★★★★
• Portugal - Saint Jorge
• Romania - The Fixer ★★★
• Russia - Loveless ★★★★
• Senegal - Félicité ★★★
• Serbia - Requiem for Mrs. J
• Singapore - Pop Aye ★★★
• Slovakia - The Line ★★★
• Slovenia - The Miner
• South Africa - The Wound ★★★
• South Korea - A Taxi Driver ★★★★
• Spain - Summer 1993 ★★★
• Sweden - The Square ★★★★★
• Switzerland -  The Divine Order ★★★
• Syria - Little Gandhi ★★★
• Taiwan - Small Talk ★★★
• Thailand - By the Time It Gets Dark ★★
• Tunisia - The Last of Us
• Turkey - Ayla: The Daughter of War ★★★
• UK - My Pure Land
• Ukraine - Black Level ★★★
• Uruguay - Another Story of the World
• Venezuela - El Inca ★★★
• Vietnam - Father and Son ★★★

VENEZIA 2017

74th Venice International Film Festival

Competition

Downsizing, Alexander Payne, USA (Opening Film)
Ammore e Malavita, Manetti Brothers, Italy
Ex Libris.  The New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman, USA (documentary)
First Reformed, Paul Schrader, USA
Foxtrot, Samuel Maoz, Israel, Germany, France and Switzerland
Hannah, Andrea Pallaoro, Italy, Belgium and France
Human Flow, Ai Weiwei, Germany and USA (documentary)
Angels Wear White (嘉年華 Jia nian hua), Vivian Qu, China and France
Jusqu'à la garde, Xavier Legrand, France
La Villa (The House by the Sea), Robert Guédiguian, France
L'Insulte (The Insult), Ziad Doueiri, France and Lebanon
Lean on Pete, Andrew Haigh, UK
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif Kechiche, France and Italy
mother!, Daren Aronofsky, USA
The Third Murder (三度目の殺人 Sandome no Satsujin), Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan 
Suburbicon, George Clooney, USA
Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton, Australia
The Leisure Seeker, Paolo Virzì, Italy
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro, USA
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh, UK
Una Famiglia, Sebastiano Riso, Italy

Out of Competition

Feature Films

Outrage Coda (アウトレイジ 最終章 Autoreiji Saishusho), Takeshi Kitano, Japan
Brawl in Cell Block 99, S. Craig Zahler, USA
Il Colore Nascosto delle Cose, Silvio Soldini, Italy and Switzerland
La mélodie, Rachid Hami, France
Le Fidèle (Racer and the Jailbird), Michaël R. Roskam, Belgium, France and Netherlands
Loving Pablo, Fernando León de Aranoa, Spain and Bulgaria
Our Souls at Night, Ritesh Batra, USA
The Private Life of a Modern Woman, James Toback, USA
Victoria & Abdul, Stephen Frears, UK
Zama, Lucercia Martel, Argentina and Brazil

Documentaries

Cuba and the Cameraman, Jon Alpert, USA
Diva!, Francesco Patierno, Italy 
Happy Winter, Giovanni Totaro, Italy
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond. The Story of Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman and Tony Clifton, Chris Smith, USA and Canada
My Generation, David Batty, UK
Piazza Vittorio, Abel Ferrara, Italy
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, Stephen Nomura Schible, USA
The Devil and Father Amorth, William Friedkin, USA 
This is Congo, Daniel McCabe, Congo

TV Series

Wormwood, Errol Morris, USA (6 episodes)

Special Events

Casa d'Altri, Gianni Amelio, Italy, 16'
Il Signor Rotpeter, Antonietta de Lillo, Italy, 37'
Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller, Jerry Kramer, USA, 45'
Michael Jackson's Thriller 3D, John Landis, USA, 14'

Orizzonti


Feature Films

No Date, No Signature (Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza), Vahid Jalilvand, Iran
Brutti e Cattivi (Ugly Nasty People), Cosimo Gomez, Italy and France
Caniba, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, France
Espèces menacées, Gilles Bourdos, France and Belgium
Gatta Cenerentola, Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marion Guarnieri and Dario Sansone,  Italy (animation)
The Cousin (Ha Ben Dod), Tzahi Grad, Israel
The Testament (Ha'Edut), Amichai Greenberg, Israel and Austria 
Invisible, Pablo Giorgelli, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Germany
Krieg, Rick Ostermann, Germany
La Nuit ou j'ai nagé (The Night I Swam), Damien Manivel and Igarashi Kohei, France and Japan'
La Vita in Comune, Edoardo Winspeare, Italy
Les Bienheureux, Sofia Djama, France and Belgium
Los Versos del Olvido, Alireza Khatami, France, Germany, Netherlands and Chile
Marvin, Anne Fontaine, France
Disappearance, Ali Asgari, Iran and Qatar
Nico, 1988, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italy and Belgium
The Rape of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski, USA
Under the Tree (Undir trénu), Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Iceland, Denmark, Poland and Germany
West of Sunshine, Jason Raftopoulos, Australia

Short Films

8th Continent, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Greece, 11'
Apia, Myrsini Aristidou, Cyprus and France, 13'
Astrometal, Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis, Greece, 15'
Death of the Sound Man, Sorayos Prapapan, Thailand and Myanmar, 16'
By The Pool, Laurynas Bareiša, Lithuania, 16'
Gros Chagrin, Céline Devaux, France, 15' (animation)
Himinn Opinn, Gabriel Sanson and Clyde Gates, Belgium, 19'
Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu (It's Easier to Raise Cattle), Amanda Nell Eu, Malaysia, 18'
L'Ombra della Sposa, Alessandra Pescetta, Italy, 11'
Meninas Formicida, João Paulo Miranda Maria, France and Brasil, 12'
Mon Amour, Mon Ami, Adriano Valerio, Italy, 15'