AN EARLY LIST OF POTENTIAL SUBMISSIONS FOR THIS YEAR
APRIL 14, 2025
APRIL 14, 2025
(Toxic - Lithuania; Windless - Bulgaria; The Things You Kill - Turkey)
Here’s a comprehensive list of films that are potential contenders for this year’s International Feature Oscar race.
Most of these titles have yet to be released in theaters in their respective countries, meaning they’re still eligible for submission this year. However, depending on their release dates and strategies, some of them could be held back and submitted next year instead.
This list offers an early look at the international film landscape before major festivals like Cannes and Venice kick off — making it a great starting point for tracking this year’s potential submissions.
Below are the films we think could be submitted this year:
Most of these titles have yet to be released in theaters in their respective countries, meaning they’re still eligible for submission this year. However, depending on their release dates and strategies, some of them could be held back and submitted next year instead.
This list offers an early look at the international film landscape before major festivals like Cannes and Venice kick off — making it a great starting point for tracking this year’s potential submissions.
Below are the films we think could be submitted this year:
Albania:
1. Luna Park - Florenc Papas
2. Troubleshooters - Nico Zavelberg
3. The Stork - Isa Qosja
Algeria:
1. The Vanishing - Karim Moussaoui
2. Front Row - Merzak Allouache
3. Bin U Bin, Elsewhere the Border - Mohamed Lakhdar Tati
Argentina:
1. The Virgin of the Quarry Lake - Laura Casabe
2. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed - Hernan Rosselli
3. The Message - Ivan Fund
4. Paytime - Felipe Wein
5. You Burn Me - Matias Pineiro
Armenia:
1. My Armenian Phantoms - Tamara Stepanyan
2. After Dreaming - Christine Haroutounian
3. I Will Revenge This World With Love - Zara Jian
Austria:
1. How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World - Florian Pochlatko
2. Peacock - Bernhard Wenger
3. Mother's Baby - Johanna Moder
4. Gina - Ulrike Kofler
5. Bluish - Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner
Bangladesh:
1. Saba - Maksud Hossain
2. 840 - Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
3. Past is Present - Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Belgium:
1. Young Hearts - Anthony Schatteman
2. We Believe You - Arnaud Dufeys & Charlotte Devillers
3. Soft Leaves - Miwako Van Weyenberg
4. Maldoror - Fabrice Du Welz
5. Patsers - Bilall Fallah & Adil El Arbi
Bolivia:
1. Cielo - Alberto Sciamma
2. Through the Earth - Malena Bystrowicz & Loreley Unamuno
3. Someday the Roots - Alejandro Valdeavellano Ramaciotti
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
1. When Santa Was a Communist - Emir Zumbul Kapetanovic
2. The Sky Above Zenica - Zlatko Pranjic & Nanna Frank Moller
3. At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking - Maja Novakovic
Brazil:
1. Vitoria - Andrucha Waddington
2. The Blue Trail - Gabriel Mascaro
3. Same Old West - Erico Rassi
4. Baby - Marcelo Caetano
5. The Best Mother in the World - Anna Muylaert
Bulgaria:
1. Windless - Pavel G. Vesnakov
2. Tarika - Milko Lazarov
3. No Wings - Niki Iliev
4. School for Hope - Yana Alexia
5. Bet - Svetoslav Ovcharov
Cambodia:
1. Tenement - Sokyou Chea & Inrasothythep Neth
2. Until the Orchid Blooms - Polen Ly
3. Her Deadly Eyes - Bun Chantra
Cameroon:
1. Minimals in a Titanic World - Philbert Aime Mbabazi Sharangabo
Canada:
1. Two Women - Chloe Robichaud
2. Who by Fire - Philippe Lesage
3. My Mom, God and Sylvie Vartan - Ken Scott
4. Paul - Denis Cote
5. Wrong Husband - Zacharias Kunuk
Chile:
1. The Hyperboreans - Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cocina
2. A Yard of Jackals - Diego Figueroa
3. Oasis - Tamara Uribe & Felipe Morgado
4. When Clouds Hide the Shadow - José Luis Torres Leiva
5. Designation of Origin - Tomás Alzamora Muñoz
China:
1. Ne Zha 2 - Yang Yu
2. Big World - Yang Lina
3. Bound in Heaven - Xin Huo
4. Caught by the Tides - Jia Zhangke
5. Living the Land - Huo Meng
Colombia:
1. Rains Over Babel - Gala del Sol
2. Horizonte - César Augusto Acevedo
3. Mi Bestia - Camila Beltran
4. Igualada - Juan Mejia Botero
5. The Soldier's Lagoon - Pablo Alvarez Mesa
Costa Rica:
1. The Skin of the Water - Patricia Velasquez
2. Las simples cosas - Aaron Acuna
3. Maikol Jordan Regresa a Clases - Daniel Moreno
Croatia:
1. Fiume or Death! - Igor Bezinovic
2. Sandbag Dam - Cejen Cernic
3. Frka - Svebor Mihael Jelic
4. Celebration - Bruno Ankovic
5. When the Light Breaks - Runar Runarsson
Czechia:
1. Mr. Nobody Against Putin - David Borenstein & Pavel Talankin
2. Wishing on a Star - Peter Kerekes
3. March to May - Martin Pavol Repka
4. Aneta - Jiri Sadek
5. On a Baking Sheet - Martin Pohl
Denmark:
1. Home Sweet Home - Rene Frelle Petersen
2. My Eternal Summer - Sylvia Le Fanu
3. Beginnings - Jeanette Nordahl
4. Sauna - Mathias Broe
5. Acts of Love - Jeppe Ronde
Dominican Republic:
1. Pepe - Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias
2. Tiger - Jose Maria Cabral
3. Bionico's Bachata - Yoel Morales
4. Olivia & the Clouds - Tomas Pichardo-Espaillat
5. Sugar Island - Johanne Gomez Terrero
Ecuador:
1. Fishgirl - Javier Cutrona
2. Light Memories - Misha Vallejo Prut
3. Huaquero - Juan Carlos Donoso Gomez
Egypt:
1. Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo - Khaled Mansour
2. 6 Days - Karim Shaaban
3. The Settlement - Mohamed Rashad
4. Perfumed with Mint - Muhammad Hamdy
5. East of Noon - Hala Elkoussy
Estonia:
1. Rolling Papers - Meel Paliale
2. Rebel with a Bow Tie - Jaan Tootsen
3. Chainsaws Were Singing - Sander Maran
4. Aurora - Andres Maimik & Rain Tolk
5. Two of Me - Romet Esko & Raul Esko
Finland:
1. Never Alone - Klaus Haro
2. 100 Liters of Gold - Teemu Nikki
3. Apple Thieves - Samppa Batal
4. Silent Trilogy - Juho Kuosmanen
5. Orenda - Pirjo Honkasalo
France:
1. Holy Cow - Louise Courvoisier
2. Marching Band - Emmanuel Courcol
3. Reflection in a Dead Diamond - Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani
4. We Will Go - Enya Baroux
5. The Ice Tower - Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Georgia:
1. Panopticon - George Sikharulidze
2. Snowflakes in My Yard - Bakur Bakuradze
3. In the Name of Blood - Akaki Popkhadze
Germany:
1. The Good Sister - Sarah Miro Fischer
2. Hysteria - Mehmet Akif Buyukatalay
3. Punching the World - Constanze Klaue
4. What Marielle Knows - Frederic Hambalek
5. Koln 75 - Ido Fluk
Greece:
1. Our Wildest Days - Vasilis Kekatos
2. Arcadia - Yorgos Zois
3. Kyuka: Before Summer's End - Kostis Charamountanis
4. Meat - Dimitris Nakos
5. Stelios - Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Guatemala:
1. Mexico 86 - Cesar Diaz
Haiti:
1. Kidnapping Inc. - Bruno Mourral
Hong Kong:
1. The Way We Talk - Adam Wong
2. Papa - Philip Yung
3. The Last Dance - Anselm Chan
4. Obedience - Wong Siu Pong
5. Last Song For You - Jill Leung
Hungary:
1. Growing Down - Balint Daniel Sos
2. Kix - David Mikulan
3. The Dynasty - Mate Fuchs
Iceland:
no viable submission right now
India:
1. Ponman - Jyothish Shankar
2. Court - State Vs. A Nobody - Ram Jagadeesh
3. Bottle Radha - Dinakaran Sivalingam
4. Kudumbasthan - Rajeshwar Kalisamy
5. Dragon - Ashwath Marimuthu
Indonesia:
1. A Brother and 7 Siblings - Yandy Laurens
2. Crocodile Tears - Tumpal Tampubolon
3. This City Is a Battlefield - Mouly Surya
4. Perayaan Mati Rasa - Umay Shahab
5. Komang - Naya Anindita
Iran:
1. In the Land of Brothers - Alireza Ghasemi & Raha Amirfazli
2. Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others - Farshad Hashemi
3. Cutting Through Rocks - Sara Khaki & Mohammad Reza Eyni
4. 1001 Frames - Mehrnoush Alia
5. The Great Yawn of History - Aliyar Rasti
Iraq:
1. Songs of Adam - Oday Rasheed
2. Immortals - Maja Tschumi
Ireland:
1. The Ghost - John Farrelly
2. Frewaka - Aislinn Clarke
3. Aontas - Damian McCann
Israel:
1. Of Dogs and Men - Dani Rosenberg
2. A Letter to David - Tom Shoval
Italy:
1. The Kite - Alessandro Tonda
2. CrazyMinded - Paolo Genovese
3. Paternal Leave - Alissa Jung
4. Gen_ - Gianluca Matarrese
5. Forbidden City - Gabriele Mainetti
Japan:
1. 1st Kiss - Ayuko Tsukahara
2. Broken Rage - Takeshi Kitano
3. Seaside Serendipity - Satoko Yokohama
4. The Longing - Toshizo Fujiwara
5. Transcending Dimensions - Toshiaki Toyoda
Jordan:
1. The Strangers' Case - Brandt Andersen
2. Tell Them About Us - Rand Beiruty
3. A State of Passion - Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi
Kazakhstan:
1. Cadet - Adilkhan Yerzhanov
2. Dad Croaked on Saturday - Zaka Abdrakhmanova
3. Longer Than a Day - Malika Mukhamejan
4. Abel - Elzat Eskendir
5. Crickets, It's Your Turn - Olga Korotko
Kenya:
1. The Battle for Laikipia - Daphne Matziaraki & Peter Murimi
2. Invisible Flame - Oskar Weimar
Kyrgyzstan:
1. Deal at the Border - Dastan Zhapar
2. An Instant - Almaz Zhangaziev
Latvia:
1. Parents' School Meeting - Marta Elina Martinsone
2. Youth Eternal - Armands Zacs
3. Touched by Eternity - Marcia Lacis
4. Faithful unto Death - Ivars Zviedris
5. The End - Maris Maskalans
Lebanon:
1. Diaries from Lebanon - Myriam El Hajj
2. Portrait of a Certain Orient - Marcelo Gomes
3. We Are Inside - Farah Kassem
4. The Jacket - Mathijs Poppe
5. Songs of All Ends - Giovanni C. Lorusso
Lithuania:
1. Toxic - Saule Bliuvaite
2. Southern Chronicles - Ignas Miskinis
3. Maria's Silence - Davis Simanis Jr.
4. Tasty - Egle Vertelyte
5. Lotus - Signe Birkova
Malaysia:
1. Reversi - Adrian Teh
2. Kahar: Kapla High Council - Razaisyam Rashid
3. Babah - Mohd Shah Faizul
4. Pavane For An Infant - Keat Aun Chong
5. Simple Manusan - Haran Kaveri & Shobaan
Malta:
1. Ciao Ciao - Keith Albert Tedesco
Mexico:
1. Corina - Urzula Barba Hopfner
2. The Devil Smokes - Ernesto Martinez Bucio
3. Rain - Rodrigo Garcia Saiz
4. 1938 - Sergio Olhovich
5. Dejame estar contigo - Isaac Cherem
Mongolia:
1. The Wolves Always Come at Night - Gabrielle Brady
2. Silent City Driver - Sengedorj Janchivdorj
3. Travesty - Baatar Batsukh
Montenegro:
1. Wondrous is the Silence of My Master - Ivan Salatic
2. The Tower of Strength - Nikola Vukcevic
3. Ponton's Heart - Senad Sahmanovic
Morocco:
1. Across the Sea - Said Hamich
2. Cabo Negro - Abdellah Taia
3. The Blue Lake - Daoud Aoulad-Syad
Nepal:
1. Pooja, Sir - Deepak Rauniyar
2. Devi - Subina Shrestha
Netherlands:
1. Alpha - Jan-Willem van Ewijk
2. Three Days of Fish - Peter Hoogendoorn
3. Heresy - Didier Konings
4. Idyllic - Aaron Rookus
5. And We Fly Through Days - Janne Schmidt
Nigeria:
no viable submission right now
North Macedonia:
1. DJ Ahmet - Georgi M. Unkovski
Norway:
1. The Ugly Stepsister - Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt
2. Love - Dag Johan Haugerud
3. Everything Must Go - Arild Ostin Ommundsen
4. My Uncle Jens - Brwa Vahabpour
5. Safe House - Eirik Svensoon
Pakistan:
1. Yasmeen's Element - Amman Abbasi
Palestine:
1. To a Land Unknown - Mahdi Fleifel
2. All That's Left of You - Cherian Dabis
3. Yunan - Ameer Fakher Eldin
4. Yalla Parkour - Areeb Zuaiter
5. A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljafari
Panama:
1. Beloved Tropic - Ana Endara Mislov
2. Black Butterflies - David Baute
3. La Senal de la Libertad - Mercedes Arias & Delfina Vidal
4. Papers - Arturo Montenegro
Paraguay:
1. Under the Flags, the Sun - Juanjo Pereira
2. Green is the New Red - Anna Recalde Miranda
3. Carta a un Viejo Master - Paz Encina
Peru:
1. Punku - J.D. Fernandez Molero
2. Through Rocks and Clouds - Franco Garcia Becerra
3. The Memory of Butterflies - Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
4. The Legend of the Last Inca - Tito Catacora
5. Mistura - Ricardo de Montreuil
Philippines:
1. Sunshine - Antoinette Jadaone
2. Tumandok - Kat Sumagaysay & Richard Jeroui Salvadico
3. Green Bones - Zig Madamba Dulay
4. Some Nights I Feel Like Walking - Petersen Vargas
5. Phantosmia - Lav Diaz
Poland:
1. It's Not My Film - Maria Zbaska
2. Minghun - Jan P. Matuszynski
3. Swiatloczula - Tadeusz Sliwa
4. Glorious Summer - Bartosz Szpak & Helena Ganjalyan
5. Letters from Wolf Street - Arjun Talwar
Portugal:
1. Hanami - Denise Fernandes
2. Banzo - Margarida Cardoso
3. Fire of Wind - Marta Mateus
4. Two Times Joao Liberada - Paula Tomas Marques
5. Ariel - Lois Patino
Romania:
1. Kontinental '25 - Radu Jude
2. Alice On & Off - Isabela Tent
3. Traffic - Teodora Ana Mihai
Senegal:
1. Demba - Mamadou Dia
Serbia:
1. 78 Days - Emilija Gasic
2. Son's Will - Nemanja Ceranic
3. When the Phone Rang - Iva Radivojevic
4. Wind, Talk to Me - Stefan Dordevic
5. Next to Us - Stevan Filipovic
Singapore:
1. An Unfinished Film - Lou Ye
2. Pierce - Nelicia Low
3. Mongrel - Chiang Wei-liang
4. Stranger Eyes - Yeo Siew Hua
5. Spirit World - Eric Khoo
Slovakia:
1. Cernak - Jakub Kroner
2. Perla - Alexandra Makarova
3. Promise, I'll Be Fine - Katarina Gramatova
4. Girl America - Viktor Taus
5. Tiny Lights - Beata Parkanova
Slovenia:
1. Little Trouble Girls - Urska Djukic
2. A Tree Grows in My Dreams Every Night - Vid Hajnsek
3. Proto-Slav - Slobodan Maksimovic
4. Block 5 - Klemen Dvornik
5. Stealing the Land - Ziga Virc
Somalia:
1. The Village Next to Paradise - Mo Harawe
South Africa:
1. The Heart Is a Muscle - Imran Hamdulay
2. Sabbatical - Karabo Lediga
3. Som van Twee - Simone Pretorius
South Korea:
1. Hear Me: Our Summer - Cho Sun-ho
2. What Does That Nature Say to You - Hong Sang-soo
3. The Match - Kim Hyung-joo
4. The Old Woman with the Knife - Min Kyu-dong
5. Manok - Lee Yu-jin
Spain:
1. Deaf - Eva Libertad
2. Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra
3. The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortes - Anton Alvarez
4. Fury - Gemma Blasco
5. So Far Away - Gerard Oms
Sudan:
1. Khartoum - Anas Saeed & Rawia Alhag
2. Madaniya - Mohamed Subahi
Sweden:
1. Quiet Life - Alexandros Avranas
2. Kevlar Soul - Maria Eriksson-Hecht
3. Live a Little - Fanny Ovesen
4. The Comic Artist - Adam Hilario
5. Raptures - Jon Blahed
Switzerland:
1. Late Shift - Petra Biondina Volpe
2. Courageous - Jasmin Gordon
3. The Safe House - Lionel Baier
4. Milk Teeth - Sophia Bosch
5. The Shameless - Konstantin Bojanov
Taiwan:
1. Locust - Keff
2. Daughter's Daughter - Huang Xi
3. Abiding Nowhere - Tsai Ming-liang
4. Silent Sparks - Chu Ping
5. Blind Love - Julian Chou
Tajikistan:
1. In the Words - Manzareli Sherali
Thailand:
1. In Youth We Trust - Puttipong Nakthong
2. The Cliche - Chadchawal Wisawabumrungchai
3. Happy Monday(s) - Chakorn Chaiprecha
4. The Red Envelope - Chayanop Bunprakob
5. Flat Girls - Jirassaya Wongsutin
Tunisia:
1. Where the Wind Comes From - Amel Guellaty
2. Who Do I Belong To - Meryam Joobeur
3. Aicha - Mehdi M. Barsaoui
4. Red Path - Lofti Achour
5. The Bridge - Walid Mattar
Turkey:
1. The Things You Kill - Alireza Khatami
2. Fate - Nadim Guc
3. Edge of Night - Turker Suer
4. One of Those Days When Hemme Dies - Murat Firatoglu
5. The Playroom - Umit Unal
Ukraine:
1. 2000 Meters to Andriivka - Mstyslav Chernov
2. U Are the Universe - Pavlo Ostrikov
3. Timestamp - Kateryna Gornostai
4. One Summer in Ukraine - Volodymyr Tykhyy
5. Real - Oleh Sentsov
United Kingdom:
1. Cactus Pears - Rohan Kanawade
2. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl - Rungano Nyoni
Uruguay:
1. Pepe's Dreams - Pablo Trobo
2. The Summer Hit - Pablo Stoll
3. Como el mar - Nicolas Gil Lavedra
Venezuela:
1. Zafari - Mariana Rondon
2. Lost Chapters - Lorena Alvarado
Vietnam:
1. Cu Li Never Cries - Pham Ngoc Lan
2. Don't Cry, Butterfly - Linh Duong
3. Real Sister - Khuong Ngoc
4. 4 Rascals - Tran Thanh
5. Viet and Nam - Truong Minh Quy
1. Luna Park - Florenc Papas
2. Troubleshooters - Nico Zavelberg
3. The Stork - Isa Qosja
Algeria:
1. The Vanishing - Karim Moussaoui
2. Front Row - Merzak Allouache
3. Bin U Bin, Elsewhere the Border - Mohamed Lakhdar Tati
Argentina:
1. The Virgin of the Quarry Lake - Laura Casabe
2. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed - Hernan Rosselli
3. The Message - Ivan Fund
4. Paytime - Felipe Wein
5. You Burn Me - Matias Pineiro
Armenia:
1. My Armenian Phantoms - Tamara Stepanyan
2. After Dreaming - Christine Haroutounian
3. I Will Revenge This World With Love - Zara Jian
Austria:
1. How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World - Florian Pochlatko
2. Peacock - Bernhard Wenger
3. Mother's Baby - Johanna Moder
4. Gina - Ulrike Kofler
5. Bluish - Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner
Bangladesh:
1. Saba - Maksud Hossain
2. 840 - Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
3. Past is Present - Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Belgium:
1. Young Hearts - Anthony Schatteman
2. We Believe You - Arnaud Dufeys & Charlotte Devillers
3. Soft Leaves - Miwako Van Weyenberg
4. Maldoror - Fabrice Du Welz
5. Patsers - Bilall Fallah & Adil El Arbi
Bolivia:
1. Cielo - Alberto Sciamma
2. Through the Earth - Malena Bystrowicz & Loreley Unamuno
3. Someday the Roots - Alejandro Valdeavellano Ramaciotti
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
1. When Santa Was a Communist - Emir Zumbul Kapetanovic
2. The Sky Above Zenica - Zlatko Pranjic & Nanna Frank Moller
3. At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking - Maja Novakovic
Brazil:
1. Vitoria - Andrucha Waddington
2. The Blue Trail - Gabriel Mascaro
3. Same Old West - Erico Rassi
4. Baby - Marcelo Caetano
5. The Best Mother in the World - Anna Muylaert
Bulgaria:
1. Windless - Pavel G. Vesnakov
2. Tarika - Milko Lazarov
3. No Wings - Niki Iliev
4. School for Hope - Yana Alexia
5. Bet - Svetoslav Ovcharov
Cambodia:
1. Tenement - Sokyou Chea & Inrasothythep Neth
2. Until the Orchid Blooms - Polen Ly
3. Her Deadly Eyes - Bun Chantra
Cameroon:
1. Minimals in a Titanic World - Philbert Aime Mbabazi Sharangabo
Canada:
1. Two Women - Chloe Robichaud
2. Who by Fire - Philippe Lesage
3. My Mom, God and Sylvie Vartan - Ken Scott
4. Paul - Denis Cote
5. Wrong Husband - Zacharias Kunuk
Chile:
1. The Hyperboreans - Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cocina
2. A Yard of Jackals - Diego Figueroa
3. Oasis - Tamara Uribe & Felipe Morgado
4. When Clouds Hide the Shadow - José Luis Torres Leiva
5. Designation of Origin - Tomás Alzamora Muñoz
China:
1. Ne Zha 2 - Yang Yu
2. Big World - Yang Lina
3. Bound in Heaven - Xin Huo
4. Caught by the Tides - Jia Zhangke
5. Living the Land - Huo Meng
Colombia:
1. Rains Over Babel - Gala del Sol
2. Horizonte - César Augusto Acevedo
3. Mi Bestia - Camila Beltran
4. Igualada - Juan Mejia Botero
5. The Soldier's Lagoon - Pablo Alvarez Mesa
Costa Rica:
1. The Skin of the Water - Patricia Velasquez
2. Las simples cosas - Aaron Acuna
3. Maikol Jordan Regresa a Clases - Daniel Moreno
Croatia:
1. Fiume or Death! - Igor Bezinovic
2. Sandbag Dam - Cejen Cernic
3. Frka - Svebor Mihael Jelic
4. Celebration - Bruno Ankovic
5. When the Light Breaks - Runar Runarsson
Czechia:
1. Mr. Nobody Against Putin - David Borenstein & Pavel Talankin
2. Wishing on a Star - Peter Kerekes
3. March to May - Martin Pavol Repka
4. Aneta - Jiri Sadek
5. On a Baking Sheet - Martin Pohl
Denmark:
1. Home Sweet Home - Rene Frelle Petersen
2. My Eternal Summer - Sylvia Le Fanu
3. Beginnings - Jeanette Nordahl
4. Sauna - Mathias Broe
5. Acts of Love - Jeppe Ronde
Dominican Republic:
1. Pepe - Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias
2. Tiger - Jose Maria Cabral
3. Bionico's Bachata - Yoel Morales
4. Olivia & the Clouds - Tomas Pichardo-Espaillat
5. Sugar Island - Johanne Gomez Terrero
Ecuador:
1. Fishgirl - Javier Cutrona
2. Light Memories - Misha Vallejo Prut
3. Huaquero - Juan Carlos Donoso Gomez
Egypt:
1. Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo - Khaled Mansour
2. 6 Days - Karim Shaaban
3. The Settlement - Mohamed Rashad
4. Perfumed with Mint - Muhammad Hamdy
5. East of Noon - Hala Elkoussy
Estonia:
1. Rolling Papers - Meel Paliale
2. Rebel with a Bow Tie - Jaan Tootsen
3. Chainsaws Were Singing - Sander Maran
4. Aurora - Andres Maimik & Rain Tolk
5. Two of Me - Romet Esko & Raul Esko
Finland:
1. Never Alone - Klaus Haro
2. 100 Liters of Gold - Teemu Nikki
3. Apple Thieves - Samppa Batal
4. Silent Trilogy - Juho Kuosmanen
5. Orenda - Pirjo Honkasalo
France:
1. Holy Cow - Louise Courvoisier
2. Marching Band - Emmanuel Courcol
3. Reflection in a Dead Diamond - Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani
4. We Will Go - Enya Baroux
5. The Ice Tower - Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Georgia:
1. Panopticon - George Sikharulidze
2. Snowflakes in My Yard - Bakur Bakuradze
3. In the Name of Blood - Akaki Popkhadze
Germany:
1. The Good Sister - Sarah Miro Fischer
2. Hysteria - Mehmet Akif Buyukatalay
3. Punching the World - Constanze Klaue
4. What Marielle Knows - Frederic Hambalek
5. Koln 75 - Ido Fluk
Greece:
1. Our Wildest Days - Vasilis Kekatos
2. Arcadia - Yorgos Zois
3. Kyuka: Before Summer's End - Kostis Charamountanis
4. Meat - Dimitris Nakos
5. Stelios - Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Guatemala:
1. Mexico 86 - Cesar Diaz
Haiti:
1. Kidnapping Inc. - Bruno Mourral
Hong Kong:
1. The Way We Talk - Adam Wong
2. Papa - Philip Yung
3. The Last Dance - Anselm Chan
4. Obedience - Wong Siu Pong
5. Last Song For You - Jill Leung
Hungary:
1. Growing Down - Balint Daniel Sos
2. Kix - David Mikulan
3. The Dynasty - Mate Fuchs
Iceland:
no viable submission right now
India:
1. Ponman - Jyothish Shankar
2. Court - State Vs. A Nobody - Ram Jagadeesh
3. Bottle Radha - Dinakaran Sivalingam
4. Kudumbasthan - Rajeshwar Kalisamy
5. Dragon - Ashwath Marimuthu
Indonesia:
1. A Brother and 7 Siblings - Yandy Laurens
2. Crocodile Tears - Tumpal Tampubolon
3. This City Is a Battlefield - Mouly Surya
4. Perayaan Mati Rasa - Umay Shahab
5. Komang - Naya Anindita
Iran:
1. In the Land of Brothers - Alireza Ghasemi & Raha Amirfazli
2. Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others - Farshad Hashemi
3. Cutting Through Rocks - Sara Khaki & Mohammad Reza Eyni
4. 1001 Frames - Mehrnoush Alia
5. The Great Yawn of History - Aliyar Rasti
Iraq:
1. Songs of Adam - Oday Rasheed
2. Immortals - Maja Tschumi
Ireland:
1. The Ghost - John Farrelly
2. Frewaka - Aislinn Clarke
3. Aontas - Damian McCann
Israel:
1. Of Dogs and Men - Dani Rosenberg
2. A Letter to David - Tom Shoval
Italy:
1. The Kite - Alessandro Tonda
2. CrazyMinded - Paolo Genovese
3. Paternal Leave - Alissa Jung
4. Gen_ - Gianluca Matarrese
5. Forbidden City - Gabriele Mainetti
Japan:
1. 1st Kiss - Ayuko Tsukahara
2. Broken Rage - Takeshi Kitano
3. Seaside Serendipity - Satoko Yokohama
4. The Longing - Toshizo Fujiwara
5. Transcending Dimensions - Toshiaki Toyoda
Jordan:
1. The Strangers' Case - Brandt Andersen
2. Tell Them About Us - Rand Beiruty
3. A State of Passion - Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi
Kazakhstan:
1. Cadet - Adilkhan Yerzhanov
2. Dad Croaked on Saturday - Zaka Abdrakhmanova
3. Longer Than a Day - Malika Mukhamejan
4. Abel - Elzat Eskendir
5. Crickets, It's Your Turn - Olga Korotko
Kenya:
1. The Battle for Laikipia - Daphne Matziaraki & Peter Murimi
2. Invisible Flame - Oskar Weimar
Kyrgyzstan:
1. Deal at the Border - Dastan Zhapar
2. An Instant - Almaz Zhangaziev
Latvia:
1. Parents' School Meeting - Marta Elina Martinsone
2. Youth Eternal - Armands Zacs
3. Touched by Eternity - Marcia Lacis
4. Faithful unto Death - Ivars Zviedris
5. The End - Maris Maskalans
Lebanon:
1. Diaries from Lebanon - Myriam El Hajj
2. Portrait of a Certain Orient - Marcelo Gomes
3. We Are Inside - Farah Kassem
4. The Jacket - Mathijs Poppe
5. Songs of All Ends - Giovanni C. Lorusso
Lithuania:
1. Toxic - Saule Bliuvaite
2. Southern Chronicles - Ignas Miskinis
3. Maria's Silence - Davis Simanis Jr.
4. Tasty - Egle Vertelyte
5. Lotus - Signe Birkova
Malaysia:
1. Reversi - Adrian Teh
2. Kahar: Kapla High Council - Razaisyam Rashid
3. Babah - Mohd Shah Faizul
4. Pavane For An Infant - Keat Aun Chong
5. Simple Manusan - Haran Kaveri & Shobaan
Malta:
1. Ciao Ciao - Keith Albert Tedesco
Mexico:
1. Corina - Urzula Barba Hopfner
2. The Devil Smokes - Ernesto Martinez Bucio
3. Rain - Rodrigo Garcia Saiz
4. 1938 - Sergio Olhovich
5. Dejame estar contigo - Isaac Cherem
Mongolia:
1. The Wolves Always Come at Night - Gabrielle Brady
2. Silent City Driver - Sengedorj Janchivdorj
3. Travesty - Baatar Batsukh
Montenegro:
1. Wondrous is the Silence of My Master - Ivan Salatic
2. The Tower of Strength - Nikola Vukcevic
3. Ponton's Heart - Senad Sahmanovic
Morocco:
1. Across the Sea - Said Hamich
2. Cabo Negro - Abdellah Taia
3. The Blue Lake - Daoud Aoulad-Syad
Nepal:
1. Pooja, Sir - Deepak Rauniyar
2. Devi - Subina Shrestha
Netherlands:
1. Alpha - Jan-Willem van Ewijk
2. Three Days of Fish - Peter Hoogendoorn
3. Heresy - Didier Konings
4. Idyllic - Aaron Rookus
5. And We Fly Through Days - Janne Schmidt
Nigeria:
no viable submission right now
North Macedonia:
1. DJ Ahmet - Georgi M. Unkovski
Norway:
1. The Ugly Stepsister - Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt
2. Love - Dag Johan Haugerud
3. Everything Must Go - Arild Ostin Ommundsen
4. My Uncle Jens - Brwa Vahabpour
5. Safe House - Eirik Svensoon
Pakistan:
1. Yasmeen's Element - Amman Abbasi
Palestine:
1. To a Land Unknown - Mahdi Fleifel
2. All That's Left of You - Cherian Dabis
3. Yunan - Ameer Fakher Eldin
4. Yalla Parkour - Areeb Zuaiter
5. A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljafari
Panama:
1. Beloved Tropic - Ana Endara Mislov
2. Black Butterflies - David Baute
3. La Senal de la Libertad - Mercedes Arias & Delfina Vidal
4. Papers - Arturo Montenegro
Paraguay:
1. Under the Flags, the Sun - Juanjo Pereira
2. Green is the New Red - Anna Recalde Miranda
3. Carta a un Viejo Master - Paz Encina
Peru:
1. Punku - J.D. Fernandez Molero
2. Through Rocks and Clouds - Franco Garcia Becerra
3. The Memory of Butterflies - Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
4. The Legend of the Last Inca - Tito Catacora
5. Mistura - Ricardo de Montreuil
Philippines:
1. Sunshine - Antoinette Jadaone
2. Tumandok - Kat Sumagaysay & Richard Jeroui Salvadico
3. Green Bones - Zig Madamba Dulay
4. Some Nights I Feel Like Walking - Petersen Vargas
5. Phantosmia - Lav Diaz
Poland:
1. It's Not My Film - Maria Zbaska
2. Minghun - Jan P. Matuszynski
3. Swiatloczula - Tadeusz Sliwa
4. Glorious Summer - Bartosz Szpak & Helena Ganjalyan
5. Letters from Wolf Street - Arjun Talwar
Portugal:
1. Hanami - Denise Fernandes
2. Banzo - Margarida Cardoso
3. Fire of Wind - Marta Mateus
4. Two Times Joao Liberada - Paula Tomas Marques
5. Ariel - Lois Patino
Romania:
1. Kontinental '25 - Radu Jude
2. Alice On & Off - Isabela Tent
3. Traffic - Teodora Ana Mihai
Senegal:
1. Demba - Mamadou Dia
Serbia:
1. 78 Days - Emilija Gasic
2. Son's Will - Nemanja Ceranic
3. When the Phone Rang - Iva Radivojevic
4. Wind, Talk to Me - Stefan Dordevic
5. Next to Us - Stevan Filipovic
Singapore:
1. An Unfinished Film - Lou Ye
2. Pierce - Nelicia Low
3. Mongrel - Chiang Wei-liang
4. Stranger Eyes - Yeo Siew Hua
5. Spirit World - Eric Khoo
Slovakia:
1. Cernak - Jakub Kroner
2. Perla - Alexandra Makarova
3. Promise, I'll Be Fine - Katarina Gramatova
4. Girl America - Viktor Taus
5. Tiny Lights - Beata Parkanova
Slovenia:
1. Little Trouble Girls - Urska Djukic
2. A Tree Grows in My Dreams Every Night - Vid Hajnsek
3. Proto-Slav - Slobodan Maksimovic
4. Block 5 - Klemen Dvornik
5. Stealing the Land - Ziga Virc
Somalia:
1. The Village Next to Paradise - Mo Harawe
South Africa:
1. The Heart Is a Muscle - Imran Hamdulay
2. Sabbatical - Karabo Lediga
3. Som van Twee - Simone Pretorius
South Korea:
1. Hear Me: Our Summer - Cho Sun-ho
2. What Does That Nature Say to You - Hong Sang-soo
3. The Match - Kim Hyung-joo
4. The Old Woman with the Knife - Min Kyu-dong
5. Manok - Lee Yu-jin
Spain:
1. Deaf - Eva Libertad
2. Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra
3. The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortes - Anton Alvarez
4. Fury - Gemma Blasco
5. So Far Away - Gerard Oms
Sudan:
1. Khartoum - Anas Saeed & Rawia Alhag
2. Madaniya - Mohamed Subahi
Sweden:
1. Quiet Life - Alexandros Avranas
2. Kevlar Soul - Maria Eriksson-Hecht
3. Live a Little - Fanny Ovesen
4. The Comic Artist - Adam Hilario
5. Raptures - Jon Blahed
Switzerland:
1. Late Shift - Petra Biondina Volpe
2. Courageous - Jasmin Gordon
3. The Safe House - Lionel Baier
4. Milk Teeth - Sophia Bosch
5. The Shameless - Konstantin Bojanov
Taiwan:
1. Locust - Keff
2. Daughter's Daughter - Huang Xi
3. Abiding Nowhere - Tsai Ming-liang
4. Silent Sparks - Chu Ping
5. Blind Love - Julian Chou
Tajikistan:
1. In the Words - Manzareli Sherali
Thailand:
1. In Youth We Trust - Puttipong Nakthong
2. The Cliche - Chadchawal Wisawabumrungchai
3. Happy Monday(s) - Chakorn Chaiprecha
4. The Red Envelope - Chayanop Bunprakob
5. Flat Girls - Jirassaya Wongsutin
Tunisia:
1. Where the Wind Comes From - Amel Guellaty
2. Who Do I Belong To - Meryam Joobeur
3. Aicha - Mehdi M. Barsaoui
4. Red Path - Lofti Achour
5. The Bridge - Walid Mattar
Turkey:
1. The Things You Kill - Alireza Khatami
2. Fate - Nadim Guc
3. Edge of Night - Turker Suer
4. One of Those Days When Hemme Dies - Murat Firatoglu
5. The Playroom - Umit Unal
Ukraine:
1. 2000 Meters to Andriivka - Mstyslav Chernov
2. U Are the Universe - Pavlo Ostrikov
3. Timestamp - Kateryna Gornostai
4. One Summer in Ukraine - Volodymyr Tykhyy
5. Real - Oleh Sentsov
United Kingdom:
1. Cactus Pears - Rohan Kanawade
2. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl - Rungano Nyoni
Uruguay:
1. Pepe's Dreams - Pablo Trobo
2. The Summer Hit - Pablo Stoll
3. Como el mar - Nicolas Gil Lavedra
Venezuela:
1. Zafari - Mariana Rondon
2. Lost Chapters - Lorena Alvarado
Vietnam:
1. Cu Li Never Cries - Pham Ngoc Lan
2. Don't Cry, Butterfly - Linh Duong
3. Real Sister - Khuong Ngoc
4. 4 Rascals - Tran Thanh
5. Viet and Nam - Truong Minh Quy