Potential Submissions
(updated October 24th, 2025)
This will be constantly updated.
Albania:
Luna Park - Florenc Papas (official submission)
Troubleshooters - Nico Zavelberg (not selected)
The Stork - Isa Qosja (not selected)
Callas, Darling - Julia Windischbauer (eligible for next year)
Algeria:
The Vanishing - Karim Moussaoui (not selected)
Front Row - Merzak Allouache (not selected)
Bin U Bin, Elsewhere the Border - Mohamed Lakhdar Tati (not selected)
Roqia - Yanis Koussim (eligible for next year)
Argentina:
Belen - Dolores Fonzi (official submission)
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed - Hernan Rosselli (not selected)
The Woman in the Line - Benjamin Avila (not selected)
Homo Argentum - Mariano Cohn & Gaston Duprat (not selected)
The Message - Ivan Fund (not selected)
Paytime - Felipe Wein (not selected)
You Burn Me - Matias Pineiro (not selected)
Mazel Tov - Adrian Suar (not selected)
Una muerte silenciosa - Sebastian Schindel (not selected)
The Virgin of the Quarry Lake - Laura Casabe (eligible for next year)
Landmarks - Lucrecia Martel (eligible for next year)
The Currents - Milagros Mumenthaler (eligible for next year)
Pin de Fartie - Alejo Moguillansky (eligible for next year)
Armenia:
My Armenian Phantoms - Tamara Stepanyan (official submission)
After Dreaming - Christine Haroutounian (not selected)
There Was, There Was Not - Emily Mkrtichian (not selected)
The Last Sparapet - Aramis Tatu (not selected)
I Will Revenge This World With Love - Zara Jian (not selected)
Thus Spoke the Wind - Maria Rigel (eligible for next year)
Australia:
The Wolves Always Come at Night - Gabrielle Brady (official submission)
Austria:
Peacock - Bernhard Wenger (official submission)
How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World - Florian Pochlatko (not selected)
Gina - Ulrike Kofler (not selected)
Bluish - Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner (not selected)
Perla - Alexandra Makarova (not selected)
If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile - Marie Luise Lehner (not selected)
Mother's Baby - Johanna Moder (eligible for next year)
Welcome Home Baby - Andreas Prochaska (eligible for next year)
Azerbaijan:
Taghiyev: Oil - Zaur Gasimli (official submission)
Sermon to the Void - Hilal Baydarov (eligible for next year)
Bangladesh:
A House Named Shahana - Leesa Gazi (official submission)
Saba - Maksud Hossain (not selected)
Dear Maloti - Shankha Dasgupta (not selected)
A Tale of Two Sisters - Akram Khan (not selected)
Moyna - Monjurul Islam Megh (not selected)
840 - Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (not selected)
Borbaad - Mehedi Hasan Hridoy (not selected)
Daagi - Shihab Shaheen (not selected)
Domm - Redoan Rony (eligible for next year)
Sand City - Mahde Hasan (eligible for next year)
Belgium:
Young Mothers - Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (official submission)
Young Hearts - Anthony Schatteman (not selected)
Kika - Alexe Poukine (not selected)
Soft Leaves - Miwako Van Weyenberg (not selected)
Maldoror - Fabrice Du Welz (not selected)
Gangstas - Bilall Fallah & Adil El Arbi (not selected)
We Believe You - Arnaud Dufeys & Charlotte Devillers (eligible for next year)
Adam's Sake - Laura Wandel (eligible for next year)
Wild Foxes - Valery Carnoy (eligible for next year)
Julian - Cato Kusters (eligible for next year)
Bhutan:
I, the Song - Dechen Roder (official submission)
Bolivia:
La Casa del Sur - Carina Oroza Daroca & Ramiro Fierro (official submission)
Through the Earth - Malena Bystrowicz & Loreley Unamuno (not selected)
Someday the Roots - Alejandro Valdeavellano Ramaciotti (not selected)
The Condor Daughter - Alvaro Olmos (eligible for next year)
Cielo - Alberto Sciamma (eligible for next year)
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Blum - Masters of Their Own Destiny - Jasmila Zbanic (official submission)
When Santa Was a Communist - Emir Zumbul Kapetanovic (not selected)
The Sky Above Zenica - Zlatko Pranjic & Nanna Frank Moller (not selected)
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking - Maja Novakovic (not selected)
Balkanika: Dark Side - Marin Mamuza (not selected)
Brazil:
The Secret Agent - Kleber Mendonca Filho (official submission)
Manas - Mariana Brennand Fortes (not selected)
The Blue Trail - Gabriel Mascaro (not selected)
Same Old West - Erico Rassi (not selected)
Baby - Marcelo Caetano (not selected)
White House - Luciano Vidigal (not selected)
Vitoria - Andrucha Waddington (not selected)
The Best Mother in the World - Anna Muylaert (not selected)
Portrait of a Certain Orient - Marcelo Gomes (not selected)
Malu - Pedro Freire (not selected)
Carnival is Over - Fernando Coimbra (not selected)
Milton Bituca Nascimento - Flavia Moraes (not selected)
A Walk Among the Swans - Marcos Schechtman & Helena Varvaki (not selected)
A Son of a Thousand Men - Daniel Rezende (not selected)
Latin Blood - The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso (not selected)
The Beach at the End of the World - Petrus Cariry (not selected)
Night Stage - Marcio Reolon & Filipe Matzembacher (eligible for next year)
The Nature of Invisible Things - Rafaela Camelo (eligible for next year)
Bulgaria:
Tarika - Milko Lazarov (official submission)
Windless - Pavel G. Vesnakov (not selected)
No Wings - Niki Iliev (not selected)
School for Hope - Yana Alexia (not selected)
Bet - Svetoslav Ovcharov (not selected)
Class '90 - Boiko Boyanov (not selected)
Milen - Veselin Dimanov & Dimitar Stafidov (not selected)
Made in EU - Stephan Komandarev (eligible for next year)
Cambodia:
Tenement - Sokyou Chea & Inrasothythep Neth (official submission)
Until the Orchid Blooms - Polen Ly (not selected)
Her Deadly Eyes - Bun Chantra (not selected)
Becoming Human - Polen Ly (eligible for next year)
Cameroon:
Untamable - Thomas Ngijol (eligible for next year)
Minimals in a Titanic World - Philbert Aime Mbabazi Sharangabo (eligible for next year)
Anamocot - Marie Voignier (eligible for next year)
Canada:
The Things You Kill - Alireza Khatami (official submission)
Two Women - Chloe Robichaud (not selected)
Peak Everything - Anne Emond (not selected)
Who by Fire - Philippe Lesage (not selected)
Once Upon My Mother - Ken Scott (eligible for next year)
Death Doesn't Exist - Felix Dufour-Laperriere (eligible for next year)
Paul - Denis Cote (eligible for next year)
Wrong Husband - Zacharias Kunuk (eligible for next year)
100 Sunset - Kunsang Kyirong (eligible for next year)
Follies - Eric K. Boulianne (eligible for next year)
The Cost of Heaven - Mathieu Denis (eligible for next year)
Chile:
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - Diego Cespedes (official submission)
The Wave - Sebastian Lelio (not selected)
The Hyperboreans - Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cocina (not selected)
A Yard of Jackals - Diego Figueroa (not selected)
Designation of Origin - Tomás Alzamora Muñoz (not selected)
Bitter Gold - Juan Francisco Olea (not selected)
Oasis - Tamara Uribe & Felipe Morgado (not selected)
When Clouds Hide the Shadow - José Luis Torres Leiva (not selected)
Cuerpo Celeste - Nayra Ilic (eligible for next year)
China:
Dead to Rights - Shen Ao (official submission)
Ne Zha 2 - Yang Yu (not selected)
Big World - Yang Lina (not selected)
Bound in Heaven - Xin Huo (not selected)
Caught by the Tides - Jia Zhangke (not selected)
Girl on Edge - Jinghao Zhou (not selected)
Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force - Wuershan (not selected)
Resurrection - Bi Gan (eligible for next year)
Living the Land - Huo Meng (eligible for next year)
The Botanist - Jing Yi (eligible for next year)
The Sun Rises On Us All - Cai Shangjun (eligible for next year)
Colombia:
A Poet - Simón Mesa Soto (official submission)
Mi Bestia - Camila Beltran (not selected)
Soul of the Desert - Mónica Taboada-Tapia (not selected)
Adios Amigo - Iván Gaona (not selected)
Seed of the Desert - Sebastian Parra (not selected)
Matrioshka - Jorge Forero (not selected)
Uno - Julio César Gaviria (not selected)
Estimados Señores - Patricia Castañeda (not selected)
Choiba - Simón González Vélez (not selected)
Between Sea and Land - Carlos del Castillo (not selected)
En lo profundo - Jairo Estrada (not selected)
Irredentos - Harold De Vasten (not selected)
Horizon - César Augusto Acevedo (not selected)
Igualada - Juan Mejia Botero (not selected)
The Soldier's Lagoon - Pablo Alvarez Mesa (not selected)
Rains Over Babel - Gala del Sol (eligible for next year)
Noviembre - Tomas Corredor (eligible for next year)
The Black Snake - Aurelien Vernhes-Lermusiaux (eligible for next year)
Forensics - Federico Atehortúa Arteaga (eligible for next year)
Costa Rica:
The Altar Boy, The Priest and the Gardener - Juan Manuel Fernandez (official submission)
The Skin of the Water - Patricia Velasquez (not selected)
Las simples cosas - Aaron Acuna (not selected)
Maikol Jordan Regresa a Clases - Daniel Moreno (not selected)
Croatia:
Fiume o Morte! - Igor Bezinovic (official submission)
Sandbag Dam - Cejen Cernic (not selected)
Frka - Svebor Mihael Jelic (not selected)
Celebration - Bruno Ankovic (not selected)
Peacemaker - Ivan Ramljak (not selected)
Czechia:
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be - Klara Tasovska (official submission)
Broken Voices - Ondrej Provaznik (not selected)
Caravan - Zuzana Kirchnerova (not selected)
Wishing on a Star - Peter Kerekes (not selected)
Aneta - Jiri Sadek (not selected)
On a Plate - Martin Pohl (not selected)
Denmark:
Mr. Nobody Against Putin - David Borenstein & Pavel Talankin (official submission)
The Last Viking - Anders Thomas Jensen (not selected)
Beginnings - Jeanette Nordahl (not selected)
Second Victims - Zinnini Elkington (not selected)
Home Sweet Home - Rene Frelle Petersen (not selected)
My Eternal Summer - Sylvia Le Fanu (not selected)
Sauna - Mathias Broe (not selected)
Crossing Lines - Jahfar Muataz (not selected)
Under the Stars in the Sky - Kasper Gaardsoe (not selected)
Acts of Love - Jeppe Ronde (not selected)
Dominican Republic:
Pepe - Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias (official submission)
Bionico's Bachata - Yoel Morales (not selected)
Olivia & the Clouds - Tomas Pichardo-Espaillat (not selected)
Sugar Island - Johanne Gomez Terrero (not selected)
Suenos Dorados - Mariano Pichardo (not selected)
The Silence of Marcos Tremmer - Miguel Garcia de la Calera (not selected)
El Tiburon - Felix German (not selected)
Tiger - Jose Maria Cabral (not selected)
Los Rechazados - Yasser Michelen (not selected)
42nd Street - Jose Maria Cabral (not selected)
Under the Same Sun - Ulises Porra (eligible for next year)
Ecuador:
Chuzalongo - Diego Ortuno (official submission)
Fishgirl - Javier Cutrona (not selected)
Light Memories - Misha Vallejo Prut (not selected)
Huaquero - Juan Carlos Donoso Gomez (not selected)
The Ivy - Ana Cristina Barragan (eligible for next year)
Egypt:
Happy Birthday - Sarah Goher (official submission)
Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo - Khaled Mansour (not selected)
East of Noon - Hala Elkoussy (not selected)
The Brink of Dreams - Ayman El Amir & Nada Riyadh (not selected)
Snow White - Taghrid Abouelhassan (not selected)
Love Reigns Supreme - Heba Yousry (not selected)
6 Days - Karim Shaaban (not selected)
Perfumed with Mint - Muhammad Hamdy (not selected)
Siko Siko - Omar El Mohandes (not selected)
The Settlement - Mohamed Rashad (eligible for next year)
Life After Siham - Namir Abdel Messeeh (eligible for next year)
Aisha Can't Fly Away Anymore - Murad Mustafa (eligible for next year)
Estonia:
Rolling Papers - Meel Paliale (official submission)
Frank - Tonis Pill (not selected)
Rebel with a Bow Tie - Jaan Tootsen (not selected)
Chainsaws Were Singing - Sander Maran (not selected)
Aurora - Andres Maimik & Rain Tolk (not selected)
Two of Me - Romet Esko & Raul Esko (not selected)
Becoming Roosi - Margit Lillak (not selected)
Finland:
100 Liters of Gold - Teemu Nikki (official submission)
A Light That Never Goes Out - Lauri-Matti Parppei (not selected)
Never Alone - Klaus Haro (not selected)
Apple Thieves - Samppa Batal (not selected)
Silent Trilogy - Juho Kuosmanen (not selected)
Orenda - Pirjo Honkasalo (not selected)
France:
It Was Just an Accident - Jafar Panahi (official submission)
Nouvelle Vague - Richard Linklater (not selected)
The Little Sister - Hafsia Herzi (not selected)
Arco - Ugo Bienvenu (not selected)
A Private Life - Rebecca Zlotowski (not selected)
Holy Cow - Louise Courvoisier (not selected)
Little Amelie - Mailys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang (not selected)
Nino - Pauline Loques (not selected)
The Marching Band - Emmanuel Courcol (not selected)
Colours of Time - Cedric Klapisch (not selected)
Reflection in a Dead Diamond - Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani (not selected)
We Will Go - Enya Baroux (not selected)
Enzo - Robin Campillo (not selected)
Alpha - Julia Ducournau (not selected)
The Stranger - Francois Ozon (eligible for next year)
Case 137 - Dominik Moll (eligible for next year)
Love Letters - Alice Douard (eligible for next year)
Love Me Tender - Anna Cazenave Cambet (eligible for next year)
Summer Beats - Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret (eligible for next year)
At Work - Valerie Donzelli (eligible for next year)
Dog 51 - Cédric Jimenez (eligible for next year)
Two Pianos - Arnaud Desplechin (eligible for next year)
Georgia:
Panopticon - George Sikharulidze (official submission)
Snowflakes in My Yard - Bakur Bakuradze (not selected)
In the Name of Blood - Akaki Popkhadze (not selected)
Ever Since I Knew Myself - Maka Gogaladze (not selected)
Dry Leaf - Alexandre Koberidze (eligible for next year)
Germany:
Sound of Falling - Mascha Schilinski (official submission)
Amrum - Fatih Akin (not selected)
The Tiger - Dennis Gansel (not selected)
John Cranko - Joachim Lang (not selected)
Riefenstahl - Andres Veiel (not selected)
Mirrors No. 3 - Christian Petzold (not selected)
Punching the World - Constanze Klaue (not selected)
What Marielle Knows - Frederic Hambalek (not selected)
Koln 75 - Ido Fluk (not selected)
Wunderschoner - Karoline Herfurth (not selected)
No Beast. So Fierce - Burhan Qurbani (not selected)
The Good Sister - Sarah Miro Fischer (eligible for next year)
Hysteria - Mehmet Akif Buyukatalay (eligible for next year)
Babystar - Joscha Bongard (eligible for next year)
Greece:
Arcadia - Yorgos Zois (official submission)
Our Wildest Days - Vasilis Kekatos (not selected)
Kyuka: Before Summer's End - Kostis Charamountanis (not selected)
Meat - Dimitris Nakos (not selected)
Stelios - Giorgos Tsemperopoulos (not selected)
They Talk About Worship Here - Byron Kritzas (not selected)
Sculpted Souls - Stavros Psyllakis (not selected)
I Have Something to Say - Stratos Tzitzis (not selected)
Bearcave - Stergios Dinopoulos & Krysianna Papadakis (eligible for next year)
Hen - Gyorgy Pálfi (eligible for next year)
Greenland:
Walls - Akinni Inuk - Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg & Sofie Rordam (official submission)
Guatemala:
Mexico 86 - Cesar Diaz (not selected)
Haiti:
Kidnapping Inc. - Bruno Mourral (official submission)
Hong Kong:
The Last Dance - Anselm Chan (official submission)
The Way We Talk - Adam Wong (not selected)
Papa - Philip Yung (not selected)
Obedience - Wong Siu Pong (not selected)
Last Song For You - Jill Leung (not selected)
Montages of a Modern Motherhood - Oliver Siu Kuen Chan (not selected)
Another World - Tommy Kai Chung Ng (eligible for next year)
Sons of the Neon Night - Juno Mak (eligible for next year)
Hungary:
Orphan - Laszlo Nemes (official submission)
Growing Down - Balint Daniel Sos (not selected)
Kix - David Mikulan & Balint Revesz (not selected)
The Dynasty - Mate Fuchs (not selected)
Silent Friend - Ildiko Enyedi (eligible for next year)
Later in the Cleaning - Marton Tarkovi (eligible for next year)
Iceland:
The Love That Remains - Hlynur Palmason (official submission)
Fjallio - Asthildur Kjartansdottir (not selected)
The Ground Beneath Our Feet - Yrsa Roca Fannberg (eligible for next year)
India:
Homebound - Neeraj Ghaywan (official submission)
Cactus Pears - Rohan Kanawade (not selected)
Tourist Family - Abishan Jeevinth (not selected)
Sister Midnight - Karan Kandhari (not selected)
Superboys of Malegaon - Reema Kagti (not selected)
Thudarum - Tharun Moorthy (not selected)
Ponman - Jyothish Shankar (not selected)
Court - State Vs. A Nobody - Ram Jagadeesh (not selected)
Bottle Radha - Dinakaran Sivalingam (not selected)
Kudumbasthan - Rajeshwar Kalisamy (not selected)
Dragon - Ashwath Marimuthu (not selected)
Alappuzha Gymkhana - Khalid Rahman (not selected)
Songs of Forgotten Trees - Anuparma Roy (eligible for next year)
Bandar - Anurag Kashyap (eligible for next year)
Bayaan - Bikas Ranjan Mishra (eligible for next year)
In Search of the Sky - Jitank Singh Gurjar (eligible for next year)
Indonesia:
Sore: Wife from the Future - Yandy Laurens (official submission)
A Brother and 7 Siblings - Yandy Laurens (not selected)
Crocodile Tears - Tumpal Tampubolon (not selected)
This City Is a Battlefield - Mouly Surya (not selected)
Perayaan Mati Rasa - Umay Shahab (not selected)
Komang - Naya Anindita (not selected)
The Siege at Thorn High - Joko Anwar (not selected)
Iran:
Cause of Death: Unknown - Ali Zarnegar (official submission)
Woman and Child - Saeed Roustaee (not selected)
Raha - Hesam Farahmand (not selected)
Call Me Ziba - Rasoul Sadrameli (not selected)
The Old Bachelor - Oktay Baraheni (not selected)
In the Land of Brothers - Alireza Ghasemi & Raha Amirfazli (not selected)
Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others - Farshad Hashemi (not selected)
The Great Yawn of History - Aliyar Rasti (not selected)
People's Child - Mahmood Karimi (not selected)
Sofa - Kianush Ayyari (not selected)
Cutting Through Rocks - Sara Khaki & Mohammad Reza Eyni (eligible for next year)
1001 Frames - Mehrnoush Alia (eligible for next year)
Bidad - Soheil Beiraghi (eligible for next year)
Between Dreams and Hope - Farnoosh Samadi (eligible for next year)
Iraq:
The President's Cake - Hasan Hadi (official submission)
Songs of Adam - Oday Rasheed (not selected)
Immortals - Maja Tschumi (not selected)
Irkalla - Gilgamesh's Dream - Mohamed Al Daradji (eligible for next year)
Flana - Zahraa Ghandour (eligible for next year)
Ireland:
Sanatorium - Gar O'Rourke (official submission)
The Ghost - John Farrelly (not selected)
Frewaka - Aislinn Clarke (not selected)
Aontas - Damian McCann (eligible for next year)
Israel:
The Sea - Shai Carmeli-Pollak (official submission)
Yes! - Nadav Lapid (not selected)
Oxygen - Netalie Braun (not selected)
Nandauri - Eti Tsicko (not selected)
Dead Language - Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun (not selected)
Of Dogs and Men - Dani Rosenberg (not selected)
Houses - Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum (not selected)
Tropicana - Omer Tobi (not selected)
Life Without Credit - Tom Shoval (not selected)
Mama - Or Sinai (eligible for next year)
Tom's 2nd Suicide - Karni Haneman (eligible for next year)
Italy:
Familia - Francesco Costabile (official submission)
The Last One for the Road - Francesco Sossai (not selected)
Below the Clouds - Gianfranco Rosi (not selected)
Duse - Pietro Marcello (not selected)
The Negotiator - Alessandro Tonda (not selected)
Siblings - Greta Scarano (not selected)
Madly - Paolo Genovese (not selected)
Fuori - Mario Martone (not selected)
Hey Joe - Claudio Giovannesi (not selected)
The Children's Train - Cristina Comencini (not selected)
Naples to New York - Gabriele Salvatores (not selected)
Vittoria - Alessandro Cassigoli & Casey Kauffman (not selected)
The Great Ambition - Andrea Segre (not selected)
Diamanti - Ferzan Ozpetek (not selected)
Diva Futura - Giulia Louise Steigerwalt (not selected)
Eterno Visionario - Michele Placido (not selected)
The Boy With Pink Pants - Margherita Ferri (not selected)
Elisa - Leonardo Di Costanzo (not selected)
The Tasters - Silvio Soldini (not selected)
Trifole - Gabriele Fabbro (not selected)
The American Backyard - Pupi Avati (not selected)
The Flood - Gianluca Jodice (not selected)
Joachim and the Apocalypse - Jordan River (not selected)
The Sicilian Storyteller - Paolo Licata (not selected)
The Holy Boy - Paolo Strippoli (not selected)
Gen_ - Gianluca Matarrese (not selected)
Paternal Leave - Alissa Jung (not selected)
The Forbidden City - Gabriele Mainetti (not selected)
The Illusion - Roberto Ando (not selected)
La Grazia - Paolo Sorrentino (eligible for next year)
Heads or Tails? - Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis (eligible for next year)
The Kidnapping of Arabella - Carolina Cavalli (eligible for next year)
A Year of School - Laura Samani (eligible for next year)
My Tennis Maestro - Andrea Di Stefano (eligible for next year)
Orfeo - Virgilio Villoresi (eligible for next year)
Primavera - Damiano Michieletto (eligible for next year)
Three Goodbyes - Isabel Coixet (eligible for next year)
Japan:
Kokuho - Lee Sang-il (official submission)
Renoir - Chie Hayakawa (not selected)
Exit 8 - Genki Kawamura (not selected)
A Pale View of Hills - Kei Ishikawa (not selected)
1st Kiss - Ayuko Tsukahara (not selected)
Broken Rage - Takeshi Kitano (not selected)
Seaside Serendipity - Satoko Yokohama (not selected)
Happyend - Neo Sora (not selected)
Brand New Landscape - Yuiga Danzuka (eligible for next year)
The Longing - Toshizo Fujiwara (eligible for next year)
Love on Trial - Koji Fukada (eligible for next year)
Scarlet - Mamoru Hosoda (eligible for next year)
Jordan:
All That's Left of You - Cherian Dabis (official submission)
Once Upon a Time in Gaza - Arab Nasser & Tarzan Nasser (not selected)
The Strangers' Case - Brandt Andersen (not selected)
Tell Them About Us - Rand Beiruty (not selected)
A State of Passion - Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi (not selected)
Sink - Zain Duraie (eligible for next year)
Kazakhstan:
Cadet - Adilkhan Yerzhanov (official submission)
Dad Croaked on Saturday - Zaka Abdrakhmanova (not selected)
Longer Than a Day - Malika Mukhamejan (not selected)
Abel - Elzat Eskendir (not selected)
Crickets, It's Your Turn - Olga Korotko (not selected)
We Live Here - Zhanana Kurmasheva (eligible for next year)
Evacuation - Farkhat Sharipov (eligible for next year)
Kenya:
The Battle for Laikipia - Daphne Matziaraki & Peter Murimi (not selected)
Invisible Flame - Oskar Weimar (eligible for next year)
Matabeleland - Nyasha Kadandara (eligible for next year)
Kyrgyzstan:
Black Red Yellow - Aktan Abdykalykov (official submission)
Deal at the Border - Dastan Zhapar (not selected)
Someone Else's War - Daniel Berger (not selected)
An Instant - Almaz Zhangaziev (not selected)
Girl in Red - Belek Turgunov (not selected)
Latvia:
Dog of God - Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele (official submission)
Maria's Silence - Davis Simanis Jr. (not selected)
Parents' School Meeting - Marta Elina Martinsone (not selected)
Lotus - Signe Birkova (not selected)
Youth Eternal - Armands Zacs (not selected)
Touched by Eternity - Marcia Lacis (not selected)
Faithful unto Death - Ivars Zviedris (not selected)
The End - Maris Maskalans (not selected)
Art Born in Agony - Elizabete Gricmane & Ramune Rakauskaite (not selected)
Two Prosecutors - Sergei Loznitsa (eligible for next year)
Lebanon:
A Sad and Beautiful World - Cyril Aris (official submission)
Diaries from Lebanon - Myriam El Hajj (not selected)
We Are Inside - Farah Kassem (not selected)
The Jacket - Mathijs Poppe (not selected)
Songs of All Ends - Giovanni C. Lorusso (not selected)
Letters - Josef Khallouf & Mike Malajalian (not selected)
Shapes of Normal Human Beings - Selim Mourad (eligible for next year)
Dead Dog - Sarah Francis (eligible for next year)
Lithuania:
Southern Chronicles - Ignas Miskinis (official submission)
Toxic - Saule Bliuvaite (not selected)
Tasty - Egle Vertelyte (not selected)
The Night Screening - Algimantas Puipa (not selected)
The Visitor - Vytautas Katkus (not selected)
Renovation - Gabriele Urbonaite (eligible for next year)
Back to the Family - Sarunas Bartas (eligible for next year)
On Sacred and Profane - Giedre Beinoriute eligible for next year)
Laguna - Sarunas Bartas eligible for next year)
Luxembourg:
Breathing Underwater - Eric Lamhène (official submission)
Madagascar:
Disco Africa: A Malagasy Story - Luck Razanajaona (official submission)
Malaysia:
Pavane For An Infant - Keat Aun Chong (official submission)
Reversi - Adrian Teh (not selected)
Kahar: Kapla High Council - Razaisyam Rashid (not selected)
Blood Brothers: Bara Naga - Abhilash Chandra & Syafiq Yusof (not selected)
Babah - Mohd Shah Faizul (not selected)
Simple Manusan - Haran Kaveri & Shobaan (not selected)
Close Ur Kopitiam - Vince Chong (not selected)
Keluang Man - Anwari Ashraf (not selected)
Queer as Punk - Yihwen Chen (eligible for next year)
Lost Land - Akio Fujimoto (eligible for next year)
The Fox King - Woo Ming Jin (eligible for next year)
Malta:
Ciao Ciao - Keith Albert Tedesco (not selected)
Mexico:
We Shall Not Be Moved - Pierre Saint Martin Castellanos (official submission)
Corina - Urzula Barba Hopfner (not selected)
Rain - Rodrigo Garcia Saiz (not selected)
1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil - Sergio Olhovich (not selected)
Cracked - Alana Simoes (not selected)
Dead Man's Switch - Alejandro Gerber Bicecci (not selected)
I Am Frankelda - Rodolfo Ambriz & Arturo Ambriz (not selected)
Concerto For Other Hands - Ernesto Gonzalez Diaz (not selected)
Fine Young Men - Alejandro Andrade Pease (not selected)
The Craziness - Rodrigo Garcia Saiz (not selected)
Let Me Be with You - Isaac Cherem (not selected)
Mujeres del alba - Jimena Montemayor Loyo (not selected)
The Devil Smokes - Ernesto Martinez Bucio (eligible for next year)
On the Road - David Pablos (eligible for next year)
Vanilla - Mayra Hermosillo (eligible for next year)
The Reserve - Pablo Perez Lombardini (eligible for next year)
Oca - Karla Badillo (eligible for next year)
Copper - Nicolas Pereda (eligible for next year)
Mongolia:
Silent City Driver - Sengedorj Janchivdorj (official submission)
Travesty - Baatar Batsukh (not selected)
Iron Winter - Kasimir Burgess (eligible for next year)
Woman - Miyegombo Alexander (eligible for next year)
Montenegro:
The Tower of Strength - Nikola Vukcevic (official submission)
Ponton's Heart - Senad Sahmanovic (not selected)
Wondrous is the Silence of My Master - Ivan Salatic (eligible for next year)
Morocco:
Calle Malaga - Maryam Touzani (official submission)
Across the Sea - Said Hamich (not selected)
Cabo Negro - Abdellah Taia (not selected)
The Blue Lake - Daoud Aoulad-Syad (not selected)
The Commandments - Sana Akroud (not selected)
Bouchra - Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani (eligible for next year)
Nepal:
Anjila - Milan Chams (official submission)
Pooja, Sir - Deepak Rauniyar (not selected)
Devi - Subina Shrestha (not selected)
Laaj Sharanam - Kumar Kattel (not selected)
Missing: Keti Harayeko Suchana - Deependra Gauchan (not selected)
Karsang - Yam Sherpa (not selected)
Netherlands:
Reedland - Sven Bresser (official submission)
Alpha - Jan-Willem van Ewijk (not selected)
Three Days of Fish - Peter Hoogendoorn (not selected)
Fabula - Michiel ten Horn (not selected)
The Propagandist - Luuk Bouwman (not selected)
Our Girls - Mike van Diem (not selected)
Live for Me - Mark de Cloe (not selected)
The System - Joris Postema (not selected)
Heresy - Didier Konings (not selected)
Idyllic - Aaron Rookus (not selected)
I Shall See - Mercedes Stalenhoef (not selected)
Straatcoaches vs Aliens - Michael Middelkoop (not selected)
Out of Luck - Jonathan Elbers (not selected)
The Garden of Earthly Delights - Morgan Knibbe (not selected)
Nigeria:
Ireke: Rise of the Maroons - Gbolahan Peter Macjob (not selected)
North Macedonia:
The Tale of Silyan - Tamara Kotevska (official submission)
Everybody Calls Redjo - Iber Deari (not selected)
DJ Ahmet - Georgi M. Unkovski (eligible for next year)
The Mountain Won't Move - Petra Seliskar (eligible for next year)
Norway:
Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier (official submission)
Dreams (Sex Love) - Dag Johan Haugerud (not selected)
Facing War - Tommy Gulliksen (not selected)
Loveable - Lilja Ingolfsdottir (not selected)
The Ugly Stepsister - Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt (not selected)
Number 24 - John Andreas Andersen (not selected)
Love - Dag Johan Haugerud (not selected)
Everything Must Go - Arild Ostin Ommundsen (not selected)
Safe House - Eirik Svensoon (not selected)
My Uncle Jens - Brwa Vahabpour (not selected)
Don't Call Me Mama - Nina Knag (eligible for next year)
Pakistan:
Yasmeen's Element - Amman Abbasi (not selected)
Ghost School - Seemab Gul (eligible for next year)
Palestine:
Palestine 36 - Annemarie Jacir (official submission)
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk - Sepideh Farsi (not selected)
Thank You For Banking With Us - Laila Abbas (not selected)
A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljafari (not selected)
Yunan - Ameer Fakher Eldin (eligible for next year)
With Hasan in Gaza - Kamal Aljafari (eligible for next year)
Panama:
Beloved Tropic - Ana Endara Mislov (official submission)
Papers - Arturo Montenegro (not selected)
La Senal de la Libertad - Mercedes Arias & Delfina Vidal (not selected)
The Panama Canal Treaties: Son of Tiger and Mule - Annie Canavaggio (not selected)
Papua New Guinea:
Papa Buka - Bijukumar Damodaran (official submission)
Paraguay:
Under the Flags, the Sun - Juanjo Pereira (official submission)
Green is the New Red - Anna Recalde Miranda (not selected)
Carta a un Viejo Master - Paz Encina (not selected)
Waning Moon - Arturo Encina (not selected)
Peru:
Motherland - Marco Panatonic (official submission)
Zafari - Mariana Rondon (not selected)
Mistura - Ricardo de Montreuil (not selected)
Quadrilateral - Daniel Rodriguez Risco (not selected)
Amor erizo - P.J. Ruiz (not selected)
Ashes, The Movie - Antonio Rodriguez Romani (not selected)
Nanito - Guillermo Fernandez Cano (not selected)
Through Rocks and Clouds - Franco Garcia Becerra (not selected)
The Legend of the Last Inca - Tito Catacora (not selected)
Punku - J.D. Fernandez Molero (eligible for next year)
The Memory of Butterflies - Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski (eligible for next year)
Runa Simi - Augusto Zegarra (eligible for next year)
Philippines:
Magellan - Lav Diaz (official submission)
Sunshine - Antoinette Jadaone (not selected)
Green Bones - Zig Madamba Dulay (not selected)
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking - Petersen Vargas (not selected)
Song of the Fireflies - King Palisoc (not selected)
Food Delivery - Baby Ruth Villarama (not selected)
Hello, Love, Again - Cathy Garcia-Sampana (not selected)
Tumandok - Kat Sumagaysay & Richard Jeroui Salvadico (not selected)
Phantosmia - Lav Diaz (not selected)
Ex Ex Lovers - JP Habac (not selected)
Olsen's Day - JP Habac (not selected)
My Love Will Make You Disappear - Chad Vidanes (not selected)
Only We Know - Irene Villamor (not selected)
Where the Night Stands Still - Liryc Deal Cruz (eligible for next year)
Poland:
Franz - Agnieszka Holland (official submission)
It's Not My Film - Maria Zbaska (not selected)
Photosensitive - Tadeusz Sliwa (not selected)
Beautiful! - Katia Priwieziencew (not selected)
Minghun - Jan P. Matuszynski (not selected)
Letters from Wolf Street - Arjun Talwar (eligible for next year)
Glorious Summer - Bartosz Szpak & Helena Ganjalyan (eligible for next year)
Portugal:
Banzo - Margarida Cardoso (official submission)
The Survivors - Jose Barahona (not selected)
Dreaming of Lions - Paolo Marinou-Blanco (not selected)
The Englishman's Papers - Sergio Graciano (not selected)
Fire of Wind - Marta Mateus (not selected)
I Only Rest in the Storm - Pedro Pinho (eligible for next year)
Two Times Joao Liberada - Paula Tomas Marques (eligible for next year)
Ariel - Lois Patino (eligible for next year)
Gods of Stone - Ivan Castineiras (eligible for next year)
A Luminous Life - Joao Rosas (eligible for next year)
Night Passengers - Pedro Cabeleira (eligible for next year)
The Seasons - Maureen Fazendeiro (eligible for next year)
Romania:
Traffic - Teodora Ana Mihai (official submission)
Kontinental '25 - Radu Jude (not selected)
Alice On & Off - Isabela Tent (not selected)
Holy Week - Andrei Cohn (not selected)
Tata - Radu Ciorniciuc & Lina Vdovii (not selected)
Ink Wash - Sarra Tsorakidis (not selected)
Milk Teeth - Mihai Mincan (eligible for next year)
Saudi Arabia:
Hijra - Shahad Ameen (official submission)
Senegal:
Demba - Mamadou Dia (official submission)
Timpi Tampa - Adama Bineta Sow (eligible for next year)
Serbia:
Sun Never Again - David Jakovljevic (official submission)
Pearl Mist - Milorad Milinkovic (not selected)
Son's Will - Nemanja Ceranic (not selected)
When the Phone Rang - Iva Radivojevic (not selected)
Next to Us - Stevan Filipovic (not selected)
Our Father - Goran Stankovic (eligible for next year)
Wind, Talk to Me - Stefan Dordevic (eligible for next year)
How Come It's All Green Out Here? - Nikola Lezaic (eligible for next year)
Eighty Plus - Zelimir Zilnik (eligible for next year)
Singapore:
Stranger Eyes - Yeo Siew Hua (official submission)
An Unfinished Film - Lou Ye (not selected)
Pierce - Nelicia Low (not selected)
Mongrel - Chiang Wei-liang (not selected)
Spirit World - Eric Khoo (not selected)
Amoeba - Siyou Tan (eligible for next year)
Slovakia:
Father - Tereza Nvotova (official submission)
Cernak - Jakub Kroner (not selected)
Promise, I'll Be Fine - Katarina Gramatova (not selected)
Ms. President - Marek Sulik (not selected)
March to May - Martin Pavol Repka (not selected)
Better Go Mad in the Wild - Miro Remo (eligible for next year)
Slovenia:
Little Trouble Girls - Urska Djukic (official submission)
Block 5 - Klemen Dvornik (not selected)
Stealing the Land - Ziga Virc (not selected)
A Tree Grows in My Dreams Every Night - Vid Hajnsek (not selected)
Proto-Slav - Slobodan Maksimovic (not selected)
South Africa:
The Heart Is a Muscle - Imran Hamdulay (official submission)
Sabbatical - Karabo Lediga (not selected)
Som van Twee - Simone Pretorius (not selected)
Die Kwiksilwers - Jordy Sank (not selected)
Carissa - Jason Jacobs & Devon Delmar (not selected)
Laundry - Zamo Mkhwanazi (eligible for next year)
South Korea:
No Other Choice - Park Chan-wook (official submission)
The Old Woman with the Knife - Min Kyu-dong (not selected)
Love in the Big City - E. Oni (not selected)
Yadang: The Snitch - Hwang Byeng-gug (not selected)
About Family - Yang Woo-suk (not selected)
A Normal Family - Hur Jin-ho (not selected)
The Ugly - Yeon Sang-ho (not selected)
When This Summer is Over - Jang Byung-ki (not selected)
Somebody - Lee Jeong-chan & Kim Yeo-jung (not selected)
Mimang - Kim Tae-yang (not selected)
Hi-Five - Kang Hyeong-cheol (not selected)
Harbin - Woo Min-ho (not selected)
Secret: Untold Memory - Seo You-min (not selected)
The Killers - Jong-kwan Kim (not selected)
Spring Night - Kang Mi-ja (not selected)
My Daughter is a Zombie - Pil Gam-seong (not selected)
Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning - Kim Dong-chul (not selected)
Dark Nuns - Kwon Hyeok-jae (not selected)
Omniscient Reader: The Prophet - Kim Byung-woo (not selected)
Hear Me: Our Summer - Cho Sun-ho (not selected)
What Does That Nature Say to You - Hong Sang-soo (not selected)
The Match - Kim Hyung-joo (not selected)
Nocturnal - Kim Jin-hwang (not selected)
Manok - Lee Yu-jin (eligible for next year)
Good News - Byun Sung-hyun (eligible for next year)
Project Y - Lee Hwan (eligible for next year)
The World of Love - Yoon Ga-eun (eligible for next year)
Spain:
Sirat - Oliver Laxe (official submission)
Deaf - Eva Libertad (not selected)
Romeria - Carla Simon (not selected)
Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra (not selected)
Sleepless City - Guillermo Galoe (not selected)
The Portuguese House - Avelina Prat (not selected)
Black Butterflies - David Baute (not selected)
Enemies - David Valero (not selected)
The Captive - Alejandro Amenabar (not selected)
Away - Gerard Oms (not selected)
The Good Handwriting - Celia Rico Clavellino (not selected)
The Remnants of You - Gala Gracia (not selected)
The Exiles - Belen Funes (not selected)
Barren Land - Albert Pinto (not selected)
A Free Man - Laura Hojman (not selected)
The Delights of the Garden - Fernando Colomo (not selected)
My Friend Eva - Cesc Gay (not selected)
She Walks In Darkness - Agustin Diaz Yanes (not selected)
The Talent - Polo Menarguez (not selected)
Los Tigres - Alberto Rodriguez (not selected)
Maspalomas - Aitor Arregi & Jose Mari Goenaga (not selected)
The Treasure of Barracuda - Adria Garcia (not selected)
Pasionaria. Dolores Ibarruri - Amparo Climent (not selected)
Fury - Gemma Blasco (not selected)
La mitad de Ana - Marta Nieto (not selected)
Antes de nos - Angeles Huerta (not selected)
Strange River - Jaume Claret Muxart (eligible for next year)
Forastera - Lucia Alenar Iglesias (eligible for next year)
Sweden:
Eagles of the Republic - Tarik Saleh (official submission)
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 - Goran Olsson (not selected)
The Dance Club - Lisa Langseth (not selected)
Quiet Life - Alexandros Avranas (not selected)
The Comic Artist - Adam Hilario (not selected)
Raptures - Jon Blahed (not selected)
Kevlar Soul - Maria Eriksson-Hecht (not selected)
Live a Little - Fanny Ovesen (not selected)
The Home - Mattias J. Skoglund (eligible for next year)
Switzerland:
Late Shift - Petra Biondina Volpe (official submission)
Hanami - Denise Fernandes (not selected)
The Safe House - Lionel Baier (not selected)
The Courageous - Jasmin Gordon (not selected)
Milk Teeth - Sophia Bosch (not selected)
I'm Not Stiller - Stefan Haupt (eligible for next year)
Silent Rebellion - Marie-Elsa Sgualdo (eligible for next year)
Taiwan:
Left-Handed Girl - Shih-Ching Tsou (official submission)
Locust - Keff (not selected)
Daughter's Daughter - Huang Xi (not selected)
Blind Love - Julian Chou (not selected)
Family Matters - Ke-yin Pan (not selected)
Abiding Nowhere - Tsai Ming-liang (not selected)
Lovesick - Fu-Hsiang Hsu (not selected)
Girl - Shu Qi (eligible for next year)
Eel - Chun-Teng Chu (eligible for next year)
Tajikistan:
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit - Shahram Mokri (official submission)
In the Search for Truth - Manzareli Sherali (not selected)
Thailand:
A Useful Ghost - Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (official submission)
The Stone - Arak Amornsupasiri & Wutthiphong Sukanin (not selected)
In Youth We Trust - Puttipong Nakthong (not selected)
The Cliche - Chadchawal Wisawabumrungchai (not selected)
Happy Monday(s) - Chakorn Chaiprecha (not selected)
The Red Envelope - Chayanop Bunprakob (not selected)
Flat Girls - Jirassaya Wongsutin (not selected)
Human Resource - Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (eligible for next year)
The Furious - Kenji Tanigaki (eligible for next year)
Tunisia:
The Voice of Hind Rajab - Kaouther Ben Hania (official submission)
Red Path - Lofti Achour (not selected)
Who Do I Belong To - Meryam Joobeur (not selected)
Aicha - Mehdi M. Barsaoui (not selected)
The Bridge - Walid Mattar (not selected)
Where the Wind Comes From - Amel Guellaty (eligible for next year)
Promised Sky - Erige Sehiri (eligible for next year)
Turkey:
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies - Murat Firatoglu (official submission)
Fate - Nadim Guc (not selected)
Edge of Night - Turker Suer (not selected)
The Playroom - Umit Unal (not selected)
Confidante - Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti (eligible for next year)
And the Rest Will Follow - Pelin Esmer (eligible for next year)
Idea - Tayfun Pirselimoglu (eligible for next year)
As We Breathe - Seyhmus Altun (eligible for next year)
Uganda:
Kimote - Mageye Hassan (official submission)
Ukraine:
2000 Meters to Andriivka - Mstyslav Chernov (official submission)
Timestamp - Kateryna Gornostai (not selected)
One Summer in Ukraine - Volodymyr Tykhyy (not selected)
Full Force - Oleksandr Stratienko (not selected)
Warning! Life Goes On - Anton Shtuka (not selected)
Stepne - Maryna Vroda (not selected)
Divia - Dmytro Hreshko (not selected)
Bucha - Stanislav Tiunov (not selected)
U Are the Universe - Pavlo Ostrikov (not selected)
Real - Oleh Sentsov (not selected)
Militantropos - Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith & Simon Mozgovyi (eligible for next year)
When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea - Eva Neymann (eligible for next year)
My Dear Theo - Alisa Kovalenko (eligible for next year)
To the Victory! - Valentyn Vasyanovych (eligible for next year)
A Simple Soldier - Artem Ryzhykov & Juan Camilo Cruz (eligible for next year)
United Kingdom:
My Father's Shadow - Akinola Davies Jr. (official submission)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl - Rungano Nyoni (not selected)
Uruguay:
Don't You Let Me Go - Leticia Jorge & Ana Guevara (official submission)
Pepe's Dreams - Pablo Trobo (not selected)
The Summer Hit - Pablo Stoll (not selected)
Quemadura china - Veronica Perrotta (not selected)
La fabula de la tortuga y la flor - Caroline Campo Lupo (not selected)
Crisis - Adriana Nartallo & Daniel Amorin (not selected)
Perros - Gerardo Minutti (not selected)
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - Kirill Serebrennikov (eligible for next year)
A Loose End - Daniel Hendler (eligible for next year)
A Bright Future - Lucia Garibaldi (eligible for next year)
Venezuela:
Ali Primera - Daniel Yegres (official submission)
Lost Chapters - Lorena Alvarado (not selected)
Caimanes de la Galaxia - Ignacio Marquez (not selected)
Paramos de leyendas - Atahualpa Lichy (not selected)
It Would Be Night in Caracas - Mariana Rondon & Marite Ugas (eligible for next year)
Casas Muertas - Rosana Matecki (eligible for next year)
Vietnam:
Red Rain - Dang Thai Huyen (official submission)
Cu Li Never Cries - Pham Ngoc Lan (not selected)
Don't Cry, Butterfly - Linh Duong (not selected)
Tunnels: Sun in the Dark - Bui Thac Chuyen (not selected)
The Real Sister - Khuong Ngoc (not selected)
The Ancestral Home - Huynh Lap (not selected)
The 4 Rascals - Tran Thanh (not selected)
Detective Kien: The Headless Horror - Victor Vu (not selected)
Ky Nam Inn - Leon Le (eligible for next year)
Summer School, 2001 - Duzan Duong (eligible for next year)
Bury Us in a Lone Desert - Nguyen Le Hoang Phuc (eligible for next year)
Luna Park - Florenc Papas (official submission)
Troubleshooters - Nico Zavelberg (not selected)
The Stork - Isa Qosja (not selected)
Callas, Darling - Julia Windischbauer (eligible for next year)
Algeria:
The Vanishing - Karim Moussaoui (not selected)
Front Row - Merzak Allouache (not selected)
Bin U Bin, Elsewhere the Border - Mohamed Lakhdar Tati (not selected)
Roqia - Yanis Koussim (eligible for next year)
Argentina:
Belen - Dolores Fonzi (official submission)
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed - Hernan Rosselli (not selected)
The Woman in the Line - Benjamin Avila (not selected)
Homo Argentum - Mariano Cohn & Gaston Duprat (not selected)
The Message - Ivan Fund (not selected)
Paytime - Felipe Wein (not selected)
You Burn Me - Matias Pineiro (not selected)
Mazel Tov - Adrian Suar (not selected)
Una muerte silenciosa - Sebastian Schindel (not selected)
The Virgin of the Quarry Lake - Laura Casabe (eligible for next year)
Landmarks - Lucrecia Martel (eligible for next year)
The Currents - Milagros Mumenthaler (eligible for next year)
Pin de Fartie - Alejo Moguillansky (eligible for next year)
Armenia:
My Armenian Phantoms - Tamara Stepanyan (official submission)
After Dreaming - Christine Haroutounian (not selected)
There Was, There Was Not - Emily Mkrtichian (not selected)
The Last Sparapet - Aramis Tatu (not selected)
I Will Revenge This World With Love - Zara Jian (not selected)
Thus Spoke the Wind - Maria Rigel (eligible for next year)
Australia:
The Wolves Always Come at Night - Gabrielle Brady (official submission)
Austria:
Peacock - Bernhard Wenger (official submission)
How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World - Florian Pochlatko (not selected)
Gina - Ulrike Kofler (not selected)
Bluish - Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner (not selected)
Perla - Alexandra Makarova (not selected)
If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile - Marie Luise Lehner (not selected)
Mother's Baby - Johanna Moder (eligible for next year)
Welcome Home Baby - Andreas Prochaska (eligible for next year)
Azerbaijan:
Taghiyev: Oil - Zaur Gasimli (official submission)
Sermon to the Void - Hilal Baydarov (eligible for next year)
Bangladesh:
A House Named Shahana - Leesa Gazi (official submission)
Saba - Maksud Hossain (not selected)
Dear Maloti - Shankha Dasgupta (not selected)
A Tale of Two Sisters - Akram Khan (not selected)
Moyna - Monjurul Islam Megh (not selected)
840 - Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (not selected)
Borbaad - Mehedi Hasan Hridoy (not selected)
Daagi - Shihab Shaheen (not selected)
Domm - Redoan Rony (eligible for next year)
Sand City - Mahde Hasan (eligible for next year)
Belgium:
Young Mothers - Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (official submission)
Young Hearts - Anthony Schatteman (not selected)
Kika - Alexe Poukine (not selected)
Soft Leaves - Miwako Van Weyenberg (not selected)
Maldoror - Fabrice Du Welz (not selected)
Gangstas - Bilall Fallah & Adil El Arbi (not selected)
We Believe You - Arnaud Dufeys & Charlotte Devillers (eligible for next year)
Adam's Sake - Laura Wandel (eligible for next year)
Wild Foxes - Valery Carnoy (eligible for next year)
Julian - Cato Kusters (eligible for next year)
Bhutan:
I, the Song - Dechen Roder (official submission)
Bolivia:
La Casa del Sur - Carina Oroza Daroca & Ramiro Fierro (official submission)
Through the Earth - Malena Bystrowicz & Loreley Unamuno (not selected)
Someday the Roots - Alejandro Valdeavellano Ramaciotti (not selected)
The Condor Daughter - Alvaro Olmos (eligible for next year)
Cielo - Alberto Sciamma (eligible for next year)
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Blum - Masters of Their Own Destiny - Jasmila Zbanic (official submission)
When Santa Was a Communist - Emir Zumbul Kapetanovic (not selected)
The Sky Above Zenica - Zlatko Pranjic & Nanna Frank Moller (not selected)
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking - Maja Novakovic (not selected)
Balkanika: Dark Side - Marin Mamuza (not selected)
Brazil:
The Secret Agent - Kleber Mendonca Filho (official submission)
Manas - Mariana Brennand Fortes (not selected)
The Blue Trail - Gabriel Mascaro (not selected)
Same Old West - Erico Rassi (not selected)
Baby - Marcelo Caetano (not selected)
White House - Luciano Vidigal (not selected)
Vitoria - Andrucha Waddington (not selected)
The Best Mother in the World - Anna Muylaert (not selected)
Portrait of a Certain Orient - Marcelo Gomes (not selected)
Malu - Pedro Freire (not selected)
Carnival is Over - Fernando Coimbra (not selected)
Milton Bituca Nascimento - Flavia Moraes (not selected)
A Walk Among the Swans - Marcos Schechtman & Helena Varvaki (not selected)
A Son of a Thousand Men - Daniel Rezende (not selected)
Latin Blood - The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso (not selected)
The Beach at the End of the World - Petrus Cariry (not selected)
Night Stage - Marcio Reolon & Filipe Matzembacher (eligible for next year)
The Nature of Invisible Things - Rafaela Camelo (eligible for next year)
Bulgaria:
Tarika - Milko Lazarov (official submission)
Windless - Pavel G. Vesnakov (not selected)
No Wings - Niki Iliev (not selected)
School for Hope - Yana Alexia (not selected)
Bet - Svetoslav Ovcharov (not selected)
Class '90 - Boiko Boyanov (not selected)
Milen - Veselin Dimanov & Dimitar Stafidov (not selected)
Made in EU - Stephan Komandarev (eligible for next year)
Cambodia:
Tenement - Sokyou Chea & Inrasothythep Neth (official submission)
Until the Orchid Blooms - Polen Ly (not selected)
Her Deadly Eyes - Bun Chantra (not selected)
Becoming Human - Polen Ly (eligible for next year)
Cameroon:
Untamable - Thomas Ngijol (eligible for next year)
Minimals in a Titanic World - Philbert Aime Mbabazi Sharangabo (eligible for next year)
Anamocot - Marie Voignier (eligible for next year)
Canada:
The Things You Kill - Alireza Khatami (official submission)
Two Women - Chloe Robichaud (not selected)
Peak Everything - Anne Emond (not selected)
Who by Fire - Philippe Lesage (not selected)
Once Upon My Mother - Ken Scott (eligible for next year)
Death Doesn't Exist - Felix Dufour-Laperriere (eligible for next year)
Paul - Denis Cote (eligible for next year)
Wrong Husband - Zacharias Kunuk (eligible for next year)
100 Sunset - Kunsang Kyirong (eligible for next year)
Follies - Eric K. Boulianne (eligible for next year)
The Cost of Heaven - Mathieu Denis (eligible for next year)
Chile:
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - Diego Cespedes (official submission)
The Wave - Sebastian Lelio (not selected)
The Hyperboreans - Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cocina (not selected)
A Yard of Jackals - Diego Figueroa (not selected)
Designation of Origin - Tomás Alzamora Muñoz (not selected)
Bitter Gold - Juan Francisco Olea (not selected)
Oasis - Tamara Uribe & Felipe Morgado (not selected)
When Clouds Hide the Shadow - José Luis Torres Leiva (not selected)
Cuerpo Celeste - Nayra Ilic (eligible for next year)
China:
Dead to Rights - Shen Ao (official submission)
Ne Zha 2 - Yang Yu (not selected)
Big World - Yang Lina (not selected)
Bound in Heaven - Xin Huo (not selected)
Caught by the Tides - Jia Zhangke (not selected)
Girl on Edge - Jinghao Zhou (not selected)
Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force - Wuershan (not selected)
Resurrection - Bi Gan (eligible for next year)
Living the Land - Huo Meng (eligible for next year)
The Botanist - Jing Yi (eligible for next year)
The Sun Rises On Us All - Cai Shangjun (eligible for next year)
Colombia:
A Poet - Simón Mesa Soto (official submission)
Mi Bestia - Camila Beltran (not selected)
Soul of the Desert - Mónica Taboada-Tapia (not selected)
Adios Amigo - Iván Gaona (not selected)
Seed of the Desert - Sebastian Parra (not selected)
Matrioshka - Jorge Forero (not selected)
Uno - Julio César Gaviria (not selected)
Estimados Señores - Patricia Castañeda (not selected)
Choiba - Simón González Vélez (not selected)
Between Sea and Land - Carlos del Castillo (not selected)
En lo profundo - Jairo Estrada (not selected)
Irredentos - Harold De Vasten (not selected)
Horizon - César Augusto Acevedo (not selected)
Igualada - Juan Mejia Botero (not selected)
The Soldier's Lagoon - Pablo Alvarez Mesa (not selected)
Rains Over Babel - Gala del Sol (eligible for next year)
Noviembre - Tomas Corredor (eligible for next year)
The Black Snake - Aurelien Vernhes-Lermusiaux (eligible for next year)
Forensics - Federico Atehortúa Arteaga (eligible for next year)
Costa Rica:
The Altar Boy, The Priest and the Gardener - Juan Manuel Fernandez (official submission)
The Skin of the Water - Patricia Velasquez (not selected)
Las simples cosas - Aaron Acuna (not selected)
Maikol Jordan Regresa a Clases - Daniel Moreno (not selected)
Croatia:
Fiume o Morte! - Igor Bezinovic (official submission)
Sandbag Dam - Cejen Cernic (not selected)
Frka - Svebor Mihael Jelic (not selected)
Celebration - Bruno Ankovic (not selected)
Peacemaker - Ivan Ramljak (not selected)
Czechia:
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be - Klara Tasovska (official submission)
Broken Voices - Ondrej Provaznik (not selected)
Caravan - Zuzana Kirchnerova (not selected)
Wishing on a Star - Peter Kerekes (not selected)
Aneta - Jiri Sadek (not selected)
On a Plate - Martin Pohl (not selected)
Denmark:
Mr. Nobody Against Putin - David Borenstein & Pavel Talankin (official submission)
The Last Viking - Anders Thomas Jensen (not selected)
Beginnings - Jeanette Nordahl (not selected)
Second Victims - Zinnini Elkington (not selected)
Home Sweet Home - Rene Frelle Petersen (not selected)
My Eternal Summer - Sylvia Le Fanu (not selected)
Sauna - Mathias Broe (not selected)
Crossing Lines - Jahfar Muataz (not selected)
Under the Stars in the Sky - Kasper Gaardsoe (not selected)
Acts of Love - Jeppe Ronde (not selected)
Dominican Republic:
Pepe - Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias (official submission)
Bionico's Bachata - Yoel Morales (not selected)
Olivia & the Clouds - Tomas Pichardo-Espaillat (not selected)
Sugar Island - Johanne Gomez Terrero (not selected)
Suenos Dorados - Mariano Pichardo (not selected)
The Silence of Marcos Tremmer - Miguel Garcia de la Calera (not selected)
El Tiburon - Felix German (not selected)
Tiger - Jose Maria Cabral (not selected)
Los Rechazados - Yasser Michelen (not selected)
42nd Street - Jose Maria Cabral (not selected)
Under the Same Sun - Ulises Porra (eligible for next year)
Ecuador:
Chuzalongo - Diego Ortuno (official submission)
Fishgirl - Javier Cutrona (not selected)
Light Memories - Misha Vallejo Prut (not selected)
Huaquero - Juan Carlos Donoso Gomez (not selected)
The Ivy - Ana Cristina Barragan (eligible for next year)
Egypt:
Happy Birthday - Sarah Goher (official submission)
Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo - Khaled Mansour (not selected)
East of Noon - Hala Elkoussy (not selected)
The Brink of Dreams - Ayman El Amir & Nada Riyadh (not selected)
Snow White - Taghrid Abouelhassan (not selected)
Love Reigns Supreme - Heba Yousry (not selected)
6 Days - Karim Shaaban (not selected)
Perfumed with Mint - Muhammad Hamdy (not selected)
Siko Siko - Omar El Mohandes (not selected)
The Settlement - Mohamed Rashad (eligible for next year)
Life After Siham - Namir Abdel Messeeh (eligible for next year)
Aisha Can't Fly Away Anymore - Murad Mustafa (eligible for next year)
Estonia:
Rolling Papers - Meel Paliale (official submission)
Frank - Tonis Pill (not selected)
Rebel with a Bow Tie - Jaan Tootsen (not selected)
Chainsaws Were Singing - Sander Maran (not selected)
Aurora - Andres Maimik & Rain Tolk (not selected)
Two of Me - Romet Esko & Raul Esko (not selected)
Becoming Roosi - Margit Lillak (not selected)
Finland:
100 Liters of Gold - Teemu Nikki (official submission)
A Light That Never Goes Out - Lauri-Matti Parppei (not selected)
Never Alone - Klaus Haro (not selected)
Apple Thieves - Samppa Batal (not selected)
Silent Trilogy - Juho Kuosmanen (not selected)
Orenda - Pirjo Honkasalo (not selected)
France:
It Was Just an Accident - Jafar Panahi (official submission)
Nouvelle Vague - Richard Linklater (not selected)
The Little Sister - Hafsia Herzi (not selected)
Arco - Ugo Bienvenu (not selected)
A Private Life - Rebecca Zlotowski (not selected)
Holy Cow - Louise Courvoisier (not selected)
Little Amelie - Mailys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang (not selected)
Nino - Pauline Loques (not selected)
The Marching Band - Emmanuel Courcol (not selected)
Colours of Time - Cedric Klapisch (not selected)
Reflection in a Dead Diamond - Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani (not selected)
We Will Go - Enya Baroux (not selected)
Enzo - Robin Campillo (not selected)
Alpha - Julia Ducournau (not selected)
The Stranger - Francois Ozon (eligible for next year)
Case 137 - Dominik Moll (eligible for next year)
Love Letters - Alice Douard (eligible for next year)
Love Me Tender - Anna Cazenave Cambet (eligible for next year)
Summer Beats - Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret (eligible for next year)
At Work - Valerie Donzelli (eligible for next year)
Dog 51 - Cédric Jimenez (eligible for next year)
Two Pianos - Arnaud Desplechin (eligible for next year)
Georgia:
Panopticon - George Sikharulidze (official submission)
Snowflakes in My Yard - Bakur Bakuradze (not selected)
In the Name of Blood - Akaki Popkhadze (not selected)
Ever Since I Knew Myself - Maka Gogaladze (not selected)
Dry Leaf - Alexandre Koberidze (eligible for next year)
Germany:
Sound of Falling - Mascha Schilinski (official submission)
Amrum - Fatih Akin (not selected)
The Tiger - Dennis Gansel (not selected)
John Cranko - Joachim Lang (not selected)
Riefenstahl - Andres Veiel (not selected)
Mirrors No. 3 - Christian Petzold (not selected)
Punching the World - Constanze Klaue (not selected)
What Marielle Knows - Frederic Hambalek (not selected)
Koln 75 - Ido Fluk (not selected)
Wunderschoner - Karoline Herfurth (not selected)
No Beast. So Fierce - Burhan Qurbani (not selected)
The Good Sister - Sarah Miro Fischer (eligible for next year)
Hysteria - Mehmet Akif Buyukatalay (eligible for next year)
Babystar - Joscha Bongard (eligible for next year)
Greece:
Arcadia - Yorgos Zois (official submission)
Our Wildest Days - Vasilis Kekatos (not selected)
Kyuka: Before Summer's End - Kostis Charamountanis (not selected)
Meat - Dimitris Nakos (not selected)
Stelios - Giorgos Tsemperopoulos (not selected)
They Talk About Worship Here - Byron Kritzas (not selected)
Sculpted Souls - Stavros Psyllakis (not selected)
I Have Something to Say - Stratos Tzitzis (not selected)
Bearcave - Stergios Dinopoulos & Krysianna Papadakis (eligible for next year)
Hen - Gyorgy Pálfi (eligible for next year)
Greenland:
Walls - Akinni Inuk - Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg & Sofie Rordam (official submission)
Guatemala:
Mexico 86 - Cesar Diaz (not selected)
Haiti:
Kidnapping Inc. - Bruno Mourral (official submission)
Hong Kong:
The Last Dance - Anselm Chan (official submission)
The Way We Talk - Adam Wong (not selected)
Papa - Philip Yung (not selected)
Obedience - Wong Siu Pong (not selected)
Last Song For You - Jill Leung (not selected)
Montages of a Modern Motherhood - Oliver Siu Kuen Chan (not selected)
Another World - Tommy Kai Chung Ng (eligible for next year)
Sons of the Neon Night - Juno Mak (eligible for next year)
Hungary:
Orphan - Laszlo Nemes (official submission)
Growing Down - Balint Daniel Sos (not selected)
Kix - David Mikulan & Balint Revesz (not selected)
The Dynasty - Mate Fuchs (not selected)
Silent Friend - Ildiko Enyedi (eligible for next year)
Later in the Cleaning - Marton Tarkovi (eligible for next year)
Iceland:
The Love That Remains - Hlynur Palmason (official submission)
Fjallio - Asthildur Kjartansdottir (not selected)
The Ground Beneath Our Feet - Yrsa Roca Fannberg (eligible for next year)
India:
Homebound - Neeraj Ghaywan (official submission)
Cactus Pears - Rohan Kanawade (not selected)
Tourist Family - Abishan Jeevinth (not selected)
Sister Midnight - Karan Kandhari (not selected)
Superboys of Malegaon - Reema Kagti (not selected)
Thudarum - Tharun Moorthy (not selected)
Ponman - Jyothish Shankar (not selected)
Court - State Vs. A Nobody - Ram Jagadeesh (not selected)
Bottle Radha - Dinakaran Sivalingam (not selected)
Kudumbasthan - Rajeshwar Kalisamy (not selected)
Dragon - Ashwath Marimuthu (not selected)
Alappuzha Gymkhana - Khalid Rahman (not selected)
Songs of Forgotten Trees - Anuparma Roy (eligible for next year)
Bandar - Anurag Kashyap (eligible for next year)
Bayaan - Bikas Ranjan Mishra (eligible for next year)
In Search of the Sky - Jitank Singh Gurjar (eligible for next year)
Indonesia:
Sore: Wife from the Future - Yandy Laurens (official submission)
A Brother and 7 Siblings - Yandy Laurens (not selected)
Crocodile Tears - Tumpal Tampubolon (not selected)
This City Is a Battlefield - Mouly Surya (not selected)
Perayaan Mati Rasa - Umay Shahab (not selected)
Komang - Naya Anindita (not selected)
The Siege at Thorn High - Joko Anwar (not selected)
Iran:
Cause of Death: Unknown - Ali Zarnegar (official submission)
Woman and Child - Saeed Roustaee (not selected)
Raha - Hesam Farahmand (not selected)
Call Me Ziba - Rasoul Sadrameli (not selected)
The Old Bachelor - Oktay Baraheni (not selected)
In the Land of Brothers - Alireza Ghasemi & Raha Amirfazli (not selected)
Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others - Farshad Hashemi (not selected)
The Great Yawn of History - Aliyar Rasti (not selected)
People's Child - Mahmood Karimi (not selected)
Sofa - Kianush Ayyari (not selected)
Cutting Through Rocks - Sara Khaki & Mohammad Reza Eyni (eligible for next year)
1001 Frames - Mehrnoush Alia (eligible for next year)
Bidad - Soheil Beiraghi (eligible for next year)
Between Dreams and Hope - Farnoosh Samadi (eligible for next year)
Iraq:
The President's Cake - Hasan Hadi (official submission)
Songs of Adam - Oday Rasheed (not selected)
Immortals - Maja Tschumi (not selected)
Irkalla - Gilgamesh's Dream - Mohamed Al Daradji (eligible for next year)
Flana - Zahraa Ghandour (eligible for next year)
Ireland:
Sanatorium - Gar O'Rourke (official submission)
The Ghost - John Farrelly (not selected)
Frewaka - Aislinn Clarke (not selected)
Aontas - Damian McCann (eligible for next year)
Israel:
The Sea - Shai Carmeli-Pollak (official submission)
Yes! - Nadav Lapid (not selected)
Oxygen - Netalie Braun (not selected)
Nandauri - Eti Tsicko (not selected)
Dead Language - Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun (not selected)
Of Dogs and Men - Dani Rosenberg (not selected)
Houses - Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum (not selected)
Tropicana - Omer Tobi (not selected)
Life Without Credit - Tom Shoval (not selected)
Mama - Or Sinai (eligible for next year)
Tom's 2nd Suicide - Karni Haneman (eligible for next year)
Italy:
Familia - Francesco Costabile (official submission)
The Last One for the Road - Francesco Sossai (not selected)
Below the Clouds - Gianfranco Rosi (not selected)
Duse - Pietro Marcello (not selected)
The Negotiator - Alessandro Tonda (not selected)
Siblings - Greta Scarano (not selected)
Madly - Paolo Genovese (not selected)
Fuori - Mario Martone (not selected)
Hey Joe - Claudio Giovannesi (not selected)
The Children's Train - Cristina Comencini (not selected)
Naples to New York - Gabriele Salvatores (not selected)
Vittoria - Alessandro Cassigoli & Casey Kauffman (not selected)
The Great Ambition - Andrea Segre (not selected)
Diamanti - Ferzan Ozpetek (not selected)
Diva Futura - Giulia Louise Steigerwalt (not selected)
Eterno Visionario - Michele Placido (not selected)
The Boy With Pink Pants - Margherita Ferri (not selected)
Elisa - Leonardo Di Costanzo (not selected)
The Tasters - Silvio Soldini (not selected)
Trifole - Gabriele Fabbro (not selected)
The American Backyard - Pupi Avati (not selected)
The Flood - Gianluca Jodice (not selected)
Joachim and the Apocalypse - Jordan River (not selected)
The Sicilian Storyteller - Paolo Licata (not selected)
The Holy Boy - Paolo Strippoli (not selected)
Gen_ - Gianluca Matarrese (not selected)
Paternal Leave - Alissa Jung (not selected)
The Forbidden City - Gabriele Mainetti (not selected)
The Illusion - Roberto Ando (not selected)
La Grazia - Paolo Sorrentino (eligible for next year)
Heads or Tails? - Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis (eligible for next year)
The Kidnapping of Arabella - Carolina Cavalli (eligible for next year)
A Year of School - Laura Samani (eligible for next year)
My Tennis Maestro - Andrea Di Stefano (eligible for next year)
Orfeo - Virgilio Villoresi (eligible for next year)
Primavera - Damiano Michieletto (eligible for next year)
Three Goodbyes - Isabel Coixet (eligible for next year)
Japan:
Kokuho - Lee Sang-il (official submission)
Renoir - Chie Hayakawa (not selected)
Exit 8 - Genki Kawamura (not selected)
A Pale View of Hills - Kei Ishikawa (not selected)
1st Kiss - Ayuko Tsukahara (not selected)
Broken Rage - Takeshi Kitano (not selected)
Seaside Serendipity - Satoko Yokohama (not selected)
Happyend - Neo Sora (not selected)
Brand New Landscape - Yuiga Danzuka (eligible for next year)
The Longing - Toshizo Fujiwara (eligible for next year)
Love on Trial - Koji Fukada (eligible for next year)
Scarlet - Mamoru Hosoda (eligible for next year)
Jordan:
All That's Left of You - Cherian Dabis (official submission)
Once Upon a Time in Gaza - Arab Nasser & Tarzan Nasser (not selected)
The Strangers' Case - Brandt Andersen (not selected)
Tell Them About Us - Rand Beiruty (not selected)
A State of Passion - Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi (not selected)
Sink - Zain Duraie (eligible for next year)
Kazakhstan:
Cadet - Adilkhan Yerzhanov (official submission)
Dad Croaked on Saturday - Zaka Abdrakhmanova (not selected)
Longer Than a Day - Malika Mukhamejan (not selected)
Abel - Elzat Eskendir (not selected)
Crickets, It's Your Turn - Olga Korotko (not selected)
We Live Here - Zhanana Kurmasheva (eligible for next year)
Evacuation - Farkhat Sharipov (eligible for next year)
Kenya:
The Battle for Laikipia - Daphne Matziaraki & Peter Murimi (not selected)
Invisible Flame - Oskar Weimar (eligible for next year)
Matabeleland - Nyasha Kadandara (eligible for next year)
Kyrgyzstan:
Black Red Yellow - Aktan Abdykalykov (official submission)
Deal at the Border - Dastan Zhapar (not selected)
Someone Else's War - Daniel Berger (not selected)
An Instant - Almaz Zhangaziev (not selected)
Girl in Red - Belek Turgunov (not selected)
Latvia:
Dog of God - Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele (official submission)
Maria's Silence - Davis Simanis Jr. (not selected)
Parents' School Meeting - Marta Elina Martinsone (not selected)
Lotus - Signe Birkova (not selected)
Youth Eternal - Armands Zacs (not selected)
Touched by Eternity - Marcia Lacis (not selected)
Faithful unto Death - Ivars Zviedris (not selected)
The End - Maris Maskalans (not selected)
Art Born in Agony - Elizabete Gricmane & Ramune Rakauskaite (not selected)
Two Prosecutors - Sergei Loznitsa (eligible for next year)
Lebanon:
A Sad and Beautiful World - Cyril Aris (official submission)
Diaries from Lebanon - Myriam El Hajj (not selected)
We Are Inside - Farah Kassem (not selected)
The Jacket - Mathijs Poppe (not selected)
Songs of All Ends - Giovanni C. Lorusso (not selected)
Letters - Josef Khallouf & Mike Malajalian (not selected)
Shapes of Normal Human Beings - Selim Mourad (eligible for next year)
Dead Dog - Sarah Francis (eligible for next year)
Lithuania:
Southern Chronicles - Ignas Miskinis (official submission)
Toxic - Saule Bliuvaite (not selected)
Tasty - Egle Vertelyte (not selected)
The Night Screening - Algimantas Puipa (not selected)
The Visitor - Vytautas Katkus (not selected)
Renovation - Gabriele Urbonaite (eligible for next year)
Back to the Family - Sarunas Bartas (eligible for next year)
On Sacred and Profane - Giedre Beinoriute eligible for next year)
Laguna - Sarunas Bartas eligible for next year)
Luxembourg:
Breathing Underwater - Eric Lamhène (official submission)
Madagascar:
Disco Africa: A Malagasy Story - Luck Razanajaona (official submission)
Malaysia:
Pavane For An Infant - Keat Aun Chong (official submission)
Reversi - Adrian Teh (not selected)
Kahar: Kapla High Council - Razaisyam Rashid (not selected)
Blood Brothers: Bara Naga - Abhilash Chandra & Syafiq Yusof (not selected)
Babah - Mohd Shah Faizul (not selected)
Simple Manusan - Haran Kaveri & Shobaan (not selected)
Close Ur Kopitiam - Vince Chong (not selected)
Keluang Man - Anwari Ashraf (not selected)
Queer as Punk - Yihwen Chen (eligible for next year)
Lost Land - Akio Fujimoto (eligible for next year)
The Fox King - Woo Ming Jin (eligible for next year)
Malta:
Ciao Ciao - Keith Albert Tedesco (not selected)
Mexico:
We Shall Not Be Moved - Pierre Saint Martin Castellanos (official submission)
Corina - Urzula Barba Hopfner (not selected)
Rain - Rodrigo Garcia Saiz (not selected)
1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil - Sergio Olhovich (not selected)
Cracked - Alana Simoes (not selected)
Dead Man's Switch - Alejandro Gerber Bicecci (not selected)
I Am Frankelda - Rodolfo Ambriz & Arturo Ambriz (not selected)
Concerto For Other Hands - Ernesto Gonzalez Diaz (not selected)
Fine Young Men - Alejandro Andrade Pease (not selected)
The Craziness - Rodrigo Garcia Saiz (not selected)
Let Me Be with You - Isaac Cherem (not selected)
Mujeres del alba - Jimena Montemayor Loyo (not selected)
The Devil Smokes - Ernesto Martinez Bucio (eligible for next year)
On the Road - David Pablos (eligible for next year)
Vanilla - Mayra Hermosillo (eligible for next year)
The Reserve - Pablo Perez Lombardini (eligible for next year)
Oca - Karla Badillo (eligible for next year)
Copper - Nicolas Pereda (eligible for next year)
Mongolia:
Silent City Driver - Sengedorj Janchivdorj (official submission)
Travesty - Baatar Batsukh (not selected)
Iron Winter - Kasimir Burgess (eligible for next year)
Woman - Miyegombo Alexander (eligible for next year)
Montenegro:
The Tower of Strength - Nikola Vukcevic (official submission)
Ponton's Heart - Senad Sahmanovic (not selected)
Wondrous is the Silence of My Master - Ivan Salatic (eligible for next year)
Morocco:
Calle Malaga - Maryam Touzani (official submission)
Across the Sea - Said Hamich (not selected)
Cabo Negro - Abdellah Taia (not selected)
The Blue Lake - Daoud Aoulad-Syad (not selected)
The Commandments - Sana Akroud (not selected)
Bouchra - Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani (eligible for next year)
Nepal:
Anjila - Milan Chams (official submission)
Pooja, Sir - Deepak Rauniyar (not selected)
Devi - Subina Shrestha (not selected)
Laaj Sharanam - Kumar Kattel (not selected)
Missing: Keti Harayeko Suchana - Deependra Gauchan (not selected)
Karsang - Yam Sherpa (not selected)
Netherlands:
Reedland - Sven Bresser (official submission)
Alpha - Jan-Willem van Ewijk (not selected)
Three Days of Fish - Peter Hoogendoorn (not selected)
Fabula - Michiel ten Horn (not selected)
The Propagandist - Luuk Bouwman (not selected)
Our Girls - Mike van Diem (not selected)
Live for Me - Mark de Cloe (not selected)
The System - Joris Postema (not selected)
Heresy - Didier Konings (not selected)
Idyllic - Aaron Rookus (not selected)
I Shall See - Mercedes Stalenhoef (not selected)
Straatcoaches vs Aliens - Michael Middelkoop (not selected)
Out of Luck - Jonathan Elbers (not selected)
The Garden of Earthly Delights - Morgan Knibbe (not selected)
Nigeria:
Ireke: Rise of the Maroons - Gbolahan Peter Macjob (not selected)
North Macedonia:
The Tale of Silyan - Tamara Kotevska (official submission)
Everybody Calls Redjo - Iber Deari (not selected)
DJ Ahmet - Georgi M. Unkovski (eligible for next year)
The Mountain Won't Move - Petra Seliskar (eligible for next year)
Norway:
Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier (official submission)
Dreams (Sex Love) - Dag Johan Haugerud (not selected)
Facing War - Tommy Gulliksen (not selected)
Loveable - Lilja Ingolfsdottir (not selected)
The Ugly Stepsister - Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt (not selected)
Number 24 - John Andreas Andersen (not selected)
Love - Dag Johan Haugerud (not selected)
Everything Must Go - Arild Ostin Ommundsen (not selected)
Safe House - Eirik Svensoon (not selected)
My Uncle Jens - Brwa Vahabpour (not selected)
Don't Call Me Mama - Nina Knag (eligible for next year)
Pakistan:
Yasmeen's Element - Amman Abbasi (not selected)
Ghost School - Seemab Gul (eligible for next year)
Palestine:
Palestine 36 - Annemarie Jacir (official submission)
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk - Sepideh Farsi (not selected)
Thank You For Banking With Us - Laila Abbas (not selected)
A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljafari (not selected)
Yunan - Ameer Fakher Eldin (eligible for next year)
With Hasan in Gaza - Kamal Aljafari (eligible for next year)
Panama:
Beloved Tropic - Ana Endara Mislov (official submission)
Papers - Arturo Montenegro (not selected)
La Senal de la Libertad - Mercedes Arias & Delfina Vidal (not selected)
The Panama Canal Treaties: Son of Tiger and Mule - Annie Canavaggio (not selected)
Papua New Guinea:
Papa Buka - Bijukumar Damodaran (official submission)
Paraguay:
Under the Flags, the Sun - Juanjo Pereira (official submission)
Green is the New Red - Anna Recalde Miranda (not selected)
Carta a un Viejo Master - Paz Encina (not selected)
Waning Moon - Arturo Encina (not selected)
Peru:
Motherland - Marco Panatonic (official submission)
Zafari - Mariana Rondon (not selected)
Mistura - Ricardo de Montreuil (not selected)
Quadrilateral - Daniel Rodriguez Risco (not selected)
Amor erizo - P.J. Ruiz (not selected)
Ashes, The Movie - Antonio Rodriguez Romani (not selected)
Nanito - Guillermo Fernandez Cano (not selected)
Through Rocks and Clouds - Franco Garcia Becerra (not selected)
The Legend of the Last Inca - Tito Catacora (not selected)
Punku - J.D. Fernandez Molero (eligible for next year)
The Memory of Butterflies - Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski (eligible for next year)
Runa Simi - Augusto Zegarra (eligible for next year)
Philippines:
Magellan - Lav Diaz (official submission)
Sunshine - Antoinette Jadaone (not selected)
Green Bones - Zig Madamba Dulay (not selected)
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking - Petersen Vargas (not selected)
Song of the Fireflies - King Palisoc (not selected)
Food Delivery - Baby Ruth Villarama (not selected)
Hello, Love, Again - Cathy Garcia-Sampana (not selected)
Tumandok - Kat Sumagaysay & Richard Jeroui Salvadico (not selected)
Phantosmia - Lav Diaz (not selected)
Ex Ex Lovers - JP Habac (not selected)
Olsen's Day - JP Habac (not selected)
My Love Will Make You Disappear - Chad Vidanes (not selected)
Only We Know - Irene Villamor (not selected)
Where the Night Stands Still - Liryc Deal Cruz (eligible for next year)
Poland:
Franz - Agnieszka Holland (official submission)
It's Not My Film - Maria Zbaska (not selected)
Photosensitive - Tadeusz Sliwa (not selected)
Beautiful! - Katia Priwieziencew (not selected)
Minghun - Jan P. Matuszynski (not selected)
Letters from Wolf Street - Arjun Talwar (eligible for next year)
Glorious Summer - Bartosz Szpak & Helena Ganjalyan (eligible for next year)
Portugal:
Banzo - Margarida Cardoso (official submission)
The Survivors - Jose Barahona (not selected)
Dreaming of Lions - Paolo Marinou-Blanco (not selected)
The Englishman's Papers - Sergio Graciano (not selected)
Fire of Wind - Marta Mateus (not selected)
I Only Rest in the Storm - Pedro Pinho (eligible for next year)
Two Times Joao Liberada - Paula Tomas Marques (eligible for next year)
Ariel - Lois Patino (eligible for next year)
Gods of Stone - Ivan Castineiras (eligible for next year)
A Luminous Life - Joao Rosas (eligible for next year)
Night Passengers - Pedro Cabeleira (eligible for next year)
The Seasons - Maureen Fazendeiro (eligible for next year)
Romania:
Traffic - Teodora Ana Mihai (official submission)
Kontinental '25 - Radu Jude (not selected)
Alice On & Off - Isabela Tent (not selected)
Holy Week - Andrei Cohn (not selected)
Tata - Radu Ciorniciuc & Lina Vdovii (not selected)
Ink Wash - Sarra Tsorakidis (not selected)
Milk Teeth - Mihai Mincan (eligible for next year)
Saudi Arabia:
Hijra - Shahad Ameen (official submission)
Senegal:
Demba - Mamadou Dia (official submission)
Timpi Tampa - Adama Bineta Sow (eligible for next year)
Serbia:
Sun Never Again - David Jakovljevic (official submission)
Pearl Mist - Milorad Milinkovic (not selected)
Son's Will - Nemanja Ceranic (not selected)
When the Phone Rang - Iva Radivojevic (not selected)
Next to Us - Stevan Filipovic (not selected)
Our Father - Goran Stankovic (eligible for next year)
Wind, Talk to Me - Stefan Dordevic (eligible for next year)
How Come It's All Green Out Here? - Nikola Lezaic (eligible for next year)
Eighty Plus - Zelimir Zilnik (eligible for next year)
Singapore:
Stranger Eyes - Yeo Siew Hua (official submission)
An Unfinished Film - Lou Ye (not selected)
Pierce - Nelicia Low (not selected)
Mongrel - Chiang Wei-liang (not selected)
Spirit World - Eric Khoo (not selected)
Amoeba - Siyou Tan (eligible for next year)
Slovakia:
Father - Tereza Nvotova (official submission)
Cernak - Jakub Kroner (not selected)
Promise, I'll Be Fine - Katarina Gramatova (not selected)
Ms. President - Marek Sulik (not selected)
March to May - Martin Pavol Repka (not selected)
Better Go Mad in the Wild - Miro Remo (eligible for next year)
Slovenia:
Little Trouble Girls - Urska Djukic (official submission)
Block 5 - Klemen Dvornik (not selected)
Stealing the Land - Ziga Virc (not selected)
A Tree Grows in My Dreams Every Night - Vid Hajnsek (not selected)
Proto-Slav - Slobodan Maksimovic (not selected)
South Africa:
The Heart Is a Muscle - Imran Hamdulay (official submission)
Sabbatical - Karabo Lediga (not selected)
Som van Twee - Simone Pretorius (not selected)
Die Kwiksilwers - Jordy Sank (not selected)
Carissa - Jason Jacobs & Devon Delmar (not selected)
Laundry - Zamo Mkhwanazi (eligible for next year)
South Korea:
No Other Choice - Park Chan-wook (official submission)
The Old Woman with the Knife - Min Kyu-dong (not selected)
Love in the Big City - E. Oni (not selected)
Yadang: The Snitch - Hwang Byeng-gug (not selected)
About Family - Yang Woo-suk (not selected)
A Normal Family - Hur Jin-ho (not selected)
The Ugly - Yeon Sang-ho (not selected)
When This Summer is Over - Jang Byung-ki (not selected)
Somebody - Lee Jeong-chan & Kim Yeo-jung (not selected)
Mimang - Kim Tae-yang (not selected)
Hi-Five - Kang Hyeong-cheol (not selected)
Harbin - Woo Min-ho (not selected)
Secret: Untold Memory - Seo You-min (not selected)
The Killers - Jong-kwan Kim (not selected)
Spring Night - Kang Mi-ja (not selected)
My Daughter is a Zombie - Pil Gam-seong (not selected)
Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning - Kim Dong-chul (not selected)
Dark Nuns - Kwon Hyeok-jae (not selected)
Omniscient Reader: The Prophet - Kim Byung-woo (not selected)
Hear Me: Our Summer - Cho Sun-ho (not selected)
What Does That Nature Say to You - Hong Sang-soo (not selected)
The Match - Kim Hyung-joo (not selected)
Nocturnal - Kim Jin-hwang (not selected)
Manok - Lee Yu-jin (eligible for next year)
Good News - Byun Sung-hyun (eligible for next year)
Project Y - Lee Hwan (eligible for next year)
The World of Love - Yoon Ga-eun (eligible for next year)
Spain:
Sirat - Oliver Laxe (official submission)
Deaf - Eva Libertad (not selected)
Romeria - Carla Simon (not selected)
Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra (not selected)
Sleepless City - Guillermo Galoe (not selected)
The Portuguese House - Avelina Prat (not selected)
Black Butterflies - David Baute (not selected)
Enemies - David Valero (not selected)
The Captive - Alejandro Amenabar (not selected)
Away - Gerard Oms (not selected)
The Good Handwriting - Celia Rico Clavellino (not selected)
The Remnants of You - Gala Gracia (not selected)
The Exiles - Belen Funes (not selected)
Barren Land - Albert Pinto (not selected)
A Free Man - Laura Hojman (not selected)
The Delights of the Garden - Fernando Colomo (not selected)
My Friend Eva - Cesc Gay (not selected)
She Walks In Darkness - Agustin Diaz Yanes (not selected)
The Talent - Polo Menarguez (not selected)
Los Tigres - Alberto Rodriguez (not selected)
Maspalomas - Aitor Arregi & Jose Mari Goenaga (not selected)
The Treasure of Barracuda - Adria Garcia (not selected)
Pasionaria. Dolores Ibarruri - Amparo Climent (not selected)
Fury - Gemma Blasco (not selected)
La mitad de Ana - Marta Nieto (not selected)
Antes de nos - Angeles Huerta (not selected)
Strange River - Jaume Claret Muxart (eligible for next year)
Forastera - Lucia Alenar Iglesias (eligible for next year)
Sweden:
Eagles of the Republic - Tarik Saleh (official submission)
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 - Goran Olsson (not selected)
The Dance Club - Lisa Langseth (not selected)
Quiet Life - Alexandros Avranas (not selected)
The Comic Artist - Adam Hilario (not selected)
Raptures - Jon Blahed (not selected)
Kevlar Soul - Maria Eriksson-Hecht (not selected)
Live a Little - Fanny Ovesen (not selected)
The Home - Mattias J. Skoglund (eligible for next year)
Switzerland:
Late Shift - Petra Biondina Volpe (official submission)
Hanami - Denise Fernandes (not selected)
The Safe House - Lionel Baier (not selected)
The Courageous - Jasmin Gordon (not selected)
Milk Teeth - Sophia Bosch (not selected)
I'm Not Stiller - Stefan Haupt (eligible for next year)
Silent Rebellion - Marie-Elsa Sgualdo (eligible for next year)
Taiwan:
Left-Handed Girl - Shih-Ching Tsou (official submission)
Locust - Keff (not selected)
Daughter's Daughter - Huang Xi (not selected)
Blind Love - Julian Chou (not selected)
Family Matters - Ke-yin Pan (not selected)
Abiding Nowhere - Tsai Ming-liang (not selected)
Lovesick - Fu-Hsiang Hsu (not selected)
Girl - Shu Qi (eligible for next year)
Eel - Chun-Teng Chu (eligible for next year)
Tajikistan:
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit - Shahram Mokri (official submission)
In the Search for Truth - Manzareli Sherali (not selected)
Thailand:
A Useful Ghost - Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (official submission)
The Stone - Arak Amornsupasiri & Wutthiphong Sukanin (not selected)
In Youth We Trust - Puttipong Nakthong (not selected)
The Cliche - Chadchawal Wisawabumrungchai (not selected)
Happy Monday(s) - Chakorn Chaiprecha (not selected)
The Red Envelope - Chayanop Bunprakob (not selected)
Flat Girls - Jirassaya Wongsutin (not selected)
Human Resource - Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (eligible for next year)
The Furious - Kenji Tanigaki (eligible for next year)
Tunisia:
The Voice of Hind Rajab - Kaouther Ben Hania (official submission)
Red Path - Lofti Achour (not selected)
Who Do I Belong To - Meryam Joobeur (not selected)
Aicha - Mehdi M. Barsaoui (not selected)
The Bridge - Walid Mattar (not selected)
Where the Wind Comes From - Amel Guellaty (eligible for next year)
Promised Sky - Erige Sehiri (eligible for next year)
Turkey:
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies - Murat Firatoglu (official submission)
Fate - Nadim Guc (not selected)
Edge of Night - Turker Suer (not selected)
The Playroom - Umit Unal (not selected)
Confidante - Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti (eligible for next year)
And the Rest Will Follow - Pelin Esmer (eligible for next year)
Idea - Tayfun Pirselimoglu (eligible for next year)
As We Breathe - Seyhmus Altun (eligible for next year)
Uganda:
Kimote - Mageye Hassan (official submission)
Ukraine:
2000 Meters to Andriivka - Mstyslav Chernov (official submission)
Timestamp - Kateryna Gornostai (not selected)
One Summer in Ukraine - Volodymyr Tykhyy (not selected)
Full Force - Oleksandr Stratienko (not selected)
Warning! Life Goes On - Anton Shtuka (not selected)
Stepne - Maryna Vroda (not selected)
Divia - Dmytro Hreshko (not selected)
Bucha - Stanislav Tiunov (not selected)
U Are the Universe - Pavlo Ostrikov (not selected)
Real - Oleh Sentsov (not selected)
Militantropos - Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith & Simon Mozgovyi (eligible for next year)
When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea - Eva Neymann (eligible for next year)
My Dear Theo - Alisa Kovalenko (eligible for next year)
To the Victory! - Valentyn Vasyanovych (eligible for next year)
A Simple Soldier - Artem Ryzhykov & Juan Camilo Cruz (eligible for next year)
United Kingdom:
My Father's Shadow - Akinola Davies Jr. (official submission)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl - Rungano Nyoni (not selected)
Uruguay:
Don't You Let Me Go - Leticia Jorge & Ana Guevara (official submission)
Pepe's Dreams - Pablo Trobo (not selected)
The Summer Hit - Pablo Stoll (not selected)
Quemadura china - Veronica Perrotta (not selected)
La fabula de la tortuga y la flor - Caroline Campo Lupo (not selected)
Crisis - Adriana Nartallo & Daniel Amorin (not selected)
Perros - Gerardo Minutti (not selected)
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - Kirill Serebrennikov (eligible for next year)
A Loose End - Daniel Hendler (eligible for next year)
A Bright Future - Lucia Garibaldi (eligible for next year)
Venezuela:
Ali Primera - Daniel Yegres (official submission)
Lost Chapters - Lorena Alvarado (not selected)
Caimanes de la Galaxia - Ignacio Marquez (not selected)
Paramos de leyendas - Atahualpa Lichy (not selected)
It Would Be Night in Caracas - Mariana Rondon & Marite Ugas (eligible for next year)
Casas Muertas - Rosana Matecki (eligible for next year)
Vietnam:
Red Rain - Dang Thai Huyen (official submission)
Cu Li Never Cries - Pham Ngoc Lan (not selected)
Don't Cry, Butterfly - Linh Duong (not selected)
Tunnels: Sun in the Dark - Bui Thac Chuyen (not selected)
The Real Sister - Khuong Ngoc (not selected)
The Ancestral Home - Huynh Lap (not selected)
The 4 Rascals - Tran Thanh (not selected)
Detective Kien: The Headless Horror - Victor Vu (not selected)
Ky Nam Inn - Leon Le (eligible for next year)
Summer School, 2001 - Duzan Duong (eligible for next year)
Bury Us in a Lone Desert - Nguyen Le Hoang Phuc (eligible for next year)