Potential Submissions
(updated April 19th)

This is a work in progress that will be constantly updated.
Only films that have debuted will be listed.

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
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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. The Blue Trail - Gabriel Mascaro
2. Vitoria - Andrucha Waddington
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
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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
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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
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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

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