This year's Golden Lola winner Four Minutes by Chris Kraus and Fatih Akin's Cannes competition title The Edge Of Heaven are among seven films submitted for consideration as Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year's Academy Awards.

Other films nominated include Robert Thalheim's And Along Come Tourists, Vadim Glowna's The House Of Sleeping Beauties, Dani Levy's My Fuehrer - The Really Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler, Volker Schloendorff's Strike, and Hans Steinbichler's Winter Journey.

A nine-person independent expert jury with representatives from the German film industry will announce its decision on September 18. (ends)

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