Argentina Family Law (Daniel Burman)

Australia Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer)

Austria You Bet Your Life (Antonin Svoboda)

Bangladesh Forever Flows (Abu Sayeed)

Belgium Someone Else's Happiness (Fien Troch)

Bolivia American Visa (Juan Carlos Valdivia)

Bosnia and Herzegovina Grbavica (Jasmila Zbanic)

Brazil Cinema, Aspirins And Vultures (Marcelo Gomes)

Bulgaria Monkeys In Winter (Milena Andonova)

Canada Water (Deepa Mehta)

Chile In Bed (Matias Bize)

China Curse Of The Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)

Colombia A Ton Of Luck (Rodrigo Triana)

Croatia Libertas (Veljko Bulajic)

Cuba El Benny (Jorge Luis Sanchez)

Czech Republic Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer)

Egypt The Yacoubian Building (Marwan Hamed)

Greece Chariton 's Choir (Grigoris Karantinakis)

Hong Kong The Banquet (Feng Xiaogang)

Hungary White Palms (Szabolcs Hajdu)

Iceland Children (Ragnar Bragason)

India Rang De Basanti (Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra)

Indonesia Love For Share (Nia Dinata)

Iran Cafe Transit (Kambozia Partovi)

Iraq Dreams (Mohamed Al-Daradji)

Israel Sweet Mud (Dror Shaul)

Italy Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese)

Japan Hula Girls (Sang-il Lee)

Kazakhstan Nomad (Sergei Bodrov, Talgat Temenov, Ivan Passer)

Korea King And The Clown (Lee Jun-ik)

Kyrgyzstan The Wedding Chest (Nurbek Egen)

Lebanon Bosta (Philippe Aractingi)

Lithuania Before Flying Back To Earth (Arunas Matelis)

Macedonia Kontakt (Sergei Stanojkovski)

Morocco The Moroccan Symphony (Kamal Kamal)

Nepal Basain (Subash Prasad Gajurel)

The Netherlands Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)

Norway Reprise (Joachim Trier)

Peru Madeinusa (Claudia Llosa)

Philippines The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito)

Poland Retrieval (Slawomir Fabicki)

Portugal Alice (Marco Martins)

Puerto Rico Thieves And Liars (Ricardo Mendez Matta)

Romania The Way I Spent the End Of The World (Catalin Mitulescu)

Russia 9th Company (Fyodor Bondarchuk)

Serbia Tomorrow Morning (Oleg Novkovic)

Slovenia Gravehopping (Jan Cvitkovic)

Sweden Falkenberg Farewell (Jesper Ganslandt)

Switzerland Vitus (Fredi M Murer)

Taiwan Blue Cha Cha (Cheng Wen-tang)

Thailand Ahimsa Stop To Run (Leo Kittikorn)

Turkey Ice Cream, I Scream (Yuksel Aksu)

Ukraine Aurora (Oxana Bayrak)

Venezuela Maroa (Solveig Hoogesteijn)

Vietnam Story Of Pao (Ngo Quang Hai)

What didn't make the list

Like all years, some of the year's most outstanding films weren't submitted to the Academy. Turkey opted against Nuri Bilge Ceylan's luminous Climates, for example, Romania decided against Corneliu Poromboiu's critically revered 12:08 East Of Bucharest , Hungary snubbed both the rousing historical epic Children Of Glory, directed by Krisztina Goda and Gyorgy Palfi's delicious Taxidermia, while Argentina chose not to submit Israel Adrian Caetano's riveting Buenos Aires 1977 .

All these films, of course, are still eligible in the Globes and BAFTA foreign language category.

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