List of submissions to the 79th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is handed out annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.

For the 79th Academy Awards, which were held on February 25, 2007, the Academy invited 83 countries to submit films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, including Lithuania, which was invited to submit a film for the first time in the history of the Academy. Sixty-three countries submitted films to the Academy and sixty-one of those films were accepted for review by the Academy, a record number for the time. The submissions of Finland and Luxembourg were rejected before the formal review process.

Two rule changes were made for the 79th Academy Awards in regard to the Best Foreign Language Film process. The first was instituting a two-step process in choosing the nominees for the award in order to allow New York–based members of the Academy to participate. An initial committee would select nine films to form a shortlist in January that would then be reviewed by a committee composed of ten members of the initial committee, ten Los Angeles–based members, and ten New York–based members that would select the final five nominees. The second change was the removal of a rule requiring that the films be in an official language of the submitting country. This was done in response to the rejection of Italy's and Austria's submissions for the 78th Academy Awards, Private and Caché respectively, because they were not filmed in the official language of their respective countries. This allowed for the acceptance of submissions such as Canada's Water, which contained solely Hindi dialogue. Following the revealing of the shortlist, the Academy released a list of the five nominees on January 23, 2007.

Germany won the award for the third time with The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
	Days of Glory	بلديون / Indigènes	Arabic, French		Nominated
	Family Law	Derecho de familia	Spanish		Template:Notnom
	Ten Canoes		Yolngu Matha, English		Template:Notnom
	You Bet Your Life	Spiele Leben	German		Template:Notnom
	Forever Flows	নিরন্তর	Bengali		Template:Notnom
	Someone Else's Happiness	Een ander zijn geluk	Dutch		Template:Notnom
	American Visa		Spanish		Template:Notnom
	Grbavica: Land of My Dreams	Grbavica	Bosnian		Template:Notnom
	Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures	Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus	German, Brazilian Portuguese		Template:Notnom
	Monkeys in Winter	Maimuni prez zimata	Bulgarian		Template:Notnom
	Water		Hindi, English		Nominated
	In Bed	En la cama	Spanish		Template:Notnom
	Curse of the Golden Flower	满城尽带黄金甲	Mandarin		Template:Notnom
	A Ton of Luck	Soñar no cuesta nada	Spanish		Template:Notnom
	Libertas		Croatian, Italian, Venetian		Template:Notnom
	El Benny		Spanish		Template:Notnom
	Lunacy		Czech		Template:Notnom
	After the Wedding	Efter brylluppet	Danish, Hindi, Swedish, English		Nominated
	The Yacoubian Building	عمارة يعقوبيان	Arabic		Template:Notnom
	Lights in the Dusk	Laitakaupungin valot	Finnish, Russian		Withdrawn[A]
	Avenue Montaigne	Fauteuils d'orchestre	French		Template:Shortlisted
	The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen	German		Won Academy Award
	Chariton's Choir	Η χορωδία του Χαρίτωνα	Greek		Template:Notnom
	The Banquet	夜宴	Mandarin		Template:Notnom
	White Palms	Fehér Tenyér	Hungarian, Russian		Template:Notnom
	Children	Börn	Icelandic		Template:Notnom
	Rang De Basanti	रंग दे बसंती	Hindi		Template:Notnom
	Love for Share	Berbagi suami	Indonesian		Template:Notnom
	Transit Café	Café Transit	Persian, Greek, Turkish, Russian		Template:Notnom
Iraq	Dreams	أحلام	Arabic		Template:Notnom
	Sweet Mud	אדמה משוגעת	Hebrew, French		Template:Notnom
	The Golden Door	Nuovomondo	Italian		Template:Notnom
	Hula Girls	フラガール	Japanese		Template:Notnom
	Nomad	Kôshpendiler	Russian, Kazakh	, Talgat Temenov, Ivan Passer	Template:Notnom
	The Wedding Chest	Сундук предков	French, Kyrgyz, Russian		Template:Notnom
	Bosta	بوسطة	Arabic		Template:Notnom
	Before Flying Back to the Earth	Prieš parskrendant į žemę	Lithuanian, Russian		Template:Notnom
	Your Name is Justine	Masz na imie Justine	German, Polish, English		Disqualified[B]
Macedonia	Kontakt		German, Macedonian		Template:Notnom
	Pan's Labyrinth	El laberinto del fauno	Spanish		Nominated
	The Moroccan Symphony	السمفونية المغربية	Arabic		Template:Notnom
	Basain		Nepali		Template:Notnom
	Black Book	Zwartboek	Dutch, Hebrew, English, German		Template:Shortlisted
	Reprise		Norwegian		Template:Notnom
	Madeinusa		Spanish, Quechua		Template:Notnom
	The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros	Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros	Filipino, Tagalog		Template:Notnom
	Retrieval	Z odzysku	Polish, Russian		Template:Notnom
	Alice		Portuguese		Template:Notnom
	Thieves and Liars	Ladrones y mentirosos	Spanish		Template:Notnom
	The Way I Spent the End of the World	Cum mi-am petrecut sfârșitul lumii	Romanian		Template:Notnom
	9th Company	9 рота	Russian		Template:Notnom
Template:Flagcountry	Tomorrow Morning	Sutra ujutro	Serbian		Template:Notnom
	Gravehopping	Odgrobadogroba	Slovene		Template:Notnom
Template:Flagcountry	King and the Clown	왕의 남자	Korean		Template:Notnom
	Volver		Spanish		Template:Shortlisted
	Falkenberg Farewell	Farväl Falkenberg	Swedish		Template:Notnom
	Vitus		Swiss German, English		Template:Shortlisted
	Blue Cha Cha	深海	Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien		Template:Notnom
	Ahimsa: Stop to Run	อหิงสา จิ๊กโก๋ มีกรรม	Thai		Template:Notnom
	Ice Cream, I Scream	Dondurmam Gaymak	Turkish		Template:Notnom
	Aurora	Аврора	Russian, Ukrainian, English		Template:Notnom
	Maroa		Spanish		Template:Notnom
	Story of Pao	Chuyện của Pao	Vietnamese		Template:Notnom

Notes

• Template:Flagicon Finland's submission, Lights in the Dusk, was ejected before the formal review process because director Aki Kaurismäki withdrew the film from consideration.
• Template:Flagicon Luxembourg's submission, Your Name is Justine, was rejected before the formal review process because the Academy determined that not enough creative input was received from within Luxembourg for the film to meet the Academy's requirements.

References

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External links

• Official website for the 79th Academy Awards