The following 46 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 67th Academy Awards

67th Academy Awards

The 67th Academy Awards, honoring the best films of 1994, were held on March 27, 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by well-known comedian and talk show host David Letterman....

 in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 which took place in 1995. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Belgium, Cuba, Macedonia, Russia and Taiwan.

Belarus, Bosnia, Cambodia, Guatemala and Macedonia submitted films to the competition for the first time. Also for the first time, films from both the Czech and Slovak Republics competed against each other, although neither was nominated. It was also the first time that all five of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia all entered the race separately.

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski originally had two films in the race when Poland and Switzerland entered two of his Three Colors

Three Colors

The Three Colours Trilogy is the collective title of three films – a trilogy – directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, two made in French and one primarily in Polish: Trois couleurs: Bleu , Trzy kolory: Biały , and Trois couleurs: Rouge...

 trilogy. An early favorite, Switzerland's Red was disqualified in a controversial Academy ruling which determined that although Red was co-produced by the Swiss national film board and although it took place in Switzerland and featured a largely Swiss cast, it qualified as a majority French, and not Swiss, production. Miramax Films

Miramax Films

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 appealed to the Academy to change its mind, but to no avail Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

's White screened alongside the other films but did not make the final five.

Country	Film title used in nomination	Original Title	Language	Director
	Autumn: October in Algiers	Automne... Octobre à Alger	Arabic	Malik Lakhdar-Hamina
	A Shadow You Soon Will Be	Una Sombra ya pronto serás	Spanish	Héctor Olivera Héctor Olivera Héctor Olivera is a film director, producer and screenwriter.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has contributed to numerous films in the United States.-Biography:...
	I Promise	Ich Gelobe	German	Wolfgang Murnberger
Belarus	Me Ivan, You Abraham Me Ivan, You Abraham Me Ivan, You Abraham is a 1993 French-Belarus film written and directed by Yolande Zauberman. It won the Award of the Youth at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and the Golden St...	Ya - Ivan, Ty - Abram	Yiddish, Polish, Russian	Yolande Zauberman Yolande Zauberman - Filmography :*Classified People *Caste criminelle *Me Ivan, You Abraham *Clubbed to Death *La Guerre à Paris *Paradise now - Journal d'une femme en crise - External links :...
	Farinelli	Farinelli, Il Castrato	French, Italian	Gérard Corbiau Gérard Corbiau Gérard Corbiau is a Belgian film director.Corbiau was born in Brussels, Belgium. He is best known for his costume dramas about music, Le maître de musique , Farinelli and Le roi danse . Two of them were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
	The Awkward Age	Magarece godine	Serbo-Croatian	Nenad Dizdarević Nenad Dizdarevic Nenad Dizdarević is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and teacher of cinema from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His most notable film, Magarece godine , was the Bosnian submission to the Academy Awards in 1995...
	Rice People Rice People Rice People is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan , by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian state of Kedah, Rice People is the story of a rural family in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia,...	Neak sre	Khmer	Rithy Panh Rithy Panh Rithy Panh is an internationally and critically acclaimed Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter.The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia...
	Mon Amie Max	Mon Amie Max	French	Michel Brault Michel Brault Michel Brault, OQ is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s...
	Amnesia	Amnesia	Spanish	Gonzalo Justiniano
	The Strategy of the Snail	La Estrategia del caracol	Spanish	Sergio Cabrera Sergio Cabrera Sergio Moises Cabrera Diaz is a male swimmer from Paraguay. He was the nation's only swimming competitor at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he ended up in 35th place in the men's 200 metres butterfly event....
	Vukovar: The Way Home Vukovar: The Way Home Vukovar: The Way Home is a Croatian film directed by Branko Schmidt. It was released in 1994....	Vukovar se vraca kuci	Serbo-Croatian	Branko Schmidt Branko Schmidt Branko Schmidt is an acclaimed Croatian film director.-Filmography:* Sokol Did Not Love Him * Đuka Begović * Vukovar: The Way Home ...
	Strawberry and Chocolate	Fresa y Chocolate	Spanish	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...  & Juan Carlos Tabío Juan Carlos Tabío Juan Carlos Tabío is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate , which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign...
	Lesson Faust Faust (1994 film) Faust is a 1994 Czech film directed by Jan Švankmajer. It merges live-action footage with stop-motion footage and includes imaginative puppetry and claymation. The Faust character is played by Petr Čepek. The film was produced by Jaromír Kallista...	Faust	Czech	Jan Švankmajer Jan Švankmajer Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.- Life and career :Jan...
	Carl, My Childhood Symphony	Min fynske barndom Min Fynske Barndom Min Fynske Barndom, translated into English as My Childhood, is Carl Nielsen's autobiographical account of his childhood on the Danish island of Funen...	Danish	Erik Clausen
	Land of Dreams	الحب العظيم	Arabic	Daoud Abdel Sayed Daoud Abdel Sayed Daoud Abdel Sayed is an Egyptian director and screenwriter. He was born in Cairo in 1946. He started as the assistant of Youssef Chahine in The Land...
	Wild Reeds	Les Roseaux Sauvages	French	André Téchiné André Téchiné André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....
	The Promise The Promise (1995 film) The Promise is a 1995 German-language film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. It was an international co-production between Germany, France and Switzerland. Two young lovers in Berlin are separated when the Berlin wall goes up, and their stories intertwine during the three decades to German...	Das Versprechen	German	Margarethe von Trotta
	The Silence of Neto	El Silencio de Neto	Spanish	Luis Argueta Luis Argueta Luis Argueta born November 7, 1946 full name: Luis Alberto Argueta Amézquita) is a critically acclaimed Guatemalan film director and producer. In 1988 He founded Morningside Movies, primarily producing TV commercials, including many for the Spanish speaking demographic...
	The Day the Sun Turned Cold	天国逆子	Mandarin	Ho Yim
	Woyzeck	Woyzeck	Hungarian	János Szász János Szász János Szász is an Hungarian film director, screenwriter and theater director. He has directed eleven films since 1983. His film Witman fiúk was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Szász was the Director of the American Repertory Theater Institute and a...
	Movie Days	Bíódagar	Icelandic	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Friðrik Þór Friðriksson , sometimes credited as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, is an Icelandic film director....
	Bandit Queen Bandit Queen Bandit Queen is a 1994 Indian film based upon the life of Phoolan Devi. It was directed by Shekhar Kapur and starred Seema Biswas as the title character. It was produced by Bobby Bedi's Kaleidoscope Entertainment.The Music was Composed by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.- Plot :The film opens in the...	बैन्डिट क्वीन	Hindi	Shekhar Kapur Shekhar Kapur Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director and producer. A critically acclaimed director, he rose to popularity with the movie Bandit Queen...
	Through the Olive Trees Through the Olive Trees Through the Olive Trees is a 1994 film directed and written by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, set in earthquake-ravaged Northern Iran....	زیر درختان زیتون	Persian	Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...
	Sh'Chur	שחור	Hebrew	Shmuel Hasfari Shmuel Hasfari Shmuel Hasfari is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter. He was artistic director of the Cameri Theatre.-Biography:...
	Lamerica Lamerica -Plot:Gino and Fiore are Italian racketeers who come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants....	Lamerica	Italian, Albanian	Gianni Amelio Gianni Amelio Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...
	The Raccoon War Pom Poko is a 1994 Japanese animated film, the eighth written and directed by Isao Takahata and animated by Studio Ghibli.Consistent with Japanese folklore, the tanuki are portrayed as a highly sociable, mischievous species, able to use "illusion science" to transform into almost anything, but too...	平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ	Japanese	Isao Takahata Isao Takahata is a Japanese anime filmmaker that have earned critical international acclaim for his work as a director. Takahata is co-founder of Studio Ghibli with long-time collaborative partner Hayao Miyazaki. He has directed films such as the war-themed Grave of the Fireflies, the romantic-drama Only...
	Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid	헐리우드 키드의 생애	Korean	Ji-yeong Jeong
	Before the Rain Before the Rain (film) Before the Rain is a 1994 Macedonian film starring Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, and Labina Mitevska. It was directed and written by Milčo Mančevski. The music was created by the band Anastasia.-Plot:...	Пред дождот	Macedonian, Albanian, English	Milcho Manchevski
	Principio y Fin	Principio y Fin	Spanish	Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...
	06 1-900 (film) 1-900 or 06 is a 1994 Dutch erotic romantic drama film directed by Theo Van Gogh. The screenplay was based on a stage play by Johan van Doesburg. The film depicts a relationship based on telephone sex which gets out of hand....	06	Dutch	Theo van Gogh Theo van Gogh (film director) Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh was a Dutch film director, film producer, columnist, author and actor.Van Gogh worked with the Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali to produce the film Submission, which criticized the treatment of women in Islam and aroused controversy among Muslims...
	Cross My Heart and Hope to Die Cross my Heart and Hope to Die Cross my Heart and Hope to Die is a Norwegian movie from 1994 directed by Marius Holst. It is loosely based on Lars Saabye Christensen's novel Gutten som ville være en av gutta.-Awards:...	Ti kniver i hjertet	Norwegian	Marius Holst
	Sin Compasion Without Compassion Without Compassion is a 1994 Peruvian drama film directed by Francisco José Lombardi, and based on Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky...	Sin compasión	Spanish	Francisco José Lombardi Francisco José Lombardi Francisco José Lombardi is a Peruvian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977. He received the Silver Shell for Best Director in 1985 for his film The Time of the Hero based on the novel La ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas Llosa...
	Three Colors: White Three Colors: White Three Colors: White is a 1994 Polish mystery comedy-drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski...	Trzy kolory. Biały	Polish, French	Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieślowski was an Academy Award nominated influential Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for The Double Life of Veronique and his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors.-Early life:...
	Three Palm Trees	Três Palmeiras	Portuguese	João Botelho João Botelho João Botelho is a Portuguese film director.He has directed and written the screenplays of numerous films. His films have won several awards...
	Linda Sara	Linda Sara	Spanish	Jacobo Morales Jacobo Morales Jacobo Morales is an auteur, whom many consider to be the most influential film director in Puerto Rico's history.-Life and career:...
	Pepe and Fifi	Pepe & Fifi	Romanian	Dan Pita Dan Pita -Career:Piţa has directed several award-winning films since 1970, including the 1985 hit Pas în doi, which won an Honourable Mention at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival...
	Burnt by the Sun Burnt by the Sun Burnt by the Sun is a 1994 film by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union... (winner)	Утомлённые солнцем	Russian	Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...
	Angel of Mercy	Andel milosrdenství	Czech, Slovak	Miloslav Luther Miloslav Luther - References :...
	Morana	Morana	Slovene	Aleš Verbič
	Cradle Song	Canción de cuna	Spanish	José Luis Garci José Luis Garci José Luis Garci is a producer, critic, TV presenter, writer, screenwriter and film director in Spanish cinema. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Begin the Beguine...
	The Last Dance	Sista Dansen	Swedish	Colin Nutley Colin Nutley Colin Nutley is an English director successful in the Swedish film industry.-Career:Nutley went to Portsmouth Art College and began his career in British television as a graphic designer. He then turned to drama and documentary film-making for ITV, BBC and Channel 4...
	Three Colors: Red	Trois Couleurs: Rouge	French	Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieślowski was an Academy Award nominated influential Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for The Double Life of Veronique and his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors.-Early life:...
	Eat Drink Man Woman Eat Drink Man Woman Eat Drink Man Woman is a Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee and starring Sihung Lung, Yu-wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-mei Yang. Many of the cast had starred in Ang Lee's previous film, The Wedding Banquet with Sihung Lung and Ah Lei Gua once more playing central elderly figures, and Winston Chao...	飲食男女	Mandarin	Ang Lee Ang Lee Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...
	Tarzan of Manisa	Manisa tarzani	Turkish	Orhan Oğuz
	Knocks at My Door	Golpes a mi puerta	Spanish	Alejandro Saderman
	Vukovar Poste Restante	Вуковар, једна прича	Serbo-Croatian	Boro Drašković Boro Drašković Boro Drašković born May 29, 1935 in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia is a Serbian director, playwright and screenwriter.- Biography :...