List of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 39 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 69th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (release at the country of origin November 1, 1995 - October 31, 1996, ceremony 1997). Albania and the former Soviet republic of Georgia submitted films for the first time, as did Australia which submitted the multi-lingual Floating Life in Cantonese, English and German. Finland's submission was withdrawn before screenings began, and did not compete.

The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Norway and Russia. Czech Rupublic won the Oscar for its drama Kolya.

Country Film title used in nomination Language Original title Director IMDB
 Albania Colonel Bunker Albanian Colonel Bunker Kujtim Çashku [1]
 Algeria Salut cousin! French, Arabic Salut cousin! Merzak Allouache [2]
 Argentina Eva Peron Spanish Eva Perón Juan Carlos Desanzo [3]
 Australia Floating Life Cantonese, English and German Floating Life Clara Law [4]
 Austria Hannah German Hannah Reinhard Schwabenitzky [5]
 Belarus From Hell to Hell German, Russian and Yiddish Из ада в ад Dmitri Astrakhan [6]
 Belgium The Eighth Day French Le huitième jour Jaco Van Dormael [7]
 Brazil Tieta do Agreste Portuguese Tieta do Agreste Carlos Diegues [8]
 Canada Not Me! French Sous-Sol Pierre Gang [9]
 Colombia Oedipus Mayor Spanish Edipo Alcalde Jorge Alí Triana [10]
 Croatia Nausikaya Serbo-Croatian Nausikaja Vicko Ruić [11]
 Cuba Think of Me Spanish Pon tu pensamiento en mí Arturo Sotto Díaz [12]
 Czech Republic Kolya (winner) Czech Kolja Jan Svěrák [13]
 Denmark Hamsun Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish Hamsun Jan Troell [14]
 Finland Drifting Clouds (film) Finnish Kauas pilvet karkaavat Aki Kaurismäki [15] [1]
 France Ridicule French Ridicule Patrice Leconte [16]
 Georgia A Chef in Love French, Georgian, Russian შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი Nana Djordjadze [17]
 Germany Deathmaker German Der Totmacher Romuald Karmakar [18]
 Hong Kong Hu-Du-Men Cantonese 虎度門 Shu Kei [19]
 Hungary Vaska Easoff Hungarian Haggyállógva Vászka Peter Gothar [20]
 Iceland Devil's Island Icelandic Djöflaeyjan Friðrik Þór Friðriksson [21]
 India Indian Tamil S. Shankar [22]
 Israel Saint Clara Hebrew/Russian קלרה הקדושה Ari Folman & Ori Sivas [23]
 Italy My Generation Italian Mia Generazione Wilma Labate [24]
 Japan Gakko II Japanese 学校II Yoji Yamada [25]
 Mexico Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman Spanish Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda Sabrina Berman & Isabelle Tardans [26]
 Netherlands Long Live the Queen Dutch Lang leve de koningin Esmé Lammers [27]
 Norway The Other Side of Sunday Norwegian Søndagsengler Berit Nesheim [28]
 Philippines Dead Sure Tagalog Segurista Tikoy Aguiluz [29]
 Poland At Full Gallop Polish Cwal Krzysztof Zanussi [30]
 Romania State of Things Romanian Stare de Fapt Stere Gulea [31]
 Russia Prisoner of the Mountains Russian Кавказский пленник Sergei Bodrov [32]
 Slovenia Felix Slovenian Feliks Božo Šprajc [33]
 Spain Bwana Spanish Bwana Imanol Uribe [34]
 Sweden Jerusalem Swedish Jerusalem Bille August [35]
 Switzerland Les Agneaux French Les Agneaux Marcel Schupbach [36]
 Taiwan Tonight Nobody Goes Home Mandarin 今天不回家 Sylvia Chang [37]
 Vietnam Gone, Gone Forever Gone Vietnamese Gate, gate, paragate Ho Quang Minh [38]
 Yugoslavia Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Serbo-Croatian Лепа села лепо горе Srđan Dragojević [39]

Notes

  1. ^ withdrawn by the director before official screenings began

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