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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the first list of qualifying films for this year\u2019s Academy Awards. The category is for Best Foreign and there are 71 countries who have a film that has meet the eligibility requirements, including first-time entrant Kenya.<\/p>\n
The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 8:30 am ET\/5:30 am PT.<\/p>\n
The eligible films are – <\/p>\n
Afghanistan, The Patience Stone<\/strong>, Atiq Rahimi, director Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nAlbania, Pharmakon<\/strong>, Joni Shanaj, director
\nAlgeria, Zabana!<\/strong>, Said Ould Khelifa, director
\nArgentina, Clandestine Childhood<\/strong>, Benjam\u00edn \u00c1vila, director
\nArmenia, If Only Everyone<\/strong>, Natalia Belyauskene, director
\nAustralia, Lore<\/strong>, Cate Shortland, director
\nAustria, Amour<\/strong>, Michael Haneke, director
\nAzerbaijan, Buta<\/strong>, Ilgar Najaf, director
\nBangladesh, Pleasure Boy Komola<\/strong>, Humayun Ahmed, director
\nBelgium, Our Children<\/strong>, Joachim Lafosse, director
\nBosnia and Herzegovina, Children of Sarajevo<\/strong>, Aida Begic, director
\nBrazil, The Clown<\/strong>, Selton Mello, director
\nBulgaria, Sneakers<\/strong>, Valeri Yordanov and Ivan Vladimirov, directors
\nCambodia, Lost Loves<\/strong>, Chhay Bora, director
\nCanada, War Witch<\/strong>, Kim Nguyen, director
\nChile, No<\/strong>, Pablo Larra\u00edn, director
\nChina, Caught in the Web<\/strong>, Chen Kaige, director
\nColombia, The Snitch Cartel<\/strong>, Carlos Moreno, director
\nCroatia, Vegetarian Cannibal<\/strong>, Branko Schmidt, director
\nCzech Republic, In the Shadow<\/strong>, David Ondr\u00edcek, director
\nDenmark, A Royal Affair<\/strong>, Nikolaj Arcel, director
\nDominican Republic, Jaque Mate<\/strong>, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Cabral, director
\nEstonia, Mushrooming<\/strong>, Toomas Hussar, director
\nFinland, Purge<\/strong>, Antti J. Jokinen, director
\nFrance, The Intouchables<\/strong>, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, directors
\nGeorgia, Keep Smiling<\/strong>, Rusudan Chkonia, director
\nGermany, Barbara<\/strong>, Christian Petzold, director
\nGreece, Unfair World<\/strong>, Filippos Tsitos, director
\nGreenland, Inuk<\/strong>, Mike Magidson, director
\nHong Kong, Life Without Principle<\/strong>, Johnnie To, director
\nHungary, Just the Wind<\/strong>, Bence Fliegauf, director
\nIceland, The Deep<\/strong>, Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur, director
\nIndia, Barfi!<\/strong>, Anurag Basu, director
\nIndonesia, The Dancer<\/strong>, Ifa Isfansyah, director
\nIsrael, Fill the Void<\/strong>, Rama Burshtein, director
\nItaly, Caesar Must Die<\/strong>, Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, directors
\nJapan, Our Homeland<\/strong>, Yang Yonghi, director
\nKazakhstan, Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe<\/strong>, Akan Satayev, director
\nKenya, Nairobi Half Life<\/strong>, David \u2018Tosh\u2019 Gitonga, director
\nKyrgyzstan, The Empty Home<\/strong>, Nurbek Egen, director
\nLatvia, Gulf Stream under the Iceberg<\/strong>, Yevgeny Pashkevich, director
\nLithuania, Ramin<\/strong>, Audrius Stonys, director
\nMacedonia, The Third Half<\/strong>, Darko Mitrevski, director
\nMalaysia, Bunohan<\/strong>, Dain Iskandar Said, director
\nMexico, After Lucia<\/strong>, Michel Franco, director
\nMorocco, Death for Sale<\/strong>, Faouzi Bensa\u00efdi, director
\nNetherlands, Kauwboy<\/strong>, Boudewijn Koole, director
\nNorway, Kon-Tiki<\/strong>, Joachim R\u00f8nning and Espen Sandberg, directors
\nPalestine, When I Saw You<\/strong>, Annemarie Jacir, director
\nPeru, The Bad Intentions<\/strong>, Rosario Garc\u00eda-Montero, director
\nPhilippines, Bwakaw<\/strong>, Jun Robles Lana, director
\nPoland, 80 Million<\/strong>, Waldemar Krzystek, director
\nPortugal, Blood of My Blood<\/strong>, Jo\u00e3o Canijo, director
\nRomania, Beyond the Hills<\/strong>, Cristian Mungiu, director
\nRussia, White Tiger<\/strong>, Karen Shakhnazarov, director
\nSerbia, When Day Breaks<\/strong>, Goran Paskaljevic, director
\nSingapore, Already Famous<\/strong>, Michelle Chong, director
\nSlovak Republic, Made in Ash<\/strong>, Iveta Gr\u00f3fov\u00e1, director
\nSlovenia, A Trip<\/strong>, Nejc Gazvoda, director
\nSouth Africa, Little One<\/strong>, Darrell James Roodt, director
\nSouth Korea, Pieta<\/strong>, Kim Ki-duk, director
\nSpain, Blancanieves<\/strong>, Pablo Berger, director
\nSweden, The Hypnotist<\/strong>, Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m, director
\nSwitzerland, Sister<\/strong>, Ursula Meier, director
\nTaiwan, Touch of the Light<\/strong>, Chang Jung-Chi, director
\nThailand, Headshot<\/strong>, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, director
\nTurkey, Where the Fire Burns<\/strong>, Ismail Gunes, director
\nUkraine, The Firecrosser<\/strong>, Mykhailo Illienko, director
\nUruguay, The Delay<\/strong>, Rodrigo Pl\u00e1, director
\nVenezuela, Rock, Paper, Scissors<\/strong>, Hern\u00e1n Jabes, director
\nVietnam, The Scent of Burning Grass<\/strong>, Nguyen Huu Muoi, director<\/p>\nThe first of the lists of qualifiers for this year\u2019s Academy Awards has been announced.<\/div>\n