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International Appeal

Palm Springs International Film Festival will screen 43 films up for Best Foreign Language Film at Academy Awards.

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(From left) Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek lead the cast of the film, Toni Erdmann.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILM, TONI ERDMANN

The 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will screen 43 of the 85 official submissions to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Foreign Language Film.

The film festival runs Jan. 2-16. Additional film programs will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
 
The Awards Buzz section is selected by festival programmers as the strongest entries in this year’s Academy Awards race. A special jury of international film critics will review these films to present the FIPRESCI Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, as well as Best Actor and Best Actress in this category.

The following 43 films are selected to screen (in alphabetical order by country):
 
The Distinguished Citizen (Argentina), Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (Austria), Director: Maria Schrader

The Ardennes (Belgium), Director: Robin Pront

Sealed Cargo (Bolivia), Director: Julia Vargas Weise

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILM, JULIETA
Emma Suárez stars as the younger Julieta in the Spanish film from director Pedro Almodóvar.

Death in Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Director: Danis Tanović

It’s Only the End of the World (Canada), Director: Xavier Dolan

Neruda (Chile), Director: Pablo Larraín

On the Other Side (Croatia), Director: Zrinko Ogresta

Land of Mine (Denmark), Director: Martin Pieter Zandvliet

Clash (Egypt), Director: Mohamed Diab
Mother (Estonia), Director: Kardi Kousaar

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Finland), Director: Juho Kuosmanen

Elle (France), Director: Paul Verhoeven

Toni Erdmann (Germany), Director: Maren Ade

Kills on Wheels (Hungary), Director: Attila Till

Sparrows (Iceland), Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson

Interrogation (India), Director: Vetri Maaran

The Salesman (Iran), Director: Asghar Farhadi

El clásico (Iraq), Director: Halkawt Mustafa

Sand Storm (Israel), Director: Elite Zexer

Fire at Sea (Italy), Director: Gianfranco Rosi

Nagasaki: Memories Of My Son (Japan), Director: Yoji
Yamada

Very Big Shot (Lebanon), Director: Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya

The Liberation of Skopje (Macedonia), Directors: Rade Šerbedžija, Danilo Šerbedžija

The Black Hen (Nepal), Director: Min Bahadur Bham

Tonio (Netherlands), Director: Paula van der Oest

A Flickering Truth (New Zealand), Director: Pietra Brettkelly

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILM, ELLE
Isabelle Huppert (right) and Laurent Lafitte in Elle.

The King’s Choice (Norway), Director: Erik Poppe

The Idol (Palestine), Director: Hany Abu-Assad

Ma’ Rosa (Philippines), Director: Brillante Mendoza

Afterimage (Poland), Director: Andrzej Wajda

Sieranevada (Romania), Director: Cristi Puiu

Paradise (Russia), Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

Barakah Meets Barakah (Saudi Arabia), Director: Mahmoud Sabbagh

Train Driver’s Diary (Serbia), Director: Miloš Radović

Apprentice (Singapore), Director: Boo Junfeng

Houston, We Have a Problem! (Slovenia), Director: Ziga Virc

Call Me Thief (South Africa), Director: Daryne Joshua

The Age of Shadows (South Korea). Director: Kim Jee-woon

Julieta (Spain). Director: Pedro Almodóvar

A Man Called Ove (Sweden), Director: Hannes Holm

My Life as a Zucchini (Switzerland), Director: Claude Barras

Under the Shadow (UK), Director: Babak Anvari

Previously announced honorees attending the PSIFF 2017 Film Awards Gala are Casey Affleck, Tom Hanks, Ruth Negga, the cast of La La Land, including Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, and director Damien Chazelle. and the cast of Hidden Figures, including Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, and Jim Parsons.