These are the 91 other films Rajkummar Rao’s Newton is competing with at the Oscars

Indian film Newton is among a list of a record 92 countries which have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 90th Academy Awards, the organisers have announced.

Indian film Newton is among a list of a record 92 countries which have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 90th Academy Awards, the organisers have announced.

Newton was selected as India’s official Oscar entry in September.

Haiti, Honduras, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mozambique, Senegal and Syria are first-time entrants, a statement on the official website of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said.

Newton, a Hindi film set against the backdrop of elections in the world’s largest democracy, was in September chosen as India’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars 2018.

Directed by Amit V Masurkar and starring Rajkummar Rao, was chosen from among 26 titles from different languages by a 14-member jury appointed by the Film Federation of India (FFI).

It will now compete with high-profile contenders like Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father from Cambodia, Michael Haneke’s Happy End from Austria, Sebastian Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman from Chile, Robin Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute) from France, Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot from Israel, Joachim Trier’s Thelma from Norway, and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless from Russia.

The awards ceremony will be held on March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Here is the complete list of submissions:

Afghanistan, “A Letter to the President,” Roya Sadat, directorAlbania, “Daybreak,” Gentian Koçi, directorAlgeria, “Road to Istanbul,” Rachid Bouchareb, directorArgentina, “Zama,” Lucrecia Martel, directorArmenia, “Yeva,” Anahit Abad, directorAustralia, “The Space Between,” Ruth Borgobello, directorAustria, “Happy End,” Michael Haneke, directorAzerbaijan, “Pomegranate Orchard,” Ilgar Najaf, directorBangladesh, “The Cage,” Akram Khan, directorBelgium, “Racer and the Jailbird,” Michaël R. Roskam, directorBolivia, “Dark Skull,” Kiro Russo, directorBosnia and Herzegovina, “Men Don’t Cry,” Alen Drljević, directorBrazil, “Bingo – The King of the Mornings,” Daniel Rezende, directorBulgaria, “Glory,” Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva, directorsCambodia, “First They Killed My Father,” Angelina Jolie, directorCanada, “Hochelaga, Land of Souls,” François Girard, directorChile, “A Fantastic Woman,” Sebastián Lelio, directorChina, “Wolf Warrior 2,” Wu Jing, directorColombia, “Guilty Men,” Iván D. Gaona, directorCosta Rica, “The Sound of Things,” Ariel Escalante, directorCroatia, “Quit Staring at My Plate,” Hana Jušić, directorCzech Republic, “Ice Mother,” Bohdan Sláma, directorDenmark, “You Disappear,” Peter Schønau Fog, directorDominican Republic, “Woodpeckers,” Jose Maria Cabral, directorEcuador, “Alba,” Ana Cristina Barragán, directorEgypt, “Sheikh Jackson,” Amr Salama, directorEstonia, “November,” Rainer Sarnet, directorFinland, “Tom of Finland,” Dome Karukoski, directorFrance, “BPM (Beats Per Minute),” Robin Campillo, directorGeorgia, “Scary Mother,” Ana Urushadze, directorGermany, “In the Fade,” Fatih Akin, directorGreece, “Amerika Square,” Yannis Sakaridis, directorHaiti, “Ayiti Mon Amour,” Guetty Felin, directorHonduras, “Morazán,” Hispano Durón, directorHong Kong, “Mad World,” Wong Chun, directorHungary, “On Body and Soul,” Ildikó Enyedi, directorIceland, “Under the Tree,” Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, directorIndia, “Newton,” Amit V Masurkar, directorIndonesia, “Turah,” Wicaksono Wisnu Legowo, directorIran, “Breath,” Narges Abyar, directorIraq, “Reseba – The Dark Wind,” Hussein Hassan, directorIreland, “Song of Granite,” Pat Collins, directorIsrael, “Foxtrot,” Samuel Maoz, directorItaly, “A Ciambra,” Jonas Carpignano, directorJapan, “Her Love Boils Bathwater,” Ryota Nakano, directorKazakhstan, “The Road to Mother,” Akhan Satayev, directorKenya, “Kati Kati,” Mbithi Masya, directorKosovo, “Unwanted,” Edon Rizvanolli, directorKyrgyzstan, “Centaur,” Aktan Arym Kubat, directorLao People’s Democratic Republic, “Dearest Sister,” Mattie Do, directorLatvia, “The Chronicles of Melanie,” Viestur Kairish, directorLebanon, “The Insult,” Ziad Doueiri, directorLithuania, “Frost,” Sharunas Bartas, directorLuxembourg, “Barrage,” Laura Schroeder, directorMexico, “Tempestad,” Tatiana Huezo, directorMongolia, “The Children of Genghis,” Zolbayar Dorj, directorMorocco, “Razzia,” Nabil Ayouch, directorMozambique, “The Train of Salt and Sugar,” Licinio Azevedo, directorNepal, “White Sun,” Deepak Rauniyar, directorNetherlands, “Layla M.,” Mijke de Jong, directorNew Zealand, “One Thousand Ropes,” Tusi Tamasese, directorNorway, “Thelma,” Joachim Trier, directorPakistan, “Saawan,” Farhan Alam, directorPalestine, “Wajib,” Annemarie Jacir, directorPanama, “Beyond Brotherhood,” Arianne Benedetti, directorParaguay, “Los Buscadores,” Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori, directorsPeru, “Rosa Chumbe,” Jonatan Relayze, directorPhilippines, “Birdshot,” Mikhail Red, directorPoland, “Spoor,” Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik, directorsPortugal, “Saint George,” Marco Martins, directorRomania, “Fixeur,” Adrian Sitaru, directorRussia, “Loveless,” Andrey Zvyagintsev, directorSenegal, “Félicité,” Alain Gomis, directorSerbia, “Requiem for Mrs. J.,” Bojan Vuletic, directorSingapore, “Pop Aye,” Kirsten Tan, directorSlovakia, “The Line,” Peter Bebjak, directorSlovenia, “The Miner,” Hanna A. W. Slak, directorSouth Africa, “The Wound,” John Trengove, directorSouth Korea, “A Taxi Driver,” Jang Hoon, directorSpain, “Summer 1993,” Carla Simón, directorSweden, “The Square,” Ruben Östlund, directorSwitzerland, “The Divine Order,” Petra Volpe, directorSyria, “Little Gandhi,” Sam Kadi, directorTaiwan, “Small Talk,” Hui-Chen Huang, directorThailand, “By the Time It Gets Dark,” Anocha Suwichakornpong, directorTunisia, “The Last of Us,” Ala Eddine Slim, directorTurkey, “Ayla: The Daughter of War,” Can Ulkay, directorUkraine, “Black Level,” Valentyn Vasyanovych, directorUnited Kingdom, “My Pure Land,” Sarmad Masud, directorUruguay, “Another Story of the World,” Guillermo Casanova, directorVenezuela, “El Inca,” Ignacio Castillo Cottin, directorVietnam, “Father and Son,” Luong Dinh Dung, director.

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