Sareen Hairabedian’s documentary follows a young boy living in a region at the center of the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict who dreams of a normal life.

Italy will send Maura Delpero’s World War 2 drama Vermiglio into the 2025 Oscar race for Best International Feature. Vermiglio premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month, where it scooped up the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.

The British Academy has selected Sandhya Suri’s acclaimed crime thriller “Santosh” as the U.K.’s submission to the Oscars’ international feature film category. The Hindi-language film, which bowed in the Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes earlier this year,

Sandhya Suri’s narrative feature debut is a police procedural set in India revolving around the gruesome murder of a teenager.

Brazil has selected Walter Salles’ well-received comeback feature I'm Still Here to represent it in the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. The picture stars Fernanda Torres as the real-life figure of Eunice Paiva,

Pakistan has chosen Usman Riaz’s hand-drawn animated feature “The Glassworker” as its official submission to the best international feature film category of the 2025 Academy Awards. The film, which debuted at Annecy earlier this year,

Switzerland has picked Reinas, a Peruvian family drama from Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker Klaudia Reynicke, as its entry for the 2025 Oscars in the best international feature category. The film is set during a summer in Lima in 1992 as a father tries to reconnect to his two daughters against the tumultuous political backdrop of a country

Argentina is backing Luis Ortega’s equestrian-themed surreal comedy-thriller Kill the Jockey for the 2025 Oscar race in the best international feature category. The film, which premiered in Venice, features BPM star Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Remo Manfredini,

Mexico’s has announced “Sujo” as the country’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. The movie written and directed by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and will hit theaters November 29.