Baltic, Belarussian, and Ukranian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
This is all post-1991. To check if any of these countries submitted films before then, see my Soviet/Russian list.
Here's the tally:
Belarus 2
Estonia 8
Latvia 3
Lithuania 3
Ukraine 5
Here's the tally:
Belarus 2
Estonia 8
Latvia 3
Lithuania 3
Ukraine 5
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- DirectorYolande ZaubermanStarsRoma AlexandrovitchAleksandr YakovlevVladimir MashkovThe action of the movie takes place in the thirties before the Jewish pogrom in the border town of Poland, which became a kind of emigration zone. Two teenagers - Ivan and Abram - run away from the dictates of adults into a big life.Belarus
- DirectorDmitriy AstrakhanStarsValeria ValeevaAnja KlingGennadi SvirFocuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath.Belarus
- DirectorMati PõldreStarsRain SimmulLiis TappoÜlle KaljusteThe life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter of the 1930s and the 1940s, the political changes of his land and his life after war when his songs were considered not suitable for the Soviet way of life.Estonia
- DirectorArvo IhoStarsRain SimmulDinara DrukarovaIlyana PavlovaA young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second is a wild and untameable native who becomes his mythical bear-woman. When he accidentally kills a great black bear, his own shadow-creature, he burdens himself with guilt. However, he is given a chance of finding his inner balance. A romantic drama with mythical elements and breathtaking landscapes.Estonia
- DirectorJaak KilmiRené ReinumägiStarsJass SeljamaaEvelin KuusikLilian Alto"Revolution of Pigs" is an adventurous youth comedy, taking place in a Woodstock-like milieu. The main character is Tanel, a 15-year-old boy, who, taking part of a youth revolt against the system, finds himself and his love.Estonia
- DirectorPeeter UrblaStarsMaarja JakobsonAnne ReemannEvelin VõigemastThree women start a costume renting company after losing their jobs.Estonia
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsFrançois BégaudeauAgame Malembo-EmeneAngélica SancioTeacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.Estonia
- DirectorRené VilbreStarsRasmus KaljujärvDoris TislarMarilyn JurmanA 17-year-old boy becomes a drug dealer and the decision that draws him into causes turbulent events he can't control.Estonia
- DirectorAsko KaseStarsSergo VaresLiisi KoiksonTõnu KarkThe young country of Estonia is dancing to the jazzy tune of the 1920s when, on December 1 1924, the capital Tallinn is overrun by members of the Comintern in an attempt to stage a Communist coup. The film follows the fates of a young soldier called Tanel and his wife, a telephone operator named Anna, amidst the ensuing chaos which determines whether the country remains independent or becomes a minor province in the Communist Empire.Estonia
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsTaavi EelmaaRavshana KurkovaTiina TauraiteA mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.Estonia
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsRomualds AncansMartins DancausksSigne DundureA story about Pavulans family life in Latgale, traditions and values that are passed down from generation to generation. Little Bonuks from an early age learns to build relationships with family members and others, with God and nature.Latvia
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis ReinisElita KlavinaGirts KruminsThe First World War is over. Martins, after many years spent in war abroad, returns to his bride Elza in Latvia. He does not realize that the decisive battle for the heart of Elza and for the newly founded Latvian state is yet to come.Latvia
- DirectorMaris MartinsonsStarsKaori MomoiAndrius MamontovasDan LauOne week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The day of changes comes when Amaya meets a charming Englishman, Paul and it dramatically changes Amaya's perception of her cultural and personal identity.Latvia
- DirectorArunas MatelisA short documentary about a hospital ward for children with leukemia in Lithuania.Lithuania
- DirectorMaris MartinsonsStarsValda BickuteKostas SmoriginasDalia MicheleviciuteMentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands Lithuanians, she immigrates to Ireland to earn money to save him. "Loss" portrays beauty and tragedy in the human heart.Lithuania
- DirectorGytis LuksasStarsGiedrius KielaEgle MikulionyteOksana BorbatThe story of the generation who lived through the entire Soviet period is told through the main character: his childhood spent in a village, true friendship, work in Soviet Klaipeda, thrilling eroticism, and a final, fatal love.Lithuania
- DirectorLeonid BoykoVyacheslav KrishtofovichViacheslav KryshtofovychStarsTetyana Kryvytska Stang LundAleksandr LazarevAnzhelika NevolinaTolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.Ukraine
- DirectorOles SaninStarsViktoria SpesivtsevaAndrij BilousNazl SejtablaevaMamay draws on traditional Ukrainian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild steppes of Crimea that form an uneasy border between East and West, Europe and Asia, nomad and farmer, the proud Cossack Mamay falls in love with the Tatar beauty Omai. The title, like the storyline, holds a variety of different meanings taken from different cultures. In Turkic languages, it means "no one," but it was also the name of a famous Mongol conqueror, the great grandson of Ghengis-Khan. In Persian legends, mamay literally means "the spirit of the steppes. "Ukraine
- DirectorPavel ChukhrajPavel ChukhrayStarsIgor PetrenkoAlyona BabenkoBogdan StupkaA General, who had sent for a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his personal driver, decided to marry him to his physically disabled daughterUkraine
- DirectorOksana BayrakStarsAnastasiia ZiurkalovaDmitriy KharatyanEric RobertsAurora dreams about becoming a talented ballet dancer one day. However, life is not so simple. 12-year-old orphan Aurora Nedelina lives in an orphanage in Pripyat and accidentally becomes a witness to the explosion at the Chernobyl APP. Having received a critical dose of radiation, she is sent to an American hospital where she meets the rich American Russian, Nick Astakhov--the world-famous dancer who had emigrated from the USSR 15 years prior. Nick is talented, successful, young, yet disappointed in life. Meeting up with Aurora helps Nick turn it all around. However, with each day, Aurora fades away a little more. Only something short of a miracle can save her.Ukraine
- DirectorAleksandr KirienkoStarsAndrey PaninAlyona BabenkoAleksey GorbunovStory of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structures and after arrest the protagonist starts to notice weird things: some of his interlocutors appear to be not real persons, but phantoms, created by his consciousness. Fantomness, dematerialization of things that are obvious for common sense brings the author to the next stage of thinking - that the illusion of fear is also fruit of our imagination.Ukraine