Foreign Language Film Submissions from Slovakia to the Academy Awards to Compete for an Oscar Nomination or Win in the Best International Feature Film Category
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This list is chronologically sorted in reverse by years of participation!
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- DirectorPeter KerekesStarsMaryna KlimovaIryna KiryazevaLyubov VasylynaFollows the real-life stories of 107 mothers in the Odesa prison in Ukraine.94th ACADEMY AWARDS (2021) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorPeter BebjakStarsNoel CzuczorPeter OndrejickaFlorian PanznerA fictionalized tale of the escape by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, based on the novel by Wetzler called 'What Dante did not See.' They hide for 3 days and escape once the search for them is over. They report their experiences.93rd ACADEMY AWARDS (2020/21) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMarko SkopStarsMilan OndríkFrantisek BelesZuzana KonecnáMilan (40) has three children and does construction work in Germany in order to provide for his family in Slovakia. While visiting his home over Christmas he discovers that his eldest son Adam is a member of a para-military youth group. The boy is involved in bullying and the death of a class-mate. The father has to decide what to do. In this process, along with his wife, he comes to discover the real truth about their son, their family, themselves and the community around them.92nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2019) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMartin SulíkStarsPeter SimonischekJirí MenzelZuzana MauréryAli Ungar discovers in his 80s a book written by an SS soldier describing how he killed his parents back in Slovakia. He decides to take revenge, but when he arrives at the soldier's house he finds his son instead.91st ACADEMY AWARDS (2018) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorPeter BebjakStarsTomas MastalirEmília VásáryováAndrej HrycThere are borders you cross only once... Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.90th ACADEMY AWARDS (2017) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMarko SkopStarsMilan OndríkEmília VásáryováAnikó VargaEva would do anything to regain the love of the one she hurt the most - her son. She is a recovered alcoholic but decades ago she was a famous actress.89th ACADEMY AWARDS (2016) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorIvan OstrochovskýStarsPeter BalázNikola BongilajováStanislava BongilajováA former Olympic boxer on a quest for his last defeat.88th ACADEMY AWARDS (2015) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMiloslav LutherStarsKristýna BokováSlávka DaubnerováMiroslav DonutilA period drama about a young physician who was forced to carry out execution during the war.Is he a hero or a murder?87th ACADEMY AWARDS (2014) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMira FornayStarsIrena BendováPatrik CzanikLadislav DirdaIn the absence of a true family, a young skinhead lets his life revolve around his cherished pit bull dog.86th ACADEMY AWARDS (2013) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorIveta GrofovaStarsDorotka BillaMaria BillaJarka BucincovaA poignant story about a young girl named Dorotka, who hails from eastern Slovakia. Full of determination and naive expectations regarding her new life; she takes on the job of a seamstress in a small factory on the Czech-German border town of As. Due to the consequences of her own decisions, she is faced with a grim reality in the westernmost corner of the Czech Republic. As is a meeting point for people from both sides of the border. The girls who come to work in the factories would like to earn an honest and decent living, while the relatively well off Germans are in search of an inexpensive good time. As is like a Babylon of languages and morals, which are quickly broken down.85th ACADEMY AWARDS (2012) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMartin SulíkStarsPeter CizmarBeáta DubielováMiroslav GulyasGypsy tells the story of Adam, a boy who, after his father dies, tries to cross the boundary of his Roma shantytown and to improve the lives of his brothers and sisters. He encounters racial, social and cultural prejudices and comes into conflict with the unwritten laws of his own community. Circumstances turn against him and his situation drives him to commit a tragic act: murder.84th ACADEMY AWARDS (2011) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorJaroslav VojtekStarsPeter LizákTibor TóthStefan TóthA documentary about a village that was during one night in 1947 separated by force into a Soviet and a Czechoslovak part in a way, that the border runs through the middle of the village, separating properties and families.83rd ACADEMY AWARDS (2010) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorJirí ChlumskýStarsSamuel SpisákOndrej VetchýVladimir CernyThe true story of Jewish boy, and talented soccer player, Martin, who has to make risky lifetime decisions in order to survive in WWII when he sees his family is taken to Poland one by one.82nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2009) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorJuraj LehotskyA poetic story about love and happiness between doc and fiction.81st ACADEMY AWARDS (2008) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMartin RepkaStarsKatharina LorenzFlorian StetterLukás LatinákReturning to her grandmother, in the country of her roots, Slovakia, a young woman falls in love with a smuggler of illegal immigrants.80th ACADEMY AWARDS (2007) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMartin SulíkStarsOldrich NavrátilIvan MartinkaLubo KostelnýSet in the present, the four ordinary men in this story find themselves at crossroads in their lives. Karel, Tomas, Milan, and Vinc were once seduced by the possibility of making money in Ostrava's cosmopolitan melting pot. But times are changing - the company has offered their jobs to foreign workers. The friends try to solve their job loss by going into business themselves. But instead of the success they expected, they only sink deeper into debt and go through a number of unpleasant events that testify to their inexperience and naivety. Even their private lives become complicated. Personal crises and an inability to adapt to new conditions are the hallmarks of life in the real world, an environment scarred by existential uncertainty in a once rich industrial city...78th ACADEMY AWARDS (2005) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorIvan FílaStarsLazar RistovskiIakov KultiasovKatharina ThalbachTwo amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, 10-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West. Caruso smuggles them to Berlin and separates them from each other; he sells Mimma into prostitution, while Marcel, an older Albanian boy, teaches Barbu how to snatch purses. When Barbu discovers what happened to Mimma, he decides to free her from the brothel.76th ACADEMY AWARDS (2003) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorJuraj NvotaStarsTatiana PauhofováOndrej VetchýLukás LatinákThis simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the last century, the story teems with passion, and repressed and hidden emotion. It delves into the search for identity, investigating both love and hatred, while dramatizing the tragic relationship between an adolescent girl (Tatiana Pauhofová) and her ambitious father (Ondrej Vetchý). Set against the striking though simple backdrop of a picturesque, even idyllic, landscape - one ostensibly cut off from any important historical, political, or social context whatsoever - the arrival of an unwanted individual evokes the onset of a cruel drama.75th ACADEMY AWARDS (2002) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMartin SulíkStarsJuraj PaulenAnton VaculíkVilma CibulkováA doctor performs a small miracle with cigar smoke. A soldier performs heroics in his lovemaking. A deaf man awakens to discover a snake has slithered down his throat. A poacher becomes his own victim.73rd ACADEMY AWARDS (2000) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMatej MinacStarsRupert GravesJosef AbrhámJirí BartoskaTold from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power.72nd ACADEMY AWARDS (1999) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorVlado BalcoStarsAndrej HrycVladimír HajduDiana MórováThis tragicomic parable is about the increasing power of an un-educated, ill-mannered and dishonest stoker working at a hotel in Bratislava. Making advantage of the confused political and social situation in the country after 1989 he gradually becomes the most powerful person in the business.71st ACADEMY AWARDS (1998) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMartin SulíkStarsDorota NvotováEmília VásáryováFrantisek KovárIn Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on the ground; a young bride that is marrying the forty and something year-old widow of his brother to support her family as a tradition in their village; her younger brother that is intern in a special school; a decadent TV comedian and his wife; a powerful mobster in the kitchen of a restaurant; one lover of her mother in her former address; and finally her promiscuous mother that advises her to travel through the world.70th ACADEMY AWARDS (1997) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMartin SulíkStarsRoman LuknárZuzana SulajováJana SvandováA disillusioned 30-something teacher falls out with his father and moves to a derelict house in their family garden. He is then visited by a stunningly beautiful neighbour, famous philosophers, his ex-lover and.68th ACADEMY AWARDS (1995) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMiloslav LutherStarsIngrid TimkováJuraj SimkoJosef VajnarThe story about events during the First World War. The wife of an officer of the Austrian army decides to surprise her husband and to visit him in his unit at Christmas time. She is disappointed to find only a cruel soldier. Fate makes her be present at the time when he is suffering from pain and slowly dying. She asks a therapeutic, a prisoner in a near-by camp, to rid her husband of his pain.67th ACADEMY AWARDS (1994) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorMartin SulíkStarsJuraj NvotaGina BellmanZdena StudenkováAt 38, Thomas is at a crossroads in his life. His parents are nonstop guilt-inducers, his ex-wife is always on his back, and his son is far from inspirational. Thomas himself is almost too intellectual to survive daily life. The attentions of a straightforward English teacher seem to be a way out.66th ACADEMY AWARDS (1993) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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