Foreign Language Film Submissions from Serbia 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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This list is chronologically sorted in reverse by years of participation!
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- DirectorIvan IkicStarsMarijana NovakovTijana MarkovicValentino ZenuniReal life people play versions of themselves, in a love triangle set in a facility for intellectually disabled youth.94th ACADEMY AWARDS (2021) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorPredrag AntonijevicStarsBiljana CekicZlatan VidovicAnja StanicA 10-year-old girl and her family come face-to-face with the horrors of the Holocaust when they are sent to a concentration camp in Croatia. She must summon the courage to protect herself and her infant brother while trying to escape.93rd ACADEMY AWARDS (2020/21) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorPetar RistovskiStarsLazar RistovskiMilan KolakRadovan VujovicKing Petar The First, as a young man is banished from Serbia Many years later, he returns to his country to liberate its people and secure parliamentary democracy and starts the reconstruction of Serbia.92nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2019) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsRadovan VujovicMladen SoviljMarta BjelicaGuided by their maverick sociology professor, three students set up separate experiments around the city to prove his "Tetris" theory of chaos: that human nature inevitably deteriorates from order to anarchy.91st ACADEMY AWARDS (2018) ░░░░ Status: submitted
...................................................................................................................... - DirectorBojan VuleticStarsMirjana KaranovicDanica NedeljkovicJovana GavrilovicMrs. J is depressed by the death of her husband, who passed away one year ago and she is planning to commit suicide as she can't deal with the problems of her family.90th ACADEMY AWARDS (2017) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMilos RadovicStarsLazar RistovskiPetar KoracPavle EricStatistics show that during their career every railroad engineer working unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.89th ACADEMY AWARDS (2016) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran RadovanovicStarsMilena JaksicFilip SubaricNenad StanojkovicKosovo 2004, five years after the war. Nenad, ten year old Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.88th ACADEMY AWARDS (2015) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDragan BjelogrlicStarsMilos BikovicDanijela PetkovicPetar StrugarA football team from Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, gets a chance to go to the First World Football Championship, but things get complicated along the way.87th ACADEMY AWARDS (2014) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsAleksandar BercekDejan CukicLeon LucevThe impact of a selfless deed of benevolence and heroism right in the middle of the raging Bosnian war inextricably intertwines the lives of five people who are still affected by its consequences, over a decade later.86th ACADEMY AWARDS (2013) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsMustafa NadarevicPredrag EjdusMeto JovanovskiThe story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.85th ACADEMY AWARDS (2012) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDragan BjelogrlicStarsMilos BikovicPetar StrugarNina JankovicA story about the Serbian football team that decided to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the first football World Cup in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.84th ACADEMY AWARDS (2011) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSrdjan KaranovicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicIva KrajncRadivoje BukvicAt the very beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serb and the principal of a gymnasium in a small Serbian town, is summoned urgently to Belgrade to serve in the war effort. He has no one to leave his wife Lea with. She is a young and pretty Slovenian woman, a teacher of rhythmics and dance he met while studying in Western Europe. Azem, an illiterate, patriarchal Albanian, the school custodian, gives Filip his solemn oath, his 'Besa' (in the Albanian tradition: when someone gives their word which must be kept even if they lose their life in the process) that he would look after Lea and see to it that nothing happened to her. Two Europeans, from two entirely different cultures and habits are forced to an awkward cohabitation in the empty school. While the war rages in the background and gets menacingly closer, their interaction develops from hatred, through intolerance, to tolerance and an unusual friendship. Circumstances gradually draw Lea and Azem, a Christian woman and a Muslim man, into a complex forbidden relationship - something like love! More than merely a romantic story, this movie is a paradigm of profound ethnic and class divisions in Europe in the early 20th century which some of them prevail to this day.83rd ACADEMY AWARDS (2010) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsLazar RistovskiNatasa Janjic MedancicBora Todorovic82nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2009) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDarko LungulovStarsDavid ThorntonMirjana KaranovicCyndi LauperIn two interconnected stories, jaded middle-aged New Yorker Robert goes to Serbia to make quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The plan goes awry when the promised cash never arrives. At the same time, young Serbian immigrant Branko struggles in a never-forgiving New York, desperately trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to the USA.82nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2009) | Status: submitted, but withdrawn and replaced
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsTihomir StanicJelena DjokicDragan NikolicYear 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.81st ACADEMY AWARDS (2008) | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsNebojsa GlogovacNatasa NinkovicAnica DobraA couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.80th ACADEMY AWARDS (2007) | Status: shortlisted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorOleg NovkovicStarsUliks FehmiuNada SarginNebojsa GlogovacAfter twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love, friends and parents again They spend four days together and after that nothing will be the same in their lives. TOMORROW MORNING is a love drama. It speaks of a deep passion, sensuality, tenderness, jealousy, possessiveness , infidelity -conflict between irrational and rational. But, above all, it speaks of a need to bring back time, to treasure the moment of happiness and togetherness, the time of great expectations, the moment that happens once and never returns. It speaks of self rediscovery.79th ACADEMY AWARDS (2006) | Status: submitted
►►► Serbia and Montenegro ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsLazar RistovskiJasna ZalicaJovana MiticA simple story of an ex-convict who comes home after 10 years, only to find two squatters in the form of a woman and her autistic daughter. Though Lazar initially plans to kick out Jasna and Jovana, he changes his mind after seeing the squalid conditions of the shelter they are to move into. It is an allegory of the Balkan wars. When first released in Serbia, it caused some public outrage because of the sharp criticism of Serbia's role in the war.78th ACADEMY AWARDS (2005) | Status: submitted
►►► Serbia and Montenegro ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLjubisa SamardzicStarsBranislav TrifunovicKalina KovacevicMarija KaranVaguely based on a song By Djordje Balasevic called "Prica o Vasi Ladackom" (the story of Vasa Ladacki). The story is about a very poor boy that wanted abundance and wealth because he basically didn't own anything. He was in love with an equally poor girl that his father wouldn't accept. He moves to another village and starts drinking...77th ACADEMY AWARDS (2004) | Status: submitted
►►► Serbia and Montenegro ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDusan KovacevicStarsBora TodorovicBranislav LecicNatasa NinkovicAfter the collapse of the Yugoslavian government, a former secret agent, now a taxi driver, enters the office of a former university professor, now a firm director.76th ACADEMY AWARDS (2003) | Status: submitted
►►► Serbia and Montenegro ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMiroslav LekicStarsDragan NikolicMaja SabljicBranislav LecicAn aging gambler and womanizer returns home after 20 years, haunted by the suicide of his friend.75th ACADEMY AWARDS (2002) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDarko BajicStarsDragan BjelogrlicSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicAleksandar BercekIn 1999 Belgrade, producer Sergei and his film crew are in a disastrous situation: The film they're making is under threat; there's no money, the crew are dissatisfied, and NATO bombing is just around the corner. Then Mileta, a member of the State Security Service, comes looking for American co-producer Harvey. Anxious and worried in the midst of the bombing that's begun, Sergei hides Harvey from what he thinks is awaiting him: arrest. During the night, he thinks up a plan. He announces the start of filming on a new, patriotic film, in which the main role will be played by Harvey. The plan works--the State supports the film, and Mileta, as the State's representative, joins the crew. However, the underlying conflict between Mileta and Sergei explodes during the first screening. Mileta accuses them of being artists and not being patriots. Sergei begins to realize that he has endangered not only the film but the lives of the whole crew. A tragic death provokes a real revolt amongst the crew and some refuse to keep filming. Embittered by their 'unpatriotic' stance, Mileta arrests the protagonists and forces them to continue. Sergei, whose wife and child have now left, and who is accused of collaborating with Mileta by the rest of the crew, thinks up another plan.74th ACADEMY AWARDS (2001) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLjubisa SamardzicStarsNebojsa GlogovacAna SofrenovicIvan JevtovicBelgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.73rd ACADEMY AWARDS (2000) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLazar RistovskiStarsLazar RistovskiRadmila ShegolevaDragan NikolicA sergeant officer lives a life of a loner, reads literary classics and dreams about acting. On his journey by train, he madly falls in love with a prostitute, but her pimp - another passenger on a train - is not willing to let her go, which makes their destiny tragic.72nd ACADEMY AWARDS (1999) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsAleksandar BercekVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicBogdan DiklicRandom Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.71st ACADEMY AWARDS (1998) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMirjana VukomanovicStarsMirjana JokovicSlavko StimacSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicLife of refugees from Bosnia in Serbia during the war years.70th ACADEMY AWARDS (1997) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDragan BjelogrlicNikola KojoDragan MaksimovicDuring the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.69th ACADEMY AWARDS (1996) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana JokovicTwo underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.68th ACADEMY AWARDS (1995) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBoro DraskovicStarsMirjana JokovicBoris IsakovicSvetlana BojkovicThis movie describes the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnicly mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphore.64th ACADEMY AWARDS (1994) | Status: submitted
►►► Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ◄◄◄
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