Oscar 2008: Best Foreign Language Film Semi-Finalists
The semi-finalist films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director
Nazis have a Jewish prisoner create fake American and British currency in order to weaken their enemies' economies
Brazil, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Cao Hamburger, director
In 1970, during the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil, a boy is left alone in São Paulo's Jewish quarter after his parents "go on vacation"
Canada, Days of Darkness, Denys Arcand, director
A civil servant finds solace from his drab existence by coming up with all types of Walter Mitty-like fantasies
Israel, Beaufort, Joseph Cedar, director
Israeli platoon leaves the last Israeli outpost in Lebanon
Italy, The Unknown, Giuseppe Tornatore, director
An Ukrainian house servant's violent past comes back to terrorize the wealthy Italian family for whom she works in this David di Donatello winner
Kazakhstan, Mongol, Sergei Bodrov, director
The early life of Genghis Khan
Poland, Katyn, Andrzej Wajda, director
Poles are slaughtered by the Russian Red Army, which then blames the Nazis
Russia, 12, Nikita Mikhalkov, director
Twelve Russian jurors decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather in this remake of Sidney Lumet's Twelve Angry Men
Serbia, The Trap, Srdan Golubovic, director
A father turns to crime in order to save the life of his young son