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Katyn (top); The Counterfeiters (middle); Mongol (bottom) The filmmakers of this year's Academy Award-nominated foreign-language films will take part — "subject to availability" — in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Foreign Language Film Award Nominees Symposium on Saturday, February 23, at 10 a.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. [2008 Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium Photos.] The event, which includes clips from the nominated films and a Q&A session with audience members, will be moderated by Oscar-winning producer and [...]

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, [...]