The October 1st deadline has passed and the list of films able to compete for the Best Foreign Film Oscar is in. From these films committees whittle the list down to nine, with a second round of voting giving us the magic five that will actually vie for the Oscar. Chile, Costa Rica and Slovenia have all entered despite never being nominated before. Heavyweights France, Germany and Italy are always frontrunners here with France (Of Gods and Men, a winner at Cannes this year) the most likely to end up in the final five. Last year’s winner, Argentina (The Secret In Their Eyes) has submitted Carancho, and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives from director Apichatpong Weerasethakul could be a dark horse and give Thailand its first win here.

The complete list:

ALBANIA: “East, West, East”
ALGERIA: “Outside the Law”
ARGENTINA: “Carancho”
AUSTRIA: “La Pivellina”
AZERBAIJAN: “The Precinct”
BANGLADESH: “Third Person Singular Number”
BELGIUM: “Illegal”
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: “Cirkus Columbia”
BRAZIL: “Lula, the Son of Brazil” (“Lula, o filho do Brasil”)
BULGARIA: “Eastern Plays”
CANADA: “Incendies”
CHILE: “The Life of Fish”
CHINA: “Aftershock”
COLOMBIA: “Crab Trap”
COSTA RICA: “Of Love and Other Demons”
CROATIA: “The Blacks”
THE CZECH REPUBLIC: “Kawasaki’s Rose”
DENMARK: “In a Better World”
EGYPT: “Messages from the Sea”
ESTONIA: “The Temptation of St. Tony”
ETHIOPIA: “The Athlete”
FINLAND: “Steam of Life”
FRANCE: “Of Gods and Men”
GEORGIA: “Street Days”
GERMANY: “When We Leave”
GREECE: “Dogtooth”
GREENLAND: “Nuummioq”
HONG KONG: “Echoes of the Rainbow”
HUNGARY: “Bibliotheque Pascal”
ICELAND: “Mamma Gogo”
INDIA: “Peepli Live”
INDONESIA: “How Funny (This Country Is)”
IRAN: “Farewell Baghdad”
IRAQ: “Son of Babylon”
ISRAEL: “The Human Resources Manager”
ITALY: “La Prima Cosa Bella” (“The First Beautiful Thing”)
JAPAN: “Confessions” (“Kokuhaku”)
KAZAKHSTAN: “Strayed”
KOREA: “A Barefoot Dream”
KYRGYZSTAN: “The Light Thief”
LATVIA: “Hong Kong Confidential”
MACEDONIA: “Mothers”
MEXICO: “Biutiful”
THE NETHERLANDS: “Tirza”
NICARAGUA: “La Yuma”
NORWAY: “Angel”
PERU: “Undertow”
THE PHILIPPINES: “Noy”
POLAND: “All That I Love”
PORTUGAL: “To Die Like a Man”
PUERTO RICO: “Miente”
ROMANIA: “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle”
RUSSIA: “The Edge”
SERBIA: “Besa”
SLOVAKIA: “The Border” (“Hranica”)
SLOVENIA: “9:06”
SOUTH AFRICA: “Life, Above All”
SPAIN: “Tambien la Lluvia” (Even the Rain”)
SWEDEN: “Simple Simon”
SWITZERLAND: “La Petite Chambre”
TAIWAN: “Monga”
THAILAND: “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”
TURKEY: “Bal” (“Honey”)
URUGUAY: “A Useful Life”
VENEZUELA: “Hermano”