Foreign Language Films To Be Honored At Palm Springs Film Fest

Forty of the 65 official submissions to the motion picture academy for Best Foreign Language Film will be screened during the upcoming Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Here is the rundown of the foreign language films to be shown during the festival, which runs from Jan. 6-17:

— “Carancho” (Argentina), director: Pablo Trapero — “Illegal” (Belgium), director: Olivier Masset-Depasse — “Cirkus Columbia” (Bosnia/Herzegovina), director: Danis Tanovic — “Lula, the Son of Brazil” (Brazil), director: Fabio Barreto — “Eastern Plays” (Bulgaria), director: Kamen Kalev — “The Life of Fish” (Chile), director: Matias Bize — “Aftershock” (China), director: Feng Xiaogang — “Of Love and Other Demons” (Costa Rica), director: Hilda Hidalgo — “Kawasaki’s Rose” (Czech Republic), director: Jan Hrebejk — “The Athlete” (Ethiopia), directors: Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew — “Steam of Life” (Finland), directors: Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen — “Of Gods and Men” (France), director: Xavier Beauvois — “Street Days” (Georgia), director: Levan Koguashvili — “When We Leave” (Germany), director: Feo Aladag — “Nuummioq” (Greenland), directors: Otto Rosing and Torben Bech — “Bibliotheque Pascal” (Hungary), director: Szabolcs Hajdu — “Peepli Live” (India), director: Anusha Rizvi — “Son of Babylon” (Iraq), director: Mohamed Al-Daradji — “The Human Resources Manager” (Israel), director: Eran Riklis — “The First Beautiful Thing” (Italy), director: Paolo Virzi — “Confessions” (Japan), director: Tetsuya Nakashima — “The Light Thief” (Kyrgyzstan), director: Aktan Arym Kubat — “The Angel” (Norway), director: Margreth Olin — “Undertow” (Peru), director: Javier Fuentes-Leon — “Noy” (Philippines), directors: Dondon S. Santos and Rodel Nacianceno — “All That I Love” (Poland), director: Jacek Borcuch — “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle” (Romania), director: Florin Serban — “The Edge” (Russia), director: Alexey Uchitel — “Solemn Promise” (Serbia), director: Srdjan Karanovic — “The Border” (Slovakia), director: Jaroslav Vojtek — “9:06” (Slovenia), director: Igor Sterk — “Life, Above All” (South Africa), director: Oliver Schmitz — “A Barefoot Dream” (South Korea), director: Tae-kyun Kim — “Even the Rain” (Spain), director: Iciar Bollain — “Simple Simon” (Sweden), director: Andreas Ohman — “The Little Room” (Switzerland), directors: Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond — “Monga” (Taiwan), director: Chen-zer Niu — “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (Thailand), director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul — “Honey” (Turkey), director: Semih Kaplanoglu — “Hermano” (Venezuela), director: Marcel Rasquin