List of entries for the best foreign language film for the 2008 Academy Awards

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The following 63 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2008 Academy Awards . The titles highlighted were the five films ultimately nominated.

On January 15, 2008, the Academy published a list of nine pre-selected candidates for the award. Among the candidates was neither the winner of the Palme d'Or 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days nor Persepolis, the winner of the jury award of the Cannes International Film Festival .

The Oscar ultimately went to Die Fälscher , the contribution from Austria by Stefan Ruzowitzky .

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Languages)	Original title	Director (s)	Result
Egypt	Fi shaket masr el Gedeeda	في شقة مصر الجديدة (Fi shaket masr el Gedeeda)	Arabic	Mohamed Khan	Not nominated
Argentina	XXY	XXY	Spanish	Lucía Puenzo	Not nominated
Azerbaijan	Caucasus	Qafqaz	Azerbaijani , Russian	Farid Gumbatov	Not nominated
Australia	The Home Song Stories	The Home Song Stories	Cantonese , English , Mandarin	Tony Ayres	Not nominated
Bangladesh	Swopnodanay	স্বপ্নডানায় (Swopnodanay)	Bengali	Golam Rabbany Biplob	Not nominated
Belgium	Ben x	Ben x	Dutch	Nic Balthazar	Not nominated
Bolivia	Los Andes no creen en Dios	Los Andes no creen en Dios	Spanish	Antonio Eguino	Disqualified
Bosnia and Herzegovina	A really good life	Teško je biti fin	Serbo-Croatian	Srdan Vuletic	Not nominated
Brazil	The year my parents were on vacation	O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias	Portuguese	Cao hamburger	Preselection
Bulgaria	The guardian of the dead	Пазачът на мъртвите (Pazachyt na myrtvite)	Bulgarian	Ilian Simeonov	Not nominated
Chile	Padre Nuestro - Our Father	Padre Nuestro	Spanish	Christopher Zalla	Not nominated
People's Republic of China	The knot	云 水 谣 (Yun shui yao)	Mandarin	Yin Li	Not nominated
Denmark	The art of crying in unison	Kunsten at græde i kor	Danish	Peter Schønau Fog	Not nominated
Germany	On the other hand	On the other hand	German , Turkish	Fatih Akin	Not nominated
Estonia	Class	Class	Estonian	Ilmar Raag	Not nominated
Finland	Miehen työ	Miehen työ	Finnish	Aleksi Salmenperä	Not nominated
France	Persepolis	Persepolis	French	Vincent Paronnaud , Marjane Satrapi	Not nominated
Georgia	The Russian triangle	რუსული სამკუთხედი (Rusuli samkudhedi)	Russian	Aleko Tsabadze	Not nominated
Greece	Eduart	Eduart	Albanian , German, Greek	Angeliki Antoniou	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Exiled	放逐 (Fong juk)	Cantonese	Johnnie To	Not nominated
India	Eklavya - The royal guardian	एकलव्य (Eklavya)	Hindi	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Not nominated
Indonesia	Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan	Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan	Indonesian	John De Rantau	Not nominated
Iraq	The suffering of the people	Jani Gal	Kurdish	Jamil Rostami	Not nominated
Iran	M we mother	میم مثل مادر (Mim Mesle Madar)	Persian	Rasul Mollagholipour	Not nominated
Ireland	Kings	Kings	Irish , English	Tommy Collins	Not nominated
Iceland	The dead man from Nordermoor	Mýrin	Icelandic	Baltasar Kormákur	Not nominated
Israel	Beaufort	בופור (Beaufort)	Hebrew	Joseph Cedar	Nominated
Italy	The unknown	La sconosciuta	Italian	Giuseppe Tornatore	Preselection
Japan	Soredemo boku wa yatte nai	そ れ で も ボ ク は や っ て な い (Soredemo boku wa yatte nai)	Japanese	Masayuki Suo	Not nominated
Canada	L'Âge des ténèbres	L'Âge des ténèbres	French	Denys Arcand	Preselection
Kazakhstan	The Mongol	Монгол (Mongol)	Mongolian	Sergei Bodrov	Nominated
Colombia	Satan	Satanás	Spanish	Andi Baiz	Not nominated
Croatia	Armin	Armin	Serbo-Croatian	Ognjen Sviličić	Not nominated
Cuba	La Edad de la peseta	La Edad de la peseta	Spanish	Pavel Giroud	Not nominated
Lebanon	Caramel	سكر بنات (Sukkar banat)	Arabic, French	Nadine Labaki	Not nominated
Luxembourg	Little secrets	Perl or pica	Luxembourgish	Pol Cruchten	Not nominated
North Macedonia	Shadows	Сенки (Senki)	Macedonian	Milčo Mančevski	Not nominated
Mexico	Provide light	Put the light on	Plautdietsch	Carlos Reygadas	Not nominated
Netherlands	Duska	Duska	Dutch	Jos Stelling	Not nominated
Norway	Clawed	Tatt av Kvinnen	Norwegian	Petter Næss	Not nominated
Austria	The Fakers	The Fakers	German	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Won
Peru	Una sombra al frente	Una sombra al frente	Spanish	Augusto Tamayo	Not nominated
Philippines	Donsol	Donsol	Bikolano , Tagalog	Adolfo Alix junior	Not nominated
Poland	The Katyn massacre	Katyn	Polish	Andrzej Wajda	Nominated
Portugal	Belle Toujours	Belle Toujours	French	Manoel de Oliveira	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	Maldeamores	Maldeamores	Spanish	Mariem Pérez Riera , Carlos Ruíz Ruíz	Not nominated
Romania	4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days	June 4, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile	Romanian	Cristian Mungiu	Not nominated
Russia	12	12	Russian, Chechen	Nikita Mikhalkov	Nominated
Sweden	The recent thunderstorm	You levande	Swedish	Roy Andersson	Not nominated
Switzerland	The autumn crooks	The autumn crooks	Swiss German	Bettina Oberli	Not nominated
Serbia	Klopka - The trap	Klopka (Клопка)	Serbo-Croatian	Srđan Golubović	Preselection
Singapore	Singapore Queens - Born to Dance	881	Mandarin, Min Nan	Royston Tan	Not nominated
Slovakia	Return of the storks	Návrat bocianov	German, Slovak	Martin Repka	Not nominated
Slovenia	Short circuits	Kratki stiki	Slovenian	Janez Lapajne	Not nominated
Spain	The orphanage	El orfanato	Spanish	Juan Antonio Bayona	Not nominated
South Korea	Secret Sunshine	밀양 (Milyang)	Korean	Lee Chang-dong	Not nominated
Taiwan	Liànxí Qǔ	練習 曲 (Liànxí Qǔ)	Mandarin, Taiwanese	Chen Hwai-En	Not nominated
Thailand	King Naresuan - The ruler of Siam	ตำนาน สมเด็จ พระ นเรศวร มหาราช (Tamnan Somdej Phra Naresuan)	Thai	Chatrichalerm Yukol	Not nominated
Czech Republic	I served the English king	Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále	Czech	Jiří Menzel	Not nominated
Turkey	Takva - fear of God	Takva	Turkish	Özer Kızıltan	Not nominated
Hungary	Taxidermia	Taxidermia	Hungarian	György Pálfi	Not nominated
Uruguay	El baño del Papa - Big business	El Baño del Papa	Spanish	César Charlone , Enrique Fernández	Not nominated
Venezuela	Postales de Leningrado	Postales de Leningrado	Spanish	Mariana Rondon	Not nominated
Vietnam	The white silk dress	Áo lụa Hà Đông	Vietnamese	Lu Huỳnh	Not nominated