Submissions to the 94th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film - Page 3

-The Oscar Selection Committees for Ghana, Nepal and Pakistan all invited filmmakers to make submissions, but no films were sent. Nigeria announced they would not enter for lack of eligible submissions.
-The Jordanian film Amira was withdrawn by the Royal Film Commission due to controversy surrounding the film's subject matter. The film, which centers on a Palestinian girl who learns her real father was an Israeli prison guard rather than a Palestinian prisoner, was criticised by prisoners' rights organisations and withdrawn "out of respect to the feelings of the prisoners and their families."
-Lithuania initially reported that The Jump by Giedrė Žickytė was their selection, but Isaac by Jurgis Matulevičius was ultimately submitted.
-Namibia formed an approved Oscar Selection Committee for the first time, but made no submission.
-The Directors' Guild of the Philippines, Inc. publicly expressed "great disappointment" that the Film Academy of the Philippines made no submission.