South Asian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
India has its own list. I create these "group lists" for countries that don't have enough films to warrant their own list.
Unfortunately Pakistan has not been submitting for a long time so we see less of their films than we should.
Here are the tallies:
Bangladesh 7
Bhutan 1
Nepal 4
Pakistan 2
Sri Lanka 1
Unfortunately Pakistan has not been submitting for a long time so we see less of their films than we should.
Here are the tallies:
Bangladesh 7
Bhutan 1
Nepal 4
Pakistan 2
Sri Lanka 1
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- DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto ChattopadhyayA family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.Bangladesh
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMeher Afroz ShaonRiazSwadhin KhosruTwelve people are passengers on board.The boatmen are taking them to safety, far away from the fierce clutches of war. All the people on board are devastated by the horrors of war. As the story advances, different events unravel.Bangladesh
- DirectorAbu SayeedStarsShabnurIlias KanchanAmirul Haque ChowdhuryA lower-middle class family in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka is going through hard times. Their father has gone blind and can no longer work, and most of the family's money has been wasted on their unemployed son Hiru, who refuses to work. All the family's problems fall on the shoulder of their beautiful daughter Tithi, who works as a prostitute to help the family. The film is a fairly non-judgmental look at the lives of Tithi, her family and the people she comes in contact with through her job.Bangladesh
- DirectorGolam Rabbany BiplobStarsMahmuduzzaman BabuRokeya PrachyFazlur Rahman BabuA poor villager finds some high priced foreign notes. For exchanging notes easily, he secretly tells his friend. They both trying to get the money & change their poor condition.Bangladesh
- DirectorEnamul Karim NirjharStarsSathi YasminHumayun FaridiTariq Anam KhanMr. Rafiq is given an option to develop the ancestral property by a privet developer agent. The house carries the style of typical historic buildings of old Dhaka; which are being pushed aside by urban modernization. With the decision hanging, Ruba, his daughter, leaves her husband in the US and returns to Dhaka. The cause being her husband's excessive misbehave. Ruba tries to find peace in her memory soaked old home but could not as the decision to reconstruct the property is discussed and debated over and over again. Another character, Soleman, obedient servant of Mr. Rafiq becomes irritating to Ruba since he has a rivalry with the local power holders. As Ruba seeks her memories in the home, she occasionally watches a man on a neighboring flat. The man notices this. With the man's efforts they finally get to be friends. But the orthodox mindset of the father desperately looks for ways to stop the developing relationship or perhaps a new hope for Ruba. The story ends with a pathetic turn of events; just like the title AHA!; (what a pity!) exemplifying the enigmatic sorrow wrapped with the old infrastructure of old Dhaka even today.Bangladesh
- DirectorGolam Rabbany BiplobStarsJayanto ChattopadhyayFazlur Rahman BabuFiroj Khan DollarA political fable in which a village musician gets swept up in the market economy of big city Dhaka.Bangladesh
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsNusrat Imrose TishaMosharraf KarimRashed Uddin Ahmed TopuA woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.Bangladesh
- DirectorKhyentse NorbuStarsOrgyen TobgyalNeten ChoklingJamyang LodroWhile the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha in a rapidly changing world.Bhutan
- DirectorEric ValliMichel DebatsStarsThilen LhondupGurgon KyapLhakpa TsamchoeAn aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son's friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son's widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey. Fearing storms, Karma has led his caravan out of the village before the auspicious day ordained by the lamas. Tinle's group catches Karma's before the final pass; the two stubborn men lock wills with Tinle's grandson watching.Nepal
- DirectorTsering Rhitar SherpaStarsGauri MallaMithila SharmaRatan SubediA couple seek guidance from a Nepalese spiritual healer after the death of their baby boy.Nepal
- DirectorGyanendra Bahadur DeujaStarsDeepak TripathiUsha PaudelMithila SharmaAn epic tragedy, based on Nepal's most famous epic poem. Madan, a lower-class worker, is forced by poverty and mounting debts to go to Lhasa, Tibet, leaving behind his lonely mother and beloved wife, Muna. However, tragedy befalls him on the way home.Nepal
- DirectorSubash GajurelStarsMukunda BastakotiDinesh D.C.Ranju LamichhaneA poor farmer Dhane and his family suffer one calamity after another, and a series of quarrels with fellow villagers forces them to leave the village.Nepal
- DirectorA.J. KardarStarsKhan Ataur RahmanTripti MitraKazi KhaliqBased on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal.Pakistan
- DirectorKhurshid AnwarStarsSantosh KumarLailaGhulam MohammedShahid is betrayed by his wife who ran away from him at the 1st night of their wedding and after this he becomes a loner and alcoholic. He than visits a hill station with his best friend in an attempt to move on but instead haunted by the spirit of Usha Rani there.Pakistan
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsMalini FonsekaVasanthi ChathuraniSanath GunathilakeVery loosely based on Anton Chekov's the Cherry Orchard, the film follows a family of formerly wealthy, expatriate Sri Lankan landowners, now impoverished, as they return from England to the magnificent country estate they left behind. A deeply moving study of a caste and a country torn apart by social change.Sri Lanka