Six more pix in mix for foreign-lingo Oscar

"Promise of War," which bowed in May throughout Cannes' Experts Week, is France's submission for that foreign-language Oscar. Six more nations have revealed their challengers for foreign-language Oscar consideration in the Oscars in Feb.France will be sending Valerie Donzelli's "Promise of War," single.3 million ($1.7 million) dramedy that bowed in Cannes' Critics' Week.Created by Rectangle Prods., "War" follows a youthful couple who find it difficult to save their baby from the brain tumor, according to Donzelli's own experience. "War" has made nearly $3.3 million in the box office in 2 days. Pic has offered to a lot more than 30 areas, such as the U.S., where Sundance Chooses required privileges after Cannes. Portugal has nominated Miguel Goncalves Mendes' documentary "Jose and Pilar" concerning the final many years of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago. The pic was co-created through the director's JumpCut, Fernando Meirelles' O2 and Pedro Almodovar's El Deseo. United States privileges happen to be offered to Outsider Pictures.Belgium has selected dark thriller "Rundskop" (Bullhead) in regards to a youthful player (Matthias Schoenaerts) who pumps illegal growth the body's hormones into themself and the cattle, with unpredicted effects.Directed beginning with-timer Michael R. Roskam, the film mixes Flemish- and French-speaking figures, which makes it an uncommon illustration of a tale straddling Belgium's primary language towns. "Rundskop" first showed worldwide at Berlin in Feb."Le Havre," directed, written and created by Aki Kaurismaki, will repetition Finland. The film focuses on a guy who stands out footwear as a living, who attempts to save a refugee child.Pic, selected with a jury supervised through the Finnish Film Chamber, won the Fipresci prize and also the special reference to the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes. It had been created by Sputnik Oy, and co-created by France's Pyramide Prods. and Germany's The planet pandora Film. Nadine Labaki's "Where Will We Go Ahead Now?,Inch which in fact had its United States preem in the Toronto Film Festival, is Lebanon's runner."Where" follows ladies who unite to safeguard their isolated mining community from outdoors conflict. It world preemed in Cannes' Not Certain Regard. Pathe Intl. is selling the pic."Nader and Simin, a Separation," the very first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear at Berlin, is Iran's submission. Author-helmer Asghar Farhadi's Tehran-set pic traces the breakdown of the middle-class couple's marriage and is made by using a $25,000 grant in the MPA's Asia Off-shore Screen Award Academy Film Fund. The Iranian Secretary of state for Culture and Islamic Guidance tried to block Farhadi from production carrying out a speech by which he known as for banned filmmakers, including Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who's in self-enforced exile, and Jafar Panahi, who's under house arrest, to become permitted revisit the Iranian film scene. The federal government rescinded the prohibit after Farhadi apologized for his remarks.That causes it to be even more surprising that the board of nine cineastes designated through the Farabi Motion picture Foundation, a joint venture partner towards the ministry, chose "Nader and Simin." Meanwhile, Luxembourg is not delivering a movie towards the Academy awards for that third consecutive year.The deadline for distribution is March. 1. The Oscars is going to be held February. 26 in the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.(Elsa Keslassy, Martin Dale, Ian Mundell, Leo Barraclough, Jennie Punter and Debra Kamin led for this report.) Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com