Marston and Andamion Murataj won the Silver Bear award for best script at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, and the film was for the most part well-received at the recent Toronto Film Festival. Marston (“Maria Full of Grace”) was born and raised in California, but he traveled to Albania to make a film about a high school student caught up in a “blood feud” between his and another Albanian family. In the meantime, here’s a continuously updated list of what appears to be in the running: The Academy has yet to rule on the eligibility of these films, which it will do after the September 30 deadline.
Here is the master list of what’s been submitted to the Academy by countries hoping to compete in the Best Foreign-Language Film category.
