Denmark’s ‘The Guilty’, A Sundance Winner, Submitted For Oscar Race

UPDATED with additional release date info: Gustav Möller’s The Guilty, which won this year’s Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Audience Award, has been selected by Denmark as the country’s official entry into the Oscar Foreign Language Film race.

The thriller, Möller’s directorial debut, was acquired by Magnolia Pictures in Park City and is hitting U.S. theaters October 19 in 25 markets. It next screens at Fantastic Fest which launches today.

The film centers on a police officer (Jakob Cedergren), who, when demoted to desk work, expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. That changes when he answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. Confined to the police station, he is forced to use others as his eyes and ears as the severity of the crime slowly becomes more clear, with all the action set in his single location.

Denmark has won the Foreign Language Film Oscar three times, winning back-to-back in 1987 and 1988 with Babette’s Feast and Pelle the Conqueror, respectively, and most recently with Susanne Bier’s In a Better World in 2010. Recent nominations have come for A Royal Affair, The Hunt and 2016’s Land of Mine.

Here’s the latest list of submissions:

2019 Foreign Language Film Oscar Submissions

• Algeria – Until The End Of Time – Yasmine Chouikh
• Austria – The Waldheim Waltz – Ruth Beckermann
• Belarus – Crystal Swan – Darya Zhuk
• Belgium – Girl – Lukas Dhont
• Bolivia – Muralla – Rodrigo Patiño
• Bosnia – Never Leave Me – Aida Begic
• Brazil – The Great Mystical Circus – Carlos Diegues
• Bulgaria – Omnipresent – Ilian Djevelekov
• Cambodia – Graves Without A Name – Rithy Pan
• Canada – Watch Dog – Sophie Dupuis
• Chile – And Suddenly The Dawn – Silvio Caiozzi
• Colombia– Birds of Passage, Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra
• Croatia – The Eighth Commissioner – Ivan Salaj
• Czech Republic – Winter Flies – Olmo Omerzu
• Denmark – The Guilty – Gustav Möller
• Dominican Republic – Cocote – Nelson Carlo de los Santos
• Ecuador – A Son Of Man – Jamaicanoproblem and Pablo Agüero
• Egypt – Yomeddine – Abu Bakr Shawky
• Estonia – Take It Or Leave It – Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo
• Finland – Euthanizer – Teemu Nikin
• Georgia – Namme – Zaza Khalvashi
• Germany – Never Look Away – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• Greece – Polyxeni – Dora Masklavanou
• Indonesia – Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts – Mouly Surya
• Iraq – The Journey – Mohamed Al-Daradji
• Iran – No Date, No Signature – Vahid Jalilvand
• Israel – The Cakemaker – Ofir Raul Grazier
• Japan – Shoplifters – Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Kosovo – The Marriage – Blerta Zeqiri
• Latvia – To Be Continued – Ivars Seleckis
• Lebanon – Capernaum – Nadine Labaki
• Lithuania – Wonderful Losers: A Different World – Arunas Matelis
• Luxembourg – Gutland – Govinda Van Maele
• Macedonia: Secret Ingredient – Gjorce Stavreski
• Mexico – Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
• Morocco – Burnout – Nour Eddine Lakhmari
• Netherlands – The Resistance Banker – Joram Lürsen
• Norway – What Will People Say – Iram Haq
• Palestine – Ghost Hunting – Raed Andoni
• Pakistan – Cake – Asim Abbasi
• Panama – Ruben Blades Is Not My Name – Abner Benaim
• Peru – Eternity – Oscar Catacora
• Portugal – Peregrinação – João Botelho
• Romania – I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians – Radu Jude
• Serbia – Offenders – Dejan Zecevic
• Singapore – Buffalo Boys – Mike Wiluan
• Slovakia – The Interpreter – Martin Sulik
• Slovenia – Ivan – Janez Burger
• South Korea – Burning – Lee Chang-dong
• Spain – Champions – Javier Fesser
• Sweden – Border – Ali Abbasi
• Switzerland – Eldorado – Markus Imhoof
• Taiwan  – The Grerat Buddha+ – Huang Hsin-Yao
• Thailand – Malila: The Farewell Flower – Anucha Boonyawatana
• Tunisia – Beauty And The Dogs – Kaouther Ben Hania
• Turkey – The Wild Pear Tree – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Ukraine – Donbass – Sergei Loznitsa
• UK – I Am Not A Witch – Rungano Nyoni
• Venezuela – The Family – Gustavo Rondon Cordova