Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

has submitted films for the

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since 2006 . The award is handed out annually by the

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to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-

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dialogue. It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since.

Submissions

Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Lithuania for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony. Though they have been invited to submit a film by AMPAS regularly since achieving independence in the early 1990s, Lithuania has only submitted films for Oscar consideration since 2006. In fall of that year, it was announced that they had submitted documentary short "Before Flying Back to Earth" in 2006. With a 52-minute running time, it is one of the few documentaries and few non-feature-length films ever to be submitted in the category. ''Before Flying Back to Earth'' follows the lives of a number of young cancer patients receiving treatment at Vilnius University Children's Hospital. Director Arūnas Matelis' own daughter had been a patient at this hospital several years before. The film won the ''Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary'' award from the

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in 2007 and was featured at a number of international film festivals from 2005 to 2007, but failed to be nominated for an Oscar. Two years later, they returned to the competition with ''Loss'', a drama set in Lithuania and

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, focused on the theory of

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. Having won two awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival, it was the first Lithuanian to feature at a Class A film festival. In 2009, they selected ''Vortex'', a drama about a man's life spanning several decades before and after Lithuania's Soviet occupation.

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