Denmark and Iceland have officially disclosed the names of their submissions for the Best Foreign-language Film category of the 91^st Academy Awards. The selection committee of the Danish Film Institute has chosen Gustav Möller's The Guilty [+lire aussi :
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Meanwhile, Iceland has confirmed Benedikt Erlingsson's Woman at War [+lire aussi :
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Denmark has regularly entered movies for the Best Foreign-language Film category since 1956, and as of today, three national films have won the prestigious prize: Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast in 1987, Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror in 1988 and Susanne Bier's In a Better World [+lire aussi :
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