Be With Me by director Eric Khoo was banned after the Academy judges found English featured more than Mandarin and the regional Chinese dialect Hokkien.

Among the contenders is The Child, from Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, which took top honours at last at Cannes Film Festival this year.

Hit documentary film March of the Penguins was not picked as France's entry for the best foreign language film, with World War I war movie Joyeux Noel being put forward instead.

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