 The Singapore Film Commission selected this as their submission to  the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film was  approved by the Academy and screened for the Foreign Language Film  Committee. Several days after the official screening, the Academy  disqualified the film saying that although the film featured  characters speaking three languages (plus one lead deaf and blind  character who could not speak), they had "measured" each one and  found that there was too much English spoken for them to consider it  a Foreign Language Film.