READ MORE: Foreign Oscar Submissions So Far Writer/director Anna Muylaert revealed to us Thursday morning that, as announced by Brazil's Ministry of Culture, the country has submitted her film "The Second Mother" to the 2016 Oscars. Now in US theaters from Oscilloscope, the film was chosen from a group of eight Portuguese-language features. It stars Regina Casé as the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper who suddenly appears, throwing into disarray the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home.