Farhadi's "A Separation" from Iran will face Michael R. Roskam's crime drama "Bullhead" from Belgium, Philippe Falardeau's immigrant substitute teacher tale "Monsieur Lazhar" from Canada, Joseph Cedar's Talmudic scholar saga "Footnote" from Israel and Agnieszka Holland's World War II drama "In Darkness" from Poland for the foreign-language Oscar at Sunday's ceremony.