Telefilm Canada announced on Friday (September 19) that Xavier Dolan's French-language feature Mommy will represent Canada in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 87^th Academy Awards.

Canada has received five nominations in the category in five years.

Mommy, the fifth feature by 25-year-old Quebec filmmaker, shared the 2014 Cannes Jury Prize with Jean-Luc Godard.

The film will screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival, along with two other films that Dolan acted in: the English-language Elephant Song and the French-language Miraculum.

Dolan made a critically acclaimed splash with his debut feature I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) in 2009, which he directed and starred in. The film was submitted to the Academy by Canada for the Oscars in 2010 but did not make the shortlist.

Dolan followed up with the bisexual love triangle Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) in 2010, the transgender drama Laurence Anyways in 2012, and the gay thriller Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) in 2013.

Only one Canadian film, The Barbarian Invasions, won the Oscar award in 2003.

Mommy will compete against several other selections by queer cinema filmmakers.

Brazil selected The Way He Looks, about a blind boy who falls in love with his male friend, as its official entry. The film screened at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival and Vancouver Latin American Film Festival this year.

Meanwhile, another Portuguese-language film, What Now? Remind Me, is Portugal's official entry to the Oscars. In the film, Joaquim Pinto documents himself taking experimental medication for AIDS and Hepatitis-C over the course of a year.