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Feb 27, 2024 · They range in themes, languages and political urgency, but this year's stellar five nominees for the Best International Feature Film Oscar are each deserving of your time for their distinct...
- Glen Weldon
Jan 24, 2023 · The complete list of Academy Award nominees for 2023. Share full article. 325. From left, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh and James Hong in “Everything Everywhere...
The 95th Academy Awards | 2023. Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Sunday, March 12, 2023. Honoring movies released in 2022.
- Americas
- Asia
- Europe
- Middle East and Africa
- Oceania
Argentina: Argentina, 1985
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Bolivia: Utama
An elderly Quechua couple in the Bolivian highlands ponder life-changing climate change. The film received its world premiere at Sundance where it won the World Cinema Competition grand jury prize. Kino Lorber handles US rights and will release on November 4. Sales: Alpha Violet. Read the full article here.
Brazil: Mars One
A lower-middle-class Black family try to stay hopeful following the election of a right-wing government in Martins’ fourth feature film starring an ensemble cast of Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião and Cícero Lucas. The drama premiered at Sundance where it was nominated for the grand jury prize in World Cinema and has since screened at Tribeca and San Sebastian festivals to name a few. It was produced by Martins, his brother Maurilo Martins, Thiago Macêdo Correia and André Nov...
Armenia: Aurora’s Sunrise
Detailing the life of silent film star and Armenian genocide survivor, Aurora Mardiganian, this documentary interweaves testimony, archive footage and animation to tell her story. The film premiered at Annecy International Animation Film Festival as part of the Contrechamp feature competition while Sahakyan’s other documentary Mel picked up a special mention at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2022. Aurora’s Sunriseis a co-production between Armenia (Bars Media), Lithuania (Artbox Laisv...
Bangladesh: Hawa
Not to be confused with Maïmouna Doucouré’s TIFF 2022 title of the same name, Bangladesh’s 18th Oscar entry stars Chanchal Chowdhury, Nazifa Tushi and Sariful Razz in a mystery drama about a group of fishermen who catch a mysterious young girl at sea. This is the director’s second feature film and is produced by Sun Music & Motion Pictures and Facecard Production. Sales: pending
Cambodia: Return To Seoul
Inspired by the director’s own life as a French-born Cambodian, the country’s 11th Oscar submission follows a French woman who returns to Korea for the first time since being adopted as a baby. The film had its world premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard and also screened at Busan, Zurich, New York, Toronto, and Athens, where it won best picture. Return To Seoul stars Park Ji-Min in the lead and the rest of the cast includes Oh Kwang-Rok, Kim Sun-Young, Guka Han, Yoann Zimmer and Louis-Do D...
Albania: A Cup Of Coffee And New Shoes On
In this drama, two identical deaf-mute twin brothers in their 40s discover they have a genetic disease that mean they will progressively and irreversibly go blind. Koçi’s previous feature, Daybreak, premiered in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival in 2017. His latest marks the 15thsubmission to the international feature award from Albania, which not yet made the longlist stage with its previous entries. World sales: ArtalbFilm
Austria: Corsage
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Azerbaijan: Creators
Aliyev’s second Oscar entry, following 2013’s Steppe Man, this documentary explores two 20th-century architects, Mikail Useynov and Sadig Dadashev, against the backdrop of the country’s communist-bolshevik ideology. It is produced by Salname. This is Azerbaijan’s ninth Oscar submission.
Algeria: Our Brothers
The country’s first ever submission in 1969, Costa Gavras’ Z, took home the Oscar and Algeria has since submitted 21 other times. Bouchareb has secured three out of four of the country’s subsequent nominations - Dust Of Life in 1995, Days Of Glory in 2006 and Outside The Law in 2010 - and will be hoping to repeat history once more with Our Brothers. The film screened in Cannes’ Premiere strand earlier this year and is inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, a young man killed by police foll...
Cameroon: The Planters Plantation
This is the country’s third year in a row submitting to the Academy (following Enah Johnscot’s The Fishermans Diary in 2020 and Ngang Romanus’s Hidden Dreams in 2021) after two prior entries in 1980 in 2016. Set in a west African plantation during the 1960s, the musical follows a young woman fighting to keep the plantation her father inherited from his white master during independence. It is produced by Bgc Melody Story, Extrafix Media and Inn Amore Pictures. Sales:pending
Iran: World War III
Fresh from its Venice premiere, where it won best film and best actor (for Mohsen Tanabandeh) in the Horizons strand, is Seyyedi’s dark comedy about an aspiring actor cast in a war film with tyrant filmmakers and a secret lover, played by Neda Jebraeili, that risks jeopardising his new career. Iran has two Oscars under its belt – 2011’s A Separation and 2016’s The Salesman both from Asghar Farhadi – and one nomination from Majid Majidi 1998 entry Children Of Heaven. Seyyedi wrote the script f...
Australia: You Won’t Be Alone
Noomi Rapace stars in this Macedonian-set gothic horror about a young girl who is turned into a witch by an ancient spirit. The debut feature of Stolevski, who is Macedonian-Australian, You Won’t Be Alone had its world premiere at Sundance 2022 where it was nominated for the World Cinema – Dramatic audience award. The film has since made its way around the festival circuit with screenings at Sitges, Sydney, Palm Springs, London, and Bucheon where it picked up the best film award. Making up th...
Indonesia: Missing Home
Based on the director’s own novel, this comedy-drama sees two parents - who desperately want their children to come back home - orchestrate a plan to pretend they are getting a divorce. It is produced by Imajinari and Kathanika Entertainment. Though no nominations, Indonesia’s 23 submissions have recently included 2021 TIFF Platform winner Yuni; 2018 festival favourite Memories Of My Body; and 2017 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts. Sales:pending
New Zealand: Muru
Based on the real events of 2007, Cliff Curtis stars as a Maori police officer conflicted when an Indigenous community is raided by police over suspicions of a domestic terrorist cell. The drama opened New Zealand Film Festival and had its international premiere at TIFF’s Contemporary World Cinema section before it screens at Busan’s Flash Forward strand in October. Alongside Curtis is Jay Ryan, Manu Bennett and Simone Kessell. Production companies are Jawbone Pictures, October 15 and Wheke G...
Jan 24, 2023 · Oscars: Full List of Nominations. 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' leads the nominees with 11, followed by 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' 'The Banshees of Inisherin,' 'Elvis,' 'The...
- Hilary Lewis
Dec 22, 2022 · ‘Holy Spider’. The Academy’s 2023 international feature film shortlist manages to be both predictable and refreshing at the same time.
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