Four More Foreign Film Oscar Submissions

by Nathaniel R

Four more official entries to the Foreign Language Film Oscar race.

• Birds of Passage -Colombia
  This is from the director Ciro Guerra (who has a co-director this time) the man behind Colombia's only Oscar nominee and TFE favorite Embrace of the Serpent.  The new film is a crime/family drama.
  Opening in the US in February. Orchard distributing
• Border -Sweden
  Un Certain Regard winner at Cannes this year. It's based on a novella by the author of Let the Right One In (!) and is a reportedly strange tale of a woman with the ability to sense and smell how people feel.
  Opening in the US October 26th. Neon distributing.
• Donbass -Ukraine
  From the acclaimed Sergey Loznitsa (My Joy, A Gentle Creature). This one is a cheerful tale (he said sarcastically given Loznitsa's filmography) about the degradation of Ukranian society in our post-truth world
• La Familia -Venezuela
  A father son drama about a violent neighborhood.
  Played in the US earlier this month. Film Movement distributing. 

UPDATE HOURS LATER - TWO MORE ENTRIES

• Never Look Away - Germany
  From Florian Henckel von Donnersmarch (The Lives of Others) comes this story of a romance between two art students (Tom Schilling and Paula Beer) and her father (Sebastian Koch) who fights against the relationship
• Ghost Hunting - Palestine
  A documentary about a former interrogation center in which the inmates reenact their interrogations inside a replica of the center built to scale

Related:
Updated Oscar charts for foreign film
First 10 official contenders for foreign film
49 suggested European Film Awards contenders
Spain's Finalists
Israel's Finalists

Comments

[ken s.]

Border, Donbass and Birds of Passage are all playing at TIFF.

[Travis C]

Loved BORDER, and BIRDS OF PASSAGE would definitely be worthy of a nomination as well.

[Glenn Dunks]

I would love to be a fly on the wall of discussions about DONBASS with Academy members. It's a strange movie, part tragedy part farce and part satire all wrapped up in the grey overcast tones of Ukraine by way Monty Python. It's Loznitsa's best work that isn't a documentary.

BIRDS OF PASSAGE is already pretty great. The co-director is his wife, I believe. It's the sort of film that I want to recommend to men who worship SCARFACE, but you just know they'd associate with the petulant incel character rather than the people whose lives he seems intent on destroying.

[Glenn Dunks]

I would love to be a fly on the wall of discussions about DONBASS with Academy members. It's a strange movie, part tragedy part farce and part satire all wrapped up in the grey overcast tones of Ukraine by way Monty Python. It's Loznitsa's best work that isn't a documentary.

BIRDS OF PASSAGE is already pretty great. The co-director is his wife, I believe. It's the sort of film that I want to recommend to men who worship SCARFACE, but you just know they'd associate with the petulant incel character rather than the people whose lives he seems intent on destroying.

[Rod]

Germany just picked Never Look Away.
And Palestine chose a documentary called Ghost Hunting.

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