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Four More Foreign Film Oscar Submissions
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 7:07PM 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
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Reader Comments (10)
Border, Donbass and Birds of Passage are all playing at TIFF.
Loved BORDER, and BIRDS OF PASSAGE would definitely be worthy of a nomination as well.
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.
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.
Germany just picked Never Look Away.
And Palestine chose a documentary called Ghost Hunting.
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