More International Contenders including a Student Academy Award Winner!
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 7:00PM Since the last roundup the following countries have been added to the list of contenders for this year's Best International Feature Film race bringing our total to 77 contenders.
- Argentina -The Sleepwalkers
- Armenia - Songs of Solomon
- Bolivia - Chaco
- Egypt - When We're Born (a musical!)
- Hungary - Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Hungary & Oscar)
- India - Jallikattu (streaming on Prime)
- Ireland - Arracht
- Italy - Notturno (Reviewed | Italy & Oscar)
- Lebanon - Broken Keys (more on this one below)
- Philippines - Mindanao
- Thailand - Happy Old Year (streaming on Netflix)
You can follow the list as it grows at our Oscar charts or on our Letterboxd list.
Jimmy Keyrouz. Photographed by Christophe Meireis.
One of fun trivia items about this new batch is that Jimmy Keyrouz, the 32 year old behind Lebanon's Broken Keys actually has Oscar history. He won a Student Academy Award for his short Nocturne in Black four years ago. That short didn't end up getting Oscar-nominated, but he made the finalist list. Now his first feature, about a pianist struggling to repair his piano in a town where terrorists have banned music, is submitted by his home country. How about that? Congratulations!
If you want to watch the submissions, 12 of the 77 titles are streaming.
India's Jallikattu is on Amazon Prime, Guatemala's La Llorona is on Amazon, Indonesia's Impetigore is on Shudder or Roku, Lithuania's Nova Lituania is on MUBI, South Korea's Man Standing Next is on Amazon, YouTube, or iTunes, and Chile's The Mole Agent on Hulu. Netflix has the other six currently available titles: Austria's What We Wanted, Mexico's I'm No Longer Here, Spain's The Endless Trench, Taiwan's A Sun, Turkey's Miracle in Cell No 7, and Thailand's Happy Old Year.
Reader Comments (10)
Argentina would have been a worthy post to talk about its oscar history - are you doing any Latin American country?
I did Brazil already.
The countries were mostly chosen at random but it was mostly about timing. I *was* actually going to do Argentina but then it was announced the same time as a bunch of countries and I hadn't pre-prepp'ed the post (some of the countries were kind enough to announce the date they would announce which made it a lot easier (most of the countries you saw those posts on i had plenty of time to prep due to the announcement). There's probably only one of those gargantuan posts to come since most of the countries with sufficient histories have now been announced.
Thank you for listing the streaming availability for some titles. It's wild how Netflix has all this international content but never promotes it, not even into my algorithm after I've watched their higher-profile international films.
Please Nathaniel, don’t skip Argentina’s Oscar history. It’s very rich and interesting.
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