BEAUTIFUL BEINGS (Iceland's Oscar Submission)For those of you who like to be completists with Oscar's Best International Feature Film race there's a new virtual film festival you should know about. Being a completist or even seeing a good chunk of the movies is a tough thing to do within any Oscar season given the amount of submissions we generally get (90+) and the unpredictable distribution of those exact same movies. Rodrigo Gutierrez created "International Feature Film Festival" to help with this. About a third of the films on last season's Oscar submission list have been available at one time or another on demand, streaming, or in theaters in the US but the others have been more difficult to find.
For the first edition of IFFF (which runs April 6th-23rd) thirteen of the submissions that haven't yet been distributed in the US or Canada are showing. The list of the films and discounted ticket codes are after the jump...
A single film is $14 but The Film Experience has discount codes to share if you're interested in a pass, courtesy of Gutierrez who has been a reader of TFE for a long time...
5 films for $50 - discounted to $35 with the code: FZEH5ZNLDM56E6D
8 films for $70 - discounted to $42 with the code: UUPI8T1MQC8PEVP
12 films for $100 -discounted to $50 with the code: 16XSH14T3DOKBAX
THE FILMS
Safe Place (Croatia)** - Best Actor prizes at both Locarno and Sarajevo film festivals
Il Boemo (Czechia) - Six prizes at the Czech Lions
A Long Break (Georgia)
Magnetic Fields (Greece) - Five prizes at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards)
Beautiful Beings (Iceland)* - Several film festival prizes
The Exam (Iraq) - International Film winner at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Butterfly on the Windowpane (Nepal)
Narcosis (Netherlands) - Audience Award winner at Thessaloniki Film Festival
Immaculate (Romania) - Best Debut Film winner at Venice
Darkling (Serbia)
Eami (Paraguay) - Tiger Award at Rotterdam Film Festival
Tug of War (Tanzania) - Four prizes at the African Movie Academy Awards
The Employer and the Employee (Uruguay)**
*only available in USA
**only available in Canada
Enjoy!