Discounts to "IFFF"

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... 

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India and Iceland choose their Oscar horses, but not the ones you'd think

by Nathaniel R

India and Iceland have selected their Oscar submissions choosing Last Film Show and Beautiful Beings respectively. Neither title was the highest profile option. India had a much-loved crossover hit in the US this year with RRR (now streaming on Netflix) which brought Bollywood spectacle and ridiculous (in a fun way) action exuberance to the big screen. It grossed nearly $12 million in the US which is more than some English language Oscar winning pictures recenty! India's last nomination was way back in 2001 with Lagaan which, like RRR, was a very mainstream epic with musical numbers...

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