More than 50 countries have announced their posts in the Oscar race for best international feature films, which puts that category on track to reach the 85-90 films that have usually qualified in recent years.
The Entries with the Highest Profiles So Far Include Joachim Trier’s Cannes Winning “Sentimental Value”, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s “The Secret Agent” (Brazil), Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling” (Germany), Jasmila Zbanic’s ” . . Holland’s “Franz” (Poland), Park Chan-Wook’s “No Other Choice” (South Korea), Petra Volpe’s “Late Shift” (Switzerland), Shih-cheing tsous “Left handed girl” (Taiwan), Ratchaom Boonbunkerkes “A Used Handy Handy” Rajab ”(Tunisia).
Trier, Zbanic, Kotseva, Holland and Ben Hania have made films that have been nominated in the category before, while Nemes has won, with 2015’s “Son of Saul.”
France Has Yet to Annouce Its submission, but its Oscar Selection Board has narrowed the Choice to Five Films, Including Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or Winner “It was just an Accident” and Richard Linklater’s Godard Homed Homidae “Navelle Vague Value, “” The Secret Agent, “” No Other Choice “and” The Voice of Hind Rajab “as potential Frontrunners.
On Monday, the Academy emailed the members who encouraged them to participate in the first vote in the category and announced that it will receive personal views of the 15 short -listed finalists in Los Angeles, New York and London.
These views, as well as LA and NY shows of all the justified films, had been interrupted when the voters’ body grew more international and views moved more and more to the members of the academy who are only members, but they return with the reservation that members must show if they want personal views to continue.
The e-mail from Dilcia Barrera, an Ampa senior VP in member relationships, Global Outreach and Awards Administration, said partly, “In recent years, these personal card lists have experienced low presence. We encourage all international film awards to join us for these views, as we may not be able to continue to continue to be improved.”
This year, Michèle Ohayon and Wanuri Kahiu will serve as the International Feight Film Award Committee CO-chairman for this Oscar season and first marks in the position of one of them. Ohayon is a member of the documentary branch whose films include “Colors Straight Up”, “It was a wonderful life” and “Cowboy del Amor”, while Kahiu is a filmmaker from Kenya who has directed “from a whisper” and “Rafiki”, among others.
Academy members have until October 10 to opt-in and throw votes in the first polling round, which will limit the field from the dozens of items to a 15-film card list. Last Friday, October 24, those who chose to participate in a group assignment and a list of films they must see, which are usually 12 or 13.
The films will be placed in a special section on Academy Screening Room Portal, with members required to see all films assigned to their group for their vote to be counted. They are also encouraged to see as many films from other groups as they can.
When the 15-movie card list is announced on December 16, will vote in the nomination round to be open to all academy members who see all 15 of the short-listed films, either personally or on the display portal.
Here is the list of films that have been submitted and announced so far. Inclusion on this list does not mean that the academy has sensed the film to ensure that it meets Ampas rules with its release dates and the amount of creative input from the submission country.
Armenia: “My Armenian Phantom”, Tamara Stepanyan
Austria: “Peacock,” Bernhard Wenger
Azerbaijan: “Tghiyev: Oil,“ Zaur Gasimli
Belgium: “Young Mothers”, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Bosnia and Herzegovina: “Blum: Masters of the Own Destiny,” Jasmila Zbanic
Brazil: “The secret agent,” Kleber Mendonca Filho
Bulgaria: “Tarika,“ Milko Lazarov
Cambodia: “Tenement”, Inrasothytheth Neth and Sokyou Chea
Canada: “The things you kill”, Alireza Khatami
Chile: “The mysterious look from Flamingo,“ Diego Cespedes
Colombia: “a poet”, Simon Mesa Soto
Costa Rica: “The altar boy, the priest and the gardener,” Juan Manuel Fernandez
Croatia: “Fiume Death!” Igor Bezinovic
Czech Republic: “I’m not all I want to be”, Klara Tasovska
Dominican Republic: “Pepe”, Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias
Ecuador: “Chuzalongo,“ Diego Ortuno
Egypt: “Happy Birthday”, Sarah Goher
Estonia: “Rolling Papers,” Meel Paliale
Finland: “100 liters of gold,“ Teemu Nikki
Georgia: “Pantiticon,“ George Silasarulipe
Germany: “Sound by Fall”, Mascha Schilinski
Hungary: “Orphan,” Laszlo Noble
Iceland: “Love that remains,” Hiynur Palmason
Indonesia: “Sore: wife from the future,“ Yandy Laurens
Iran: “Cause of death: Unknown,” Ali Zarnegar
Iraq: “President’s cake,” Hasan Hadi
Ireland: “Sanatorium”, Gar O’Rourke
Israel: “Sea”, Shai Carmeli Pollak
Japan: “Kokuho,“ Lee Sang -il
Jordan: “All that is left of you,” Cherin Dabis
Latvia: “God’s dog”, Lauris Abele and Raitis Abele
Montenegro: “The Tower of Strength”, Nikola Vukcevic
Morocco: “Calle Malaga,“ Maryam Touzani
The Netherlands: “Reedland,” Sven Bresser
North Macedonia: “The Tale of Silyan,“ Tamara Kotseva
Norway: “Sentimental Value”, Joachim Trier
Palestine: “Palestine 36”, Annemarie Jacir
Panama: “Loved Tropical”, Ana Endara
Papua New Guinea: “Out Open,“ Bijucumaar Damodan
Paraguay: “Under the flags, the sun,” Juanjo Pereira
Peru: “Motherland”, Marco Panatonic
Philippines: “Magellan,“ LAV Diaz
Poland: “Franz,“ Agnieszka Holland
Portugal: “Banzo, Margarida Cardoso
Romania: “Traffic”, Teodora Mihai
Slovakia: “Father,” Tereza Nvotova
Slovenia: “Little Trouble Girls,” Urška Djukić
South Korea: “No other choice”, Park Chan-Wook
Sweden: “Eagles of the Republic,” Tarik Saleh
Switzerland: “Late shift”, Petra Volpe
Taiwan: “Left hand girl”, shih-cheing tsou
Thailand: “A useful ghost”, Ratchepoom Boonbunchachoke
Tunisia: “Hind Rajab’s voice,” Kaouther Ben Hania
Turkey: “One of those days when Hemme dies,“ Murat Firetoglu
Ukraine: “2000 meters to Andriivka,“ MSTYSLAV CHRNOV
Uruguay: “Don’t let me go,“ Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge
