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Set in a military camp along the Kenya-Somali border, it is based on a true story that occurred in 2011 when an elderly French woman living in Manda Island was kidnapped by Somali terrorists.
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The Kenyan Film Commission has submitted this English and Swahili language military action movie to compete, above three other contenders.
Kenya: Mission To Rescue (Gilbert Lukalia) Hewes Pictures is handling worldwide sales, excluding Algeria and Israel. It is the first feature to be directed by Gacem, who has previously made his name in TV. The feature takes place at the end of World War II in a small Algerian town as French troops embark upon an atrocious massacre, now known as the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Chaired by filmmaker Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina, the committee selected the film from among three others. This feature has been selected for a second time to represent Algeria, after it was submitted but then withdrawn by the Algerian Oscar committee last year, reportedly owing to the Covid pandemic preventing it from screening. It has made the shortlist in five of the last seven years, with two of those titles going on to nominations - Leviathan in 2015 and Loveless in 2018, both directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev Africa Algeria: Heliopolis (Djaâfar Gacem) This is Russia’s 29th submission to the award the country has seven nominations in total, with Nikita Mikhalov’s Burnt By The Sun winning the main prize in 1995. It is Kovalenko’s second feature after 2016’s Sofichka Mubi acquired UK and US rights following Cannes. Unclenching The Fists won the Grand Prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2021, then going on an extensive festival tour that took in Melbourne, Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Telluride, New York, Toronto, Zurich and San Sebastian among others. In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects. Russia: Unclenching The Fists(Kira Kovalenko) This is Luxembourg’s 17th submission for the international feature prize, with none of the previous entries reaching the nomination stage yet Rotunno directed 2016 entry Baby(a)lone. It is a fourth feature for Luxembourgian filmmaker Rotunno, who has worked extensively as a producer with credits including Oliver Laxe’s Fire Willl Come. Luxembourg: Io Sto Bene (Donato Rotunno)Īn old Italian ex-pat crosses paths with a young artist from his home country, awakening memories from his past. It is a fourth feature for Drljaca, after Krivina, The Waiting Room and The Stone Speakers. The film debuted in cinemas at the summer edition of the Berlinale in June 2021, going on to play events in Montreal, Vancouver and Gent. Bosnia and Herzegovina: The White Fortress (Igor Drljaca)īosnia and Herzegovina heads towards the 2022 awards on the back of a surprise hit last year, with Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida? receiving the country’s second-ever nomination (the first was for Danis Tanovic’s No Man’s Land, which ultimately won the award in 2002). When a chance encounter brings together two teens from opposite sides of life in post-war Sarajevo, a blossoming romance conceals their desperate and disturbing motives. It follows a young miner as he looks for work alongside his friends, even as he begins to descend into a mysterious sickness. This is Bolivia’s 13th Oscar entry, including two which were disqualified none have yet reached the nomination stage. The Great Movement may represent a better shot, having debuted in Horizons at Venice Film Festival in September 2021. Russo represents Bolivia on the Oscar stage for the second time, after Dark Skull for the 2018 awards. Latest submissions Bolivia: The Great Movement (Kiro Russo)
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The 2021 awards saw 93 submissions, with nominations for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, Hong Kong’s Better Days, Romania’s Collective, Tunisia’s The Man Who Sold His Skin and eventual winner Another Round from Denmark. A shortlist of 15 finalists is scheduled to be announced on December 21, with the final five nominees announced on February 8, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is November 1, 2021. Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between Januand December 31, 2021. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.Īn international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features. The 94 th Academy Awards will take place on Maat the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
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