Four world premieres among line-up.
Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the documentary films that will play in competition at its 22nd edition.
The programme consists of 21 films that examine issues ranging from personal identity, national identity, emigration and social justice to family secrets, political mysteries and economical crises.
Competition Programme – Documentary Filmworld Premieres
Borders
Slovenia, 2016, 10 min.
Director: Damjan Kozole
The Heart Of Wood / Srce Od Drveta
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 36 min.
Director: Namik Kabil
Scream For Me Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 100 min.
Director: Tarik Hodžić
Svetlana
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 25 min.
Director: Pero Pavlovic
International Premieres
Baglar
Turkey, 2016, 81 min.
Director: Berke Bas, Melis Birder
The Beast Is Still Alive
Bulgaria, 2016, 91 min.
Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Down There / Unten
Austria, 2016, 87 min.
Director: Đorđe Čenić, Hermann Peseckas
Drums Of Resistance / Daullet E REZISTENCËS
Kosovo, 2016, 65 min.
Director: Mathieu Jouffre
Four Passports / ČETIRI PASOŠA
Serbia, Croatia, Germany, 2016, 83 min.
Director: Mihajlo Jevtić
Islands Of Forgotten Cinemas / Kino Otok
Croatia, 2016, 35 min.
Director:...
Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the documentary films that will play in competition at its 22nd edition.
The programme consists of 21 films that examine issues ranging from personal identity, national identity, emigration and social justice to family secrets, political mysteries and economical crises.
Competition Programme – Documentary Filmworld Premieres
Borders
Slovenia, 2016, 10 min.
Director: Damjan Kozole
The Heart Of Wood / Srce Od Drveta
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 36 min.
Director: Namik Kabil
Scream For Me Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 100 min.
Director: Tarik Hodžić
Svetlana
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 25 min.
Director: Pero Pavlovic
International Premieres
Baglar
Turkey, 2016, 81 min.
Director: Berke Bas, Melis Birder
The Beast Is Still Alive
Bulgaria, 2016, 91 min.
Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Down There / Unten
Austria, 2016, 87 min.
Director: Đorđe Čenić, Hermann Peseckas
Drums Of Resistance / Daullet E REZISTENCËS
Kosovo, 2016, 65 min.
Director: Mathieu Jouffre
Four Passports / ČETIRI PASOŠA
Serbia, Croatia, Germany, 2016, 83 min.
Director: Mihajlo Jevtić
Islands Of Forgotten Cinemas / Kino Otok
Croatia, 2016, 35 min.
Director:...
- 7/19/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Recently three outstanding pictures have come out that deal with the first, second and third generations of survivors of the Shoah.
The issues being dealt with in all three are memories of individuals and collective memory, as seen through the prism of the ever changing present. The present colors how memories are recalled from the past. The subject of memory was dealt with brilliantly (aside from Proust) recently by Asja Makarevic, the 20-something-year-old Manager of Sarajevo's Talent Campus who lived through the siege of Sarajevo as a young girl. Using two 45 minute films made before the Bosnian war and after by Bosnian director Namik Kabil who lived in Santa Monica, Calfornia during the war, she presents a discussion of the present handling of memories from the recent seige of Bosnia-Herzogovina by the Serbians which lasted from 1992 to 1995. The films explore how the past overshadows the present and shapes the characters’ and the real individuals’ present life situation. The immense impact of the past on their present lives also distorts their visions of the future. In fact, there is no future perspective. The characters and the real people show a great reluctance to discuss war experiences and it results in their denial of the atrocities of war. Makarevic asks, How can the future be anticipated if there are still unresolved issues with the past?
All our lives are shaped by the memories of the past and how we deal with those memories in our ever-changing present. These 3 films reflect on the souls of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust as they do on every group of peoples today. We are all victims, survivors and perpetrators, even those who only read of wars in the comfort of their homes as they read the news over coffee and breakfast.
A documentary competing for a Academy Award nomination as Best Documentary, The Flat by Arnon Goldfinger will open in New York on October 19 and in Los Angeles on October 24 and will continue rolling out nationally. It has sold to IFC for U.S., where Sundance Select will release it, Scandinavia and U.K. It ran for six months theatrically in Germany and was Israel's highest grossing theatrical documentary. It has won the Ophir (the Israeli equivalent to the Academy Awards) for Best Documentary film for Art houses in Israel, The Best Documentary Directing Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Bavarian Film Award for Best Documentary, Best Documentary Editing at Tribeca, Best Doc at the Israeli Documentary Forum and the David A. Stein Memorial Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. International sales are by the German sales agent Salzgeber.
The Flat tells the story of the grandson's search for answers to the enigma of his grandparents. "The flat on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. When my grandmother passed away at the age of 98 we were called to the flat to clear out what was left. Objects, pictures, letters and documents awaited us, revealing traces of a troubled and unknown past."
The film which begins with the emptying out of the flat develops into a riveting tale of the grandparents of the filmmaker, a story of their lifelong friendship with the Nazi ideologue who invented The Final Solution and was Adolf Eichman’s boss. The filmmaker’s own mother never knew anything about the friendship, and the grandson must search for answers as to why and how they could remain friends after their 1933 trip with him to Jerusalem and their subsequent patriation in Israel as Zionists the same year. After the war they renewed their friendship. The Nazi’s own daughter knew only part of this story of deeply repressed family emotions on both sides of the enemy line.
My discussion with Arnon Goldfinger began with my question of why he never made another film after his 2000 theatrical doc The Comediant which like The Flat also won the Israeli Film Award. No reason other than he has been busy teaching film at all of Israel's film schools including the Sam Speigel School and currently Tel Aviv University film school where he received his own degree. While I was not thrilled with the ending which seemed so unresolved, or with his mother who seemed too ignorant of her own parents' lives, Arnon stressed that the main thing was that he started asking questions and as he went deeper and deeper, there grew a sort of understaning that there are unsolvabble mysteries in memories; one cannot enter people's hearts. He paraphrased a phrase often heard on Israeli TV: "The present is happy now, the future is unpredictable; only the past keeps changing and changing." He also notes that, "even if no one in our family will admit it whole-heartedly, the fact that we are descendants of German Jews has had a profound effect on shaping each of our personalities. And yet, the topic of our roots was never an issue or a subject for much discussion in our daily life in Israel. Quite the contrary, the old-worldness of our grandparents was always treated with a sense of cynicism....it was only after my grandmother's death that I realized that the flat contained a treasure that could illuminate the present as well as the past."
The important thing is to be seeking the truth. His mother was trained not to ask her parents about the past. Unconsciously she understood there would a lot of pain anad suffering if her parents began to talk of their experiences. But in the course of the film, she underwent a process from disinterest to interest; she went twice to Berlin. She could not express it but something moved within her. And at the other end, Arnon is still in touch with the German daughter of the Nazi friends of his grandparents and she accepted the film when she saw it. There is no resolution of the paradox of his parents' friendship. Arnon's main motivation in making the film was to learn what happened, but that became less important than learning that the reason people did not talk of the Nazi experience was not a matter of fact but of emotion and if one does not ask, one will not know that emotional impact. Emotional impact itself is a continuing process. Goldfinger still cannot assess the film's emotional impact on himself; it is a process that continues as must the discussion and questioning of the past;. The impact is a continual process and the memories change shape as our present points of view change.
In Toronto I cited Margarethe Von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt, (Isa: The Match Factory is screening it at Afm November 1, 9 am) in my blog When Are Films Political: The Brave Films of Toronto International Film Festival). She herself was a survivor who, during her coverage of Eichman's trial in Jerusalem, found herself abandoned by many of her best friends in New York on account of her tough assessment of the nature of totalitarianism which includes victims and oppressors in a cycle of silence which in turn creates evil because no one speaks up to protest. Her implicating the Jews in this cycle caused outrage in the Jewish community.
Margarethe von Trotta, a filmmaker who is fearless in facing deeply philosophical and important issues, will be presented with the Leo Baeck Medal for this film which resonates profoundly in the tradition of Rabbi Leo Baeck and the Institute named in his honor. As the last public representative of the Jewish Community of Germany under the Nazis, Leo Baeck worked to protect German Jews from persecution, helping many Jews emigrate and traveling widely to bring the plight of German Jews to international attention. He refused offers to save himself by emigrating and instead submitted to deportation to the Theresienstadt concentration camp rather than abandon his community. After the liberation, Baeck moved to London, but he continued to teach around the world, including in the United States, the nascent Federal Republic of Germany, and the State of Israel. Today, the work of the Leo Baeck Institute continues to reflect this commitment to dialogue. The annual Gala dinner will be held November 28 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
The third film, The Matchmaker (Isa and U.S. Distributor: Menamsha) is playing its 9th week in N.Y., played more than 9 weeks in L.A. and continues to open nationally as it earns prizes in festivals. I loved this film with the old-fashioned love of good movies I used to feel before I “got in the business”, and yet it goes beyond the expected. Kenneth Turan of L.A. Times gives it a sterling review for the same reasons, "more honest than formulaic, an offbeat look at an in-between, questioning time in Israeli history".
Director Avi Nesher is quoted as saying, “Like many Sabras, I had a very difficult time understanding and accepting that the European Jews, like my parents, were ever so hapless during wartime in Europe.
We Israelis were brought up as the ‘new Jews/ and the ‘super Jews’. Empathy toward Holocaust survivors was discouraged. Indeed, we are guilty of a great sin. Our parents suffered greatly ‘there’ and we offered no sympathy ‘here’.
I wrote and directed the film The Matchmaker as an homage to my parents. I believe that no matter what the question is, love is always the answer. The film focuses on love to ease survivors' suffering. My parents used much love to create a life for my sister and me, and as sane a life as was possible for them under the circumstances. I find this hugely admirable and a true life lesson."
These three films are so powerful in pointing out the complexities and even contradictions of people wherever the Shoah is in the spotlight. Human nature, being what it is, creates many shades of gray and these shades, discussed in these three films, are as fascinating as art by Mark Rothko or Joseph Albers. Watching these three films is not only important but is totally compelling.
The issues being dealt with in all three are memories of individuals and collective memory, as seen through the prism of the ever changing present. The present colors how memories are recalled from the past. The subject of memory was dealt with brilliantly (aside from Proust) recently by Asja Makarevic, the 20-something-year-old Manager of Sarajevo's Talent Campus who lived through the siege of Sarajevo as a young girl. Using two 45 minute films made before the Bosnian war and after by Bosnian director Namik Kabil who lived in Santa Monica, Calfornia during the war, she presents a discussion of the present handling of memories from the recent seige of Bosnia-Herzogovina by the Serbians which lasted from 1992 to 1995. The films explore how the past overshadows the present and shapes the characters’ and the real individuals’ present life situation. The immense impact of the past on their present lives also distorts their visions of the future. In fact, there is no future perspective. The characters and the real people show a great reluctance to discuss war experiences and it results in their denial of the atrocities of war. Makarevic asks, How can the future be anticipated if there are still unresolved issues with the past?
All our lives are shaped by the memories of the past and how we deal with those memories in our ever-changing present. These 3 films reflect on the souls of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust as they do on every group of peoples today. We are all victims, survivors and perpetrators, even those who only read of wars in the comfort of their homes as they read the news over coffee and breakfast.
A documentary competing for a Academy Award nomination as Best Documentary, The Flat by Arnon Goldfinger will open in New York on October 19 and in Los Angeles on October 24 and will continue rolling out nationally. It has sold to IFC for U.S., where Sundance Select will release it, Scandinavia and U.K. It ran for six months theatrically in Germany and was Israel's highest grossing theatrical documentary. It has won the Ophir (the Israeli equivalent to the Academy Awards) for Best Documentary film for Art houses in Israel, The Best Documentary Directing Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Bavarian Film Award for Best Documentary, Best Documentary Editing at Tribeca, Best Doc at the Israeli Documentary Forum and the David A. Stein Memorial Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. International sales are by the German sales agent Salzgeber.
The Flat tells the story of the grandson's search for answers to the enigma of his grandparents. "The flat on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. When my grandmother passed away at the age of 98 we were called to the flat to clear out what was left. Objects, pictures, letters and documents awaited us, revealing traces of a troubled and unknown past."
The film which begins with the emptying out of the flat develops into a riveting tale of the grandparents of the filmmaker, a story of their lifelong friendship with the Nazi ideologue who invented The Final Solution and was Adolf Eichman’s boss. The filmmaker’s own mother never knew anything about the friendship, and the grandson must search for answers as to why and how they could remain friends after their 1933 trip with him to Jerusalem and their subsequent patriation in Israel as Zionists the same year. After the war they renewed their friendship. The Nazi’s own daughter knew only part of this story of deeply repressed family emotions on both sides of the enemy line.
My discussion with Arnon Goldfinger began with my question of why he never made another film after his 2000 theatrical doc The Comediant which like The Flat also won the Israeli Film Award. No reason other than he has been busy teaching film at all of Israel's film schools including the Sam Speigel School and currently Tel Aviv University film school where he received his own degree. While I was not thrilled with the ending which seemed so unresolved, or with his mother who seemed too ignorant of her own parents' lives, Arnon stressed that the main thing was that he started asking questions and as he went deeper and deeper, there grew a sort of understaning that there are unsolvabble mysteries in memories; one cannot enter people's hearts. He paraphrased a phrase often heard on Israeli TV: "The present is happy now, the future is unpredictable; only the past keeps changing and changing." He also notes that, "even if no one in our family will admit it whole-heartedly, the fact that we are descendants of German Jews has had a profound effect on shaping each of our personalities. And yet, the topic of our roots was never an issue or a subject for much discussion in our daily life in Israel. Quite the contrary, the old-worldness of our grandparents was always treated with a sense of cynicism....it was only after my grandmother's death that I realized that the flat contained a treasure that could illuminate the present as well as the past."
The important thing is to be seeking the truth. His mother was trained not to ask her parents about the past. Unconsciously she understood there would a lot of pain anad suffering if her parents began to talk of their experiences. But in the course of the film, she underwent a process from disinterest to interest; she went twice to Berlin. She could not express it but something moved within her. And at the other end, Arnon is still in touch with the German daughter of the Nazi friends of his grandparents and she accepted the film when she saw it. There is no resolution of the paradox of his parents' friendship. Arnon's main motivation in making the film was to learn what happened, but that became less important than learning that the reason people did not talk of the Nazi experience was not a matter of fact but of emotion and if one does not ask, one will not know that emotional impact. Emotional impact itself is a continuing process. Goldfinger still cannot assess the film's emotional impact on himself; it is a process that continues as must the discussion and questioning of the past;. The impact is a continual process and the memories change shape as our present points of view change.
In Toronto I cited Margarethe Von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt, (Isa: The Match Factory is screening it at Afm November 1, 9 am) in my blog When Are Films Political: The Brave Films of Toronto International Film Festival). She herself was a survivor who, during her coverage of Eichman's trial in Jerusalem, found herself abandoned by many of her best friends in New York on account of her tough assessment of the nature of totalitarianism which includes victims and oppressors in a cycle of silence which in turn creates evil because no one speaks up to protest. Her implicating the Jews in this cycle caused outrage in the Jewish community.
Margarethe von Trotta, a filmmaker who is fearless in facing deeply philosophical and important issues, will be presented with the Leo Baeck Medal for this film which resonates profoundly in the tradition of Rabbi Leo Baeck and the Institute named in his honor. As the last public representative of the Jewish Community of Germany under the Nazis, Leo Baeck worked to protect German Jews from persecution, helping many Jews emigrate and traveling widely to bring the plight of German Jews to international attention. He refused offers to save himself by emigrating and instead submitted to deportation to the Theresienstadt concentration camp rather than abandon his community. After the liberation, Baeck moved to London, but he continued to teach around the world, including in the United States, the nascent Federal Republic of Germany, and the State of Israel. Today, the work of the Leo Baeck Institute continues to reflect this commitment to dialogue. The annual Gala dinner will be held November 28 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
The third film, The Matchmaker (Isa and U.S. Distributor: Menamsha) is playing its 9th week in N.Y., played more than 9 weeks in L.A. and continues to open nationally as it earns prizes in festivals. I loved this film with the old-fashioned love of good movies I used to feel before I “got in the business”, and yet it goes beyond the expected. Kenneth Turan of L.A. Times gives it a sterling review for the same reasons, "more honest than formulaic, an offbeat look at an in-between, questioning time in Israeli history".
Director Avi Nesher is quoted as saying, “Like many Sabras, I had a very difficult time understanding and accepting that the European Jews, like my parents, were ever so hapless during wartime in Europe.
We Israelis were brought up as the ‘new Jews/ and the ‘super Jews’. Empathy toward Holocaust survivors was discouraged. Indeed, we are guilty of a great sin. Our parents suffered greatly ‘there’ and we offered no sympathy ‘here’.
I wrote and directed the film The Matchmaker as an homage to my parents. I believe that no matter what the question is, love is always the answer. The film focuses on love to ease survivors' suffering. My parents used much love to create a life for my sister and me, and as sane a life as was possible for them under the circumstances. I find this hugely admirable and a true life lesson."
These three films are so powerful in pointing out the complexities and even contradictions of people wherever the Shoah is in the spotlight. Human nature, being what it is, creates many shades of gray and these shades, discussed in these three films, are as fascinating as art by Mark Rothko or Joseph Albers. Watching these three films is not only important but is totally compelling.
- 10/18/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
If you asked me what films I'd like to see in the final 5 tally, I would love to see the Academy embrace non-mainstream items such as the Romanian pic from Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) and Bong Joon-ho's Mother (South Korea)... - Finally. With a disqualification here and there, the official list of countries competing for a nomination and then Oscar gold have been submitted and now its time to make some prognostications as to who among 65 will make the final five, or final three, since Sony Pictures Classics have a slam dunk in Palme d'or winner Haneke's The White Ribbon and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet - a "second place" winner at Cannes. If you asked me what films I'd like to see in the final 5 tally, I would love to see the Academy embrace non-mainstream items such as the Romanian pic from Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) and...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
The October 1st deadline for all countries wanting into the Academy Award's foreign-language film category has come and gone, but you wouldn't know it since no official list of films submitted has been published. - The October 1st deadline for all countries wanting into the Academy Award's foreign-language film category has come and gone, but you wouldn't know it since no official list of films submitted has been published. You could go tooth and nail on the web and film trades and you'd come up with nada, nothing, zero and zilch – and that goes for the official site. The Lemon of the Week goes to the Oscars for not publishing an official list, which sounds like a trivial complaint, but how difficult can it be for them to collect the titles, include the last minute additions and proudly issue a press release listing all participating nations/first round of nomination hopefuls.
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
From Albania to Vietnam, 65 countries are hoping that their film entries will get picked to fill one of the five slots for Best Foreign Language Film for the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
Five slots, 65 countries, the competition is fierce! Our friends from Variety gave us this list, is your country of choice one of the 65 hopefuls?
I'm happy that my home country, the Philippines, has a fighting chance with the dramedy "Ded na si Lolo" ("Grandpa is Dead"). Take a look at the complete list.
Albania
Alive!
(Artan Minarolli)
Synopsis: A carefree Albanian student gets drawn into an ancient blood feud when he returns home for a funeral, only to find himself a wanted man.
Awards: Belgrade Film Festival B2B development grant
Sales: Wildart Film
Argentina
El secreto de sus ojos
(Juan Jose Campanella)
Synopsis: An ambitious, complex work that combines two generation-spanning love stories, a noirish thriller, some...
Five slots, 65 countries, the competition is fierce! Our friends from Variety gave us this list, is your country of choice one of the 65 hopefuls?
I'm happy that my home country, the Philippines, has a fighting chance with the dramedy "Ded na si Lolo" ("Grandpa is Dead"). Take a look at the complete list.
Albania
Alive!
(Artan Minarolli)
Synopsis: A carefree Albanian student gets drawn into an ancient blood feud when he returns home for a funeral, only to find himself a wanted man.
Awards: Belgrade Film Festival B2B development grant
Sales: Wildart Film
Argentina
El secreto de sus ojos
(Juan Jose Campanella)
Synopsis: An ambitious, complex work that combines two generation-spanning love stories, a noirish thriller, some...
- 11/7/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences unveiled the long list of 65 countries vying for a Best Foreign Language nomination Oscar.
Variety says that a shortlist of nine semi-finalists will be unveiled in January, with the complete nominees to be announced Feb. 2 along with the contenders in the other categories.
The Academy Awards will be presented March 7 at the Kodak Theater.
And now, from Albania to Vietnam, see the complete list right now (I.m proud that my home country of the Philippines has an entry!!!):
Albania, "Alive!," Artan Minarolli, director
Argentina, "El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Juan Jose Campanella, director
Armenia, "Autumn of the Magician," Rouben Kevorkov and Vaheh Kevorkov, directors
Australia, "Samson & Delilah," Warwick Thornton, director
Austria, "For a Moment Freedom," Arash T. Riahi, director
Bangladesh, "Beyond the Circle," Golam Rabbany Biplob, director
Belgium, "The Misfortunates," Felix van Groeningen, director
Bolivia, "Zona Sur," Juan Carlos Valdivia, director
Bosnia and Herzegovina,...
Variety says that a shortlist of nine semi-finalists will be unveiled in January, with the complete nominees to be announced Feb. 2 along with the contenders in the other categories.
The Academy Awards will be presented March 7 at the Kodak Theater.
And now, from Albania to Vietnam, see the complete list right now (I.m proud that my home country of the Philippines has an entry!!!):
Albania, "Alive!," Artan Minarolli, director
Argentina, "El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Juan Jose Campanella, director
Armenia, "Autumn of the Magician," Rouben Kevorkov and Vaheh Kevorkov, directors
Australia, "Samson & Delilah," Warwick Thornton, director
Austria, "For a Moment Freedom," Arash T. Riahi, director
Bangladesh, "Beyond the Circle," Golam Rabbany Biplob, director
Belgium, "The Misfortunates," Felix van Groeningen, director
Bolivia, "Zona Sur," Juan Carlos Valdivia, director
Bosnia and Herzegovina,...
- 10/16/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Jacques Audiard's French film "A Prophet," Michael Haneke's German film "The White Ribbon" and Korea's "Mother" -- three films that have figured prominently on this year's festival circuit -- are among the 65 films being considered for the foreign-language film Oscar.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its list Thursday of the 65 countries that have submitted films for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
Nominations will be announced on Feb. 2, and the awards ceremony will be held March 7.
The 2009 submissions follow (click the links on select countries for full stories):
Albania, "Alive!," Artan Minarolli, director;
Argentina, "El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Juan Jose Campanella
Armenia, "Autumn of the Magician," Rouben Kevorkov and Vaheh Kevorkov
Australia, "Samson & Delilah," Warwick Thornton
Austria, "For a Moment Freedom," Arash T. Riahi
Bangladesh, "Beyond the Circle," Golam Rabbany Biplob
Belgium, "The Misfortunates," Felix van Groeningen
Bolivia, "Zona Sur," Juan Carlos Valdivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina,...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its list Thursday of the 65 countries that have submitted films for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
Nominations will be announced on Feb. 2, and the awards ceremony will be held March 7.
The 2009 submissions follow (click the links on select countries for full stories):
Albania, "Alive!," Artan Minarolli, director;
Argentina, "El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Juan Jose Campanella
Armenia, "Autumn of the Magician," Rouben Kevorkov and Vaheh Kevorkov
Australia, "Samson & Delilah," Warwick Thornton
Austria, "For a Moment Freedom," Arash T. Riahi
Bangladesh, "Beyond the Circle," Golam Rabbany Biplob
Belgium, "The Misfortunates," Felix van Groeningen
Bolivia, "Zona Sur," Juan Carlos Valdivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina,...
- 10/15/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sixty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®, Academy President Tom Sherak announced today. The 2009 submissions are: Albania, Alive! , Artan Minarolli, director; Argentina, El Secreto de Sus Ojos , Juan Jose Campanella, director; Armenia, Autumn of the Magician , Rouben Kevorkov and Vaheh Kevorkov, directors; Australia, Samson & Delilah , Warwick Thornton, director; Austria, For a Moment Freedom , Arash T. Riahi, director; Bangladesh, Beyond the Circle , Golam Rabbany Biplob, director; Belgium, The Misfortunates , Felix van Groeningen, director; Bolivia, Zona Sur , Juan Carlos Valdivia, director; Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nightguards , Namik Kabil, director; Brazil, Time of Fear ,...
- 10/15/2009
- Comingsoon.net
The October 1st deadline for all countries wanting into the Academy Award's foreign-language film category has come and gone. According to IndieWIRE [1], The United Kingdom, which has predominantly submitted Welsh films over the years (if submitting at all), has surprisingly chosen the documentary Afghan Star as its 2009 submission for the Academy Awards. The last time the country received a nomination in this category was in 1999, when Paul Morrison's Welsh and Yiddish Solomon and Gaenor lost out to Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother. Synopsis After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop Idol has come to Afghanistan. Millions are watching the TV series 'Afghan Star' and voting for their favorite singers by mobile phone. For many this is their first encounter with democracy. This timely film follows the dramatic stories of four contestants as they risk all to become the nation's favorite singer. But will they...
- 10/8/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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