While the Academy has not yet released the full official list, these are the films Variety has learned have been submitted by various countries in the international film race. The shortlist will be announced Feb. 9 and the nominations on March 15. The Academy Awards ceremony takes place on April 25.
Albania Open Door
Director: Florenc Papas
Key Cast: Luli Bitri, Jonida Vokshi, Gulielm Radoja
Logline: Pregnant woman and her sister try to find a man to pretend to be the mom-to-be’s husband before visiting their traditional father.
Prodco: Bunker Film Plus
Algeria Héliopolis
Director: Djaâfar Gacem
Key cast: Souhila Mallem, Mehdi
Ramdani, Cesar Duminil
Logline: Algerians fight for independence punctuated by the 1945 massacre in the ancient city of Héliopolis.
Prodco: Centre Algérien de Développement du Cinéma
Argentina The Sleepwalkers
Director: Paula Hernández
Key Cast: Érica Rivas, Ornella D’elía, Marilu Marini, Daniel Hendler
Logline: A family drama encompasses the sexual awakening...
Albania Open Door
Director: Florenc Papas
Key Cast: Luli Bitri, Jonida Vokshi, Gulielm Radoja
Logline: Pregnant woman and her sister try to find a man to pretend to be the mom-to-be’s husband before visiting their traditional father.
Prodco: Bunker Film Plus
Algeria Héliopolis
Director: Djaâfar Gacem
Key cast: Souhila Mallem, Mehdi
Ramdani, Cesar Duminil
Logline: Algerians fight for independence punctuated by the 1945 massacre in the ancient city of Héliopolis.
Prodco: Centre Algérien de Développement du Cinéma
Argentina The Sleepwalkers
Director: Paula Hernández
Key Cast: Érica Rivas, Ornella D’elía, Marilu Marini, Daniel Hendler
Logline: A family drama encompasses the sexual awakening...
- 12/23/2020
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety Film + TV
Svetla Tsotsorkova’s film has left the competition in the dust, followed by By a Sharp Knife and Full Moon, with The Sun Above Me Never Sets emerging as a surprising crowd-pleaser. Bulgarian director Svetla Tsotsorkova’s Sister, about a mother and two sisters struggling to survive, has bewitched the jury of the 29th edition of the FilmFestival Cottbus, winning the Best Film Award and €25,000. “If a film gives the cinema what the cinema loves most, then the enthusiasm of the audience matches that of the jury: it’s about magical portraits, social and personal conflicts, and lots of small inventions that the main character continuously brings into the film,” went the statement by Sergey Dvortsevoy, Luli Bitri, Péter Muszatics, Marija Perović and Peter Badel. “In an extraordinary way, an everyday story emerges that is magnificently photographed, intensively invites the viewer to experience it and gives each character its own cinematic space.
- 11/12/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
‘In The Shadows’ is a sci-fi set in an undefined dystopia.
German company Patra Spanou Film Marketing and Consulting has picked up world sales rights to two titles at Cannes.
Erdem Tepegöz’s sci-fi In The Shadows sees a group of people living in an undefined dystopia controlled by a surveillance system, when one of them contracts a mysterious disease.
Figen Ermek Özcorlu and Umut Üzcorlu of Istanbul’s Contact Film Works produced the title, which stars In The Fade actor Numan Acar.
Patra Spanou has also taken on Florenc Papas’ feature debut Open Door, a road movie about two...
German company Patra Spanou Film Marketing and Consulting has picked up world sales rights to two titles at Cannes.
Erdem Tepegöz’s sci-fi In The Shadows sees a group of people living in an undefined dystopia controlled by a surveillance system, when one of them contracts a mysterious disease.
Figen Ermek Özcorlu and Umut Üzcorlu of Istanbul’s Contact Film Works produced the title, which stars In The Fade actor Numan Acar.
Patra Spanou has also taken on Florenc Papas’ feature debut Open Door, a road movie about two...
- 5/19/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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