Amerykańska Akademia Sztuki i Wiedzy Filmowej jeszcze oficjalnie nie poinformowała, ile filmów zgłoszono do Oscara w kategorii Najlepszy Pełnometrażowy Film Międzynarodowego, ale Variety podaje, że będzie ich 87. Jeśli Akademia potwierdzi te dane, będzie to oznaczać spadek liczby zgłoszonych filmów do tej nagrody, w porównaniu z latami poprzednimi. Jedno jest pewne, w tym gronie znajduje się polski kandydat, „Chłopi” i faworyt tej kategorii „Strefa interesów”. Kto jeszcze walczy o Oscara w tej kategorii?
Najsilniejszym dziś konkurentem „Chłopów”
i faworytem do Oscara w tej kategorii jest inny polski film, ale poważnie
pisząc, polska koprodukcja, reprezentująca w rywalizacji o tę nagrodę Wielką
Brytanię. W stu procentach z niemieckimi dialogami „Strefa interesów” w
reżyserii Jonathana Glazera jest już po sukcesie w Cannes, entuzjastycznych
recenzjach prasy międzynarodowej i przyznanych kilka godzin temu pięciu
nominacjach do Europejskich Nagród Filmowych. „Strefa interesów” to polska
koprodukcja, w której powstaniu brała udział znaczna część polskich twórców, z
producentką Ewą Puszczyńską i autorem zdjęć Łukaszem Żalem na czele. „Strefa
interesów” w całości nakręcona została w Polsce. MOJA RECENZJA TUTAJ.
Specjaliści od Oscarów dostrzegają spadek liczby filmów kandydujących do tej nagrody, ale ja poczekałbym do oficjalnego komunikatu Akademii.
Listę filmów opublikowało Variety i prezentuję je poniżej w oryginalnym języku publikacji. Obok tytułu i reżysera, znajduje się tam opis filmu oraz właściciel praw do międzynarodowej dystrybucji oraz dostępni dystrybutorzy amerykańscy. To najważniejsza dziś z informacji dotyczących poszczególnych filmów zabiegających o tę prestiżową nagrodę, bo przeważnie to tylko produkcje z takim poważnym wsparciem, mogą liczyć się w walce o Oscara. I tutaj widać spore szanse polskiego filmu, bo amerykańskim dystrybutorem „Chłopów” jest Sony Pictures Classics. Kluczowe dla Oscarowej drogi „Strefy interesów” jest dystrybucyjne wsparcie firmy A24 i dlatego film ten mierzy nie tylko w międzynarodowego Oscara, ale też w Oscara dla najlepszego filmu roku. Mniejszościową polską koprodukcją jest też film „Housekeeping For Beginners” z bardzo silnym wsparciem amerykańskiego dystrybutora, firmy Focus Features.
Skrócona lista kandydatów do Oscarów w tej kategorii (i kilku innych) ogłoszona zostanie 21 grudnia i znajdzie się na niej 15 filmów. 23 stycznia 2024 roku ogłoszone zostaną nominację, a 10 marca 2024 roku poznamy laureatów Oscarów.
KANDYDACI DO OSCARA MIĘDZYNARODOWEGO (wg publikacji Variety)
ALBANIA
Alexander
Director: Ardit Sadiku
LOGLINE: A documentary about an engineer who, after being fired by the navy for dissidence, hijacked a warship to get himself an dhis family to freedom.
PRODCO: Ardit Sadiku Film
ARGENTINA
The Delinquents
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
LOGLINE: A ticklish, gently surreal saga following two colleagues who collude in robbing the bank where they work.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Mubi
ARMENIA
Amerikatsi
Director: Michael A. Goorjian
LOGLINE: An Armenian-American relocates to Armenia after WWII and ends up in a Soviet prison for the crime of wearing a tie.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Variance Films
AUSTRALIA
Shayda
Director: Noora Niasari
LOGLINE: A Sundance Audience Award-winning drama following an Iranian immigrant struggling to raise her daughter in a women’s shelter.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Sony Pictures Classics
AUSTRIA
Vera
Director: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
LOGLINE: Vera Gemma, the daughter of an Italian icon, strikes up an intense relationship with a poor kid she injures in a traffic accident.
INT’L SALES: Be For Films
BANGLADESH
No Ground Beneath the Feet
Director: Mohammad Rabby Mridha
LOGLINE: Ambulance driver Saiful pivots between his two wives and a brother who all need help he can’t afford to give.
INT’L SALES: Impress Telefilm
BELGIUM
Omen
Director: Baloji
LOGLINE: A Congolese man returns to Kinshasa with his pregnant white wife to pay a dowry to the family who regard him as cursed.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Utopia
BHUTAN
The Monk and the Gun
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
LOGLINE: An American encounters a Bhutanese monk who has a valuable rifle in the second film from the Oscar-nominated “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” filmmaker.
INT’L SALES: UTA
BOLIVIA
The Visitor
Director: Martín Boulocq
LOGLINE: A wake singer recently released from jail fights his Evangelical pastor father-in-law for custody of his daughter.
PRODCO: CQ Films
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Excursion
Director: Una Gunjak
LOGLINE: A high schooler gets caught in her own spiralling lie which has consequences for her and her whole class.
INT’L SALES: Salaud Morisset
BRAZIL
Pictures of Ghosts
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
LOGLINE: A wry, wistful documentary, featuring the filmmaker’s personal archival footage, tracing his relationship with the disappeared cinemas of Recife.
INT’L SALES: Urban Sales
BURKINA FASO
Sira
Director: Apolline Traoré
LOGLINE: A revenge tale in which a young nomad in North Africa fights for survival after she is kidnapped by Islamist terrorists.
INT’L SALES: Wide
BULGARIA
Blaga’s Lessons
Director: Zaynê Akyol
LOGLINE: A 70-year-old widow, conned out of her life savings by a phone scam, turns scammer herself to even the score.
INT’L SALES: Heretic
CANADA
Rojek
Director: Zaynê Akyol
LOGLINE: Imprisoned former member of the Islamic State provide powerful testimony about their experiences of conflict in Syrian Kurdistan.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Icarus Films
CHILE
The Settlers
Director: Felipe Gálvez Haberle
LOGLINE: An Indigenous guide rides south with an English captain and an American mercenary to fence off land granted to a ruthless Spanish landowner.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Mubi
COLOMBIA
A Male
Director: Fabián Hernández Alvarado
LOGLINE: A young man living in a youth shelter braves the urban culture of machismo to spend Christmas with his mother and sister.
INT’L SALES: Cercamon
COSTA RICA
I Have Electric Dreams
Director: Valentina Maurel
LOGLINE: 16-year-old Eva lives with her mother, younger sister and cat, but longs to move in with her estranged father.
INT’L SALES: Heretic
CROATIA
Traces
Director: Dubravka Turic
LOGLINE: An anthropologist experiences an identity crisis after her father’s death leaves her the last surviving member of her family.
PRODCO: Kinorama
CZECH REPUBLIC
Brothers
Director: Tomáš Mašín
LOGLINE: The true story of two brothers who tried to escape communist Czechoslovakia in 1953 to join the US army in West Berlin.
INT’L SALES: The Yellow Affair
DENMARK
The Promised Land
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
LOGLINE: Mads Mikkelsen stars in a rousing historical epic about a land battle between a commoner and a noble.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Magnolia Pictures
EGYPT
Voy! Voy! Voy!
Director: Omar Hilal
LOGLINE: An impoverished security guard poses as blind in order to play at the Blind Soccer World Championships in Europe.
INT’L SALES: Vox Studios
ESTONIA
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Director: Anna Hints
LOGLINE: A lyrical documentary observing the women who frequent a traditional Estonian sauna for healing and community.
INT’L SALES: Autlook
FINLAND
Fallen Leaves
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
LOGLINE: A droll romance develops between a struggling part-time worker and an alcoholic builder.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Mubi
FRANCE
The Taste of Things
Director: Trần Anh Hùng
LOGLINE: Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel illuminate a lavish 19th-century “gastromance” between a cook and her gourmet employer.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: IFC Distribution
GEORGIA
Citizen Saint
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
LOGLINE: When a revered statue of a local saint disappears it spurs a crisis of faith in a Georgian mining community.
INT’L SALES: Studio Artizm
GERMANY
The Teachers’ Lounge
Director: İlker Çatak
LOGLINE: An idealistic high school teacher faces spiraling consequences when one of her students is accused of stealing.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Sony Pictures Classics
GREECE
Behind the Haystacks
Director: Asimina Proedrou
LOGLINE: A local family living on Greece’s northern border face difficult personal choices in the wake of a tragic incident.
INT’L SALES: TVCO
HONG KONG
A Light Never Goes Out
Director: Anastasia Tsang
LOGLINE: The devastated wife of a master neon signmmaker takes up his passion as her own following his death.
INT’L SALES: Edko Films
HUNGARY
Four Souls of Coyote
Director: Áron Gauder
LOGLINE: An animation following a band of Native American teenagers who confront an oil pipeline project while will affect their ancestral land.
INT’L SALES: NFI World Sales
ICELAND
Godland
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
LOGLINE: A 19th-century Danish priest is sent to Iceland to establish a new parish but finds his faith challenged by the hardships of rural life.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Janus Films
INDIA
2018
Director: Jude Anthany Joseph
LOGLINE: A disaster film set during the 2018 Kerala floods in which people from all walks of life collectively try to survive the ensuing chaos.
PRODCO: Anto Joseph Film Co.
INDONESIA
Autobiography
Director: Makbul Mubarak
LOGLINE: The callow young assistant and housekeeper to a retired general running for local election learns firsthand about Indonesian corruption.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Amazon Prime Video
IRAN
The Night Guardian
Director: Reza Mirkarimi
LOGLINE: A naive village boy’s quiet life is challenged when he encounters the engineer of a construction project.
INT’L SALES: Banoo Film
IRAQ
Hanging Gardens
Director: Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji
LOGLINE: A young Iraqi’s life is upended when he rescues a sex doll from the Baghdad rubbish dumps where he works.
INT’L SALES: True Colours
IRELAND
In the Shadow of Beirut
Director: Stephen Gerard Kelly, Garry Keane
LOGLINE: Modern-day Lebanon as seen through the eyes of four families living in the impoverished neighborhoods where aninfamous 1982 massacre occurred.
PRODCO: Abbout Prods.
ISRAEL
Seven Blessings
Director: Ayelet Menahemi
LOGLINE: In early ’90s Jerusalem a boisterous Jewish-Moroccan family celebrate their togetherness while also hiding painful secrets.
PRODCO: Ronen Ben-Tal Films
ITALY
Io Capitano
Director: Matteo Garrone
LOGLINE: Two young men embark on an epic odyssey from Dakar to Europe in a Venice Best Director-winning migrant drama.
INT’L SALES: Pathé
JAPAN
Perfect Days
Director: Wim Wenders
LOGLINE: A contented Tokyo restroom cleaner with a simple, structured everyday life has a series of unexpected encounters.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Neon
JORDAN
Inshallah a Boy
Director: Amjad Al Rasheed
LOGLINE: The walls of Jordanian patriarchy close in quickly on the recently widowed mother of a small daughter.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Greenwich Entertainment
KENYA
Mvera
Director: Daudi Anguka
LOGLINE: A woman embarks on a crusade against an organ-trafficking ring operating in her small coastal town mear Mombasa.
PRODCO: AR Films Prod.
KYRGYZSTAN
This is What I Remember
Director: Aktan Arym Kubat
LOGLINE: A man who lost his memory while working in Russia and returns to Kyrgyzstan for the first time in 20 years.
INT’L SALES: Diversion
LATVIA
My Freedom
Director: Ilze Kunga-Melgaile
LOGLINE: A free-thinking and charismatic activist becomes a star of the Latvian National Awakening, which brings tough choices in her private life.
PRODCO: Tasse Films, M-Films
LITHUANIA
Slow
Director: Marija Kavtaradzė
LOGLINE: A dancer and a sign-language interpreter build their own kind of intimacy pursuing an unconventional relationship.
INT’L SALES: Totem Films
LUXEMBOURG
The Last Ashes
Director: Loïc Tanson
LOGLINE: Hélène returns to her native village under a new identity on a mission of revenge against the powerful local Graff family.
PRODCO: Artémis Prods., Samsa Films
MALAYSIA
Tiger Stripes
Director: Amanda Nell Eu
LOGLINE: A carefree 11-year-old girl suddenly starts to experience horrifying physical changes to her body.
INT’L SALES: Films Boutique
MEXICO
Tótem
Director: Lila Avilés
LOGLINE: On the birthday of her dying father, 7-year-old Sol observes the relationships between his bickering, loving, boisterous family.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Sideshow, Janus Films
MOLDOVA
Thunders
Director: Ioane Bobeica
LOGLINE: Rich-kid Victor and poor-girl Zinca form a forbidden friendship in the literal minefield of their village on the Transnistrian border.
PRODCO: YOUBESC Film
MONGOLIA
City of Wind
Director: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
LOGLINE: A teenage shaman and a girl with a heart condition form a tentative connection in wintry Ulaanbaatar.
INT’L SALES: Best Friend Forever
MONTENEGRO
Sirin
Director: Senad Šahmanović
LOGLINE: An American lawyer who changed her identity when she left the former Yugoslavia returns to her native Montenegro for an unusual inheritance case.
PRODCO: Cut-Up
MOROCCO
The Mother of All Lies
Director: Asmae El Moudir
LOGLINE: A documentary exploring memory and willful forgetfulness with respect to the director’s fraught family history and that of her nation.
PRODCO: Insight Films
NAMIBIA
Under the Hanging Tree
Director: Perivi Katjavivi
A supernatural noir about an impetuous city cop assigned to a morbid case in a small desert town in Namibia.
PRODUCTION: Old Location Films
NEPAL
Halkara
Director: Bikram Sapkota
LOGLINE: An unemployed drunkard takes a job as a postman which brings him to remote villages and makes him confront his demons.
PRODCO: Icefall Prods.
NETHERLANDS
Sweet Dreams
Director: Ena Sendijarević
LOGLINE: The white owner of a Dutch East Indies sugar plantation leaves his estate to his illegitimate son by his Indonesian housemaid.
INT’L SALES: Heretic
NIGERIA
Mami Wata
Director: CJ Obasi
LOGLINE: A remote West African village community worships the Mermaid-deity Mami Wata and is guided by healer Mama Efe, her daughter Zinwe and protégé Prisca.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Dekanalog
NORTH MACEDONIA
Housekeeping For Beginners
Director: Goran Stolevski
LOGLINE: A lively, rowdy family drama following the domestic, romantic and generational conflicts in a crowded queer household.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Focus Features
NORWAY
Songs of Earth
Director: Margreth Olin
LOGLINE: The director traces her octogenarian father’s connection to nature in his mountain home nestled amid Norway’s spectacular landscapes.
INT’L SALES: Cinephil
PAKISTAN
In Flames
Director: Zarrar Kahn
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s existence is ripped apart by figures from their past.
INT’L SALES: XYZ Films
PALESTINE
Bye Bye Tiberias
Director: Lina Soualem
LOGLINE: A doc following the director’s mother, Palestinian actress Hiam Abbas, as she and her daughter return to her native village.
INT’L SALES: Lightdox
PANAMA
Tito, Margot & Me
Director: Mercedes Arias, Delfina Vidal
LOGLINE: A biodoc tracing the politicized love affair between high-profile Panamian politico Tito Arias and ballerina Margot Fonteyn.
PRODCO: Betesda Films
PARAGUAY
The Last Runway 2, Commando Yaguarete
Director: Armando Aquino, Mauricio Rial
LOGLINE: An investigator with the Ministry of the Interior goes to extreme lengths to rescue a kidnapped colleage in the action sequel to 2018’s “The Last Runway.”
PRODCO: Hei Films
PERU
The Erection of Toribio Bardelli
Director: Adrián Saba
LOGLINE: The patriarch of a dysfunctional family faces his 70th birthday with one wish: to have an erection again.
PRODCO: Flamingo Films
PHILIPPINES
The Missing
Director: Carl Joseph Papa
LOGLINE: Animated sci-fi in which an Filipino animator without a mouth goes to find his missing uncle and finds instead a strangely familiar alien.
PRODCO: Project8 Projects
POLAND
The Peasants
Director: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman
LOGLINE: A beautiful peasant girl’s romances cause havoc in her village in a hand-painted animation from the “Loving Vincent” team.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Sony Pictures Classics
PORTUGAL
Bad Living
Director: João Canijo
LOGLINE: Three generations of women run a failing Portuguese hotel and take out their increasing bitterness on each other.
INT’L SALES: The Match Factory
ROMANIA
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Director: Radu Jude
LOGLINE: A wild, unruly satire following an overworked, underpaid production assistant as she interviews candidates for a workplace safety video.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Mubi
SENEGAL
Banel and Adama
Director: Ramata-Toulaye Sy
LOGLINE: A young couple in love want to leave their village responsibilities behind but magic, superstition and dark secrets will not make it easy.
INT’L SALES: Best Friend Forever
SERBIA
Because My Thoughts are Struggling
Director: Milorad Milinković
LOGLINE: Prince Mihailo struggles with a sense of duty to his people while a fatal conspiracy is being hatched against him.
PRODCO: Living Pictures
SINGAPORE
The Breaking Ice
Director: Anthony Chen
LOGLINE: In a freezing China’s frozen Northeast, three young people navigate a gentle thawing love triangle.
INT’L SALES: Rediance
SLOVAKIA
Photophobia
Director: Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík
LOGLINE: A docudrama tracing a day in the life of a Kharkiv family sheltering in subway tunnels from the Russian attacks.
PRODCO: Punkchart Films
SLOVENIA
Riders
Director: Dominik Mencej
LOGLINE: Inspired by “Easy Rider,” two friends embark on a road trip through recently post-Yugoslav Slovenia and Croatia on their mopeds.
INT’L SALES: Staragara
SOUTH AFRICA
Music is My Life
Director: Mpumi Supa Mbele
LOGLINE: A biodoc of the late Joseph Shabalala, who attained worldwide fame contributing to Paul Simon’s “Graceland” album with his band, Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
INT’L SALES: Pop Twist Entertainment
SOUTH KOREA
Concrete Utopia
Director: Um Tae-hwa
LOGLINE: In the aftermath of a devastating Seoul earthquake, survivors hole up in a luxury apartment block to weather the aftermath.
INT’L SALES: Lotte Entertainment
SPAIN
Society of the Snow
Director: J.A. Bayona
LOGLINE: The true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and the 16 survivors who made it through the 72 days untuil their rescue.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Netflix
SUDAN
Goodbye Julia
Director: Mohamed Kordofani
LOGLINE: Two women are fatefully connected despite coming from opposing sides of every social divide in pre-secession Khartoum.
INT’L SALES: MAD Solutions
SWEDEN
Opponent
Director: Milad Alami
LOGLINE: An Iranian refugee tries out for the Swedish national wrestling team in order to speed up his family’s asylum applications.
INT’L SALES: TriArt Film
SWITZERLAND
Thunder
Director: Carmen Jaquier
LOGLINE: A young novitiate discovers faith and desire can be linked when she returns to her village following the mysterious death of her sister.
INT’L SALES: WTFilms
TAIWAN
Marry My Dead Body
Director: Cheng Wei-hao
LOGLINE: Supernatural comedy ensues when a straight cop is forced into a marriage with the ghost of a gay man.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Netflix
TAJIKISTAN
Melody
Director: Behrouz Sebt Rasoul
LOGLINE: A music teacher in a children’s cancer center searches for 30 birds, to use their songs as the basis for a composition.
INT’L SALES: Dreamlab Films
THAILAND
Not Friends
Director: Atta Hemwadee
LOGLINE: A high schooler cynically decides to make a short film about a deceased classmate for his colllege application.
INT’L SALES: GDH 559
TUNISIA
Four Daughters
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
LOGLINE: The family void left by two teenage girls who joined ISIS is explored in a metafictional hybrid doc.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Kino Lorber
TURKEY
About Dry Grasses
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
LOGLINE: A misanthropic schoolteacher posted to remote Anatolia is accused of innappropriate behavior by a favored student.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Sideshow, Janus Films
UKRAINE
20 Days in Mariupol
Director: Mstyslav Chernov
LOGLINE: Documentary following a team of trapped Ukrainian journalists covering the war from withing the besieged city of Mariupol.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: PBS Distribution
UNITED KINGDOM
The Zone of Interest
Director: Jonathan Glazer
LOGLINE: Next door to Auschwitz, the family of camp commandant Rudolf Höss go about their daily domestic routine.
U.S. DISTRIBUTION: A24
URUGUAY
Family Album
Director: Guillermo Rocamora
LOGLINE: A teenager and his father set up a band to realize Dad’s lifelong ambition but soon generational tastes and tensions make it unsustainable.
PRODCO: Cimarrón Cine
VENEZUELA
The Shadow of the Sun
Director: Miguel Ángel Ferrer
LOGLINE: A young deaf man enlists his estranged elder brother in fulfilling his dream of entering a singing competition.
PRODCO: Magic Films, Multi Studios
VIETNAM
Glorious Ashes
Director: Bùi Thạc Chuyên
LOGLINE: The lives of three women in a small Mekong Delta village intertwine as they deal with their difficult menfolk.
INT’L SALES: Skyline Media
YEMEN
The Burdened
Director: Amr Gamal
LOGLINE: When a struggling couple in Aden find they are pregnant again, they make a decision drastically at odds with Yemeni social norms.
INT’L SALES: Films Boutique
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