Tran also wrote and appears in the film, about Sang, an old motorbike rider who lives in a low-income neighborhood in Ho Chi Minh City, who always sacrifices himself for his family despite his financial woes and illness. Vietnam: Dad, I’m Sorry (Tran Tranh)Ī rare comedy entry in the international feature awards comes from Vietnamese comic Tran Tranh, who is known in his home country for his impersonations. This is Lithuania’s 14th international feature entry, with no previous nominations or wins. Isaac is based on a novella by Antanas Skema the film premiered at Tallinn Black Nights in 2019, and was nominated for the Discovery prize at last year’s European Film Awards. Taking its place as the international feature submission is Jurgis Matulevicius’ Holocaust drama Isaac, about a Lithuanian activist who kills the titular Jewish man in 1941, and is then haunted by guilt for years to come. The Academy accepted a change in the Lithuanian entry the country initially entered Giedre Zickyte’s documentary The Jump, before moving that to the documentary category. The film’s dialogue contains Haitian Creole, French and English.
They survive through their street food shop, but the precariousness and violence of their daily life push them to do everything they can to escape their situation.
Freda centres on a young woman who lives with her family in a popular neighborhood in Haiti. It debuted in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, which has launched nine of this year’s international feature entries. Haiti enters the international feature award for only the second time, with the debut feature from Haitian actor-turned-filmmaker Geneus. No Black director has ever won the international feature award. The former two are French-Greek and French directors respectively. Of the 73 international feature awards (including honorary prizes), only three have been awarded to African countries: Costa-Gavras’ Z for Algeria in 1970, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black And White In Colour for Ivory Coast in 1977, and Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi in 2006 for South Africa. It is Romanus’ second film, after 2018’s Bed Of Thorns. He challenges the era of tradition in the 1960s, which gravely endangers his life. Hidden Dreams centres on a young British scout who is displaced to a Cameroonian village. This is the fourth time Cameroon has entered the international feature award and the first time it has done so two years in succession, after last year’s submission The Fisherman’s Diary. Latest submissions Cameroon: Hidden Dreams (Ngang Romanus)
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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.