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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today unveiled its shortlist of 15 films that will advance to the next stage of voting in the International Feature Film category at the Oscars. Notable among omissions is Julia Ducournau's Titane, the entry from France which won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or…

The 15-strong shortlist for the Oscars’ International Feature Film category is due on Tuesday, so it's time to run down my annual preview of titles that have a good shot at making the cut. Films from a total 93 countries are eligible in the race this year, and below we take a close look at a selection of them. As…

EXCLUSIVE: Elisabeth Moss and Lindsey McManus have boarded writer-director Blerta Basholli’s Hive as executive producers. The Love & Squalor Pictures partners will spearhead the awards push for the Kosovan Oscar entry. Hive tells the true story of Fahrije (Yllka Gashi) who, like many of the other women in her…

In 1999, 240 people disappeared when Serbian forces descended on the village of Krusha e Madhe in Kosovo, shot or captured the men and burned the residents out. According to the end-titles in Blerta Basholli's triple Sundance-award winning Hive, there are still 64 missing. Hive, the International Feature Oscar…

When Kosovan writer-director Blerta Basholli met war widow Fahrije Hoti, the subject of her new feature film Hive, she was immediately struck by her strength of character and personality, which helped shape how she would approach making a feature film based on the story of Hoti’s life after the Kosovo War. Speaking at…

Hive, the debut feature from writer-director Blerta Basholli that won a trio of awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has been submitted by Kosovo for this year’s International Feature Oscar race. The Albanian-language drama, which won the World Cinema Audience, Directing and Grand Jury Prize honors in Park…

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards went off at a very fast clip tonight, in an hour’s time. Host Patton Oswalt — or as he billed himself, “Discount Giamatti” — kept the jokes flowing. Siân Heder’s CODA, which we first told you was swooped up by Apple with a rich $25 million bid, came up big. It won both the U.S…